China tries to reshape Tibet, Xinjiang narratives with new propaganda efforts

FILE - People rest in the shade beneath a government propaganda banner in Chinese and Tibetan near a neighborhood Tibetan Buddhist shrine in Lhasa, the capital of China's Tibet Autonomous Region, on June 3, 2021.

Chinese authorities have rolled out new propaganda efforts aimed at countering Western narratives about the human rights situation in the northwest Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region and Tibet.