Probably not. But if push comes to shove, the Americans and the Brits are Tibetan's best hope.


>Well, at what price? Remember the Korean War. The US is understandably chary at losing any men - Afghanistan and Iraq is enough - with Cina, no matter how many men they lose "there's still plenty more where that came from". OK so the US could nuke 'em; it's not as if China is lacking in that field and, anyway, would the US use such means to protect a small, obscure and diplomatically unimportant realm like Tibet?
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>>Fortunately the US can still kick their butts. I hope that doesn't change in my lifetime.
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>>>Thanks for that. I feel such impotence in watching something like that. Their treatment of the Tibetans sickens me, but what can one do, against a nation as powerful as that? It's as if they have a free hand to rape the whole world now.
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>>>>This is heart wrenching stuff. Chinese soldiers shooting Tibetan pilgrams as they try to pass into India to see the Dali Lama.
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>>>>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hXC5RxhZUYw
>>>>http://www.protv.ro/filme/exclusive-footage-of-chinese-soldiers-shooting-at-tibetan-pilgrims.html#4265
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>>>>News Story
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>>>>http://today.reuters.co.uk/news/articlenews.aspx?type=worldNews&storyID=2006-10-10T133532Z_01_B542426_RTRUKOC_0_UK-NEPAL-TIBET-CLIMBERS.xml&pageNumber=0&imageid=&cap=&sz=13&WTModLoc=NewsArt-C1-ArticlePage2

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