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To: Rolla Coasta who wrote (32597)	4/8/2008 12:37:12 PM
From: Maurice Winn	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 219782

As the Tibetans learned once again, with war there is conquest, death and confiscation. China shouldn't be surprised that the same happened to them in WWII. If they had backed the British Empire, Japan wouldn't have taken over. I suspect a lot of Chinese would rather have had the British Empire running the show than the Maostic MADness of the CCP, as they did in Hong Kong, to which swarms of Chinese escaped. But people tend to get the government they deserve and China selected poverty and murder instead of British rule. In the same period during which China chucked the British out, the Maoris in NZ kept the British on. The Maoris went from the stone age to the high civilisation while China went from high civilisation back to the stone age. The British Empire had Christian missionaries who didn't just proselytize religion, they educatedn the local yokels in the ways of civilisation and that was their main purpose. As a result, Maoris now run NZ - for example the Minister of Foreign Affairs is a Maori, Winston Peters, who, as his name implies, has ancestry from various sources. China would have done well to take the same approach as Winston Peters' ancestors. China chucked my ancestors out of China and confiscated property. That's what conquerors do. Perhaps if China returned the property they stole, Japan would return some too. Of course that won't happen and history can't be unwound. Genghis's descendants can't go back to Mongolia from China. It's premature to say China is the emerging super power. They have cultural klutziness which suggests they will not reach that apogee of civilisation. They are too repressive for a start. Mqurice