Giggle... TJ, that's excellent = pretending to be against China while pushing the official China ruler's line which is that Mao was not totally perfect after all and was simply supreme rather than supernatural deity and was only 30% wrong and 70% right or 30% right and 70% wrong or whatever number they wish to use.
Ships pass in the night was reference to USA going down the gurgler into socialist Maoistic maelstrom while China heads up into the light. That's not exactly critical of China!
Depends who you mean by "communists" and it certainly doesn't apply to Hu Jintao and the official capitalist rulers of China. Well done to join the correct side of the political ruling class. You need to be nimble as you are! I note your ingratiating "Tibetan Chinese" - yes, the official line is that Tibetans are Chinese, not Tibetan [they just live there in a province called Tibet].
Admitting China does plenty wrong while saying only how great it was and successful is like admitting to failing to polish finger nails correctly [a self-effacing pretence].
As I have laboured the point to you many times TJ, winding the clock back is impossible. All that can happen is going forwards according to the more or less better course, being the one which seems less bad.
An individual can reasonably be sent back "where they came from" if they are still alive and it doesn't create too many problems. But when that individual has been dead for centuries, it's hard to send them back. When they have interbred with swarms of the local yokels, even their descendants can't be sent back "where they came from". They didn't come from anywhere. They were born there and they are the local yokels.
NZers are interbreeding maniacs and there are now no Maoris. All are descendants from somebody from somewhere else. Maoris are now officially those "who identify as Maori". Those who can prove some Maori ancestry get special favours but it's a great stretch to call them Maori. The only people who aren't Maori are now recent Chinese immigrants [okay, that's a slight exaggeration but near enough for government work].
If all those with ancestors born other than in NZ were sent back "where they came from", there would be nobody left in NZ. I doubt that that's true of Tibet.
Mr Lama has the best suggestion = accept that Tibet is part of China, but create a constitutional system making it more autonomous. If the right constitution was developed, I'd be in favour of NZ becoming part of that constitution too. It would need to be a federal sort of arrangement with highly circumscribed federal powers. Indeed, China could, with some imagination and creativity, take over the world with the right constitutional design. But of course they lack creativity, imagination, or even much good sense, thinking that shooting their way to rule of Taiwan and Tibet are good ideas.
Also, NZ was almost universally bought, fair and square, as I have explained, complete with links. Te Tiriti Waitangi was the original deal to which nearly all Maoris signed up. Tuhoe people being one who didn't. They don't want to be booted out to fend for themselves - they are quick to say they want only increased autonomy and payment of funds directly into their bank accounts rather than filtered through government departments. They LIKE being part of NZ. Maybe China could make a countervailing offer and they'd join China. That would be interesting! Very interesting. Put it to your bosses. China is buying much of the Pacific countries. A piece of NZ would be a good trinket to add to the string of pearls.
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