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Originally Posted by peter12
So China is morally the same as the UK and the USA?
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Perhaps he's pointing out the hypocracy of it when western countries (especially the U.S.) have similar oppression or imprisonment of people that is ambiguously illegal or unethical.
I'm not going to get into this debate but only say that both sides (China AND Tibet) and certain portions of both camps have their fare shares of "evil". China is an oppressive regime in many situations but they do not deserve the full blame that the Western media is giving them. Many Tibetan protesters engage in violence and guerilla tactics against China. The Dalai Lama himself is not exactly a "man of peace" if you look back into the history. He was part of the ruling class of feudal lords who subjugated and even enslaved the lower class Tibetans in their own form of an oppressive regime. Yes, the Dalai Lama is a religious figure but if you can see past that and into the violent, feudal history of Tibet (pre-China) you'll see that he's not exactly Ghandi - something which the western media and politicians seem to be overeager into thinking.
China is a target of convenience for western media outlets looking for easy stories and western politicians looking for easy PR. Why aren't people as eager to attack Putin and the Russian Federation for how they have oppressively and militarily reigned in Chechnya? How they have oppressed and killed Chechens and their native ethnic groups, religious freedoms, desires for independance? Is that not a similar analogue to the China-Tibet issue?