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...Throughout the next decade, and especially during the 1959 rebellion, Tibetans tried to resist Communist “liberation,” but to no avail. Like the Soviets did in response to the 1956 Hungarian revolution against the Stalinist regime, the Chinese army consistently crushed revolutionary movements. Amidst the violence, the Dalai Lama went into exile in India, where his government-in-exile still resides...
...Consider the challenge of autonomy. Everyone likes it, but the more one group exercises their own autonomy, the greater the chance they will impinge on the autonomy of another. This comes at a high cost; a group whose autonomy feels threatened is likely to resist, or even revolt...
...other. Chinese leaders view the Tibet rebellion as having been stoked by the exiled Tibetan leadership in order to embarrass Beijing on the eve of its Olympic coming-out party, hoping to internationalize their quest for independence in the way that the Kosovar Albanians have - an outcome China will resist at any cost. The activists may be hoping to provoke an international boycott of the Beijing Olympics as a way of forcing China to deal with their demands, although such a boycott remains extremely unlikely, with most Western governments having moved quickly to squelch any suggestion that they might stay...
...letter inside accused her and her colleagues of grading students too harshly, said Dr. Mohammed, who is still afraid to have her name appear in print. The implication of the threat, she explained, was that holding students to high classroom standards meant they had less time to resist American invaders...
What's remarkable, in many ways, is the freshmen's ability to resist the pressure and allure of endorsing - both of which are enormous. How does a first-term Congressman find the strength to say no to Hillary Clinton, or her husband, former President Bill Clinton? Or the veritable rock star that Barack Obama has become? Any one of whom, more likely than not, raised money and campaigned...