Bejing, Oct. 31 -- The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has once again come under international criticism after organising an "International Academic Symposium on Boarding Education and Plateau Development" at the University of Electronic Science and Technology of China in Chengdu, Sichuan Province.

The event, attended by scholars from China, the United States, the United Kingdom, and Canada, was viewed as a calculated attempt to defend China's controversial boarding school system in Tibet, widely accused of erasing Tibetan culture and identity, as reported by Phayul.

According to Phayul, Chinese state media gave extensive coverage to the symposium, portraying the boarding schools as models of "fair and high-quality education" designed for...