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Tsering Shakya on Tibet, Development, and Diversity

In an interview with Himal Southasian, University of British Columbia historian Tsering Shakya discusses a wide range of Tibet-related topics: the region’s place in Beijing’s Belt and Road Initiative; inequalities in development; similarities and differences between the situations in Tibet and Xinjiang; the difficulty of gauging public opinion regarding state policy; anxieties around language and identity; the chilling and cooption of academic research;