Olaf Scholz will meet with China's head of state Xi Jinping on Tuesday. He will also address human rights in the country.
The situation is particularly desolate in Tibet, says one activist. The United Nations criticizes that around a million children in Tibet are being sent to boarding schools against the wishes of their families. The system aims to “assimilate” children into the Han Chinese majority culture, according to a UN report last year. China's government, which has controlled Tibet since the 1950s, speaks of "lies and rumors," says the Tibetan sociologist Gyal Lo. He says China is about “absolute control,” and Tibetans have no choice but to go to major Chinese cities as migrant workers and work in big cities like Beijing and Shanghai. The German Chancellor is traveling to China this weekend to meet with Xi Jinping, who is also the head of the Communist Party of China (CPC). The meeting is scheduled to take place in Beijing on Tuesday and Wednesday.