Akasa
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The history you have been taught is force fed to you by a govt. and offers you a non-neutral perspective.
Tibet was forced to sign the Seventeen Point Agreement with China under duress after China illegally invaded Tibet - there is no such agreement between Bombay and India or Delhi and India - there are facts, not flights of fancy of communist China.
The history I learn is from Canadian textbooks. I wonder where you learned yours -- oh wait, you probably haven't.
So here's a spoonful of reality for you:
Tibet was an integral part of the Chinese empire for over a millennium. In 1937, when Japan invaded China, Tibet saw the chance and broke away from China. At that time, people from the Tibetan regions hindered China's attempts to push Japan out of China. However, China was very weak, so they couldn't deal with Tibet. After the war, the Tibet region refused to be considered part of China. In 1950, China retook Tibet as part of their original territory.
I used Bombay as an analogy, if you know what that means. Sure, Bombay never signed an agreement, but neither did Kahsmir. But don't you find it funny that "mighty democratic" India still wants Kashmir and Arunachal Pradesh as part of their territory?
History and hypocrisy sucks like a btch for you, doesn't it?