On Mon, 12 May 2008 04:03:32 +0800, rst0wxyz wrote
(in article
<dafac4d7-3635-450e-94f6-18086f959bf3@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>):
>> Tibet was a sovereign entity - thats why China had to invade in order
>> to make Tibet part of `China.
>
> National boundaries change with the power of the gun. It has been done
for
> hundreds of years, and will continue to be done in the future.
Actually, it is more likely that boundaries will change by discussion,
debate
and elections (see East Timor, for example).
> At one time, the USSR was a huge powerful nation? Where is it now?
Where is
> Yugoslavia? National boundaries continue to change. There is no
"sovereign
> entity", but there is a "power of the gun". A very powerful "might
makes
right".
It is true that boundaries are mere artifacts of history, and will change
again and again.
--
Love, Jim
(I often delete parts of the previous post and I often remove excessive
crossposts.)
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