Who does? It's called something differently in PRC and Chinese people rarely refer to it as the Tian'anmen square incident, maybe that's where the denial is coming from.
China was ruled by the Man Mongolians for about 3 centuries prior to PRC. You can hardly categorize this as Han imperialism. As the Dalai-lama claims, he is not seeking true independence from PRC, just better treatment and more religious freedom. This PRC should grant, but once this turns into a nationalist pride issue, rational thinking is no longer in the picture, this is true for both sides. Not sure I understand what the hippies argument was about. Thing is, Tibet is so underdeveloped, independence is never going to be a good thing. The most common ways into Tibet is through PRC and Nepal, which is a close ally of PRC, having a bad relationship with PRC is not beneficial to anyone. han imperialism is not good, but in reality, PRC has been around for only 60 or so years, let the government deal with its own problems or else its never gonna learn.
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Who does? It's called something differently in PRC and Chinese people rarely refer to it as the Tian'anmen square incident, maybe that's where the denial is coming from.
China was ruled by the Man Mongolians for about 3 centuries prior to PRC. You can hardly categorize this as Han imperialism. As the Dalai-lama claims, he is not seeking true independence from PRC, just better treatment and more religious freedom. This PRC should grant, but once this turns into a nationalist pride issue, rational thinking is no longer in the picture, this is true for both sides. Not sure I understand what the hippies argument was about. Thing is, Tibet is so underdeveloped, independence is never going to be a good thing. The most common ways into Tibet is through PRC and Nepal, which is a close ally of PRC, having a bad relationship with PRC is not beneficial to anyone. han imperialism is not good, but in reality, PRC has been around for only 60 or so years, let the government deal with its own problems or else its never gonna learn.