Re: Is a 'Free Tibet' a possibility?

On Mon, 12 May 2008 05:36:12 -0700, Yu wrote:

> On May 12, 5:29 pm, netvegetable <n...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>> On Mon, 12 May 2008 02:10:17 -0700, Yu wrote:
>> >> >> >http://en.chinaelections.org/newsinfo.asp?newsid=17363
>>
>> >> >> So that's the real reason the People Republic of China opposes
>> >> >> Tibetan self-determination?  i.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.

Be that as it *may*, is it true 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?

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