Have you been to Tibet and Xingjiang? I always wanted to go there. I agree with you completely. I remember that in high school and in college, we had students from those regions (Xingjiang) who were on full scholarship. It was the government’s program to get the most promised youth better educated — even though they would not have been admitted otherwise. But there is still a lot of resentment among people in Tibet and Xingjing, I believe. In the end, there is a lot to say about independence and autonomy. Chinese government’s attempt was more serious, more competently carried out, with some cruelty along the way. (Compared to US’s Iraqi fiasco).
When Bush wants to spread “liberty and democracy” around the world, he perhaps didn’t realize that he’s invading others’ sense of independence, including their religious beliefs. (Well, their lifes too!) Plus, he only cares about people agreeing with him (or even worshiping him) anyway. So I don’t know if his version of “democracy” is democracy at all. I read that one of the things that he absolutely insisted on was that the new Iraqi government “thank” the US for “liberating” Iraq.
