Mei Zhang, the founder of travel agency Wild China, said the bans were initially disruptive but her company now routinely declines to take bookings for Tibet trips in March.

(CNN) — Chinese leader Xi Jinping has made a rare trip to Tibet and hailed the crushing of “separatism” in the once-restive region, as Beijing prepares for a looming struggle over the successor of the ...

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Last week, Chinese leader Xi Jinping made a surprise 2,000-mile (3,000-km) trip to Tibet. The official purpose of the visit was to celebrate the 60th anniversary of the founding of the Tibet ...

When you step off the plane in Lhasa and they welcome you with a white silk katak, don’t say 谢谢 (sye-sye)—Mandarin for “thank you.” Use the Tibetan phrase ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ། (tuchi che) instead. The map ...