Re: Is a 'Free Tibet' a possibility?

On May 12, 5:29=A0pm, netvegetable <n...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> On Mon, 12 May 2008 02:10:17 -0700, Yu wrote:
> >> >> >http://en.chinaelections.org/newsinfo.asp?newsid=3D17363
>
> >> >> So that's the real reason the People Republic of China opposes
> >> >> Tibetan self-determination? =A0i.e, There is no such thing as
China,=

> >> >> just a bunch of Chinas, under a Han Chinese Empire?
>
> >> > UN charter on self-determination did not apply to secession
> >> > movements. Neither does it apply to any particular ethnic group.
>
> >> > The consensus defined a "people" entitled to self-determination as
> >> > persons living in a particular geographic area, rather than persons
> >> > sharing a common culture or language.
>
> >> > Don't abuse terms that you half understood.
>
> >> Nevertheless, that is true then? That the real reason the People
> >> Republic of China opposes Tibetan self-determination is that there is
> >> no such thing as China? Just a bunch of Chinas, under a Han Chinese
> >> Empire?
>
> > China is multicultural and multiethnic. The minorities have more
rights
> > than the Hans. For example they can have more children. (Average
Tibetan=

> > family have 4-5 kids and that contribute to unemployment.)
> > They get preferential entry to colleges and universities and pay lower
> > tuition fees.
>
> Except that they don't get the right to say that they don't want to be
> part of China.

Who are these 'they"?  Do you have statistics showing the declining %
of business owner****p by Tibetan natives?  Don't just bull!



 Why not? Is there some fear that the PRC will collapse
> like a house of cards, if these people are allowed to speak their minds?
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