China Buying Tibet’s Loyalty

In this Friday, Sept. 18, 2015 photo, students listen to a Tibetan-language lesson at the Lhasa-Beijing Experimental Middle School in Lhasa, capital of the Tibet Autonomous Region of China. Top-down development has poured more than $100 billion dollars into the region since 1952, but critics say that Beijing’s obsession with social stability also has led to widespread human right abuses. (AP Photo/Aritz Parra)