@Pamela Rosa,
The Dalai Lama was raised as a unique and highly educated intellectual and spiritual leader. Tibetan Buddhism is one of the most sacred and important faiths in Human history. Regardless of a government's ability to invade another country and claim it as it's own, the complete cultural destruction of Tibet by the Communist Chinese is the real issue at hand.
Communism has no place in Tibet or Taiwan, yet they claim sovereignty over both. China is in the process of building its first Aircraft Carrier from an old Russian ship. I wonder what they need that for.
Just think for a moment about the implications for the surrounding East Asian cultures, International Waters and World Stability.
The loss of the Tibetan culture will be a great victory against any hope for the redemption of human kind.
Regardless of the propaganda being spread on the internet by Chinese spies, the Dalai Lama was the spiritual leader of Tibet, who sometimes administered over the political sphere from 18th-20th Century. China was ruled by a democratic government pre-communism. The way that the Million man march and the subsequent Cultural Revolution destroyed all art in China, killing artists and destroying all ancient Buddhist statues in China was as shameful as the Holocaust.
Some argue that the poor weren't being represented under the Democratic China, but they never completely reached a constitutional state. If you look at the United States, with a constitution, the poor are just as unrepresented and screwed by the government, the Chinese population is just significantly higher. Until 1928, there was no unified China, it was ruled by various warlords, the communists and the nationalists.
The communists are afraid of Tibetan buddhism and the power it holds over the people, for their rhetoric is weak, under a government that seized control during the surrendering of Japanese occupied lands post WWII. They've always been land grabbers, they should have never gone to Tibet in the first place, it was never part of China at all. Ever.
The only reason that China has not invaded Taiwan are the American Warships that protect the last remains of democracy in China.
