china is spreading it's tentacles all over the globe, buying up natural resources and corrupting governments.

getting paid well I hope....

Are you a paid shill for the Chinese government or just that completely ignorant of what is going on in Tibet. Your comment is reprehensible and shows a complete lack of understanding and empathy for what ethnic Tibetans have had to deal with under Chinese occupation. I call it an occupation because Tibet was a separate sovereign nation before the Chinese took over by force in 1949. Prior to this Tibet was an independent nation and should become one again. If this were any other country but China occupying another nation we would see the UN imposing sanctions and calling for an immediate withdrawal. However because it is China, who can veto anything the UN security council tries to do, the UN stands by and does nothing to address this travesty. China occupying Tibet is no different than when Iraq occupied Kuwait by force in 1990 except that the UN condemned Iraq's action and endorsed military action to remove the occupying force. It is long past time that the international community addressed China's illegal occupation of Tibet and called for a complete withdrawal of Chinese troops from Tibet and a restoration of Tibet's sovereignty.

Tibet hasn't been a truly sovereign nation ever since Genghis Khan conquered the place. The most autonomy they had was during the Ming dynasty (i.e. about the same time Europe was having their Renaissance). Still, there's no doubt that the Chinese government has handled many things poorly since 1949.

People need to learn some history. Tibet most certainly was a sovereign nation. While it has been occupied at different times by different invaders Tibet has been a separate country for well over a thousand years since a peace treaty signed with China in 821 engraved on three stone pillars, one of which still stands in front of the Jokhang cathedral in Lhasa. Tibet was most definitely a sovereign nation free from an occupation or controlling influence by any other country following the fall of the Manchu Empire and subsequent treaties from 1912 to 1949/1950 with it's own flag and it's own currency. Tibet even issued it's own passports during this period that were officially recognized by a number of nations including France, Great Britain, Italy, Switzerland, India, and the US.

SPARTAN-501,

In 1252-53 Qoridai invaded Tibet, reaching as far as Damxung. The Central Tibetian monasteries submitted to the Mongols. Mongke divided between his relatives as their appanagesin accordance with Great Jasagof Genghis Khan. Many Mongol aristocrats including Khagan himself seem to have sought blessings of prominent Tibetan lamas. Möngke Khan patronized Karma Baqshi (1204–83) of the Karma-pa suborder and the ’Bri-gung Monastery, while Hulegu, khan of the Mongols in the Middle East, sent lavish gifts to both ’Bri-gung and the Phag-mo-gru-pa suborder’s gDan-sa-thel monastery. Later William Rubruck report that he saw Chinese, Tibetan, and Indian Buddhist monks at the capital city, Karakourm, of the Mongol Empire.

Tibet was incorporated into the Mongol Empire under Mongolian administrative rule,^[27] but the region was granted with a degree of political autonomy. Kublai Khan would later include Tibet into his Yuan Dynasty, and the region remained administratively separate from the conquered provinces of Song Dynasty China.

According to the Tibetan traditional view, the khan and the lama established "priest-patron" relations. The Mongols granted the Sakya lama a degree political authority, but retained control over the administration and military of the region.^[29] This meant administrative management and military assistance from the khan and assistance from the lama in spiritual issues...

Efforts were made to rule both territories while preserving Mongol identity, Kublai Khan prohibited Mongols from marrying Chinese, but left both the Chinese and Tibetan legal and administrative systems intact.^[30] Though most government institutions established by Kublai Khan in his court resembled the ones in earlier Chinese dynasties,^[31] Tibet never adopted the imperial examinations or Neo-Confucian policies.

Towards the end of the Yuan Dynasty, the mid-14th century. Tibet regained its independence from the Mongols with the decline of the Yuan. This made Tibet a SEPARATE country, never a part of the Mongols China...

BTY - Using your logic, then Mongolia should be part of China or UNITED. Not divided into TWO separate regions. One a separate Country and another a part of China...

China will NEVER give up Tibet...

Tibet contains; 1/3 of China's coal reserves, deposits of 'rare earths', and the hydro power/control of the soil erosion into the Yellow River...

China's future depends on access & control of these...

Tibetans have long chafed under China's rule over the vast Tibetan plateau, saying that Beijing has curbed religious freedoms and their culture is being eroded by an influx of Han Chinese, the country's main ethnic group.

Radio Free Asia said Chinese security forces had rounded up hundreds of residents and pilgrims in the wake of the immolation's, the first significant protest in the heavily guarded city since deadly anti-government riots in 2008.

It quoted a local source as saying about 600 Tibetans had been detained and those from outside the Tibet Autonomous Region (TAR) had been expelled.

reference - http://www.bangkokpost.com/breakingnews/295911/china-detains-hundreds-in-tibet-capital-report

Had you care to actually read some history, you will find out that Tibet was NEVER a country! Get some education.

Had you care to actually read some history, you will find out that Tibet was NEVER a country! Get some education.

That all depends on whose history books you read, and which maps you looked at.

Whose version of history have you been reading. I know Tibet used to be separate from china on the globes I was looking at as a kid.

new in cyberspace from Toronto = works for China looooong time

Tibet was indeed a country back then... until Genghis Khan came along.

SPARTAN-501,

Then China, the EU, and most of the Middle East should be part of Mongolia...

In 1922, the idea of a Jewish homeland received formal, international support when the League of Nations approved the British Mandate of Palestine, entrusting Great Britain with establishing a homeland for the Jewish people in Palestine. The Balfour Declaration, it stated that a "Jewish national home" would be established. The Jewish and Arab communities were allowed to run their own internal affairs, and Jewish life flourished in Israel...

In 1947, the newly-created United Nations (the postWWII reorganization of the League of Nations) passed Resolution 181, recommending the "Partition Plan," which would divide the country into a Jewish state, an Arab state, and a UN-controlled territory around Jerusalem...

On 14 May of 1948, Great Britain announced it was ending its Mandate over Palestine, and Israel declared its independence. That day the neighboring Arab countries declared war on the new country. By the end of the 1948 War of Israeli Independence, Israel had increased its land by over fifty percent...

reference - http://www.ifcj.org/site/PageNavigator/sfi_about_war_league

Thing is, Tibet was conquered by Genghis Khan during a time when taking over other countries was a perfectly normal thing to do. By your logic, most countries should be giving up land to compensate residents for what happened around 800 years ago.

Not saying the Chinese government has been handling things very well, mind you.