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Chinese state media has shown Tibetan kindergarten children as young as two or three dressed in camouflage uniforms, depicted at the border with red flags and taking part in simulated combat drills with imitation rifles. The reports describe the military training exercises as designed to plant “seeds of patriotic defence” in young minds.
The developments in Tsona and other frontier regions are part of a broader context of indoctrination of children in schools and intensified militarisation as part of China’s ‘Sinicisation’ policy. Near-identical programmes appear in official sources from Xinjiang and elsewhere in China, with the proximity to the Indian border adding a strategic dimension to the reports from Tsona and other border areas.
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