Comments by "Alan Friesen" (@alanfriesen9837) on "" video.

I don't think Tom Tugendhat's version of reality matches actual reality. His description of Beijing does not match at all my experience of three years ago. I think he's projecting a dystopian fantasy that may have been correct half a century ago, but has since died at the hands of competence, hope, vision, and opportunity.
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@michaelpoplett2745 The Dalai Lama's regime in Dharamshala claims 1.2 million Tibetans dead and 6,000 monasteries destroyed. I'm having an awful time verifying those numbers. I'm not sure who all that includes. I did get a number of 87,000 casualties in the 1959 uprising but even that's a little sketchy. I don't believe the Dalai Lama's numbers. I don't believe that China has systematically liquidated Tibetans. I know there were times in the history of the PRC when political chaos cost millions of Chinese their lives and this would have, of course, included Tibetans. That Cultural Revolution also resulted in the destruction of ancient buildings across the country, including, I'm sure, Tibetan monasteries. I think China bears historical responsibility for all of that but that was half a century ago and it is not the China of today. Today, China is actively preserving Tibetan culture while integrating and improving the lives of modern-day Tibetans, much more so than the Dharamshala regime.
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China is still dealing with territorial integrity issues that the United States finished with a century ago, and they are dealing with them in a much more humane way. When these issues are resolved then China will no longer need to be "aggressive". It will be at that point that they can be equitably compared to the Western countries that stoked (and may very well continue to be stoking) those issues in the first place.
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