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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 [...]

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The Day I Stole into the Potala Palace, Lhasa, Tibet

Thursday, March 20th, 2008

I am the kind of tourist the Chinese Government would love to ban, or even imprison as a lesson to others. I had not only committed a crime in their soil, I am also guilty of attempted bribery of a Chinese official.
The year was 2005 and it was my last day in Tibet before I [...]

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