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Friday , March 28 , 2008
My voice & Tibet
Posted by 123456 , Reader : 486 , 09:56:02  
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We are 56 Ethnics, One China/ One family!

Listen to our voice

Do you know a TRUE Tibet?

Say NO to RIOTS!

We want our home in ONE piece

We are Chinese, we are family

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Obeyno1kinobe date : 28/03/2008 time : 14.28

123456, I am very sympathetic to your call for harmony and unity.

I guess a large number of people do see China the same way as you.

Probably a fair currently living in the current borders don't.

There is nothing especially unusual about the China Tibet issue.

The national borders we have today were changed frequently in the past, or were poorly defined, or disputed.

Empires have expanded and collapsed. Nations formed out of previously independent states (e.g. Italy). Land was traded (US purchased Alaska off the Russians) or lost in war. The European powers of the 17 and 1800's divided up much of Asia and Africa between them, often arbitrarily. Just look at how much the borders of Thailand changed in the 1800's.

National borders may have been more stable in some areas since WW2. But not in others. The USSR fell apart. East Timor was overtaken by Indonesia is the 70's and only became an independent state again recently. Kosovo etc.

China like other places will have issues. Particularly because of the ethnic mix you mention. And particularly where the hold of central government has not been steady for the last few centuries allowing different peoples to gain some sense of independence and separateness. So people may have developed a sense of independence, and the treatment by the central powers, rascism, economic disadvantage, lack of self determination, fear of losing cultural identity may not have helped.

In summary
-National boundaries and sovereignty haven’t been and are not static
-There are multiple views on what territory is indisputably part of China
-Not everyone living in China identifies themselves as Chinese
-The tension we see in Tibet is evidence of this. (it's not all outsiders trying to weaken China)
-You don’t have to worry at this stage about China losing Tibetan territory. They aren’t important enough to the rest of the world or powerful enough relative to China

Taiwan is also now effectively a sovereign state. Not recognised officially, because Mainland China is more important and powerful. But political and geographic realities mean China has not exercised it's claim, like it did when it sent the troops into Tibet.

This logic applies to other places too. The Kosovo muslim people don't want to be part of Serbia. The terrible treatment by the majority serbs in the 1990's gave them good cause to split. There is a lesson in that for China perhaps. You increase the desire for independence, by pushing people down.

If 80% of Taiwanese didn't want to be part of China, they would have my support. Or Kosovians in Serbia. Or Timorese. Or Tibetans. Or French Canadians. Or Scottish.
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