Tibet's Possible Future Structures: The Dalai's and the Dissidents' visions of Federation

Ever since its takeover of Tibet in 1950, the PRC has faced persistent opposition to its rule there, from both the Tibetan people and the international community. Tibetan resistance erupts into open rebellions whenever the PRC relaxes its complex system of domination - as it did, for example, in the late 1950s and in the late 1980s. Otherwise, the tight, multi-layered Chinese security system, structural violence, and the denial of social space rule out any protracted large-scale ethnic conflict in Tibet.