On phone now but highly suggest getting the actual files and reading as they were declassified a few decades ago
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/CIA_Tibetan_program
We trained them to say certain keywords and funded them to travel around universities to win the heads and minds of our youth - this is why we associate Buddhism today with pacifism despite that we were also arming and training them for guerilla campaigns at the same time
Furthermore, a cursory glance at history of any Buddhist population shows nothing about the religion is more peaceful etc etc
Especially Tibetans were an especially warlike people who had fight fiercely for Independence for centuries and at the time were armed by the British with modern artillery or rifles - on the narrative we focus on local militias that were farmers using their matchlocks normally used for hunting vs an army with machine guns but that was far from the norm
Most notably, there's a scene in 7 years in Tibet with the Dalai Lama asking bread Pitt what rifle he recommends and Brad is like oh dear you poor naive simpletons don't know what's coming - stuff like this written by people who had monks visit while in college was exactly what the CIA had hoped for
I'm not at all defending Chinese occupation of Tibet but it's pretty irreversible by this point, be like handing back the East coast to native tribes or new york to the Dutch - it's a done deal, it's over now
One thing for dead certain, the average Tibetan was far, far worse before they got annexed
It was feudalism run by a theocratic oligarchy that had slavery, basically no social institutions so no healthcare, no education, it was religion and pastoralists if we're fortunate to not be a slave but that wasn't too bad either because at least you'd live on after your master carved a bowl out of your skull (literally... people have no ffing idea what Tibetans were like) but it was all good that's average lifespan was like 30 but you know heavily influenced by crazy high rake on infant mortality because you know, no roads or even hospitals to go to if there had been one but you you it's just lol outliers amirite?
Simply put being a Tibetan has always sucked and your perception is literally shaped by CIA cold war propaganda that was wildly effective
Not defending the occupancy, not pro China in the slightest but Tibet has always been hell
Way more compelling argument for Xinjiang though... Those guys have a very good argument for independence and not too late for them - will still never happen though