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March 31, 2008
Comments on the current crisis
by ShuJen from Ann Arbor Buddhist Society
One friend of mine provides the following feedback.
"In that case, please tell him that I thought his analysis on the current situation for both Dalai Lama side and for Central government side is excellent. That is the exactly the problem for both side.
Other reason that Chinese Central government does not want an independent Tibet is that it will eventually lead the independent of the following regions: Xin Jiang, Inner Mongolian, Portion of the Northeast China that ethnic Korean are majority. I do not think
communist Central government want to be the one that history book will say as the government lost vast territory. Another thing is that
currently the central government is not very strong one (although over all, the status of China is going up in the eyes of the world), each individual province has a lot of more power on their local decision
making. That is has been the problem for the last couple of thousand years for the emperors. It is still the problem for Hu Jing Tao. One can say, he has about at least 10 times more headaches than Ma Yinjue
will every have. So Any sign of weaker central government will make each individual province want more power. There may not be a civil war, but there will be more gap between rich and poor and the over all
society will be much less stable.
Actually, Tibet was not the only ethnic minority in Asia to have slaves. There are other ethnic minority in Southwest portion of China also have slavery systems. One of the famous one is Long Yun's family.
He is YI minority. He was the actual ruler of Yunnan before communist took power (he gave out his army and power to Communist before the communist really got to Kunming and in exchange he got a leader
position in name only in central government and was almost not allow to return to Yunnan after 1949). His relatives were the slave owners back in their home town. (First comment: It is very informative. One
can tell the author has a good understanding on the issues and he/she is some one really thinking a lot from both side of this debate.
However as far as he claim there is no slavery in Tibet, I do not think that is not true. I read a book about Tibet after I come to US by the child of the slave owner. He is in some European country. His
intention is to tell how bad the communist treat his family. He did not shy from mentioned the situation of his family before and after communist came. He said the people who owned by his family actually
took over the place where his family lives and push his family out to live in the slave corners after Da Lai Lama left Tibet. I can not remember the name of the book. I read it back around late 1980. Anyway, there is no right or wrong for a lot of things. We just need all have to try to understand and respect other peoples both on their believe and on their life style.)
Posted by google at March 31, 2008 04:05 PM