ocrenter, the residents of California back then were hounded to sell their properties, more often than not at gunpoint.
Why don’t you give China 200 more years in Tibet? By that time highspeed trains will crisscross the region and high rise condo in Lhasa will be worth more than houses in middle America.
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Just because America did it does not mean China can do it now. This is classic Chinese rhetoric. Every time there’s another Uyghur arrest, or another report of discrimination, or statistic of economic apartheid, China just simply repeat the same argument you are posing: “well you guys did it years ago too.”
btw, I agree, give China a few more years and Tibet would be fully integrated. Potala Palace in Lhasa would still be there, but I doubt Tibetan would even be spoken and I doubt you can even tell a “Tibetan” apart from a Han Chinese anymore. The assimilation process and the complete destruction of thousand year plus civilization would be fully complete. You want to give China more time to complete the process?
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I haven’t been to Tibet yet, but I have been to Xinjiang. The local Uyghur people don’t particularly care for Chinese rule but they prefer the prosperity of China over next door kazhakstan. There are gleaming new airports and developments thanks to China. Urumqi airport is better than San Diego’s, Carrefour hypermakets and plenty of consumer goods. And the uyghurs benefit from autonomous laws such as the right to carry knives on their belts, and affirmative action admissions to China’s top universities.[/quote]
Your understanding of the world is so skin deep. Did you really just say the subjugation of 10 million people, the systematic suppression of their language, the outright discrimination and frequent jailing without charges are all ok because there’s a shiny new airport, a few Carrefour, and there’s a written policy for affirmative action?
China actually arranged a full last minute tourist boycott of an entire city just because somewhere within that city there was a film festival where a Uyghur film was being featured. This is the extent of the media crackdown.
As for the Uyghurs and where they get their inspirations. East Turkestan independence movement started gaining momentum primarily due to Kazakhstan’s independence. That’s when China cracked down even more and started transporting even more Han Chinese migrants to Xinjiang.
you are essentially turning a blind eye to all of the human rights abuses, ethnic cleansing and assimilation policies as well as environmental destruction happening all over China. When did you become part of their on-line 50 cent army?
