I don’t think the Chinese will ever let Tibet go, but at the very least at least Tibetans and the Chinese has had an unbroken line of diplomatic relationship, like most countries in East Asia, Tibet has always managed to survive both as friends and enemies of China. Like the DL said, usually relationships between Central China and Central Tibet are cordial, at this moment it is not so. I can’t really say anything either as a Canadian because we have our own separatism issues.

The biggest cause of the whole ‘cultural genocide’ is actually more broad than just plain racism. The Chinese government was hellbent to destroy anything that was old or deemed un-modern, Han, Tibetan, or whoever it may concern. Not saying there isn’t racism between ethnic groups in China, but not GENOCIDE level racism. It’s more of a question now how to protect/revive cultures in China. Even Han people in China are rediscovering their heritage.

But it is what went on in Africa a couple centuries ago. It’s called colonialism. And we (Europeans) did it too. For a long time. That’s how we became “rich and developped”, and that’s why they speak French, English, Spanish and so on in many african countries.

This is also what went on in Australia with aborigens.

This is also what went on in southern and central America, with Spaniards and Portugueses against Mayas, Azteks, etc…

This is also what went on in northern America with Indians.

Everywhere in the world, it happened. A lot. And no one cared about anyone saying anything about it.

Hell, we even tried to fuck up China itself, a few decades ago with our treaties, our drug, etc.

Today, China does it on its own scale (a smaller one actually), and not on countries far far away like we Europeans did, but on territories and cultures historically very close and related to them.

So frankly, who the fuck are we to tell them to stop? What kind of examples were we? What legitimates our judgement? We fucked up so many cultures in the past, so many whole secular civilizations… I think we should cut them some slack with Tibet. As bad as what they are doing can be, we did worse.

“recognize orders signed by Spain” seems pretty weak, and it seems legally empty. “To recognize” is not the same as “to obey” or “to be obligated.” “Recognizing orders” is a lot less than having and honoring a mutual extradition treaty.

i.e. all the EU, most of Latin America, and the US. Not too shabby. Vacation destinations of these guys now officially only include, Russia, Albania and Zimbabwe.