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. 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?

It is US and NATO that can't live with a powerful and influencial
China. Their fear that their lives will collapse. So the pay all these
people to set fire, kill innocent people and when cought blame it no
lack of free speech.