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that's the official propaganda line fed to the chinese people. we here in the west were shown a different picture. people happy with their religion in tibet for thousands of years. you forced them to conform to chinese ideals rather than their own. with rampant oppression and the destruction of nearly all monestaries in tibet. bad bad china. give the hongkongese protesters what they want, give the tibetans back their monestaries and their religion, and then china's leaders can have my respect.
'We dont care about your respect' - no you care only for your own egos and paycheck levels, that's your problem. greed of political power and luxury wealth. so much for the respectability of the chinese leadership, if there ever was one after they started on marxism.
oppress the tibetans, hong kong-ese, or the taiwanese any further than you're trying today, and you're gonna have issues with me. i'm not afraid of any china man or woman. nor impressed by their military skills.
Yeah, Tibetans are "happy". With 99% of Tibetan's life is literally worth a straw rope to the clergies. Hint, old Tibetan laws states when a member of the clergy kills a common Tibetan, which is 99% of the population. If the clergy is found at fault, then he has to pay the total concession of....one straw rope.
Illustrated White Paper on Democratic Reform in Tibet-Rigid hierarchy in Old Tibet
Guess they don't talk about these a lot "in the west" eh? Here is a another hint, you would never see a credible historical institute in the west claiming Tibetans were happy under Dalai Lama's rule. The new media can claim anything they want because they do not have an academic reputation to consider or preserve.
Considering your "respect" meaning jeopardizing the life of millions of Tibetans, I would say it is not worth it at all.