China's pressure on French museums sparks UN warning over Tibet's 'erasure'

Dharamshala (Himachal Pradesh) [India], October 1 (ANI): The United Nations Special Rapporteur on Cultural Rights has raised serious concerns over the erasure of the word Tibet from French museum collections, cautioning that the replacement with Beijing-endorsed terms such as “Xizang" and “Himalayan World" undermines Tibetans’ cultural heritage and right to identity, the UN official warned that such shifts align directly with China’s political agenda, as reported by Phayul.According to Phayul, the controversy centres on two major French institutions, the Musee du quai Branly and the Musee Guimet, both of which adopted Chinese-preferred nomenclature in their Tibetan exhibits.In 2023, Beijing’s State Council Information Office issued a series of white papers promoting the use of “Xizang" in