Epiphany in Beijing: ‘we screwed up in Tibet’
Posted by stuart on Jan 28th, 2010
2010
Jan 28
Newsweek reports that Beijing has come to a self-evident realisation that the rest of us have been aware of for years (and Tibetans since 1949): you can’t win the hearts and minds of an entire and distinct ethnicity by bending them to your will with a ‘take our candy or get punished’ policy.
The CCP’s proposed final solution to the problem?
Send more candy. (credibility warning: that’s a Chinese government propaganda website).