If Tibet were given independence, how would it affect China?
2007-03-07 19:08:22 · 7 answers · asked by Yuka 4 in Travel ➔ Asia Pacific ➔ China
It would deprive China of its borders with India and Nepal. It would also deprive China of some of its nuclear weapons testing sites. Historically it would have robbed China of a prime timber source, but the Chinese have already clear-cut most of the worthwhile Tibetan forests.
Tibet is also a pressure release valve for the Chinese population, and ethnic Han Chinese are settled there to try to relieve overcrowding in the rest of the country. Most importantly, however, is that the Chinese government has pumped up Tibet as an inseparable part of the "motherland" (a dubious assertion), and the loss of Tibet would be a blow to the Chinese psyche. They have a kind of manifest destiny when it comes to Tibet and Uygherstan and are thus will to do anything to retain it, even committing genocide against its indigenous inhabitants.
2007-03-07 19:15:09 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 8⤊ 2⤋
It will be a major political coup if Tibet were to be given real freedom. As it stands now, most Tibetians are not too happy with the influx of Han Chinese or the railroad that is crossing their land.
I don't see this happening in my lifetime though. China is becoming more millitant especially with all the trade surplus they have. They are bound (and they have) to increase millitry spending. That means less international pressure on China....who wants to mess with someone with 1.5billion people & with atom bombs right.
The day Tibet splits from China will be the day Inner Mongolia & Xinjiang also leaves China because these were all conquered lands with the rise of the communist.
2007-03-08 04:02:01 · answer #2 · answered by grendeth 5 · 2⤊ 2⤋
Tend to agree with Adam, particularly about the 'psychological - manifest destiny' thing. You might as well tell (most) Israeli's that God didn't give Israel to them 'in perpetuity' which extinguishes all other more recent claims. The Chinese have a strong concept of what 'China' is, and unfortunately for the Tibetans that concept includes their country (as it does Taiwan).
I'm not sure on the population overflow thing though, is it that attractive for settlement up there? I would have thought it was at least as inhospitable as the western deserts in China.
Having said all of that, the Chinese have lived with relatively 'autonomous' client states on their borders happily enough in the past. The emphasis there is on 'client' however. And one has to note that their record on the treatment of non-'Han' Chinese groups within China has not always been unblemished (but who are we to throw the first stone with our records...).
Could Tibet evolve into a relatively 'free' State one day? I'm inclined to think that it's possible, the Chinese can be remarkably flexible in the exercise of the dogmatic stubbornness. Looking back as a resident of Hong Kong forty years ago it was absolutely inconceivable then that the Chinese would one day take it back and yet give it the degree of independence that it has now (treating it at least no worse than the British).
2007-03-07 23:06:17 · answer #3 · answered by nandadevi9 3 · 2⤊ 2⤋
If Red Indians were given back their land and independence,how would it affect America?
2007-03-08 04:27:43 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 5⤋
hey! come on! tibet is free now! tibet is always a free province in china! in her motherland!
2007-03-07 21:57:00 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 6⤋
i dont think it will affect china, neither by economy or power
2007-03-07 19:23:19 · answer #6 · answered by anderson 6 · 1⤊ 4⤋
it would piss them off.
2007-03-07 20:18:50 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 1⤋