Jarmila Ptácková is Research Fellow at the Oriental Institute of the Czech Academy of Sciences. Her research focuses on Chinese development policy and subsequent social and economic changes in China’s Tibetan areas, on China’s ethnic policy, and on the role of Tibetans in PRC’s cultural and economic diplomacy towards Nepal. Ondrej Klimes is Research Fellow at the Oriental Institute of the Czech Academy of Sciences. His expertise is in modern and contemporary Xinjiang and China, with a focus on China's ethnic policy, political system, ideology and propaganda, and on the Uyghur national movement.