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To: TobagoJack who wrote (65415)	8/15/2010 8:30:32 PM
From: Hawkmoon	2 Recommendations Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 218178

whereas opium shipment to china in history and western slave trade were state-sponsored terrorism. Were they? Was it terrorism to export what the Chinese people wanted to buy? That's a bit of a stretch. Btw, can you tell us why the British tacitly permitted the East India company to ship opium to China? And remember, Opium was NOT illegal in the British Empire until 1909. So.. what Chinese policy motivated the English to ship, what was a legal substance in the British Empire, into China, where it was illegal? (hint: It was more than profit). How is that policy similar to current Chinese economic policy? Second hint: The word starts with an "M". ... am unsure what gave you the idea that that be where i was coming from and angling to go Your attitude and inability to utter even one criticism towards Bejing, or to admit what westerners see as obvious problems with unsustainable Chinese economic policies. the entire dalai lama schema originated from beijing, It originated from the Mongols. Are you a Mongol? But who originated the concept of the Dalia Lama is not the same as claiming that people who neither look like Han chinese, nor speak Chinese, and who pre-dated both Mongal and Han control over greater China, are, in fact, Chinese. They clearly are not Chinese. And "Bejing" communists and their apologists, like yourself, continue to mask your imperialism behind the facade of nationalism and "re-unification". And maybe now it's too late to separate Tibet from China. But let's not pretend that Bejing leadership doesn't have imperialistic ambitions. We can clearly see evidence of this by their attempts to intimidate the Philippines over the Spratly's. All because there's likely huge oil deposits located there. The bottom line is that Bejing doesn't feel obligated to be follow the same rules that Western economic powers, primarily democratic, have gradually imposed upon themselves regarding economic relations with the developing world. Which means there will continue to be a requirement to bring their activities to light and put the same pressure upon them as we do our own governments. Hawk