Re: Boycott of Olympics
"1. Transformation of the whole of Tibet into a zone of peace;
2. Abandonment of China's population transfer policy which threatens the very existence of the Tibetan's as a people;
3. Respect for the Tibetan people's fundamental human rights and democratic freedoms...
Re: Boycott of Olympics
1) This statement sounds as fair as any political propaganda.
2) http://www.tibet.com/proposal/5point.html
This is Dalai Lama's "Five Point Peace Plan for Tibet". (not a Chinese source in case you say it is state-controled or edited)
Don't be distracted with the...
Re: Boycott of Olympics
It's not all about the size of the land, it also involves military considerations. Puting armies here can have a real deterrence to the Indian subcontinent.
Re: Boycott of Olympics
I felt people think in very different logic, but just as Dongle points out, the tibet is China's CORE INTEREST.
Do you know what Dalai Lama is asking for? He is asking for 2/5 of China's land (which is much larger than Tibet itself), all non-Tibetan people out of...
Actually, I have installed Fallout 2, Planescape and Baldur's Gate I and played them for a while.
For Fallout 2 and Planescape, the old-fashioned graphics and the gameplay experiences stop me from continuing.
For Baldur's Gate I, I think it is confined to some relatively "minor" creatures...
Maybe God does exist, so do other deities.
The amount and purity of people's faith is the source of deities' power and holiness?
Got the idea from Drangon & Dungeons.
I think monotheism is good for building up "absolute" values, it has positive as well as negative aspects.
Re: Boycott of Olympics
I think you don't need to worry about that. At least Chinese government will try its best to ensure the security of foreign athletes. It's something about Chinese people's "face".
A point is simplified chinese speakers could read and understand traditional characters without any problem whereas traditional chinese speakers can hardly understand simplified letters.