Xi Crackdown Foils Shanghai-Like Covid Unrest in Xinjiang, Tibet

Broad CCP surveillance measures used over the years against Tibetan Buddhists and mainly Muslim Uyghurs are helping enforce lockdown rules among people long at risk of arbitrary detention.

Uh, yeah: "Robbie Barnett, who headed Columbia University’s Modern Tibetan Studies Program until 2018, said the “foreign threat” narrative has been an extremely prominent part of political messaging in the Tibetan border areas for the last two years."