TIBET: A Solution to the China Conflict

An autonomous Tibetan Vatican with roads networking sacred sites, libraries, monasteries, but citizenship under Chinese sovereignty. This would establish Tibetan Buddhist sovereignty over their own sites, as has been done with the Vatican of Rome, preserve the art, culture, and way of life, but open Tibetan Buddhist culture to the advantages of modernization. In the Tibetan Buddhist reserves traditional monasteries, education, and commerce would develop in a Tibetan way. The Potala and other sites would attract worldwide tourism and pilgrimage, benefitting both China and the traditional sites. A network of modern roads, transportation (including international airport), and services would connect the sites and reserves so that Tibetan Buddhist would finally become accessible to the world. The economic benefit for China would be great, and within the Tibetan sites and reservations a major commerce of tourism would support them.

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[lewiskeizer]

@HotHam44 True. And this fits with what the Dalai Lama is trying to accomplish in compromise. He has already said that Tibet cannot be an independent state and has vigorously discouraged revolution and violence. There has been criminal violence by partisans of an independent Tibet as well as by Chinese. This is wrong and non-productive on both sides.

[HotHam44]

@lewiskeizer Reservation areas may be a good idea. But this ultimately depends on the stability of the Tibet.

[lewiskeizer]

@HotHam44 With Tibet the issue is not sovereignty. The Chinese already exercise sovereignty. The issue is cultural genocide vs. cultural preservation in very small geographical reservation areas of old Tibet.

[HotHam44]

@lewiskeizer Sovereignity is a very sensitive issue to China, more so than Yuan. Another example would be how China reacts to the recent arms sale to Taiwan.

[lewiskeizer]

@HotHam44 But China has yielded to US and Western pressure on the Yuan. Right now, any compromise on Tibet seems unlikely. But China is changing.

[HotHam44]

If you ask me, the US doesn't get to have a say at all. At best they can give advices but not acting as the middleman as you pointed out. I believe this is strictly a matter between China and Tibet. China has also ruled out SAR like status for Tibet, so much for a Vatican like status.