Should Tibet be independent from the China? Or should Tibet remain a part of China?

Just want to hear your opinions and reasoning behind Tibetan independence.

I'm not too sure on this. China will never give it up, unless they are really desperate. It holds too much of a strategic value. Also I;m not too sure Tibet can really last as it own nation.

Places like scotland and quebec also wants independance but they aint got it yet.
But i dont think tibet can survive on its own, it'll just stay as it is, no good and no bad.
with china at least they built the rail system linking it to the rest of china.

china will never let tibet go..its too much of a strategic location for them to let go of it.. who knows what defenses they have put there already..

I would have thought that any country that has been invaded by another has the right to return to independance and self detirmination. Some will say that Tibet has voted to remain part of China. You will find that China filled it with Chinese before they voted.

Anyway, Tibet managed to survive for thousands of years before China, I assume they would manage fine when they regained their independance.

the question is not whether china will let them go its if you think they should go. free tibet. rock on

I don't see how Tibet can become indepedent anymore. It has now become a state that requires resources and development supported by central China

Even the Dalai Lama himself had openly admitted that Tibet should remain to be part of China. It can be found in the following link

http://www.time.com/time/asia/magazine/article/0,13673,501041025-725176,00.html

should be...tibet can sustain itself, look at its population. but china will never let go of it, they had trouble with the indians over a small bit of land. moreover (reading from the link above =D), since the Dalai lama admitted it, china will use this as part of their argument against tibet's independance. therefore, tibet will have alot of problems reaching independance. it can, however, survive on its own through agriculture and tourism.

but its growth will be at a much slower pace if thats it main source of income, central china can pour more $$$ into developing it like it did with its eastern cities.

China is now necessary to tibet, when i was in china this man, told me that before china gained control over it the local villagers were suffering, some being used as slaves etc and as soon as china came in, tibet better than it was before, and the dalai lama admitted as mentioned before...
TIBET+CHINA=GOOD

Quote by Kay0982Places like scotland and quebec also wants independance but they aint got it yet.

Scotland does not want independence. There are a significant number of people in Scotland who do want Scottish independence, but they are a minority. The majority of the people of Scotland want to remain part of the United Kingdom, and self-determination works by the views of the majority. I don't know that much about Canada, but since it's a liberal democracy I imagine the situation with Quebec is similar.

Does that answer your question?

Over 1.2 million Tibetans have died as a direct result of the Chinese invasion and occupation of Tibet. Today, it is hard to come across a Tibetan family that has not had at least one member imprisoned or killed by the Chinese regime. According to Jigme Ngabo, "after the suppressions of 1959 and 1969, almost every family in Tibet has been affected in some way". These facts speak volumes about the "democratic reform" China claims to have brought to the "dark, feudal exploitative society" of Tibet.

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Quote by Kay0982Places like scotland and quebec also wants independance but they aint got it yet.

Scotland does not want independence. There are a significant number of people in Scotland who do want Scottish independence, but they are a minority. The majority of the people of Scotland want to remain part of the United Kingdom, and self-determination works by the views of the majority. I don't know that much about Canada, but since it's a liberal democracy I imagine the situation with Quebec is similar.

I don't know much about scotland, but Quebec's situation is not as you say. It is of course much more complicated than that but let's just say 51% want independance and every refferendum was lost because of federal fraud. But the majority of us do want independence, or at least the very half.

now about Tibet, I cannot beleive that so many people think that China should keep occupying it. How can the Chinese illegal occupation be accepted when the Tibetan people suffer, loosing their culture and numbers each year a little more. I have my FREE TIBET patch on my packsack and show it off everyday :P

As a Quebecor that do pray for independence I can say that living in a country that is not yours isn't fun.

http://www.onf.ca/trouverunfilm/fichefilm.php?lg=en&id=52142&v=h
this is a beautifful film you should see even though it is very hard to get.

http://www.tibet.com/
prooves everyone that said Dalai lama wants Tibet in China wrong. Check it out, it's full of information

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Quote by schimkeChina is now necessary to tibet, when i was in china this man, told me that before china gained control over it the local villagers were suffering, some being used as slaves etc and as soon as china came in, tibet better than it was before, and the dalai lama admitted as mentioned before...
TIBET+CHINA=GOOD

Oh but you DO know that China is not a free country right? Of course chineese people will not accept so easily they've been occupying illegally and destroying a country from the inside