Sikkim too. That always feels far away and out of mind. It shouldn't be. It is the same story as the Chinese military move slowly outwards. I wonder when someone will call it a step too far. Not an easy call against the world's largest army.
The chinkies are committing cultural genocide against Tibetans and you claim they "want to remain part of China"?
You complete dick.
World Report 2020: China | Human Rights WatchAuthorities in Tibetan areas continue to severely restrict religious freedom, speech, movement, and assembly, and fail to redress popular concerns about mining and land grabs by local officials, which often involve intimidation and unlawful use of force by security forces. In 2019, officials further intensified surveillance of online and phone communication.
Authorities in Tibetan areas have also stepped up use of a nationwide anti-crime campaign to encourage people to denounce members of their communities on the slightest suspicion of sympathy for the exiled Dalai Lama or opposition to the government. Two cases publicized by the Qinghai authorities in 2019, involving local opposition to land acquisition by the government, demonstrate that Tibetans are being prosecuted under the campaign for defense of their economic and cultural rights.
From May to July 2019, the authorities expelled thousands of Buddhist monks and nuns from the Yachen Gar monastery in Sichuan, and their dwellings demolished, according to Xi. Those without residence status in Sichuan were deported to their home provinces, where they were reportedly detained for reeducation. Meanwhile, Tibetan Autonomous Region leaders called for an intensification of “Sinicization” policies to “strengthen the management of monasteries,” subjecting monastic populations to “legal” exams to test their competence in political reeducation, and requiring senior religious figures to endorse state policies on the selection of the next Dalai Lama.
In the Ngawa Tibetan region of Sichuan, two more young men set themselves on fire in protest against the Chinese government, in November and December 2018. Since March 2009, 155 Tibetans have self-immolated.
Which parts of the 'free world' are you referring to? While the US is clearly incapable of confronting Chinese incursion on so many fronts simultaneously, it's a given nobody that knows anything expects the EU to take on some of the workload. So that leaves the rest of the world, which includes many beneficiaries of chink generosity that by sheer coincidence doesn't need to be paid back x-fold until their corrupt leaders leave office.
Maybe Bojo could deploy a few gunships, like in the good ole days.
Forget Tibet, while the weak offspring of a strong generation took to the streets and wore free Tibet t-shirts to prove their commitment, the more practical Chinese were busy on the ground, changing language and customs and moving the masses to repopulate with forced marriages, so that a mere couple of generations later, Tibet is not the same country and people that such protestors believe they are yearning to free.
Anyone recognise where the west is on map?
I was thinking, Japan, S.Korea, Vietnam, India, Australia for starters - then we may include all the others that are seeing their claims being trampled in the Chinese grab in the south China seas - Malaysia Philippines etc. stop being so euro centric - the Europeans would eventually join in
The TD wingers are certainly out in force, not that their outbursts mean nothing but to indicate that the outpourings of impotent jealous wasters.
Quite a large chunk of China is allegedly part of the "Taiwan" AIDZ.
No.
12 mile limit I beleive, for a UN recognised sovereign country.
So summing up:
1. Taiwan is not a UN recognised sovereign country
2. Chinese aircraft flying in international space.
3. Foreign country's ships enter a countries near area.
4. Aircraft, easily seen on radar, are scrambled to monitor a military force approaching it's sovereign terriroty.
5. SOP for most countries, with the ability to defend it's country's sovereignty.
Japan, S.Korea and Australia are oocupied vassals, unable themselves to defend their citizens. India is currently undecided. Vietnam has working relationships with both China and ameristan and is quite happy with both.
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Did you complete your Beijing-Refresher course?
ScumAccording to a UN report regarding the adoption of its Tibetan resolution in 1965, "The Chinese occupation of Tibet has been characterised by acts of murder, rape and arbitrary imprisonment; torture and cruel, inhuman and degraded treatment of Tibetans on a large scale."
Human rights in Tibet - Wikipedia
In the narrow sense of this thread's title, yes. Although not always a valid objection in a criminal trial, for example, when evidence of similar facts may be admissible.
I am beginning to feel a bit like we have drifted back into early 1939 and people are saying "This is about Poland, it has nothing to do with Sudetenland."
Taiwan air force flexes muscles after latest Chinese incursion
TAINAN, Taiwan (Reuters) - Armed and ready to go, Taiwan air force jets screamed into the sky on Tuesday in a drill to simulate a war scenario, showing its fleet’s battle readiness after dozens of Chinese warplanes flew into the island’s air defence zone over the weekend.
