Central Tibetan Administration to design map of Tibet as China changes names of territories

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Tibetan activists have also appreciated this strategy. Tibetan Youth Congress Chairman Gompo Dhondup stressed that the Chinese government has been trying to fool the world community with its propaganda for years.

“For years the Chinese government has been trying to misinterpret history, they are trying to fool the world community with their propaganda, but this is the high time for us to counter the Chinese propaganda and fight for truth and justice. For these reasons, the Central Tibetan Administration is planning to come out with a new map to counter the baseless Chinese claim and their aggressive tactics of renaming various places and areas in all the Himalayan borders, so I appreciate this move and hopefully this will be a very strong message to counter the Chinese aggression in all the Himalayan regions,” Dhondup said.

The cartographic history of Tibet begins with the map of Tibet. This was published in the 17th and 18th centuries by Western countries based on information from Jesuit missionaries and travel reports.

Maps of Tibet were first published by the British and the Chinese until the Shimla Convention in 1914, when the Gaden Phodrang government made its first attempt to participate in the demarcation of Tibetan areas.

However, after the establishment of the Tibetan exile administration, various institutions and individuals made numerous attempts to standardize the Tibetan map. Names of places and names of geographical features are an important part of the Tibetan cultural environment.

The recent passage of the Resolve Tibet Act by the US Congress has also raised hopes for the Tibetan freedom movement. Tibetans say that China cannot simply change history and erase a civilization.