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I just love the way you say special rights and autonomy. Acting as if it's some good or laudable thing. While unconsciously telling on yourself. That and the fact that you cannot engage with anyone even when they try in good faith. And return that good faith.
Initiative, policy. The fact that this is what your quibbling over is extremely telling. As if it's meaningful or there's some big Grand difference. Maybe it was a policy initiative. The fact is you still didn't deny the existence of it.
I think you and I would both agree that the xenophobic white supremacist bigots in the United States for instance. That believe that there is one America, and immigrants/people with cultures they don't like aren't part of it. Is a bad thing. Yet you don't acknowledge the irony and hypocrisy of your stance.
I can tell you've never been part of a vulnerable group afforded "special rights and autonomy". As someone who has. It's 💯% bullshit. No group should have special rights. If it's acceptable for one it should be accessible to all. Anything else is just another regular failure of the state. At least I can be consistent and straight about it. Not twisting into pretzels like so many leninist defending their pet states.
Tibet, like the other autonomous areas has unique factors and circumstances, including an insurgency. If 1 house is on fire, would you recommend spraying all houses with water? Well 1 place needs economic development, education, preservation of the Tibeten language more than beijing or Shanghai.
I told you what it was, its China's policy regarding Taiwan, HK, Macao, and other areas with various levels of autonomy, but are still regarded as part of China, not some kind of policy supporting oppressing minorities or whatever the hell you're implying it is.