TB: Didn't expect such a comment, I wish there was a way to observe the issue neutrally
Me too. Unfortunately, China, The US, France, Germany, Russia, India, and Brazil all play in the big kid's pool, which means that pretty much everything they do and don't do gets passed through the lens of propaganda by just about everyone.
China is an oppressive regime. It performs more judicial executions than all other reporting countries combined. And while that statistic is made somewhat less impressive by the fact that Myanmar, North Korea, and Sudan don't report, it needs to be stressed that Iran, Saudi Arabia, The United States, and Vietnam all do. China executes over a thousand people a year, a feat which is only exceeded in war zones and genocide campaigns. Reform in China is desperately needed.
But the Tibet issue is a manufactured one. You don't hear people whining about the fact that Heilongjiang isn't afforded an autonomous region status despite the fact that the residents are closer to Koreans in what they speak than they are to Mandarin. No one goes on the news complaining that the Guanxi AR is still a conquered territory even though it was practically created as a Zhuang concentration camp by Zhou Enlai. The news is entirely silent on the continued occupation of Uighurstan and the thankless struggle of the East Turkestan Resistance.
You don't hear about these because India and the US pay literally millions of dollars to get the plight of the Tibetans heard and embellished upon all over the world. If they didn't do that, you wouldn't even know who the Tibetans were. In fact, you may have strong feelings that the Tibetans should get their own country without knowing who the Tibetans are.
The Tibetan people are a football in a very large game of chicken. India funnels weapons to the Tibetans for precisely the same reason that Iran funnels weapons to the Iraqis: it costs a lot more money to police an area than it does to destabilize it. Sponsoring terrorism in other people's lands hurts everyone, but it hurts the sponsor less than it hurts the primary victim - it's just good sense if your goal is to beat the opponent rather than simply becoming as wealthy and safe as possible.
-Frank
