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Beijing reopens Sino-Tibetan Border. West barely notices.
BEIJING - State media reports China has reopened Tibet to foreign tourists almost two months after imposing a ban ahead of politically sensitive anniversaries.
The Xinhua News Agency says a group of 11 German travellers arrived in the regional capital of Lhasa late Saturday.
The agency says the group is on a six-day tour, which would take them to a number of "key scenic spots" before leaving for Nepal.
China requires foreigners to obtain special permission to visit Tibet and routinely bars them from all Tibetan areas of the country during sensitive periods to keep news of unrest from leaking out.
The latest travel ban on foreigners came in February and March because of the Tibetan New Year and anniversaries of Tibetan uprisings against Chinese rule.
Foreign visitors also were not allowed in ethnically Tibetan areas in Qinghai, Gansu and Sichuan provinces.
Even after all these years ACB still finds it incredibly that China can arbitrarily cut one of its neighbors off from he outside world for two months while the West stands by and does nothing. In fact there is so little comment in the West regarding this that most Westeners don't even know that this has happened. When the Soviets did this back in the day at least the Westmade a big deal about it, even if they didn't actually do anything more substantial.
ACB is afraid that this is just another example of Western hypocrisy. Foreigner governemnts bleat on about freedom and democracy and self determination, but only when it suits them. Not when it 's for a worth while cause that doesn't offer them anything in return.
It would appear that China is just too important ot the Western governments, and Tibet is just too insignificant - a far off land filled with funny little yellow people - for them to raise even token protest.
One thing is for certain, if somebody were to do this to a Western country it would be all over the news. Maybe England should shut of Northern Ireland for a couple of weeks? just to see what would happen, or maybe Mexico should annex some of the US border towns that serve as staging osts for the drugs money and the guns that are ripping their country to shreds as ACB types. You can be certain that you'd see Western Governments standing up and metaphorically banging thier shoes on the table at the UN if that were to happen.
Maybe if Tibet had oil?
Do you think that Tibet should be more important to the westerner press
than the Chinese press ?
ACB thinks that the Chinese press is censored, so it has an excuse not to
publish stories about Tibet, but the Western press is supposed to be the
voice of freedom and democracy therefore it has a duty to publish stories
about Tibet.
You are correct. If Tibet had oil, it would make a great deal of
difference in the West. But then the West is good at hypocrisy; even when
the UK government 'turns a blind eye to torture' (allegedly), while it
lectures the Chinese government on human rights.
Maybe China has closed off Tibet for foreign tourists many times before and
therefore it is not considered big news?
No, you're hypocritical for yammering on about this, that, and the other,
when it's some petty thing or something that can't be helped in a
developing country, and but not even batting an eyelid when one country
imposes itself on another like the Mainland has done to Tibet.
ACB: Over the last two months, I've noticed a spike in American media
coverage of Tibet, but I cannot recall a single instance of an article on
copyright. Maybe we are watching different news outlets or something.
Actually, considering how generally poor is the American media coverage of
international news--i.e. we don't care about it unless it's some hapless
nation we suddenly want to bomb the ever-living crap out of--it's
noteworthy that they have covered Tibet as much as they have. And I did see
this border story covered somewhere; I just cannot recall where.
Opening Tibet travel is old news. Actually closing Tibet is really old
news, so reopening Tibet has even less of a chance of getting space. It's
all an internal China issue. Recently it's the G20 Summit, cracking
protester's heads in Britain, economic stimulus to combat the Global
Financial meltdown, sending more troops into Afganistan, Obama-mania yada,
yada yada. Only laowai wanting to travel to Tibet are interested, so it's
not published.
Miley Cyrus doing a porno shoot is old news, Beijing suppressing Tibet is
tantamount to Genocide.
i absolutely agree with ABC.
facts mut be published!
ciao from italy, kisses
I don't think that this is so much a case of hypocrisy, ACB, as it a case
of dullened, torpid disinterest. Beijing has let it be known, far and
wide, that Tibet is a hands-off matter. Any foreign nation that upbraids
Beijing for its tyranny in Tibet has to export a container of hankies so
the Party heads can wipe their eyes and blow their noses for several
months. Witness what France and Germany just recently went through for
having H.H. drop by for a day or two last year. If you don't want to get a
3 yr. old temper tantrum out of Beijing, you don't even mention the place.
Yes, if Tibet had more natural resources than Yak skins, it would have
gained more attention. But that would have been long ago. In general,
Tibet gains the spotlight several times a year in western mainstream media.
Opening, closing and reopening borders isn't a real biggie when it comes
to the bigger picture of Tibet. I concur with much of what Don Tai said,
and elaborate on it.
So, if Japan were to annex a couple of big chunks os SE Asia, once more,
then threaten to stop selling Playstations to the US, America would let it
be? Oh, yeah, they probably would, wouldn't they.
HELLO EVERY SINO-BROTHER I'M GOING TO SAY SOME SERIOUS
THING.................
.........SOME AMERICAN-JEWISH-INDIAN ELEMENTS ARE
HIDING IN PAKISTAN TLAIBAN'S GUISE................AND THEY ARE HIGLY PAID
FOR MAKING DISTURBANCES IN CHINA INIORDER TO COLLAPSE CHINA.......I REQUEST
THE CHINESE OFFICIAL TO MAKE CONTACT WITH TOP RELIGIOUS PERSONALS IN SWAT
NWFP PAKISTAN TO DISCLOSE THE EVIL PLAN OF DESTROYING SHINA (*BY AMERICANS
THROUGH SO-CALLED TALIBAN) .tHANKX.
Yeah, and gay socialist Republicans are ..... oh, what's the point? You're
nuts, you're plain and simple freaking nuts. There's no such thing as a an
American-Jewish-Indian element, and the Taliban are the Taliban and are
unashamedly admiting to each and everything that they are doign because
they are proud of it and because they sincerely believe that ti si the
right thing to do. They don't need to be framed for any of it, they shout
about about doing it and the more people who hear them the happier they are
about it.