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08 Apr 08
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crash course in China’s various ethnic and religious minority groups and their resentments.
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Tibet
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Uighur Muslims
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Falun Gong
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Mongols and Kazakhs
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China can no longer pretend to be the unobtrusive power par excellence, in contrast to American intrusiveness.
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typifies the national consensus that China has delivered Tibetans from feudalism, ushering them toward modernity with infrastructure and investment. Tibet, in this view, should be grateful, and the region’s obstinate “splittists” crushed.
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The people of Tibet were serfs and have made huge progress.
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he has called for autonomy but not independence; and that he is a revered global figure.
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legitimate Tibetan fears of cultural extinction, and that a stop-go approach to allowing foreign journalists into Tibet is ham-fisted.
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how do you create the space for different peoples to express themselves?”
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China cannot afford even one mutiny
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