CHINA-TIBET
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The official Global Times reported on September 2, 2015, that a newspaper affiliated with the Ministry of Human Resource and Social Security had again stressed that political standards will come first in selecting cadres in Tibet, and people who violate six rules will be disqualified. Wang Chunhuan, Deputy Director of the Theoretical Marxism Institute of the Tibet Autonomous Region Academy of Social Sciences (TARASS), said these criteria have rarely been publicized. Wang Chunhuan, deputy director of the Theoretical Marxism Institute of the Tibet Autonomous Region Academy of Social Sciences (TARASS), said these criteria have been applied to the previous recruitment process. But authorities have rarely publicized them. He added that "Ethnic separatists have recently expanded their influence to the grassroots level. Enhancing the cadres' awareness in fighting separatism would make them more effective". Guo Kefan, Deputy Director of the Contemporary Tibetan Research Institute at TARASS, was quoted as saying that since 1965 the authorities have paid greater attention to maintaining ethnic unity in Tibet.
(Comment: (i) According to the report, 80,000 cadres have been sent to villages and 7,000 to temples. 8000 policemen have also been assigned to different districts in Tibet for four years.
(ii) The six rules are avoid making speeches against the spirit of or overly agree to but covertly oppose the decisions made by the Central Committee of the CCP; avoid provoking ethnic dissensions or undermine ethnic unity; avoid participating in or supporting ethnic separatist activities; and avoid going aboard to enshrine the Dalai Lama and sending relatives and children to schools linked to the Dalai Lama.)
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