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    tequila,

    It is in China's strategic interest to develop Tibet and Xinjiang.

    It may also interest all that Urumchi has a Han population that is more than the Uighurs, who are the locals.

    The Chinese have not given up their claims on Outer Mongolia or Vladivostok and its neighbourhood.

    Their mentality is expansionist, to quote Communist terminology.

    Economic development alone does not satiate sub nationalism or religious freedom. The stomach must also have an equal satisfaction as the mind. Crass commercialism alone is not happiness.

    Unlike other religions, Tibetan Buddhism is very ingraned in the Tibetan mind. Ridiculous as it may seem,but they do consider the Dalai Lama as a God. Insult to the Dalai Lama is as dangerous as insulting God.

    The Tibetans having lived a rough life in the harsh area of Tibet are people who know struggle is a part of existence and they are not soft in mind and soul as others,

    Therefore, the issue is not that simple for solution.

    The Chinese may claim that it is a conspiracy of the US, India and the West instigating the Dalai Lama and the Tibetans, but the truth is that they require no instigation! They sincerely are serious about the issue!
    Last edited by Ray; 04-04-2008 at 06:56 PM.

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