Tibet is not the new Gucci bag

[AsianDream]

Kulindahr - Los Angeles was part of Mexico. the U.S did seize it from the Mexicans and "flooded with U.S. citizens to try to absorb it". The U.S. as a country is built on Indians' land and many of them were killed.

In terms of Tibet, you better give yourself a history lesson before you make any judgment. But I can tell you even the current Dalai Lama agrees Tibet is part of China and he doesn't intend to seek independence.

Your "on-the-spot, eye-witness vids" simply do not exist in from this riot. Nothing has shown Tibetans are killed because they have been peacefully march on the street. But there are pictures and vids showing innocent people killed by rioters, if you bother to read news outside of Western media you will find them.

You're right - Tibet was an independent country that was overrun by China

But it had many Historical ties to China - in European terms this is much the same as the relationship between Austria and Germany - but with the distinction that the Austrians spoke the same language as the Germans - so while they wanted independence did not fight very hard against being taken over by Germany.

In the case of Austria versus Germany - History shows the good guys won - the verdict is still out on China versus Tibet.

As Tianaman square has shown - no one should underestimate the willingness of the Chinese regime to kill their own people

 

[blackbeltninja]

I love it how everyone is having a pissy fit about China and Tibet, many years AFTER they should have opposed China getting the Olympics in the first place...

...but apart from some token comments, nobody has said ANYTHING about what's happened in Zimbabwe in the last two weeks. The fact that half of you who read this statement will probably ask "where/what is Zimbabwe?" and the other half will be asking "what has happened there in the last few weeks anyway?" is as much of a worry.

Makes you wonder if being pro-Tibet is just a fad after all.

-d-

 

[unclaimedblessing]

It's all a moot point anyway.
Yesterdays "McLaughlin Group" pointed out that the USA and 60 other nations boycotted the 1980 Moscow Olympics because of the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan.
The boycott had little to no effect on the USSR's invasion, and a boycott today will not deter the plans of the PRC.

 

[kallipolis]

Makes you wonder if being pro-Tibet is just a fad after all.

That circumstances should arise in order for the human race to better appreciate the incarceration of Tibet by China, is to understand that China's government does not respond to the predictable reasoning that a democratic government might well be sensitive too.

More power to the elbow of the Tibetan people for being wise enough to take advantage of any opportunity to free themselves, from being a colonial yoke of China.

As another poster so wisely reminds us, it is the Chinese Government that fears the fragmentation of China will begin with the liberation of its subject people in Tibet.
As goes Tibet, so goes the authority of the Communist Party of China, and its despotic dominion over the Chinese people.

Zimbabwe should be discussed, on another thread. No reason not to be sensitive to the suffering of the Zimbabwe people. You are invited "Blackbeltninja" to start the ball rolling.

 

[kallipolis]

It's all a moot point anyway.

Not if you are a Tibetan living in fear of the knock on the door, in the middle of the night, by the Chinese special police.

But of course as a certain line of "reasoning" would regularly indicate on this board by the China lobby, such things do not happen. For is no video evidence to support such a thought. Those Tibetans who have escaped from Tibet, would suggest otherwise.

 

[Telstra]

2 face, 3 face, 4 face,

if you guys cares so much about Tibet,
you should send billions of dollars to Tibet to build roads and bridges and make the province more beautiful.

 

[unclaimedblessing]

The roads and bridges might make Tibet more beautiful?
Where have roads and bridges made any country more beautiful?
Any new roads and bridges would make Tibet even more accessible to the Chinese Army.
They are probably better off, for the time being, in their lofty remoteness.