Are China's actions in Tibet considered genocide?

The characterization of China's actions in Tibet as "genocide" is a matter of international debate and various viewpoints. Some claim that China's policies and actions in Tibet since its incorporation in 1950 amount to cultural genocide. They argue that the Chinese government's suppression of religious practices, the resettlement of Han Chinese into Tibet, the re-education programs, and the discouragement of the Tibetan language and culture could be seen as attempts to assimilate the Tibetan people and erode their cultural identity.

However, from a legal standpoint, genocide is narrowly defined by the United Nations Genocide Convention as any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as such: killing members of the group; causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group; deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part; imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group; or forcibly transferring children of the group to another group.

Some activists and human rights groups believe the Chinese government's policies in Tibet meet some of these criteria, but China and some scholars argue that the intent to destroy the Tibetan people, which is a key component of the legal definition, is not present. The Chinese government contends that its policies are aimed at economic development and counter-secession, not the destruction of the Tibetan identity.

It's important to note that international bodies such as the United Nations have not officially designated China's actions in Tibet as genocide.