CHINA’s ruling Communist Party appointed a new senior official on Sunday to run Tibet, considered one of the country’s most politically sensitive positions due to periodic anti-Chinese unrest in the devoutly Buddhist Himalayan region.The Xinhua news agency named Wu Yingjie as Tibet’s next party secretary. New leaders were appointed in two other key provinces, part of a broad reshuffle ahead of an important 2017 party meeting.Wu has worked almost his entire career in Tibet, according to his official CV, and previously served as a deputy governor and propaganda chief.Wu, like his predecessor Chen Quanguo, belongs to China’s majority Han Chinese ethnic group. Xinhua said Chen would take another position, without giving further details.Communist troops marched in and took control of Tibet in 1950 in what Beijing calls a "peaceful liberation". Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama fled to India in 1959 after a failed uprising against the Chinese.China says it has bought prosperity and ...
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