India, April 11 -- For the past several weeks, the Chinese propaganda machine has been running full-steam. The focus of the information warfare's exercise is on the events of March 1959, which ended in a bloodbath in Lhasa, but which is today being promoted as the "Emancipation of the Serfs" and the "Introduction of the Democratic Reforms" by the communist regime in Beijing. One could ask: Where is democracy in China today?

Just take a look at the list of party secretaries in Tibet - since August 16, 2016, the Communist Party of China's boss on the Roof of the World is Wu Jingjie. He is the 15th Han to hold the post since the People's Liberation Army (PLA) entered Tibet in 1950. Can you imagine Tamil Nadu having non-Tamil Chief Ministers...