should china give tibet total independence?
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YES..i am tibetan and i grew up believeing that we are still a free nation..China took advantage of Tibet's nonviolence and massacred my people. Tibet would have evolved in its own time. What would have been tibet had China not intervened is unknown, but Tibet should be A FREE COUNTRY. \n\nFree Tibet
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It would be as if China told us that Florida doesn't really belong to the U.S. and Floridians got it into their heads that they wanted to separate from us. We would not be too happy about the situation and we would most likely take Florida back by force. Well the Chinese have always felt that Taiwan is a part of China and have never recognized them as independent. But being a democratic country we refuse to let China rush in there and take them by force so whenever China has tried we send ships to block their way. Now that Taiwan is so successful it just burns the Chinese even more and they really want their "state" back and all the wealth it brings. Americans just won't let them and rightfully so.
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Political power -  China would have to get rid of its comunist and Natualist ideals to be the most powerful....remember Russia had all that, but had no control over the free world.China has no political power in West...IT CAN NOT BE DONE WITHOUT POLITICAL POWER......NO...oh and China will not be able to maintain its 10% growth every year...when that falls(what goes up must come down) China has come up to fast ..It will not be able to feed its over populated country.
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Independence of China: 221 BC (unification under the Qin or Ch'in Dynasty); 1 January 1912 (Manchu Dynasty replaced by a Republic); 1 October 1949 (People's Republic established)\n\nMore on this link: http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/fields/2088.html\n\nScroll down to China and click the link.  It will direct you to more info.
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Taiwan and Tibet are only "part of China" if you believe the mythology and pseudo-history spread by the Chinese Communist Party. \n\nDoes China have some sacred "right" to control every region where people speak Chinese or identify themselves as ethically-Chinese? If so, then England can take "back" the USA, Canada, Austailia and New Zealand. Spain has a right to attack Mexico, Cuba, Texas, etc. Or?  \n\nConcerning Taiwan specifically, the Peoples Republic of China (PRC) has never at any time controlled Taiwan in any way or form. \n\nDuring the last decades of the last (Qing) imperial dynasty, the power of the central government was finally extended far enough to bring some degree of administrative control to some areas of Taiwan. That regime, however, was NOT the present PRC government, but rather the old, feudal regime that was overthrown in the 1911 revolution --a decade before the formation of the Chinese Communist party.\n\nSo, Taiwan may be said to have "belonged" in the past to the previous imperial Chinese regime, but to say that Taiwan today belongs to the PRC would be like saying Chechnya, Kazakhstan, Estonia, Lithuania and other (presently) independent nations "belong" to Russia, because the previous imperial Russian regime had at one time extended its control to those regions several generations ago.\n\nThe PRC devotes incredible economic and diplomatic resources to try to restrict Taiwan's international and diplomatic "space", and to spread misleading dis-information to the world and especially to its own citizens on the real issues. \n\nThe two major parties in the legislature are the DPP and the KMT. The KMT is the party of the late dictator Chiang Kai-Shek. They are trying to keep China happy, hoping it will give them advantages in the event that China gains control of Taiwan in the future. The DPP is by far the more patriotic and democratic of the two parties, and promotes the development of a Taiwan-centered national consciousness.\n\nTaiwan is now one of the most open societies in the world, and certainly in Asia. High standards of education, multi-party democracy, free press, freedom to protest. Taiwanese of all political strips enjoy protesting. I have attending quite a few very large street demonstrations in the last few years. Some of them are celebratory and some of them are the rowdy and angry kind, but all are peaceful and no one gets hurt. The police are there, not to hinder the demonstrations but only in case a fight breaks out, just as in Europe or USA.\n\nIs it this kind of freedom that PRC leaders are afraid might spread to China?
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Most definitely yes.\nChina is a very Old and disciplined country that has survived\nfor so many years. thus their huge population.\nThey have the technology and resources to control the world economically. It will be through economic rule that China will be able to dominate the world.\nand if called on the China army is well equipped to defend itself.
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The emergence of China as a world power would (in the long run) augur well for the world's Balance of Power.\nThe present Unipolarity that is been experienced would change to Multipolarism with the emergence of other super powers.\nI dont really beleive that China is practising the true tenets of communism. Am sure the "gods" of communism wont be happy with the nature of comunism being practised there!!!\nChina, I believe, is tending more towards capitalism & that would in the long run help the global economy develop faster.
