<strong>Title: </strong> <a href="/link.php?id=31323" target="_blank">When do we all start boycotting the "Apartheid" regime in Beijing?</a> (click to view)

<strong>Category:</strong> <a href="/news/topic/1-political" target="_blank">Political</a>
<strong>Posted By: </strong> <a href="/modules.php?name=Your_Account&op=userinfo&username=ridenrain" target="_blank">ridenrain</a>
<strong>Date: </strong> 2008-03-16 14:22:34
<strong>Canadian</strong>

   

and yet another example..

no one really cares about what happens in Tibet..

and the Olympics wil be just fine.. no problems.

and the Palestinians simply cry a lot louder than the Tibetans. I stopped listening years ago....

   

China is the largest moral blind spot in the world right now.
If you remember the fury and uproar in the west because of South Arica, you'd be lying or ignorant if you couldn't see a paralell.

   

I care, I think what they are doing to Tibet is seriously shitty. If I have to, I will join these people and boycott China's products, go with the good Canada and U.S. Products , mostly Canadian. However I won't go as far as smashing up all my Chinese made products. That's just stupid and doesn't accomplish anything.

I am sure China is crying in there sleep for these people smashing up all there ALREADY payed Chinese products like laptops lol.

China needs to get its shit together.

   

As far as I can tell, the Canadian government is still sending some $60 million in aid to China, because their farmers were starving back in the 60's because of Mao's great leap foreward.

A book for the topic:
"The China Fantasy
How Our Leaders Explain Away Chinese Repression "
by James Mann.

   

Paul Martin was the first Canadian PM to meet with the Dalai Lama, Harper the first to meet him formally in his office on Parliament Hill. So the politicians are doing something. However, Canada's merchandise exports to China in the first seven months of 2007 have grown at more than twice the pace of its imports on the strength of the Asian giant's demand for Canada's natural resources, according to an article published in the Canadian Economic Observer.

Between January and July 2007, Canada's exports to China surged 43% from the same period in 2006, while its imports from China rose only 17%. This rate of growth in exports in 2007 surpassed that of any other G7 country, and put China neck-and-neck with Japan as Canada's third largest export market. China also became Canada's number two export market for crude oil.

Based on the financial picture, the fact China is a nuclear power with a military size of about 1.5 million, capable of shooting down a satellite in orbit, and able to surface an attack submarine within viable range for launching torpedoes or missiles at the USS Kitty Hawk, don’t expect much besides rhetoric from any country against China. In fact, Britain and other countries are making their athletes sign no criticism contracts at the Olympics....

   

This is the way China has operated for thousands of years. They aren't going to change anytime soon. Anyone who thinks differently is seriously deluded.

   

Nope. The Liberal party of Canada has been in power longer than the Communist party of China.

   

This is one of my favourite writings by Tenzin Tsundue:

TIBETANNESS

Thirty-nine years in exile.
Yet no nation supports us.
Not a single bloody nation!

We are refugees here.
People of a lost country.
Citizen to no nation.

Tibetans: the world's sympathy stock.
Serene monks and bubbly traditionalists;
one lakh and several thousand odd,
nicely mixed, steeped
in various assimilating cultural hegemonies.

At every check-post and office,
I am an "Indian-Tibetan".
My Registration Certificate,
I renew every year, with a salaam.
A foreigner born in India.

I am more of an Indian.
Except for my Chinky Tibetan face.
"Nepali?" "Thai?" "Japanese?"
"Chinese?" "Naga?" "Manipuri?"
but never the question – "Tibetan?"

I am Tibetan.
But I am not from Tibet.
Never been there.
Yet I dream
of dying there.

   

Can't you see
It all makes perfect sense
Expressed in dollars and cents
Pounds shillings and pence
Can't you see
It all makes perfect sense