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Nobody asked the Chinese to civilize the Tibetans

Tuesday, May 27th, 2008

With Tibet in the news, I can’t help recalling of the time I spent in Tibet in August 2005. It was quite a revelation. Hostilities were already boiling underneath the veneer of peace and prosperity that the Chinese invader government took pains to project. It started at the border between Nepal and Tibet. When the [...]