China's rhetorical cowardliness on display again:
https://www.yahoo.com/news/china-pushes-adoption-language-cultural-070855581.htmlChina's ruling Communist Party says it “peacefully liberated" Tibetan peasants from an oppressive theocracy and restored Chinese rule over a region under threat from outside powers.
Firstly, it doesn't matter whether or not the liberation was peaceful. Either it is justified or it is not. If it is justified, it remains justified no matter how much bloodshed it required. If it is unjustified, it remains unjustified even if it was peaceful. That China feels a need to emphasize the "peaceful" attribute actually reveals its lack of confidence in the justification of the liberation, when it should have no reason to lack such confidence.
Wang, who is a member of the Politburo Standing Committee — the apex of party power — and who oversees policy toward ethnic minorities, said “separatist and sabotage activities committed by the Dalai (Lama) group and hostile external forces have been crushed.”
This part is OK. But here is where the screwup happens:
Since 1951, Tibet has “embarked on a path from darkness to brightness, from backwardness to progress, from poverty to prosperity, from autocracy to democracy, and from closeness to openness,” Wang said.
Everyone knows China itself is an autocracy, not a democracy. So why claim the opposite? Why use rhetoric that no one will believe, yet which explicitly validates the notion that democracy is superior? Does Wang not understand how bad this makes China look? Does Wang not understand that each time he praises democracy, he is in debasing all the historical ruling dynasties of China while pedestalizing Western civilization? So why do it?!
Contrast with the Taliban, who at least have the courage to simply admit Afghanistan is not democratic:
https://trueleft.createaforum.com/issues/legal-decolonization/msg8147/#msg8147Who is more impressive? (And yes, we could have guessed the answer just from the clothes.....)
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