A Tibetan yoga teacher has completed a week-long bicycle ride in Europe to canvass international support for Tibet, Hong Kong and Xinjiang in the fight against the Communist Party of China.

The France-based Tibetan, whose name is transcripted as Ngawang, hoped his Paris-Geneva expedition would raise concern about the tyranny of the Chinese party. He said the Chinese government resembled a virus or bacteria which could not be killed by a single medicine or force, and that external assistance was crucial.

“There has to be a drug to destroy its outer membrane, and another to prevent the bacteria from reproduction,” Ngawang said. “We also need some help from the outside, such as the U.S.-China trade war and the Sino-Indian border conflicts. Then, the Chinese government will be weakened.”

The descendant of Tibetans in exile, carrying the Tibetan, French and European Union flags on his bicycle, started his tour at the Chinese embassy in Paris in mid-August. When Ngawang put his palms together for a meditation outside the embassy, a group of Chinese consular officials summoned security guards, who then spit and coughed at the Tibetan. “When they become rude, I will become more determined to do more,” he said.

He spent one week traveling 598 kilometers to arrive at the United Nations office in Geneva on Aug. 19. The sight of the organization led Ngawang to think about his identity, he said. His father was among some 100,000 Tibetans who had left their homes since the late 1950s following a failed uprising against the Communist Party’s rule. Several of his uncles died as a result of persecution by Chinese authorities. “I may never be able to go back to Tibet in my lifetime,” he said.

Lately, Ngawang has launched an online petition to call on the Communist Party to respect freedoms and basic human rights in Tibet, Hong Kong and Xinjiang. He said people fighting a tyranny had to have conviction, keep calm and be sensitive to what was happening around the world.

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