In light of recent events these past two weeks and an incredibly tight schedule by your correspondent, I’m posting a few links from the Granite Studio archives.
Tsering Shakya on “Tibet: Does History Matter?”
Ge Jianxiong: “To exaggerate the size of China’s historical territory is not patriotic.”
Images of Tibet and China from 1940
Protests at the roof of the world, bad history, and a new PR strategy for the PRC
So far this site hasn’t been blocked. We’re a little too small for anyone to notice and I’ve been doing most of my Tibet coverage over at The Peking Duck (which is now intermittently blocked).
Thanks for the interesting prior links, and for your hard work in covering this at the Peking Duck, it is appreciated.
What is most alarming for me is not the violence in Tibet (that’s to be expected), but the violent comments left on various Internet boards, such as the comments on this Sina story:
http://news.sina.com.cn/c/2008-03-17/022115161350.shtml
I wish everyone would just calm down!!
I share your wish but 杀无赦 is the tenor and it should not surprise any of us who’ve chosen to live here; such an attitude and perception of ” outside interference” was no different in Taiwan under the KMT in the early 70’s. I suggest most of the foreigners commenting on the forums need a reality check and understand the consequences and, yes, responsibilities of living here. Look around you and sober up.