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Helmult Schmidt on the Tibet conflict
In Time (21/2008) is an article by Helmut Schmidt appeared which deals with the Tibet conflict and its instrumentation:
Tibet as a touchstone
By Helmut Schmidt little respect as to one's Han-Chinese: Mao Zedong, founder of the PRC
Because China the Tibetan human rights" denied to the Western world has been experiencing eight weeks a wave of anti-Chinese protests and propaganda - from the Internet and CNN up to the Olympic torch relay and to some state offices in Western Europe. It is idealistic motives mixed with anti-communism and fear of the rising competition from China. Because of all violence sentencing Dalai Lama sympathy draws upon himself to overlook the west like to see the recent demonstrations in Tibet, the once in violence are passed, had run out of Lamaism monks and monasteries. You certainly know nothing of the long history.
have in fact neither the 1300 million people of China nor the three million inhabitants of Tibet ever known in history and present those human rights and that democracy, which have developed the Western cultures for over two hundred and fifty years, gradually - we Germans notabene only been around sixty years. Chinese history has known for thousands of years only absolute monarchy, obedience and authority, and the one established in 1949 by Mao Tse-tung Communist People's Republic has in any case no change of dictatorial form of government means. Similarly, the small mountain nation of Tibet has always been ruled autocratic, but not by a prince or the nobility, but by priests and high priests. The Dalai Lama was as high priest of Lamaism sect also the temporal leader of Tibetans, the Panchen Lama as the chief priest of a different sect, however, had a higher clerical rank. Even at the end of World War II Tibet was a theocracy - just as before the church or state as it is now Iran. 
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