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What is the issue between China and Dalai Lama?
The Tibetan sovereignty debate refers to two political debates. The first is whether the various territories within the People’s Republic of China (PRC) that are claimed as political Tibet should separate and become a new sovereign state.
Is Tibet still occupied by China?
Tibet, the remote and mainly-Buddhist territory known as the “roof of the world”, is governed as an autonomous region of China. China sent in thousands of troops to enforce its claim on the region in 1950. Some areas became the Tibetan Autonomous Region and others were incorporated into neighbouring Chinese provinces.
Do Free Tibet supporters have an argument with China?
Free Tibet supporters have no argument with the Chinese people. They support Free Tibet because they see Tibetans as victims of the undemocratic Chinese government and see Tibetans’ unwavering struggle for freedom as a just cause.
What happened in Tibet?
What happened in Tibet continues today and, since 2014, it is also happening in Xinjiang Autonomous Region in western China against the Uighurs, a Turkic Muslim minority, in conditions that human rights experts have labeled both physical and cultural genocide. The reasons are the same in both cases: China wants to control the two regions.
How can the Chinese solve the Tibetan problem?
The easy way for the Chinese to solve it, if they wanted to, is to break the Tibetan problem into two kinds of issues. They should separate the difficult talks about autonomy and the Dalai Lama’s status, which they’re nervous about, from the easy issues, which are about religion, and migration, and development.
Why does China want to colonize Tibet?
Tibet has natural resources that China needs; over 30 percent of the country’s hydro-electric power comes from Tibet. Additionally, China is the world’s largest producer of copper, and fully a sixth of it is in Tibet. Two genocides, same playbook.