Dear Representative Barbara Lee: May 05, 2008
Before responding to your article in SF Chronicle on April 08, 2008, would you mind to take some time to familiarize with some Chinese history?
Tibet has been part of China for more than 364 years since Manchurian controlled China (not include another 89 years of Mongolian regime, more than 100 years longer than American history.)There are about 56 different races in China and Tibetan is one of them.
For two thousand years history has disclosed and proved that Han Chinese, mold by Confucius philosophy__"Don't apply anything to other people if you don't want other people do it to you.” had good credits for peace. They did not invade other countries even they invented gun powder and canon during Song Dynasty. They did not conquer other countries during Ming Dynasty even they were able to sail to Africa with a fleet of more than 250 ships; the size of each was eight times bigger than that one of Columbus and eighty years earlier than his journey.
During this two thousand years the Han Chinese, with farming, weaving technique developed, had better and more stable life than their neighbors like Mongolian , Manchurian, Tibetan etc who had tribal life styles. It should be all right and co-exist peacefully with different life styles. Unfortunately those neighbors never gave Han Chinese a break and kept robbing, raping, burning along the borders, even the Great Wall could not stop their horses .They forced the emperors of Centro China to let their daughters marry their Masters. During Tang Dynasty, the marriage of Princess WenCheng and SongZhanGanBu (Tibetan controller) was one of the samples.
Mongolian first and Manchurian later succeeded to conquer Centro China and forced Han Chinese to join the big family. The controllers classified the people with several levels and put Han Chinese at the bottom. All the minorities including Tibetan felt happy because of riding on the Han Chinese. Now the time has changed, Han Chinese has become the head of household. However those big family supporters were not willing to accept the fact and claimed to separate from China.
Rep Lee, do you think it is fare for the Han Chinese? If you were the government, do you let Tibet independent? The western countries have tried every effort with so called human right to help some Tibetan to screw up the harmony of China. Recent killing, burning in Tibet are not peaceful protests, but are severe crimes, which no any government in the world can tolerate. Tibetan rioters stabbed and burned 13 civilians to death (more than sixty injured) in Lhasa. But the western media like BBC, CNN twisted, distorted the scenes and turned things upside down to criticize Chinese government and people. Unfortunately some senators in congress reacted to media’s wrong information just like a flock of sheep. They did not get further information about the truth before they granted an interview with Dalai Lama and suggested to boycott Olympic game. Riot or turmoil in the country with 1.3 billion people will not only hurt the stability of China, but the peace of the whole world also. For years the Chinese government has been busy with the preparation to be the host of the international party ___Olympic Game. You believe the Chinese government would like to screw itself up in Tibet? The politicians should listen to both sides and make a deep thinking with wisdom before they talk or decide.
During three decades of economical reform, there have been a lot of improvements with human right in China. People there feel free to criticize their government and free to do a lot of things like we do in America. Of course, the dictatorship of one party is still not compatible to our standard. Well, Rome was not built up within a few years .China needs time to change. We should influence them in friendly ways like dialogue, trading and culture exchange, not by twisting the fact and insulting remarks.
Do you know what kind of human right Dalai Lama used to represent for? A slave system! He represented the super power of his religion to exploit those Tibetan slaves. The super power had the right to take slaves’ eye balls out of their eye sockets, peel off slaves’ skin to make drums and make religious equipments with their skulls. I don’t like the dictatorship of Chinese Communist Party and more I don’t like Dalai Lama’s slave system. Now in China, at least Tibetan have better benefit than average Han Chinese under the minority protection policy and “One baby only” has never been applied to them.
The game of Big Family should be continued. Tibet is part of China and Tibetan people are part of Chinese. No body can change the fact just like no body can change the history of America to let California be independent or returned to Mexico. If somebody says “Yes”, then, the Great America should be returned to the hands of American Indians. Reading human history, we found most civilized societies had started with uncivilized means. Learn a lesson from the history to avoid making the same mistake in the future and move forward, not backward.
Representative Lee, please read the following texts and you will understand more with your second issue about the “genocide” which has not been determined by UN yet .Some American companies did not follow their own government’s order to sanction Sudan. How can we criticize Russia, China and other countries who opposed American suggestion at the beginning?
With Regards
Sincerely yours
Mo Ma
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Is there genocide happening in Darfur?
by Julia Layton
October 26, 2006
AP Photo/ALFRED DE MONTESQUIOU
A young girl washes plates in the North Darfur refugee camp of El Sallam on Oct. 4, 2006.
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The Darfur region of Sudan has been in a state of crisis since 2003. Whether what's going on in the African province qualifies as genocide is a point of international debate. The U.S. government and many humanitarian groups say genocide is in progress. The United Nations says that people are committing war crimes in Darfur, but it doesn't rise to the level of genocide. It's difficult to know exactly what's happening in the region because the Sudanese government won't let the United Nations fully investigate; in fact, about a dozen aid workers trying to help the millions of Darfur refugees have been murdered doing their job, and Sudan refuses to allow U.N. peacekeepers to enter the country.
Los Angeles Times
Sudan just shrugs off sanctions
Amid a growing international divestment campaign, some European firms, including Siemens, Rolls-Royce and Land Rover, recently announced they were pulling out of Sudan. But no other countries have yet joined the U.S. boycott.
Sanctions also have been partly undermined by numerous loopholes and exemptions that permit some U.S. companies to continue working with Sudanese partners.
Coca-Cola Co. and PepsiCo Inc. have licenses to sell their syrup to Sudanese factories. Gum Arabic, a gooey tree sap used in scores of consumer products as an emulsifier, was left out of sanctions by Congress because Sudan controls most of the worldwide market. Some oil firms and financial institutions are able to operate here by funneling business through foreign-based subsidiaries of U.S. companies.
At least 16 Americans have invested in small to mid-sized business ventures in Khartoum during the last four years, according to the Investment Ministry. Asked how the Americans avoided U.S. sanctions, a Sudanese official said, "We don't ask. That's not our headache."
A rush to fill the gap
For the most part, large U.S. firms have steered clear of Sudan, including Chevron Corp., which helped discover Sudan's oil but left the country before being able to profit from it.
Investors from China, Malaysia and India have rushed to fill the gap, offering financing, technology and construction services.
Sudan's rising oil production lured public and private investors from China, but now the Asian nation is finding Sudan to be a thriving outlet for Chinese goods, from soccer shirts to coffee tables. Economists estimate that for every dollar China pays for Sudanese oil, it earns back 50 cents through sales of products and services.
