Shanghaiist: Today's Links: Hypothesis of a world under China supremacy, a ridiculously vast China-based computer spy system, and the creation of "Serfs Emancipation Day"

orontus

Wed, 01 Apr 2009 05:15:02 +0700

Let face it, "Free Tibet" business is here as long as the "Free Money" is here. American governmnet and its fake NGOs have pumped at least $50 million into this "Free Tibet" business every year. Why the news media in the West have never reported exactly who is behind this "Free Tibet" business?!

nanheyangrouchuan

Tue, 31 Mar 2009 19:57:51 +0700

Look at China now, after stealing so much western know how, technology and money the country has almost no water, no clean food, a huge AIDS/STD problem and everything is filthy, as well as alot of useless youth. That is the result of Beijing rule...a junkyard.

eastman

Mon, 30 Mar 2009 14:48:11 +0700

to taihanasie --"You can give someone a shiny house...you can't expect them to like you"? Its absolutely true. but i wonder how could somebody insist on taking the shining house while not liking you. it has nothing to do with pride and shame, i guess, though it's probably the reason why daliar doesnt want to split tibet from china as many westerners like you wish, since paying salaries and medic insurance to those 45,000 poor-farmer-turned lamas will be a great headach for his wallet, even though his wealth were all freely stolen from potala.

BBC1

Mon, 30 Mar 2009 13:24:20 +0700

A world run by Beijing is definitely better than a world run by Washington. Just look at the bloody economic mess and Obama has to clean up this filth.LOL! They even have to ask China to help out with the Freedom Tower in NYC by asking them to sign up as the first tenants. ROFLMAO!

taihanasie

Mon, 30 Mar 2009 12:40:16 +0700

"it proves Beijing run things better while all 45,000 lazy good-for-nothing lamas in 3200 renovated temples are paid salaries and medic covered by hardworking Chinese " Thanks for this, Eastman. In one sentence, you have perfectly demonstrated the mentality that so many people find offensive, and reinforced the grounds for discontent that many Tibetans have. You can give someone a shiny home, but as long as you still treat them as a second-class citizen, you can't expect them to like you. Oh, those poor, noble Chinese... how they toil for those ingrateful, dirty Tibetans...

eastman

Mon, 30 Mar 2009 11:31:06 +0700

--"how Beijing runs things now"? it proves Beijing run things better while all 45,000 lazy good-for-nothing lamas in 3200 renovated temples are paid salaries and medic covered by hardworking Chinese taxpayersd, only for a free lynching once in a while.

shangers

Mon, 30 Mar 2009 10:08:35 +0700

For 2 seconds, I thought little blue creatures could now run free in Tibet. Oh well, it was a nice thought.

nanheyangrouchuan

Mon, 30 Mar 2009 00:30:49 +0700

A world under China would be a wreckage of filth and the worst human behavior. Look at how Beijing runs things now.

BBC1

Sun, 29 Mar 2009 22:04:51 +0700

Happy Serf Emancipation day! Tibet became free when Tenzin Gyatso fled Tibet 50 years ago! :)

Buck Rogerz

Sun, 29 Mar 2009 20:46:22 +0700

re: Tibet: It's absurd and perverse that China seizes the mantle of human rights to retrospectively rationalize its own actions. re: YaleGlobal: "They also see the need to redefine universalist values for China..." redefine universalist values to serve China's ends.

eastman

Sun, 29 Mar 2009 19:42:06 +0700

---"overturning of the region's feudal system"? Seems VOA know a sh*t about the difference between feudal and theocracy system, not to mention 5,200 serfs Daliar's family owned. On Tibet's Serfs Emancipation Day, March 28, a German scholar hailed the end of serfdom in Tibet 50 years ago as "a victory for human rights." In his article titled "The End of Slavery" carried by "Die junge Welt," the retired philosophy professor and Sinologist, Hans Heinz Holz, gave a detailed introduction of Tibetan history as well as the serfdom in Tibet which he said featured "shameless exploitation of farmers and herders by rich monasteries and large landowners, a high illiteracy rate, poor medical care and a high rate of child mortality." "There are good reasons to celebrate the abolition of serfdom in Tibet. It was a victory for human rights, a redemption of the UN Charter," he said. "The so-called Tibetan exile government is the representative of the former exploiters. When the Dalai Lama speaks of freedom, what he means is the freedom for the few who exploit the masses," Holz said. "The theocracy of the Lamas was not a religious culture, but an ideologically-based primitive exploitation and hierarchy system," he said. "Nostalgic yearning for the theocracy of Lama monks is not only historical, but inhuman. Slavery was the economic condition of earlier cultures. That cannot mean that to preserve the culture, slavery should also be preserved. It is for sure that no human rights defender wants to defend the barbaric justice system of the Lamas with punishments such as mutilation and whipping."