Dr. Marten - it’s hardly my fault if your posts on Tibet are remarkably identical to the ones posted by the PLAN agents on this forum. They use the very same logic and arguments to support ChiCom dominance and genocide.
BTW, what is this business about “mutually-agreed upon independence”? Do you think the United States would have ever become independent if the British had a say and veto power over the revolutionaries? Why is it any different in case of China - the oppressor and colonizing power in Tibet?
“I definitely do not agree with China’s handling of Tibet.”
Well...at least there’s something that we agree on even if we disagree on the need for an oppressed peoples to enjoy liberty and freedom.
BTW, what is this business about “mutually-agreed upon independence”? Do you think the United States would have ever become independent if the British had a say and veto power over the revolutionaries?
As I mentioned, not all Tibetans want independence - Dalai Lama included.
The "independence protests" that we've seen recently are a combination of pro-independence splitists and those who simply want the autonomy they were promised by the Chinese before that agreement was unilaterally revoked in 1959. They want the Chinese to stop polluting their religious, cultural and language traditions and they want the government to stop the relocation of Han Chinese to the region. There's a huge disparity between Han Chinese and Tibetans in the region because the governments policies are all stack in favor of Han Chinese.
Why is it any different in case of China - the oppressor and colonizing power in Tibet?
As Fishing-guy stated in response to my poor analogy:
A better analogy for Tibet would be if the native American nations want to go independent from the United States. The Tibetans can choose the way of Geronimo, and they will get the same fate as he did.
The problem with China is that there is not a system where the common folks can address their grievances.