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Quote by: phoenix_fire  I have a tendency to be critical of most things
coming out of China.
Considering, of course, that the government only lets them get
the information they want them to see and censors everything
that might embarrass them. |
They do have a monstrous government, no doubt about it.
Martin Jacques recently noted that "events in Tibet have served to expose the achilles heel
of modern China: its inability to recognise and respect ethnic
difference within its own borders. As it emerges as a major global
player in a world characterised by exactly such ethnic diversity, this
seems destined to cast China in a rather more negative light, not
least in the developing world."
Martin Jacques: Spotlight on grievance | Comment is free | The Guardian
Here's what I would do with the Tibetans and Taiwanese -- leave them alone! You don't have to think hard to see why it's a good idea, but authoritarians in China (and elsewhere, of course) simply don't want people to be relatively independent. This is true for China, and "for the security of the United States." They just have to be able to push people around.
Grandpa h.