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Tibetan revolt has China's empire fraying at the edge
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| March 23, 2008
| Michael Sheridan
Posted on 03/22/2008 5:52:19 PM PDT by Zhang Fei
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To: Travis McGee
Especially if the Beijing gangsters perceive that the olympic games were sabotaged and they have lost face. The way things are developing, it would be tough for China to avoid the fate of losing face. So much discontent has been bottled up. It will go off the first opportunity it gets, which would be the Olympic Game.
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posted on
03/22/2008 11:08:21 PM PDT
by
TigerLikesRooster
(kim jong-il, chia head, ppogri, In Grim Reaper we trust)
To: Clintonfatigued
“I hope more conservatives make cause with them.”
You forget Tibetans are not Christian.
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posted on
03/22/2008 11:09:24 PM PDT
by
Rennes Templar
( Never underestimate the difficulty of changing false beliefs by facts.)
To: Zhang Fei
FLASH!
On The Ground reports (through Japanese TV tonight).
Two of importance:
a) Troops pouring into Tibet from Communist China, are coming in from the furthermost areas with Red China, away from Tibet. i.e. reporters are noting vehicles coming in as far from as former Manchuria (Heiliungjang, etc). This confirms to the traditional Soviet and China crackdown of sending troops to rebelling areas with ethnics not connected in the remotest way to the area to be suppressed, to be more effective. It will be easy to order troops from Harbin to fire upon citizens in Lhasa in this way.
b) PLA troops are covering over their tanks that have the Chinese PLA marks ("81": 八一) for the 8th Route Army, with newspapers, to avoid coverage from foreign media or others (side and front of the tanks where these normally appear--a Japanese military specialist commented on the photos taken out of Tibet by Japanese tourists today). I saw these photos on Japanese TV just two hours ago.
(9:00 a.m. Eastern, Easter Sunday morning)
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posted on
03/23/2008 6:03:56 AM PDT
by
AmericanInTokyo
(If anything, NOW is the time for a "WeAreTheWorld", or "HandsAcrossAmerica" blockbuster on TIBET)
To: TigerLikesRooster
It’s going to be interesting to watch these events unfold.
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posted on
03/23/2008 6:53:43 AM PDT
by
Travis McGee
(---www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com---)
To: Zhang Fei
Han Chinese comprise 91.9% of the population of China.
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posted on
03/23/2008 7:19:12 AM PDT
by
Sawdring
To: LoneRangerMassachusetts
Not really. In fact Tibet has exerted control over China more often than the other way around.
History of Tibet.
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posted on
03/23/2008 2:57:36 PM PDT
by
TigersEye
(This is the age of the death of reason.)
To: AmericanInTokyo; MimirsWell
Thanks for the update. I expect they will use the time-tested Chinese tactic of massacring thousands to get the Tibetans in line. Bush II may have to make the kind of decision Bush I had to make during the Tiananmen Massacre - whether or not to impose sanctions on China. Bush II will also have to figure out whether he'll respond in the way Reagan did in response to Charlie Wilson's statement with respect to the Afghan people's revolt against the Soviets - "The U.S. had nothing whatsoever to do with these people's decision to fight ... But we'll be damned by history if we let them fight with stones."
The Chinese inflicted 100,000 dead on the US during the Cold War by making it possible - via billions of dollars of military aid - for the North Koreans and North Vietnamese to invade our non-communist allies. Maybe it's time we returned the favor.
To: AdmSmith; Arthur Wildfire! March; Berosus; bigheadfred; ColdOne; Convert from ECUSA; Delacon; ...
Note: this topic is from 3/22/2008. Thanks Zhang Fei.
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posted on
12/05/2010 9:08:23 PM PST
by
SunkenCiv
(The 2nd Amendment follows right behind the 1st because some people are hard of hearing.)
To: TCats
And the ChiComs have seen this threat. For 2 generations they have been settling Han Chinese in non-Han territory.
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posted on
12/06/2010 1:01:04 AM PST
by
rmlew
(You want change? Vote for the most conservative electable in your state or district.)
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