| @GN My point is that the ethnic chinese in Taiwan can't say with a straight face that 'Taiwan is their motherland' in the same breathe as 'Free Tibet'. Great that they have democratic elections this past decade, after 50 years of KMT rule, but for heavens sake, Taiwan has a population of what? 2% of that of the PRC? And they have not suffered the stupidity of the Cultural Revolution in the mainland. As a nation the PRC has been in a different planet for so long, that it is only in the 80's that they really opened up. Why are we asking for immediate democratic reforms in the PRC? Shouldn't they be allowed 50 years (in jest) too? The PRC has humongous mountains to overcome both internally AND externally and sometimes I just despair. But then I remember the tenacity and the ingenuity of the Chinese over the ages and then I hope again. |
Why I Didn't Cover About Tibet