Take it with as many grains of salt as you like. I just can’t in good conscience put myself on the side that wants to bomb busses and kill people because they can’t have their stone-age Islamic Republic.
Moreover, I can’t in good conscience join the “hate China” crowd. Like President Bush, I see China as a competitor and a partner, provided they continue down the path of social and reform they’ve chosen.
And if you keep repeating the lie that I’m some kind of Chinese intern or operative, unwittingly or not, you will be a liar.
Holding minorities who do not want to be part of China must be one of the social reforms. It is not the Islamic terrorism which made China occupy Xinjiang. It was naked land grab. The same with Tibet. Your good conscience only works selectively.
China was successfully duping naive Westerners blinded by Marco-polo fairy tales and billion-men market. However, they do not value coexistence. Historically, they firmly believe coexistence is threat to stability and invite endless wars. That mentality has never changed. Even today. Deep down, they all dream that someday all countries in the world come to China with tributes and swear eternal loyalty to China. They believe what it should be, and that is China's destiny. If Bush does not see it, it is that he is behind the curve.
For China, coexistence has always been just a tactic. Domination is their ultimate goal.
Tibetans ask nicely (so far) for their autonomy. Still having a strong religious organization not beholden to Chinese regime cannot be tolerated. They are called all kinds of name they do not deserve. Now Chinese cry foul for stone-age Islamic Republic. After all years of helping Pakistani nuclear weapons' project and bankrolling anti-American Islamic interest behind the scene, Chinese claim now that they are victims.
Uyghurs and Tibetans do not want to be part of Chinese. Let them go. Not doing so would invite more terrorism or other militant actions from local population. Of course, I know that China try to solve it by flooding the area with surplus Han-Chinese, diluting the local gene pool. China never runs out of humanity, does it?
All these Chinese like to view themselves as a member of 'great empire,' while never realizing that oh-so-great empire see them as one of billions of cheapest disposable resources available.
The culturally desolate China, made possible by wholesale destruction by Mao of Chinese society, now only has raw powerlust and greed. It is all about how much territory they gain and how imposing they look to the outside.