SCMP gives Alex Lo free rein yet again to bless us with his ignorant views.
“American hypocrisy over Tibet and Gaza boggles the mind”
My comment:
If in 2005, Beijing had removed all the 540,000 Han Chinese living in Tibet, by force if necessary, and handed over control to the Tibetans, who immediately voted into power a Hamas equivalent, let’s call it the Tibet Buddhist Liberation Party (TBLP), which, let’s say, is a radical terrorist outfit founded and funded by a radical, theocratic India (the Iran equivalent in this counter-factual).
- and if the world had pumped in billions in aid,
- and if, instead of helping ordinary Tibetans, the TBLP had used the aid to build tunnels to hide rockets and to hide their own terrorists, and had spirited away big chunks of the aid to their personal accounts,
- and if they had since 2005 carried out continuous rocket and missile attacks on neighbouring Chinese civilians,
- and if on October 7th, 2023 the TBLP had carried out a coordinated attack, funded by radical India on the Chinese city of Kunming, killing 190,000 civilians (equivalent per capita to the 10/7 killings), had raped women, and burnt babies alive,
- and if the TBLP had taken 29,000 Chinese hostages which they then hid under Tibetan Temples, in hospitals and in tunnels.
And if the Chinese army had eventually retaliated, while trying to keep civilian Tibetan deaths to a minimum … but had nonetheless been excoriated by the Left, like Lo.
If all that, THEN the comparison with Gaza might be relevant.
In the meantime, talk about U.S. "hypocrisy" is baseless Whataboutism.
True that we can do without Blinken wittering on about Tibet.
