Individual travel in Tibet



>Just the killing, raping and torturing stuff is bad, I suppose.

Of course that's bad, absolutely no question about it. The Chinese have done/are doing some horribel
things in Tibet to the Tibetan people, but do you think life in medieval Tibet was any better? To
the contrary.

>
>Here's a clue for you: it's admirable to sacrifice personal pleasure for a noble principle.

Fair enough, that's admirable, but where does it end? Soon we'll need a manual for life to determine
what we can do/eat/drink and where we can go. There will always be someone who tells us no to go
there/eat/drink/do/... this because there always always always is something/somebody/... involved
someone does not like.

Kris
 
Markku Grönroos <[email protected]> wrote:
> It IS the Chinese who control visits to Tibet. Nobody cares about such claims of powerless
> Swedes. Actually my suggestion is to contact a Chinese agency to find out these technicalities.
> It might be far more laborous then than to get similar piece of information concerning most
> other countries. Somebody suggested a Lonely Planet database, which may turn to be a fertile
> piece of advive.

They suggested an online forum just like this one, except web-based.

miguel
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"Per Löwdin" <[email protected]> schreef in bericht
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> > Who is more reliable on a decision to be made by Chinese?
>
> Markku: are you at all aware of Sino-Tibetan relations? The Chinese have no more right to be there
> than Russia or Sweden has had in their claims to Finland. Tibet is occupied.
>
> In fact the case of Finland offers some hope. The Finns survived hundreds of years of Swedish and
> Russian occupation.

Same for the Flemings: Hundreds of years of french occupation or repression made them strong. Also
economically and financially but most of all morally These days, the Flemings even are helping their
former occupants Every year, every Flemish family is transferring the value of 25% of an average
family car to every frenchspeaking family

> Hopefully, the Tibetans may do the same and emerge as an independent nation one day.

There will be a day that Tibetans will be economically stronger than China (GDP per headcount) The
reasons are obvious: their moral strength is growing faster than in China
 
"Dieter Aaa" <Dieter [email protected]> wrote in message
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>

> There will be a day that Tibetans will be economically stronger than China (GDP per headcount) The
> reasons are obvious: their moral strength is growing faster than in

I wouldn't put my money on this horse.
 
> The Chinese have done/are doing some horribel things in Tibet to the Tibetan people, but do you
> think life in medieval Tibet was any better?

What do you mean with medieval Tibet? Are you referring to the time of the 2d Dalai Lama? Or the
last days before the Chinese took over in 1959? In any case they have not accomplished anything that
would justify genocide. The Han Chinese have in fact turned Tibet into a colony.

Per http://lowdin.nu
 
On Tue, 23 Dec 2003 17:05:09 GMT, the renowned "Per Löwdin"
<[email protected]> wrote:

>> The Chinese have done/are doing some horribel things in Tibet to the Tibetan people, but do you
>> think life in medieval Tibet was any better?
>
>What do you mean with medieval Tibet? Are you referring to the time of the 2d Dalai Lama? Or the
>last days before the Chinese took over in 1959? In any case they have not accomplished anything
>that would justify genocide. The Han Chinese have in fact turned Tibet into a colony.

As well, the ethnic Tibetans are close (perhaps past) being outnumbered in Tibet by transplanted Han
Chinese- and more are pouring in every day. The Dalai Lama appears to have abandoned any hope of an
independent Tibet and to be working towards a deal for some kind of limited Tibetan autonomy with
the Chinese government.

Best regards, Spehro Pefhany
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> It IS the Chinese who control visits to Tibet.

Right, and the last time we were travelling there it felt pretty much as it might have felt to go
touristing in France or Holland 1942. Per http://lowdin.nu
 
> the ethnic Tibetans are close (perhaps past) being outnumbered in Tibet

Depends on area. The Han Chinese generally hate to be there. Some go because the one-child-per-family-
policy is not implemented in Tibet. In fact Han Chines who go there can have as many as they like,
unlike in China, a telling fact. Think in Lhasa Tibetans are a minority, and in some eastern areas:
e.g., Amdo.

Per http://lowdin.nu
 
Wow! If you actually do this, the account of your trip should be published..

Harlan
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"Per Löwdin" <[email protected]> wrote in message news:[email protected]...
| Rumour has it that individual travel is permitted in Tibet again. Can
anyone
| confirm or refute this? We are thinking of cycling from Yunnan to Lhasa
and
| wind up in Kathmandu if it is possible without hassles from the
authorities.
|
| Would be utterly grateful for any updates on the situation in Tibet.
|
| Per http://www.lowdin.nu/MTB/MTB.html
|
|
|
 
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