Dharamshala, Sept. 12 -- As the tenth session of the 17th Tibetan Parliament-in-Exile began on September 10, the speaker Khenpo Sonam Tenphel said that Chinese President Xi Jinping's recent visit to Tibet was a choreographed celebration and calculated performance.

During the session's commencement address, Tenphel said that Chinese President Xi Jinping's recent visit to Tibet was driven more by optics than reality, a broader effort by China to project an image of unity and loyalty to the Communist Party, while in fact being a choreographed celebration and calculated performance.

Chinese leader Xi Jinping made a rare visit to Tibet on August 20 to mark the 60th anniversary of Tibet's founding as an autonomous region. The long-standing Ch...