China/Tibet

I do tend to bang on about the current US/UK governments and their criminal foreign policy, so today i thought i'd leave them alone for the moment. I no less despise many of the actions they have taken, particularly as a citizen of the UK Tony Blair has led us to war in our name when i don't think there has ever been a majority of the population supportive of war in Iraq.

Indeed at the risk of sounding like an intellectual snob the vast majority of people that have either supported it or given Blair the benefit of the doubt have been fairly ignorant and formed their opinions from tabloid journalism. But there you go, just my opinion and it is admitadly based on experience of people i've discussed it with, i wouldn't rely on it in a dossier argueing the case against. Oops was that a small dig at the government there? moving on....

Yeah so anyway today i feel the need to highliight the Free Tibet movement and remind anyone that cares to read this just how much repression and violence is still ongoing in the region. Big business and governments are today currently falling over themselves to deal with China. With a population of a billion people and a seemingly more modernised economy everyone wants to be their pal and not upset them. The 2008 Olympic games has been awarded to Beijing, a competitions whose own ideals has long been buried under corporate sponsorship is a badge of respectability of the Chinese regime.

Why has China annexed Tibet, a small nation of around 2.6 million people, no threat to the might of China? The Tibetan plateau may not be overpopulated but it does have 1/8th of China's land mass, an area of unexploited resources and considered a strategic buffer to the west. Tacitus would understand, "if a man seeks to understand Rome's casuss reason for each foreign conquest he only needs to look into the Treasury."

Oh yeah, link to better article on it here.