tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29099853.post5082512928429874233..comments2023-10-26T22:53:59.503+08:00Comments on The Far-Eastern Sweet Potato: Tung, Ma, Article 23 and an ECFAJ. Michael Cole 寇謐將http://www.blogger.com/profile/12125612369359079447noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29099853.post-70296369254984158612010-04-21T16:23:26.423+08:002010-04-21T16:23:26.423+08:00Hi Thomas,
You're absolutely right; there are...Hi Thomas,<br /><br />You're absolutely right; there are many parallels with what happened in Tibet, before and after it became TAR. We see this happening again after Hu Yaobang and Zhao Ziyang, where the elite was again co-opted by Beijing after experiments with more localized - i.e., Tibetan - administration.<br /><br />My review of Mrs Loh's will appear in the Taipei Times on Sunday, April 25. I highly recommend it.J. Michael Colehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04793745420777048984noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29099853.post-192150783276320192010-04-21T13:24:15.735+08:002010-04-21T13:24:15.735+08:00I would be interested in knowing your opinion of C...I would be interested in knowing your opinion of Christine Loh's book. I was thinking of buying it.<br /><br />Here's another parallel: The CCP's courting of sympathetic Tibetan officials in the 1949-51 period (Of course you can preserve your religious system and government structure, we just want you to affirm you are Chinese and that we can control your foriegn policy). <br /><br />The Seventeen Point Agreement was supposed to leave Tibet's institutions intact and keep PLA activity in Tibet to a minimum. We all know where that went.Tommyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13552370490869601403noreply@blogger.com