ALERT!! Dave Matthews bootleg CD copies have suddenly dropped in China. A bunch of Borg posters are now googling who Dave Matthews is and trying to find out if he's gay. http://www.rollingstone.com/rockdai...-cab-rock-for-compassion-with-the-dalai-lama/ Dave Matthews and Death Cab Rock for Compassion With the Dalai Lama 4/14/08, 11:31 am EST Two of Seattle’s biggest artists — local indie-rock heroes Death Cab for Cutie and longtime resident Dave Matthews — took a back seat on Friday to a name even bigger than theirs: the Dalai Lama. Death Cab was the unlisted add-on to the April 11 KeyArena event, on which Matthews and longtime guitar crony Tim Reynolds were billed second to the Tibetan Buddhist leader. Even more unusually, Matthews was one of the Dalai Lama’s interviewers during a show that began in late afternoon: doors opened around 4 p.m., and the final song of Matthews’ and Reynolds’ set, “Lie in Our Graves,” shuddered to a close at 9:15. It was His Holiness’s second public appearance of the day, following a morning panel at the Bank of America Arena at the University of Washington campus; both were part of a five-day tour of the city’s larger venues sponsored by Seeds of Compassion, a local nonprofit.
There were testimonies and documentaries about freed Tibetan slaves, and there is also museums for that in China, to illustrate what a "romanticized" version of Tibet in past really was. Now, you are the one who's claiming those Tibetan slaves weren't happy to be freed, I guess you should provide some hard evidence. As for Dalai Lama, I didn't say he's the master mind of this violent riot, for I don't have evidence for it. However, I don't believe he didn't know anything about it. After all, he's still the political and spiritual leader of exile Tibetans, including those aggressive youth groups. Unless, he claims that he loses control over those youth and he's no longer their leader. As the leader of the exile Tibetan, the group openly admitted receiving funds from CIA to start violence in the past. A group of the same organization openly advocate violence in the present. To suspect the leader is responsible for, or at least somewhat associated with, the fresh violence, is unreasonable?
Full and real autonomy wouldn't benefit the Chinese migrants living in the cities of a mainly agrarian region. Plus it sets a precedent with unforeseen future consequences....
My solution! Cut Tibet off completely from China, let Dalai have his way and do what ever he wants in that piece of land. Oh of course pull back all the Han Chinese.
A subtle plan like that would take some time to bear fruit. Tibet has much needed chromium and copper mines that the government would want control of sooner than later. But it would be a bitter and parallel irony to see a NATO-like Chinese-led intervention to liberate a repressed populace which the liberators had an indirect hand in creating....
http://youtube.com/watch?v=n5sOm-uQH9Y http://youtube.com/watch?v=Aboblx-0zAs&feature=related http://youtube.com/watch?v=b1dILwsmwCQ&feature=related
masterful work. You know what this reminds me of? the movie "The Running Man" - Hu Jintao is Jack Killian. China needs Yaphet Kotto to show them that everything they believe is a lie
Chinese love them some 16th century Native American history any time it comes to talking about China's 21st century civil rights record. Classic.
I am living here NOW! It's not that chinese youth are as ignorant about the 60S and 70s and 80S as he claimed!!! the fact is that we try to move on without dwelling on the past!!! given the policy that has been effective for the last two decades, we are willing to give the government benefits of doubt again, we totally aware of that 1.national soverignty couldn't be compromised 2.social stability is of paramount importance to social and economical development 3.we are willing to continue to coopearate with the government to make it functional well as a whole country
another classic bashing technique from West try to propaganda a small part of the story to pretend to be the whole one
Everyone can tell English is not her first language and she's not writing in fluent English. But I thought anyone with half a brain could get what she meant. Why is it so hard to understand that post anyway?
No I don't understand (and I have at least half a brain, I think). I generally understand most of what the non-native speakers say and I'm not making fun of because it's obvious the poster isn't a native speaker. I simply asked what s/he meant. Since you do know how about you just tell me.
I would like for you to explain this. I'm currently living in Beijing. And I fully agree with the writer's opinion. Now, I will say that history may be the single most government-influenced subject in any country, at any moment in history. In high school, my World history course spent more time on Greece than Asia, Africa, and NA combined. China's 3000 year history was taught in 2 days, and we took a test on it along with Japan, Korea, and other parts Oriental countries. Ancient Egypt, which doesn't even exist today, was worthy of 3 tests. History has always been bias towards those who write them. Which is I never griped when "world" history in the US basically talks only about the ancient(but not recent) Near East and Europe.
Translation: Try to pick only part of the whole incident and report just that to fit in with their own story. Is it really that difficult?
