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"China is a "repressive nation"? Says who? Britain, the leader in colonialist aggressions, mass slavery and blatant interventions to third nations?"

Yes, all true, in the past.

Decolonialisation, itself a problematic process, has occurred, and self-determination achieved to some extent for many groups.

When will the Peoples Republic grant self-determination to Tibet? That would be the action of a self-assured and mature state.



> When will the Peoples Republic grant self-determination to Tibet? That would be the action of a self-assured and mature state.

Probably around the same time a certain self-assured and mature state grants self-determination to the indigenous people of Alaska, Hawaii, and large parts of the Southwest. The rest of the country is a lost cause; ethnic cleansing and violent displacement has assured that going back is impossible.




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