Why does china occupy Tibet

There a a lot of mineral resources in Tibet and a huge land area. Strategically it is also very important. China even stole a bit of India when they invaded. 2 million Tibetans have been killed as a result of the invasion. Check out www.dalailama.com for a Tibetan account.

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Check out the reference below among others. I don't think i'm wrong on the casualties of Tibetans - but even consider what your saying that 200,000 is insignificant? This is not to mention the 'human bomb' that china flooded millions of its people into Tibet. There are more chinese in Tibet than Tibetans.
His Holiness the Dalai Lama is a Nobel Peace laureate (1989)

The same reason Israel occupies Palestine, the same reason, America occupies Iraq, the same reason Britain occupied the countries in our Empire.

Economics and power.


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Why does USA occupy Texas, California, New Mexico, Alaska, Nevada, Hawaii?


Tibet is a historical part of China, China never occupies Tibet.

Tibet is ours!

why did britain control ireland for 800 years? cause theyre BULLIES

Because they think it belongs to China.

Why do you use 'occupy'? Tibet is belong to China over many years. So Tibet is a region of China. China is no need to 'occupy' it.

If you use the term occupy, you might as well pack up and go back to Europe if you're American.

because they are more powerful and wanted it so they took it (there's no oil in Tibet so the Americans didn't try to stop them!)

historically, tibet is really owned by china. the empress dowager cixi gave out land to the invading european powers when they marched into china.tibet was already china's territory at this point of time for ages. she had no choice; china was weak and had no ability to defend herself. so, lands including hong kong, taiwan, macau, and tibet etc were given away.

however, it is stated on black-and-white that there will be a time when these places will be returned to china. tibet has since been returned. therefore, china doesn't ' occupy' tibet. they are a part of china historically. go check up on RELIABLE historical sources.

so, the hulabaloo that's currently going on now is totally unjustified. is it wrong to get back something that's really yours to begin with?

Chrysalid is right about the rich minerals such as lead and copper as well as oil.

BUT he bulls**hit rest:

1.2 million Tibetans been killed has been blown out of proportion:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/22/opinion/22french.html?_r=1&oref=slogin

Prof. Barry Sautman’s 2001 paper “Is Tibet China’s Colony?: The Claim of Demographic Catastrophe” published on Columbia Journal of Asian Law. It has an impressive long list of references (332 in total!) from all types of sources: Da-liar Lama’s, newspapers, books, academic studies, etc. And it does an in-depth analysis on these references.

From non-academic side, I’d provide you two sources I read recently below (in Chinese). Both people had experience from Tibet. Again, I do not backup their figures:

Mr. Britex Xu, a Chinese scholar, was banished by the Chinese government to Tibet during 1982 - 1986, and becomes a firm criticizer of the Chinese government. He did a study on many Tibet issues in his book “Himalaya” (http://www.tangben.com/Himalaya). In Section 2 Chapter 8 of the book, he compared the population increase between the whole China and Tibetan during 1949 - 1983 using the data published by Tibet Gov. Exile, western scholars, and western historical records. His conclusion is that the population increase of Tibetan is significantly larger than the increase of the whole China if the Chinese government had killed 1.2 million Tibetan. This is impossible given the fact of harsh conditions in Tibet. He suggested that the actual number of Tibetan being killed should be less than 200,000.

In the same chapter of the book, he referred to an estimation by Ngapoi Jigme, an advocate of Tibet independence and the Director of Tibet Division in Radio Free Asia (rfa.org) since 1996. Mr. Jigme admitted that the number of 1.2 million is largely exaggerated. The actual number he thought is about 300,000 - 400,000.

Tibet WAS a PART OF CHINA since UK/US/India never open the door for Tibet into the UN. Tibet was suzerainty to China.

[[Chrysalid ]]

Are you questioning the like of a London based Tibetan activist and Ngapoi Jigme? Wow!

Because, prior to WW2, Tibet was considered a part of China... and it want's it back.

They are an Empire and want to control everyone around them and the world in general.

Because they can.