Saviours and fools
By: Rinaldi, James.
Publisher: New Delhi Pantagon Press 2017Description: x, 251p.ISBN: 9788182749221.Subject(s): Western World | Democracy -- Nepal -- India -- China | Legislative Initiation -- TibetDDC classification: 305.800515 Summary: The Western world has been trying to “free Tibet” for the last 30 years. It hasn’t gone well. China remains predictably intractable towards any Western admonitions, and repression inside of Tibet has now increased to the point where Tibetans are lighting themselves on fire in desperate, fatal protest. Arrogance has led the West to believe that its perspectives on democracy and Tibet will eventually lead to Tibetan freedom; yet, after three decades, the accumulated mass of governmental edicts, congressional legislative initiatives and verbal challenges to China has led to nothing more than a worsening of the Tibetan condition. ------| Item type | Current location | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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includes bibliography and index
The Western world has been trying to “free Tibet” for the last 30 years. It hasn’t gone well. China remains predictably intractable towards any Western admonitions, and repression inside of Tibet has now increased to the point where Tibetans are lighting themselves on fire in desperate, fatal protest.
Arrogance has led the West to believe that its perspectives on democracy and Tibet will eventually lead to Tibetan freedom; yet, after three decades, the accumulated mass of governmental edicts, congressional legislative initiatives and verbal challenges to China has led to nothing more than a worsening of the Tibetan condition. ------
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