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Originally Posted by starseed
It is a horrible situation to be in. They are powerless against a powerful police state. Foreign powers cannot do anything about it with force, because China has nuclear weapons, and the capability to repel any type of invasion.
Human history dictates that if they are ever going to gain their freedom, there will be a lot of bloodshed and devastation ahead.
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I don't think so, I don't think the China will follow the happenings of the West. What needs to happen is China needs to be encouraged to change, not to be embarassed. Many here (example: jammies) have idealized political science theories of how the uprising of the peasants, with pitchforks and fire, and the the civil servants blah blah blah. In reality, China doesn't do that. If you try and embarass China, they close their doors to you completely. History has shown that, they do not "bend over" to demands - they will ignore you. China is very conservative, and very proud.
What needs to happen, is they need to be encouraged. It a round about way and it sounds like pampering, but its the best road to achieving human rights in China, if that is your objective (I feel here some feel the objective is to display their outrage and "get back" at China for their wrong doings, not to solve the problem). Economic pressures just don't work, especially not at this time when you have the country that normally "polices" the world asking to borrow money from China. On an individual case by case basis, sure you could protest and buy patriotic shoes, but there are too many Wal-Mart shoppers and large business's and their products are so international you just arn't able to shut them out - typing on your computer who's CPU has at least some part design/fab in Shanghai, or the shoes that you march onto Chinas front door that say: "Made in China."
Its going to take time, and its going to take patience and I hope at least those who are in power realize that there is a difference between trying to solve the problem, and whatever the hell jammies said.
(... and quite frankly, what TangerZ showed is happening to the Tibetians, isn't all of it; I have seen much worse crimes in China...)