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do a google search on free tibet.\n\nThe real ruler of Tibet (His Holiness the Dahli Lama) is in exile in India (I believe).  \n\nChina just ran it over and took it.\n\nMy ex who is from Russia, said the Russians were always more concerned with China than the U.S.  They knew we were not going to start something with Russian.  But China they were never sure about.  then bam, one day tibet is gone.\n\nIt reeks to high heaven
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China is still oppressive.  It's a paranoid government.  They don't give two craps about the universal rights of anything.
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It surely violates democratic principles. China, however, is not a democracy.\n\nGoogle's business model coincides with the government that the business works in - for example, the US version of google is unrestricted... Why? Because of our freedom. \n\nChina doesn't have similar freedom. What Google is doing in China would be illegal here - what Google is doing here is equally illegal in China.
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I agree with you. We and the entire world should free China. However, it is not that simple.\n\nFor starters China is one of the world's five big military powers.(The other four are the U.S.A., Russia, France,and the U.K..)It has nuclear weapons that can easily reach any part of Europe or North America. To go to war with Comunist China would mean that we whould have to go into a nuclear war that would destroy thChinese Even if we where able to keep the war conventional, and were not going to be able, the Chinesee have one of the worlds largest armies. Even if we drafted every one in America, we still could not match them on a one to one basis. \n\nThe other reason why we can't bring democracy to China is that it would not allow American companies to get away with the kind of stuff they are getting away with. I hate to say it, but when it comes to scrubles vs. money-we Americans always choose money!\n\nAre best hope is that outside influences motivates the Chineese people into taking action and overthrowing it's government.
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You've included such interesting background information in your question. I wish I had a better answer.\n\nI only know half a dozen Tibetans. Five of them despise China, and one professes ambivalence toward China. But I certainly don't think they represent all Tibetans. \n\nYou might try posing your question in a forum that is likely to attract more Tibetans & Tibetan scholars, such as one or more of the discussion groups listed in the Tibet section of this page:\nhttp://www.case.edu/artsci/asia/asiamail.html\n(scroll down near the bottom)
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For decades, both the government of Taiwan ("Republic of China") and of mainland China (People's Repubic of China), claimed each to be the only legitimate government of the whole of China. The only thing they both agreed on was that Taiwan and the mainland were the same country.\n\nThings have moved on a bit in the last fifteen years or so, as it seems more and more improbable that the Taiwanese KMT will ever march into Beijing, and Taiwan has become more democratic. But as I understand it, opinion in Taiwan is now divided about whether reunification would be a good thing or not; at the same time, China's attitude varies between threatening invasion, and finding some formula for co-existance along the lines of Hong Kong - "One China, two systems".\n\nHope this helps
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I think NO.  Let's reverse the question, should China take over the world. I think NOT.  The question is realy, should we impose our values and culture on other people.  Look at Iraq, which we supposedly attacked to support "democratic" reform.  It's been a botched job, from the get go.  Now lets take what has been a 3 year process, 280 billion spent, thousands dead and wounded( and I am not talking just US personell) and Iraq is only twice the size of Idaho.\n\nNow extend that a million times and ask the question again.
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Like most people whose opinions were formed by the Western press, I used to think Tibet was worse off under the Chinese, but since living in China, where it's hard to see  these publications, but easy to hear the Chinese view, I'm not so sure.  Obviously the Chinese-installed Panchen Lhama is not the man the Dhalai Lhama is - nowhere near as impressive : not even the Chinese leadership shows him any respect - but the old system does seem to have been upgraded in favor of the poorer people there.\nThe Chinese have completed a major highway thru to Llasa - an extremely hard job, over permafrost for much of the way.\nALSO, they've very recently finished the first railway.  Now you can get to Beijing in 48 hours by train.\nOf course air travel is the quickest way and increasing numbers of tourists go that way.\nI've always been an imperialist, so I tend to think Tibet is better off being a part of China (which of course is, at last, booming).  If you look at the Panchen Llama and compare him to Wen Jiaobao, you'll also feel perhaps, as I do, that the latter is a more impressive leader, by a broad margin.
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Politicly speaking, they are a democracy, and democracies support each other. Another more pragmatic reason is that they act as a counter balance to chinas growing regional influence. look up "balance of power", and think of china and india in asia.
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Nepal's got some problems, they got Maoist revolutionaries knocking down the front door, and a monarchy that needs to leave by the back door , so democracy can form. Am very surprised the US is just idly watching this. We're on the verge of losing Nepal to China.It wouldn't take as much to form a democracy there, as say Afghanistan, If we could just get the monarchy to listen, and let us or India, anyone really,{except China} put in a few thousand troops for stability.