Mongolia has an even older claim on China, perhaps it should be returned to them.
Yeah, and Mongolia once owned pretty much of Europe.
Try that.
Consider this - Mongolians are part of the PRC
Mongolians once owned Russia and many countries/lands in Europe
So... ?
You can ramble on & on how Tibet was 'once a free place and should now also be a free place', but that's really a joke
Try the 'once owned, now owned' line and I can tell you its pretty much a futile argument
It depends on how you want to define the ownership affair. Saying it has been so since Qing Dynasty is only an attempt to prove to you we have a HISTORY of owning that place. Again, you can say, 'oh it was free before Tang Dynasty (and that's a REALLY long time ago) - housed by barbarians' - then I can gallantly give up in this pointless debate.
To the comment above, I KNOW my country's faults - but I think you didn't bother to read my previous comment. Read that, compare with your OWN country's facts, then come back with the conclusion 'we still have much to learn, and are currently improving' than the 'free Tibet, start another revolution and civil war then let the Westerners reap bucketloads' approach.
and if you really believed America has always have a free media approach, I advise you to go back to the World War II days, matters concerning the Katyn Massacre (Apology to the Polish & Russian, just as an example, not trying to pry open an old wound) was hushed in papers during important times. PRC is currently only 60+ years into the history of mankind, I DO NOT agree with what measures have been taken, but I thik sometimes it is a necessary evil. Such as, executing drug dealers, drug lords, corrupted officials - you KNOW us Chinese have a very deep hatred towards drugs; and if you believe the Faluen Gong (I couldn't care less) propaganda, you earned my thumbs down. I have read their crappy flyers, CDs, and I must say I am startled by the low quality. Crap included how the PLA dropped them off thousands of miles from Beijing and they supposedly WALKED all the way back to Beijing - encoutnering many unnamed PRC Officials, policemen, peasants, anti-communists who supported them - and all the modern "good ol' knight against the evil dragon adventure, helped and supported by the honest good peasants in the wild" fairy tale. Ha-ha, sometimes those ridiculous propaganda amuses me. and the cultl leader kept saying its not really a cult - but if you check his title in Chinese he is 'Jiao Zhu' = . =
the Faluen Da Fa Is Good slogan bores me, lol
and before you guys all go running for Ai Wei Wei - who knows, maybe he was guilty for some charges afterall. and what would you say then? Framed and set-up by the PRC? Yeah right. Concerning the Nobel Peace Prize to Mr. Liu, trust me, its a shame - he did nothing other than writing something then get imprisoned for, hardly any achievements. The same goes for President Obama for giving speeches then got the Peace Prize, and yet we have to see peace efforts. I have watched CNN, or Fox News even, I know what kind of news you get there, a pity you can't read CCTV or you could have balanced it out yourself. I have read Russian history written by Russians scholars, Chinese scholars, and American scholars - its pretty different, the way they speak of certain events or interpretations. Balancing out the matter is fun
the June 4th incident probably left you guys an impression. Some fugitives, who initiated the event, told the students and people 'to stand ground and never give grounds to the PLA' on that very fateful night/day - escaped moments before. I have watched their crappy interviews, concerning how they "o' heard how thousands were killed, the PLA employed toxic nerve gas, crushed the innocent, shot among themselves, STUDENTS NOT ARMED, thousands of bodies incinerated and cleared and left no trace". Seriously,good emigration tactics. Some students studying in Australia at that time also burned their PRC passport, 'expressing their hatred towards PRC', then got to stay in Australia. Yeah, good one at that. Thumbs up.
Those Students Movements Leaders, who are ALSO expelled and hunted by the PRC - those who gave the testament that they SAW students leave peacefully, no tank crushing students scene, or didn't do mud-smearing on the PRC because they stood to their truth - were never considered IMPORTANT. yeah, again, doesn't suit propaganda purposes. We see Ms. Chai Ling mumbling how she HEARD students being crushed and the usual crap, and that other crap - IF you can view Chinese forums you will know that we Chinese also know the June 4th Incident was a pity, yet the particular student leaders who literally tricked students to their deaths, now currently living in foreign countries, are just as hated as by the PRC. Whilst you claim we're brainwashed, how about you - you watch the same anti-PRC news over and over, how 'thousands even TENS OF THOUSANDS were killed' over the years, then grow to believe the lies. You have my pity.
Was the western media bothered to report how unarmed PLA soldiers were burned by molotovs, dragged from unarmed trucks and cruelly beaten to death? Nope
Did they report gunfights in the ensuing day when PLA was cracking down on riots? Nope
Brainwash you all how 'PLA killed unarmed civilians'? HELL YEAH
Do we Chinese know the truth? partly. I know a crappy organization in Hong Kong have been playing the same video for 21 years - soon for the 22nd - proclaiming it was 'a massacre, thousands were killed, bodies were all burned and no traces left' - then some teenage fools who never watch OTHER news other than the biased newspapers - all go chanting the same thing over and over. A great pity. They live on Government allowances, don't get a job, then claim they are 'reformers' ^_^
China is big, but not THAT big. Thousands vanished is more than what a in a NIGHT PRC can instrument. To completely incinerate a body takes A LOT OF TIME. You can keep watching the videos how some injured people were carted to hospitals, then imagine thousands more on the way - that's your freedom. IF the PLA was determined to shoot down all of them, you will know, I will know, and they wouldn't have bothered firing into the sky or sending in unarmed PLA who were pounced upon by the Rioters and brutally burned & beaten to death...
There was a video concerning Taiwanese holding the Tibet province flag- saying 'We Support (the Free Tibet Movement)' - best liked comment:
'Go on, your support is of no importance if the PLA doesn't support this' ^_^