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People love to conflate the Dalai Lama with the people of Tibet.
He was plucked from a rural Chinese village as a child and turned into the head of Tibet's theocracy. At the time Tibet was a miserable feudal backwater. The vast majority of the population were oppressed, illiterate peasants. It may not have been as bad as the Chinese government claims, but every account from outside observers talks about the deprivations in Tibet.
Today Tibet has almost all children in compulsory bi-lingual education and the people have many more job options than tenant-farmer. The fact that the Dalai-Lama lives in a temple in India instead of Tibet makes no difference to the lives of Tibetans.
Well then it's a good thing China swooped in and saved them from savagery!
Nah. It's fucked up when Western colonial expansion absorbs people against their will and it's fucked up when China does it.
You still seem to think that the will of the Dalai Lama is at all related to the desires of the people of Tibet.
Aside from a CIA funded uprising half a century ago, there's no evidence at all that China "absorbs people against their will."
The 9-dash line? Not to mention the border disputes with India.
These are 2 areas that are being fought over for strategic reasons. One is a mountain border that would be a strategic chokepoint for potential future invasions. At this point it's such a farce that both sides voluntarily carry out hostilities with sticks. The 9-dash line is some pretty creative mapmaking but it has nothing to do with territory and everything to do with the straight of Malacca. They want to stop the US from doing the same thing Iran is doing at the straight of Hornuz.
Neither of those is an example of "absorbing people against their will". There are no people who to be absorbed because one is water and the other a bunch of mountains.
Arunachal Pradesh is home to over a million people, which China claims and is slowly building into in much the same way Russia bled into Ukraine. (And it probably should be part of Tibet which should be it's own nation, that China has been occupying it so long that its government-in-exile has little influence is a terrible defense)