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I think this problem could be traced back Clinton pushing for WTO admittance for China without conditions, IIRC the next Dalai Lama had already been seized by t
by stevenwoo 7y ago
I think this problem could be traced back Clinton pushing for WTO admittance for China without conditions, IIRC the next Dalai Lama had already been seized by this time and the crack down/Han flood into Tibet was under way. I remember someone writing the West always falls for the promise of this huge Chinese market in exchange for normalizing trade and China changing after the people see what the world has to offer, but there's almost no evidence for this.
- thrower123 7y ago> the West always falls for the promise of this huge Chinese market Historically, the only thing that the West was ever able to successfully import into China was opium, and even that was a small window before native production became cheaper than shipping it all the way from India or Turkey. Over the long haul, China has had millenia-long trade surpluses, to the point that Roman writers were complaining about the trade through the Red Sea in spices and silks siphoning off their gold and silver, and later on so much of the silver of Mexico and Potosi ending up in China that it destabilized their bimetallic currency system.