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

Shane Mage shmage at pipeline.com
Sat Jan 30 15:42:46 PST 2010


On Jan 30, 2010, at 6:17 PM, Fernando Cassia wrote:


> On Sat, Jan 30, 2010 at 12:00 PM, James Heartfield
> 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.

Perhaps, if you count the occupying army. Not perhaps: for some time now ethnic Americans, Europeans, Moroccans and Russians have outnumbered Palestinians in Palestine.


>> 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.

Yeah. And the presence of Admiral De Grasse and the French fleet off Yorktown in 1781 shows that sponsoring lesser nationalist claims against a rival might not be a wholly innocent process. And the landing of Roger Casement from a German submarine on the Irish coast in 1916 shows that sponsoring lesser nationalist claims against a rival might not be a wholly innocent process. And the placement of Russian missiles in Cuba in 1962 shows that sponsoring lesser nationalist claims against a rival might not be a wholly innocent process, etc. etc.

Shane Mage


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>
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