Discussion on Tibet: Part 1

From PBS NewsHour, viewed in Bangkok March 26, 2008 thanks to VOA (also broadcasting into China via satellite).

Please see Part 2 as well, or view both in a playlist on my channel page (click my name).

Guests:
Donald Lopez - University of Michigan Professor of Tibetan and Buddhist Studies. Author of a number of books on Tibet.

Jeffrey Bader - Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institute. He held Asian posts at the State Department and the National Security Council Staff during the Clinton Administration.

Abrahm Lustgarten - Writer at Fortune Magazine and author of "China's Great Train: Beijing's Drive West and the Campaign to Remake Tibet". He has visited Tibet 5 times since 2002.

Category:

News & Politics

Tags:

• Tibet
• protests
• China
• discussion
• history
• Lopez
• Bader
• Lustgarten

[mytimeiscoming]

Bunch of idiots who talk like their Tibetans themselves let me debunk all this bullshit:

1. Tibetans don't pay taxes (Hell id be happy as heck)

2. Tibet is a developing province and without the money from the government, forget the railroads! The Chinese government preserved their temples and expanded tibet's tourism industry

3. I fucking know that Tibetans speak a different DIALECT NOT LANGUAGE and as a matter of FACT, EVERY PROVINCE speaks a different DIALECT and has a different culture!

[agam4]

The Chinese gov't destroyed their temples, and then let the Tibetans rebuild them 20-30 years later. But NOW the monasteries are sealed re-education camps.

I love it when know-it-all sino-patriots put on academic airs. Tibetan is not only a distinct language, it isn't even in the same language FAMILY as Chinese. No such thing as "Sino-Tibetan languages!" Tibetan is more closely related with Burmese, belonging to the TIBETO-BURMAN language family. Do your homework, Tibetan is not a "dialect"!

[joej2005]

The Chinese gov't destroyed their temples?????

Do your homework!!!You are so ignorance!!

[agam4]

joe, the cultural revolution was hellishly destructive to Tibet's cultural heritage. This was the policy of the revolutionary gov't - I don't mean that Mao was himself hacking away at temples with his pick-axe. He had more murderous things to do.

And the worst part? A new cultural revolution is going on across Tibet today, while prison sentences are handed out to anyone who tries to talk about it to the outside world.

Do your own homework!

[CommanderUTube]

The Chinese Communist Party Secretary is not as powerful as you think. The problem with the Chinese is that their type of politics go by consensus. They have to "give face" to the local bosses, the Tibetan Panchen Lama (who is a sort of rival of Dalai), the Tibetan Chinese elites in Tibet. Only when a riot has occured, like March 14, was the Beijing regime been able to take control at local level. The exiles instigated riots have given the Beijing regime a perfect reason for taking local control

[agam4]

ComUT: The Party boss is the Boss, what he says goes. What he says will be the consensus. The problem is the permanent, mandatory supremacy of the Party.

Lhasa and Shigatse had been rival power centres historically, but Panchen Rinpoche and Dalai Lama have a revolving guru-student relationship. Each will recognise, and pass the doctrines to, the other. Panchen Rinpoche hasn't been seen in 13 years, this Saturday.

The exiles didn't instigate those inside to do anything. March 10, free of fear.

[456inthemix]

@mytimeiscoming - Tibetans are not money minded like the Hongkong people, they would their parents if they don't have to pay tax,

Tibetan culture is unique nothing in common with China/Japan/Korea. Tibet was an independent country get the fact little boy !

[HumanRightsVideosT]

@ omnidivisible The CCP has the power to bully legitimate governments because exporter want access to the China market now. Some of the kingdoms and countries who recognised the Country of Tibet and when are Germany (1996) China (821/823, 1890, 1908, 1914, 1918, 1951) Great Britain (1890, 1904, 1908, 1914) Mongolia (1913) Nepal (1856) Kashmir (1852) Ladakh (1684, 1842) check out the treaties @ tibetjustice. org/materials/ treaties/index.html (remove 2 spaces)

[omnidivisible]

Majority of honorable productive Tibetans and 55 other Chinese nationalities do not see how the collaborative reunifiation of China 1951 and the development of a free democratic prosperous Tibet free of the old feudal serf system or any issues relating to their homeland security and national defense could conflict with their respective ethnic identities, freedom, or pursuit of happiness, and least any domestic political and socio-economic problems shared by the west should justify secession.

[omnidivisible]

Pure political and cultural projections and academic corporatist media cold war propaganda.

No modern nation-states recognized under international law is made up of one race and one language but of many nationalities and langugaes. And the Tibetans are furthest from being a homogenous territorial, political, religious, language, race, or people.

[iamlumin]

It's not an East vs West thing. The rest of the world is moving toward an obsession with materialism as well. It's humanity as a whole. This is one underlying reason why the Tibet issue is so important. It's about putting your heart before your wallet. It's about achieving freedom through non-violence. If it works then there's a chance for the rest of the world. If not, then the world will sink further into industrial militarism and seek to dominate through force.

[justawordaway]

Today's world is messed up due to the greed of the west. All they care is more profit and money. Where is their moral gone? The future generations will laugh at today's west.

[TheMightyGuri]

i wont be so sure about that