The talking up of historically and generally illiterate Tibetan separatism threatens, probably intentionally, to define Chineseness in historically and generally illiterate terms, as pertaining to the Han ethnic group only.
There are many extremely dangerous forces at work in the world today. But none more is more dangerous than this.
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Tibet was certainly independent in the 1940s. All visitors at the time (Harrer, de Riencourt, Ford) agree that the Tibetan government headed by the Dalai Lama was sovereign and took all decisions.
ReplyDeleteFifty years of repression have failed to quash the Tibetan people's spirit, just as Soviet Communism failed to crush Lithuanian national freedom.
Boe Rangzen.
Tashi delek.
No, they only agreed that it took all decisons. And look what those decisions were. But they took them as part of China, and they were stopped from taking them as part of China.
ReplyDeleteNo country has ever maintained relations with Tibet as a sovereign state, for the very good reason that Tibet has never been a sovereign state. Tibet has always been part of China.