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"en.20161215.5.4-053-000"2
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"Madam President, China’s destruction of certain buildings at the Larung Gar Buddhist Academy is just the beginning of a plan that will see the influential centre reduced in size by half. Such wanton destruction is totally unwarranted and represents part of an incredibly hard-line approach taken towards the Tibetan question under President Xi Jinping.
Early in September, we witnessed that the postponement of the European Parliament delegation visit to the PRC in response to the visit of the Dalai Lama to Brussels and his meeting with President Schulz. More recently, we have seen ties between Mongolia and China being strained after the Dalai Lama visited Ulaanbaatar last month.
China has responded by closing and disrupting travel at the border between these two countries, in a move that threatens the important economic links that they share. As the direction of US policy towards China becomes increasingly unpredictable, following the election of Donald Trump and his pledge to scrap the Trans-Pacific Partnership, we will see a more assertive stance from the PRC in the region. Such an approach can only be detrimental to Tibet and Xinjiang, where unfortunately Ilham Tohti – who is also in the resolution – is in prison for his advocacy rights for the Uyghur minority, and of course Taiwan. So clearly things are looking extremely uncomfortable in Tibet right now."@en1
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