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OPINION
Gyaltsen Choedak* contends that the narrative on the “17-Point Agreement” is as much about China’s illegal annexation of Tibet in the name of “peaceful liberation” as it is about getting the terminology underlying the coerced signing of this document right.
Today marks the 75th anniversary of the signing of the so-called “Seventeen-Point Agreement” on May 23, 1951, when the Chinese government compelled a Tibetan delegation in Beijing to sign the document under coercion. While Beijing celebrates the occasion as the anniversary of Tibet’s “Peaceful Liberation”, from the Tibetan historical perspective it represents not liberation, b...
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