Free Tibet

Hey, all:

I am in! This is a group that needed to be born. I felt really dumb for not knowing Tibet had been invaded by the Chinese in 1950, and had been occupied since then. Of all people, I would have expected Chairman Mao to support individual self-determination. Guess I have things to learn about the history and politics of China.

What I have seen regarding China is the back-door manner by which the Chinese Communist Party became a part of the global Corporate Oligarchy. Some of the newest rich in the world are in China, and all are connected to the Chinese Communists.

I saw a set of curves (in The Economist) that plotted wealth and population, and the Chinese have a more pronounced curve (lower wealth among more people on the low end of the curve, fewer middle class, and a very few million/billionaires on the high end that kicked the upper end of the curve way up) of wealth and population. The curve for the USA is not nearly as pronounced. i.e., much flatter, meaning more evenly distributed income across the entire population. Who would know that the USA would be a model example?--well, it really isn't, but it is better than China.

So the China 'of the people' is the China of the few. The Corporate Oligarchy has long metastasizing tendrils. And the Chinese Communists, led by Mao, started out by invading a sovereign country.

David
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