Exiled Tibetans protest China’s Communist Party
STORY: Chinese President Xi Jinping opened the 20th Communist Party Congress, a week-long event where he is widely expected to win a third leadership term and cement his place as the country's most powerful ruler since Mao Zedong.
In Dharamsala, protesters including, monks, students, parliamentarians among other marched with flags, banners and posters as they raised their voices against Xi.
In his decade in power, Xi has set China on an increasingly authoritarian path that has prioritised security, state control of the economy in the name of "common prosperity", a more assertive diplomacy, a stronger military and intensifying pressure to seize Taiwan.
In particular, China has in recent days repeatedly emphasised its commitment to Xi's zero-COVID strategy, dashing hopes among countless Chinese citizens as well as investors that Beijing might begin exiting anytime soon a policy that has caused widespread frustration and economic damage.
