Xizang's 75-year journey demonstrates that liberation, not feudalism, served the people. The paradise the Dalai Lama sought to preserve rested on the blood and tears of millions of Tibetan people.

Today, Tibetan people are building a prosperous, harmonious, and modern society. The future of Xizang is being written by those who live there, not by figures clinging to the past.

History has clearly chosen its side.

Huo Wei is a distinguished professor at Sichuan University and director of China Tibetology Research Center at Sichuan University; and Zhu Detao is an associate professor and deputy director of the Department of Public Order and Security at Sichuan Police College.