China and Tibet

Posted by Lex, on April 16, 2008

Perhaps like me, you’ve wondered why China felt compelled to occupy Tibet after World War II, engendering the ire of so many Hollywood celebrities and other assorted fashionistas, all of whom are passionately committed to liberating inaccessible populaces in places of no strategic import. After all, from the Chinese perspective, if it’s merely the pursuit of dissident skulls to crack, Tibet is rather a long way to go – especially when there are so very many dissatisfied people so very close to hand.

Tailspin sends along a link to a StratFor post illuminating the issue from the PRC’s perspective:

Credo

"Sign on, young man, and sail with me. The stature of our homeland is no more than the measure of ourselves. Our job is to keep her free. Our will is to keep the torch of freedom burning for all. To this solemn purpose we call on the young, the brave, the strong, and the free. Heed my call, Come to the sea. Come Sail with me."

— John Paul Jones

"Pardon him, Theodotus; he is a barbarian, and thinks that the customs of his tribe and island are the laws of nature"

— George Bernard Shaw, Caesar and Cleopatra

"And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music."

— Friedrich Nietzsche

"A kind Providence has placed in our breasts a hatred of the unjust and cruel, in order that we may preserve ourselves from cruelty and injustice. They who bear cruelty, are accomplices in it. The pretended gentleness which excludes that charitable rancour, produces an indifference which is half an approbation. They never will love where they ought to love, who do not hate where they ought to hate."

— Edmund Burke

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— Leonidas

"Blogito Ergo Sum"

— Neptunus Lex