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Friday, May 09, 2008
Is the occupation of Tibet all about the water?
I must confess, I have trouble seeing water as a political or geopolitical issue (it doesn't register at all down here, except perhaps for all the gallons now being wasted on ethanol, but that's another story), but I do understand it's a different story north of the 49th. Therefore, perhaps some of you may be interested in an analysis I found on Tibet, Communist China, and the Himalayan water supply (see News from the occupied nations).
Posted by D.J. McGuire on May 9, 2008 in International Politics | Permalink
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It may be also about water but that is not all. The communist Chinese regime remains imperialist for one thing. Furthermore by invading and occupying Tibet where they position nuclear weapons aimed at India (their foe), they have a big advantage. Tibet also holds valuable mineral deposits wanted by the Chinese. It has also become a convenient dumping ground for their nuclear waste. So it seems it is a combination of things rather than just the water.
Posted by: Alain | 2008-05-09 11:29:45 AM
Why are the Whites in America? They should leave the land to the natives and return back to Europe. The world will be more peaceful.
Posted by: Jinmax | 2008-05-10 4:13:31 AM
Jinmax | 10-May-08 4:13:31 AM
As if America wasn't discovered by Europeans to be in a state of savagery.
The native Indians were found by Europeans to be not only living in the stone age without even having developed the use of the wheel, but were in perpetual warfare with each other, as well as enslaving captives and even eating them.
Perhaps, Jinmax, you don't understand the meaning of "peace" as well as being ignorant of history.
As to "Why are they Whites in America?"
We are here because we can.
Why shouldn't we be?
Kennewick Man, the oldest human remains yet found in the Americas, is Caucasoid not Native American Indian.
The question of who was here first has become moot.
Whose land is it really?
It belongs to those who built the modern nations here.
Posted by: Speller | 2008-05-10 11:57:01 AM
Speller,
Exactly as you have just said, it applied to Tibet as well. The real Tibet from which the current Dalai Lama ruled and then later fled due to the failed CIA-conspired uprising , was a feudal theocracy, where he served as both king and religious leader, in which church equaled state, and peasants were slaves and serfs owned by the monks, nobles and even Dalai Lama himself.
The same principle applies both way.
Posted by: Jinmax | 2008-05-12 8:14:37 AM
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