Taiwan, claimed by China as its territory, has been on edge since the large-scale incursion by Chinese fighters and nuclear-capable bombers into the southwestern part of its air defence identification zone on Saturday and Sunday, which coincided with a U.S. carrier group entering the South China Sea.
The base in the southern city of Tainan, home to F-CK-1 Ching-kuo Indigenous Defence Fighters (IDF), frequently scrambles jets to intercept China’s air force.
In a hardened shelter, flight crew from the First Tactical Fighter Wing rushed to ready two IDFs as an alarm bell rang out, aiming to get them off the ground within five minutes of an emergency call, armed with U.S.-made Sidewinders and domestically-developed Wan Chien air-to-ground cruise missiles.
Colonel Lee Ching-shi told Reuters their jets usually go up armed with guns, Sidewinders and Taiwan-made Sky Sword missiles when reacting to Chinese jets and they can respond “at any time”.
“We are ready,” he said during a government-organised visit to the base. “We will not give up one inch of our territory.”
Four IDFs carried out tactical formation landing and rolling take off drills, roaring away from the runway.
China has provided no public explanation for what its aircraft were doing at the weekend. Washington responded by calling on China to cease pressuring Taiwan and reaffirming its commitment to the democratic island.
Taiwan’s air force is well trained, but has far fewer combat aircraft than China and has strained under the pressure of almost constantly having to scramble in recent months, responding to stepped up Chinese activity near the island.
“All the wings are under quite a lot of pressure, but as long as the air force is here, we will react according to related battle readiness rules,” said pilot Wang Chih-chan.
Taiwan air force flexes muscles after latest Chinese incursion | Reuters
China Will Never Renounce Using Force Against Taiwan, Warplanes a Warning: CCP Official
China reserves all options against Taiwan, including the use of force, a Chinese official said Wednesday while issuing a veiled warning at the new administration of Joe Biden.
China claims Taiwan is a breakaway province determined to declare independence with the help of "external forces," despite Taipei's repeated statements to the contrary.
The Taiwan Affairs Office, which is established under China's State Council, returned to familiar rhetoric on Wednesday when spokesperson Zhu Fenglian blamed Taiwan's ruling Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) for destabilizing the Taiwan Strait.
It was Zhu's first press conference since two large groups of People's Liberation Army warplanes buzzed the skies near Taiwan over the weekend, drawing a statement from the State Department expressing "concern" at Beijing's actions and reaffirming the Biden administration's "rock-solid" support for Taipei.
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It is nice to have a real government again. The Chinese should be warned to piss off. Biden is not going to put up with their shit hence the carrier battle fleet that is currently sitting in the South China Sea with no response from the CCP. They simply haven't the capability to do anything in response.
Umm . . . they've been doing that regularly.
Do you think it's a coincidence that you only now whine about it?
Gasp. The secret is out!!! So?
Do you know where the Pacific fleet is located? Do you know where it routinely patrols?
It's interesting that the Chinese have chosen this approach at this time. As far as what the Americans are doing these things would have been in the works for some time. There is no short game here.
And importantly none of this has anything to do with Joseph R. Biden, Jr.
Foreign policy development is like a very large slow tanker, it takes time to change direction. Nothing that we've been seeing in the past week has much do with anything. It's always interesting to speculate of course. All this will pass. I do in the long term think Blinken is going to be an improvement over Pompeo but not much. It is not the job of either man to create policy, only to execute it. Manner is important. It's got to be difficult times down at the Hoover Building these days.
I do hope the new administration maintains maximum pressure on the slopes.
A true diplomat is a person who can tell you to go to hell in such a manner that you will be asking for directions.
^ Of course.
My guess is that the Joint Chiefs are, for all practical purposes, keeping things on course. If anybody has any special insight in this regard please offer up.
What would it say if the Merkins were to suddenly change course based on Biden's presidency. That's not going to happen. It's poor diplomacy not to mention strategically foolish. When it comes to foreign policy both Blinken and Biden are the best. They'll bide their time.
Why throw the baby out with the bathwater? Trump admittedly a giant failure when it comes to the presidency did manage to do some good things, turning up the heat on the slopes was one, his move to economic nationalism was another. I personally liked his immigration policy although will admit that it caused great suffering.
That's my two Canadian cents.
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