On Tue, 25 Mar 2008 05:52:25 -0700, fyfpoon@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
>> I don't know whether they would or not. My question is: shouldn't they?
>>
>> Your comparison of the PRC and the Eastern block is interesting, and
>> possibly quite perceptive. However, you could pretty much use the same
>> argument against the American War for Independence - not to mention
>> more recent examples like the 1999 referendum in E Timor.
>>
>> That aside, I'm more interested in why so many ordinary Chinese people
>> seem to give a toss. I want to hear from their lips, preferably in
>> English (or a close approximation, thereof, in OP's case), why they
>> feel it affects them that some obscure province on the far reaches of
>> the Mongol Empire doesn't want to be part of their country.
>
> You are asking a question of personal preferrence nature. Why should you
> want Tibet to be separated from China?
Who says I do? Who says I even care? It seems to be the Tibetans who want
it, a great deal. And I'm just curious as to why you, as a person, would
deny them.
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