The BBC’s Tibet coverage is getting better, with first-hand accounts of violence against ethnic Chinese in Lhasa (which is the real story in all of this), and with mention of the huge numbers of Tibetans elsewhere in China, if only because of alleged trouble and strife at their monasteries.
But the rest of China is still being called “China proper”, as if Tibet were not properly part of China. And coverage is being lavished on a Tibetan “government in exile” which is in fact neither a government nor in exile.
Meanwhile, it is no surprise that India is proving so much less than sympathetic towards Tibetan separatism. Imagine if its principles were applied in India. As they certainly would be pretty much immediately if they were ever applied in China.
And the Lib Dems are up to their old tricks, I see. The split between the Lib Dems and their old neocon friends is well and truly healed. From the people who cheered on the dismemberment of Yugoslavia comes the cheering on of the dismemberment of China. Russia will be next. And then where? Belgium? Spain? Canada? The United Kingdom?
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Idiot. That you should be so brave as those Tibetans fighting for their freedom and nation, knowing the death and torture that will surely follow, just like before.
ReplyDeleteTheir nation is China, and always has been. By all means let there be freedom throughout that multi-ethnic and indivisible nation, including multi-ethnic Tibet.
ReplyDeleteLet there not be the ethnic cleansing of Tibet. Nor a a return to the feudalism and theocracy permitted there by successive Chinese Emperors and regimes until 1959, with ninety-five per cent serfdom, and with all forms of religion except one illegal.
That is where the "government in exile" came from. And that is what it would bring back, given half a chance.
The Tibetans are a Chinese ethnic minority. There are 55 ethnic minorities in China that make up about 160 million people. Their different cultures are celebrated on TV and protected by law. They have their own political parties, they receive favourable treatment in education and development, and the government even helped them to develop their own written languages using the alphabet.
ReplyDeleteThese are hardly the policies of a government afraid of heterogeneity. The ethnic minorities are flourishing and this is not propaganda - it can be seen with your own eyes if you dare to open them.
So it's no surprise that the Chinese think the Tibetans are better off now than they ever have been. They used to live under a feudal theocracy. They had no education or sanitation and most people couldn't read Tibetan or enjoy the culture because they were the uneducated underclass.
Now, most people receive an education and can read Tibetan but the government still has work to do to get the nomads to send their children to school. Nomads rarely get a good education. School is compulsory in the UK and it should be compulsory in Tibet, too. Nomads can be unruly, too - just look at what they're doing in Sudan.
There's also the Dalai Lama. The Dalai Lama has done such a fantastic job of marketing himself to the west, he has almost become a westerner. What a kind and benevolent man - wouldn't you like to just give him a hug?
How can a coutry- like China- annex its self. Why can't the ccp just entniclly cleans itself of the govenment
ReplyDeleteDavid, this is a nice blog you've got over here. It was refreshing to see someone daring to offer an alternative to the "truths" generally being told and accepted in the Western world. And I hope your soon-to-come crucifixion will wake up a few of the sleeping herd.;)
ReplyDeleteI hope you set up an RSS feed so I can subscribe to your blog.
Have a nice day!
Does anyone know how to set up an RSS feed?
ReplyDeletehehe...David...If you are using Blogger, you are already streaming an RSS feed. Just open the Google Reader and copy and paste your blog site to it.
ReplyDeleteBTW, Kudos to you for holding up against conventional wisdom. Keep it up, buddy!