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China issues demolition order on world’s largest religious town in Tibet

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Re: China issues demolition order on world’s largest religious town in Tibet

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Post by deepGem »

lotu wrote: post #6
mhuffman wrote: post #4

Wow! It is amazing that we do not consider this a human rights violation. Oh well, gotta keep them prices low at Walmart!

What are you proposing we do? Cut off trade with China? Intervene militarily? Write a strongly worded letter?

You sure can do all of these.

Re: China issues demolition order on world’s largest religious town in Tibet

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Post by dogecoinbase »

lotu wrote: post #6
mhuffman wrote: post #4

Wow! It is amazing that we do not consider this a human rights violation. Oh well, gotta keep them prices low at Walmart!

What are you proposing we do? Cut off trade with China? Intervene militarily? Write a strongly worded letter?

These all seem like pretty heavy-handed interventions. I'm sure funding could be found for some targeted assassinations, though.

Re: China issues demolition order on world’s largest religious town in Tibet

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Post by icebraining »

reustle wrote: post #7

Not saying this is right, but it sounds like the city exceeded their legal cap of 5k people? So it doesn't sound like it's a total surprise to them. Am I reading it wrong?

It's not clear to me that there was any legal cap; from what I can tell, it was set by this order.

Re: China issues demolition order on world’s largest religious town in Tibet

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Post by tremon »

mhuffman wrote: post #4

Wow! It is amazing that we do not consider this a human rights violation. Oh well, gotta keep them prices low at Walmart!

But we do consider this a human rights violation, we have been considering it for 30 years: https://www.hrw.org/news/2000/06/13/human-rights-violations-...

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Post by tremon »

reustle wrote: post #7

Not saying this is right, but it sounds like the city exceeded their legal cap of 5k people? So it doesn't sound like it's a total surprise to them. Am I reading it wrong?

That's just rationalization. Had the city population been 4200, the cap would have been set at 4k.

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Post by abpavel »

xiaoma wrote: post #9
sbose78 wrote: post #3

Any way of getting the UN involved?

The UN is useless anytime the interests of the US, China, Russia or other veto wielding countries are involved.

Or friends of any of those. Which in essence renders the whole UN useless.

Re: China issues demolition order on world’s largest religious town in Tibet

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Post by icebraining »

lotu wrote: post #6
mhuffman wrote: post #4

Wow! It is amazing that we do not consider this a human rights violation. Oh well, gotta keep them prices low at Walmart!

What are you proposing we do? Cut off trade with China? Intervene militarily? Write a strongly worded letter?

What about Diplomacy? Increased recognition of Tibetan leaders and activists, sending diplomatic missions to problematic spots, etc.

It would also not hurt to stop with the constant demonization of "China" as a whole, which just serves to downplay criticism as bigotry.

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Post by bhouston »

mhuffman wrote: post #4

Wow! It is amazing that we do not consider this a human rights violation. Oh well, gotta keep them prices low at Walmart!

China : Tibet :: Israel : Palestine, they are analogous in many ways. The human rights groups talk about the problems, we recognize it is bad, the weaker ethnic community suffers and is oppressed, the more powerful ethnic group makes slow but steady progress in exerting its wishes, and no real changes are effected by the international community.
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