Such protests are extremely rare in Tibet, which China has tightly controlled since it annexed the region in the 1950s.

Putin appeared in front of a large blue screen emblazoned with a map of the Russian Federation, complete with annexed parts of Ukraine.

Since the 1967 Middle East war, Israel has occupied and later annexed the area of southern Syria known as the Golan Heights.

When Israel occupied part of the Golan Heights in the 1967 war, and later unilaterally annexed it, some of the Druze there opted to remain and take Israeli citizenship.

Israel seized the Golan from Syria in the closing stages of the 1967 Six-Day War and unilaterally annexed it in 1981.