[lbo-talk] Enough With the China Shtick Already!

Fernando Cassia fcassia at gmail.com
Sat Jan 30 15:17:18 PST 2010


On Sat, Jan 30, 2010 at 12:00 PM, James Heartfield < Heartfield at blueyonder.co.uk> wrote:


> Tibet ain't a nation by you?
>>
>
> Well maybe it is a nation, but for some time now ethnic Han Chinese have
> outnumbered Tibetans in Tibet.
>
> The fact that the CIA trained and funded Tibetan guerillas in the 1960s
> shows that sponsoring lesser nationalist claims against a rival might not be
> a wholly innocent process. (See Mikel Dunham, Buddha's Warriors: The story
> of the CIA backed Tibetan Freedom Fighters, 2004)
>

Lovely, thanks for the pointers. I knew nothing about this but I long suspected it!

Reminds me of that line like "just because I´m paranoid it doesn´t mean someone is not following me" ;-)

FC



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