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Interesting how Chinese abroad in their anti-Tibet protest campaign tells westerners to dig more into history of China and Tibet to know that Tibet has been forever a part of China. That got me curious but not confused. They have blamed Tibetans born in exile of being brain-washed by Dalai Clique as they claim. I didn’t know any clique existed till they coined the word recently.

I wasn’t confused because I have known that Tibet is a separate nation on the basis of everything that`s different between Chinese and Tibetans. And that would basically be everything, the whole culture, tradition, behavior, belief, religion…down to dresses. The challenging part IS not convincing westerners of this stark difference because they are open minded and they are ready to listen to both side but to convince a Chinese who had been brought up and taught that “Tibet has always been a part of China since 13th Century.” That made me think, why stop at 13th Century, why not trace back to the beginning?

So I did my research because I know Chinese and Tibetans could never be of same blood. It just can’t be…the inherent behavior doesn’t lie or mislead.

If Tibet today decides to succumb to China`s power and say “we will remain a part of China if Tibet is given a genuine autonomy”, I will understand the reasons and the rationale behind it but that doesn’t mean it has forever been part of China. It is by occupation that Tibet is under China. With no world super power actually taking interests in giving concrete support except random ” we condemn China`s human rights record and blah blah” speeches, it doesn’t leave Tibetans with much choice but to say “Give us basic human rights that a citizen of this world enjoys” and that it will remain part of China.

Love or hate it, for Chinese people, unity of Motherland comes before anything else, even before basic rights and that`s where the strength of Chinese people as well as weakness lies. It unifies the country but minorities who do not consider themselves Chinese but are living under China will obviously revolt against this totalitarian regime. It may last for a century, but how long can you put a country before yourself ?

Anyways, the reason why I am writing this blog is to educate myself as well as everyone else about the geographical boundaries of Tibet, China, Manchu, Turkestan and Mongol.

Below is a link of all the maps of China and it`s neighboring countries.

http://www.paulnoll.com/China/Dynasty/history-maps-dynasty-2.html

~ by gyemo on April 15, 2008.