Riots in Tibet

[mmm skyscraper]

Never get involved in a land war in Asia.

[BeautifulBurnout]

Originally Posted by mmm skyscraper

Never get involved in a land war in Asia.

True dat. Also I think Sarcasmo is being optimistic if he thinks it will take as long as 50 years for the Chinese to be the dominant world power.

[cacophony]

america is so in debt to china that i think we actually owe them our next three generations of children and the gold fillings in our teeth.

can't really bite the hand that pwn3s you.

[Sarcasmo]

Originally Posted by cacophony

america is so in debt to china that i think we actually owe them our next three generations of children and the gold fillings in our teeth.

can't really bite the hand that pwn3s you.

Not when they can spontaneously create an army of a billion...

[BeautifulBurnout]

Originally Posted by machin chouette

they (journalists) said china is afraid to fall apart
to lose not just tibet

Yeah, I heard a commentator putting that point on the radio this morning. I think the issue I have is that the Chinese, no matter what they say to the contrary, have tried to destroy the Tibetan culture and control and manipulate their religious leaders.

It is well to remember that Tibet has only been part of China since 1950, and the Tibetans suffered horrendous massacres at the time of the first big uprising in 1959 - Chinese sources themselves admit that 80,000 Tibetans died during and immediately after the uprising. Of the 6000 Tibetan monasteries in existance prior to the occupation, only 12 were left standing . The Chinese have undertaken a policy of "repopulation" of Tibet, similar to the occupation of the West Bank by Jewish settlers. Except that the Chinese now outnumber the Tibetans in their own country.

Not to mention reports of forced sterilisation, abuse and torture. And the now infamous banning of reincarnation of a Lama outside China

So yeah. At what point do we accept that this former sovereign nation no longer has the right to cry freedom? Should we ever accept it as being just another Chinese province?

[chuck]

And now the IOC are just making up silly words to justify having the Olympics there.

International Olympic Committee chief Jacques Rogge believes the games could be a changing factor in China.


"We believe that China will change by opening the country to the scrutiny of the world through the 25,000 media who will attend the games," he said in a statement.


"Awarding the Olympic Games to the most populous country in the world will open up one fifth of mankind to Olympism."


Storms ahead for Olympic torch

wtf is "olympism" - sounds like something pornographic that Willy Wonka's workers get up too after a night on the turps.

I see China is planning to take the flame up to the top of Mount Everest - nothing like the spirit of 'our flame has gone higher than anyone elses - sucks to be round-eye! ha!' to bring the huddled masses together.

oh my - such cynicism and still so far out from the actual event.

[Sean]

Paramilitary police opened fire on hundreds of monks, nuns and Tibetans who tried to march on a local government office in western China yesterday to demand the return of the Dalai Lama.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/new...cle3612661.ece