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To: compound w
Moreover, the loosening and democratizing of Chinese society, in my opinion, strengthens China’s right to exercise sovereignty over its lands and people.

Such as calling all kind of names to Dalai Lama and Tibetans, who are not allowed to keep his pictures or Tibet's Snow Lion Flag? Why do they have to meddle in somebody's religious practices of all kind, not just Islam? Do you think that Uyghur are rebelling just because they refuse to go to the "modern school." About train station, I heard some do. Do you know why? They say that Uyghurs are born from Uyghur mothers, but Han-Chinese are born from trains(allusion to the fact that train-load of Han-Chinese keep coming to Uygur land.) China's claim on Uyghur and Tibet are always tenuous. China's control over those areas have come and gone many times. Usually under control of non-Han dyasties, for example, Mongol and Manchu dynasties.

If you think China will take the path you want, you are misguided. China is going from Maoist commune to hyperchauvist fascist nation with expansionist mindset, the modern reincarnation of old Chinese empire. To them, the whole world is either their provinces or vassals.

77 posted on 08/04/2008 7:29:55 AM PDT by TigerLikesRooster (kim jong-il, chia head, ppogri, In Grim Reaper we trust)
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To: TigerLikesRooster

We’ll just have to disagree. My sources tell me that Tibetans are free to exercise their religion as long as they do not advocate separation. And yes, in a nutshell, the Muslim problem can be largely captured in the idea that some Uygurs, especially those Islamic fundamentalists, don’t want their daughters to be “Han-itized” in Mandarin schools. It’s an old story, at least as old as the stories of the American government and the American Indian.

We’ll just have to disagree on this.


79 posted on 08/04/2008 7:50:24 AM PDT by compound w
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