US lawmakers pass Tibet policy bill that questions China’s claims over region
US lawmakers pass Tibet policy bill that questions China’s claims over region
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US lawmakers pass bill that questions China’s claims over Tibet
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Imagine if that was the headline…
Well that headline would be pretty damn accurate!
all the way to the entire country
China is no different. In fact there are NO countries in the world immune to the "you displaced a previous civilization" argument. They've all done it.
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The only people China has displaced from Tibet is an entire theocratic class of pedophile priests who kept the people in literal serfdom
Edit: Actually I just reread this and it looks like they kicked out the landlords too
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Tibet was de facto independent for a while, but it re-joined China voluntarily circa 1950. About 10 years later, with some help from western agitation and assets, the theocratic ruling class felt too threatened by development empowering their serf population and sought to secede in order to maintain their fiefdom. Mao sent in the PLA and crushed the secessionist revolt.
You really can't "no u" this one because of Imperial China, the PRC's claim to Tibet is completely valid. You'd probably have more luck trying with Xinjiang, though evidently that is viewed as slightly played-out now.
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Since taking office in 2021, Biden has yet to meet the Dalai Lama. As a candidate in 2020, Biden criticised Donald Trump for being the only US president in three decades who had neither met nor spoken to the Tibetan spiritual leader.
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Realistically he probably didn't mean to slight them but just forgot.
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they just can't help fucking with China
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Definitely better now than the theocracy it used to be under, but it can get a lot better.
The way to get better is not to return it to a theocratic serfdom system.
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Fun fact: US support for this regime was so thorough that we tried to do a Bay of Pigs (Valley of Llamas?) there and it went even worse than the original. Like, do not pass go, do not collect lethal aid, straight on the forgotten failure pile next to the Siberian War.
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This is from Michael Parenti, if anyone’s wondering: Friendly Feudalism: The Tibet Myth
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I question the US's claims over a certain region (the whole of it)
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The west will never get over the fact that Tibet is already free
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Everyone should read When serfs stood up in Tibet by Anna Louise Strong
https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/strong-anna-louise/1959/tibet/ch17.htm
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Playing the hits I see
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I guess the US really likes protecting the rights of pedophiles...
Dalai Lama apologises after kissing boy and asking him to ‘suck my tongue’
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Reporter: [REDACTED]
Reason: Dumbass alert🤡
Some reports make me want to break my own rule of not divulging reporters’ names.
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Tibetan monks literally had child sex slaves. Those dudes have a better PR department than the Catholic church
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Those dudes have a better PR department than the Catholic church
Catholic church isn't backed by the entire western propaganda machine, Dalai Lama is.
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So, if any of your local religious leaders is a pedophile you lose your right to self determination? That will massively reduce the number of sovereign countries. To 0.
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ITT: A post critical of China gets flooded by lemmy.ml whataboutism comments.
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If anything, this is a post critical of the US lmao
You're projecting
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