[lbo-talk] Noticed an oddity

[Sandy Harris]

Chris Doss <lookoverhere1 at yahoo.com> wrote:

>  The US was invading a foreign country. China is not.

That is certainly Beijing's line, and there's even an argument
for it, but it is an outrageous oversimplification.

Chiang Kai Shek agreed with you though. In the many years
that his gov't occupied the China seat at the UN and was on
the Security Council, they only vetoted one motion. (Usually
they voted with the US, so it was not a veto.) They vetoed the
otherwise unanimous motion censuring Mao et al for invading
Tibet.

>  I await blather about how Tibet is really a foreign
>  country.

Different language, ethnicity and culture, their own government.
What happened to self-determination? Isn't it Tibetans who get
to decide if they're part of China?

Historically,  Tibet was never part of the Chinese system in the
sense of having a governor appointed by Beijing, people there
being eligible to take exams and become mandarins, Chinese
legal code, and so on.

Like Korea, Vietnam and Xinjiang, they sometimes paid
tribute to the Chinese emperor, but that's a different thing.

-- 
Sandy Harris,
Nanjing, China