Word: tibet
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However, I focus on one issue that Mr. Tong dismisses, one that should never escape international attention: Tibet. Tibet is China's most sensitive issue, and potentially most troublesome. Tibet, primarily, is neither a "racial problem" nor a "regional matter" (read: internal affair). Tibet is an illegally occupied country (despite the lack of official recognition by the U.S. State Department), a money-losing colony. The Tibetan issue has been ignored and tippy-toed about at the highest diplomatic levels for fear of "offending" China. Yet the seemingly intractable problem of Tibet, and the regained independence its people desire, should...
Most American politicians like to raise Tibet in their attack of China's racial problems. After taking their exaggeration into account, we see this is still a regional matter. Here in the United States, discrimination against minority populations has been a national dilemma since 1776. Over the past 20 years, Blacks have had an unemployment rate three times higher and a death rate two times higher than that of whites...
...university is still amazingly negligent. As Professor Hankins so succinctly phrases it, "I feel sorry for these poor guys in chemistry or physics who are going to take two history courses in their lives and they are forced to take some microevent--the emergence of basket weaving in Tibet in the ninth century or some-thing like that...
...feel sorry for these poor guys in chemistry or physics who are going to take two history courses in their lives and they are forced to take some microevent--the emergence of basket-weaving in Tibet in the ninth century or something like that," he added...
...Russia was singled out for its prolonged and fierce suppression of the rebellion in Chechnya, then slammed for President Boris Yeltsin's failure to prevent arbitary arrests and illegal searches. China drew fire as "an authoritarian state" that tortured political prisoners and waged a war of repression in neighboring Tibet. The verdicts come amid conflicting signals within the Clinton Adminsitration, including a constructive engagement policy on China and a push to increase U.S. aid to Russia. "We stick up for human rights, but it doesn't seem a priority," says TIME State Department correspondent J.F.O. McAllister. "There...