In the heart of Qinghai’s Golog prefecture, thousands of Tibetan children now live in newly built boarding schools, hundreds of kilometres from their homes. A Le Monde investigation in April 2025 found students as young as six compelled to learn and think in Mandarin, their ancestral tongue reduced to an elective. Lessons on history praise the Party for “liberating” Tibet; textbooks omit the Dalai Lama entirely.

Human Rights Watch’s 2024 report, Educate the Masses to Change Their Minds, revealed the broader design: enforced relocations of entire rural communities, repackaged as “ecological protection” and “poverty alleviation.” Families are moved from grasslands into settlement clusters under surveillance grids. Together, these policies ensure that future generations are born, schooled, and socialised within a Chinese informational environment.

This is the essence of cognitive warfare—not censorship alone, but construction: rewriting the mental architecture of a people.