What I said was:
<When Hamas and the Tibetans get the Bomb ....then Israel and China will have to stop their nasty colonizing habits.>
I didn't say they did it in Vietnam or Korea. Your comment about vague borders with India and Russia is irrelevant to what's happening in Tibet.
My comment was in reference to Tibet, and in response to Jay's post. No need for you to respond, if you think it's irrelevant or uninteresting.
Tibet has a distinct culture, religion, and language, and has been independent of China, for most of the last 1300 years. During the periods when Tibet and China were part of the same State, it was because they both had been conquered by the Mongols or Manchus.
By the middle of the 19th century, the Munchu influence in Tibet had waned considerably as the Manchu empire began to disintegrate. In 1842 and 1856 the Manchus were incapable of responding to Tibetan calls for assistance against repeated Nepalese Gorkha invasion. The Tibetans drove back the Gorkhas with no assistance and concluded bilateral treaties. In 1911 the CHO-YON (priest-patron) relationship came to its final end with the fall of the Manchu Dynasty. Tibet formally declared its Independence in 1912 and continued to conduct itself as a fully sovereign nation until its invasion by Communist China an 1949.
friends-of-tibet.org.nz
So, the only time in their entire history when the Chinese (as distinct from the Manchus or Mongols) have ruled China, is after 1949.
Since then, China has sent many Han Chinese, to live in the homeland of the Tibetans. They have done this, to change the demographic balance, develop those areas economically, and maintain central control. This is colonization. I don't need to have visited China or Tibet to see this. |
