3/5 mongols are living in China today and they can speak chinese
very well ,of course~they are as patriotic as the Hanchinese~
Well that generally happens when you get assimilated. But
your point is? I'm not asking Tibet to declare
independence. I'm stating that people don't like China and
thats why they are so harsh with criticisms of this entire Tibetan
bullsh1t. The Free World doesn't like authoritarian regimes.
You think any of those western pro-Tibet protesters will lay their
lives down for Tibet?
Poh Ah Pak:
I've got more faith in the US (though its not much) than in
China. Like it or not, the Americans were the ones who
freed Europe from the oppression and tyranny of Nazi
Germany. They were the ones that kicked the Imperial Japanese
back to Japan. The were the ones that went into save ethnic
Albanian Muslims from genocide.
OTOH, China only served to inflame situations in Vietnam and the
Korean Peninsula. If MacArthur had his way, China would have been
nuked.
China is trying to be a military challenge to the United
States. They surfaced their submarines within torpedo range
of a US Carrier, its hard to convince me that that
is not an act of provocation? No warship should get so close
to another country's warship without formal arrangement. It
is an undeniablely provocative act that has complete disregard for
accidents that may cause international crises.
The Collapse of the Soviet Union as the BEST thing that could
have happened. The resultant US hegemony saw the world take a
huge sigh of relief over the looming threat of Global Nuclear
War.
Iraq was a huge strategic miscalculation, but the Americans are
paying for it with the blood of their servicemen. What did
China pay? Iraq is now generating more oil than they ever did
during Saddam's reign. Guess which countries benefit from the
oil that now flows from Iraqi taps? Developing nations like
China. Lets face it, the Americans are not gonna restrict oil
flow and raise prices when they have such huge energy demands as
well.
What is important now is that we realize that Tibet's just a
reminder of how dissatisfied is with China. If they don't get
their act together and exploring means to change and cooperate, the
threat of a confrontation is real. One day, a USN Seahawk is
gonna drop LIVE training ordinance and "accidentally" sink a
Chinese submarine stalking a US Carrier, and we can all say hello
to WW3.
