cross-posted from: https://lemmy.sdf.org/post/50538886
On January 29, 2026, the International Campaign for Tibet (ICT) participated in an event at the National Endowment for Democracy which launched former City University of Hong Kong Professor Hon-Shiang Lau’s book “Tibet Was Never Part of China Since Antiquity.” The book launch included a panel of Tibetan leaders and experts who discussed Tibet’s historical sovereignty and refuted the People’s Republic of China (PRC) narrative that Tibet has always been a part of China. Professor Lau’s groundbreaking scholarship clearly dispels PRC propaganda that Tibet has been a part of China by analyzing official Chinese documents and definitively establishing the historical fact that Tibet had for centuries until 1950 been independent and sovereign.
Former Ambassador-at-Large for International Religious Freedom (and United States Senator and Governor of Kansas) Sam Brownback delivered keynote remarks highlighting Tibet’s long history as a free and sovereign nation and warning about the growing cultural genocide the PRC is committing against the Tibetan people. On a panel moderated by the Washington Post’s Josh Rogin that included Lau, Sikyong Penpa Tsering of the Central Tibetan Administration (CTA), and ICT Research and Monitoring Head Bhuchung K. Tsering, Brownback contextualized the importance of Lau’s scholarship within the larger Tibetan movement. The PRC’s forcible assimilation of historically independent Tibet lays bare the hypocrisy of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP)’s anti-colonial rhetoric. The CCP fears religious freedom more than any weapon, Brownback observed, because it undermines the weak foundation of the state.
Lau noted his purposeful choice of publicly available, Chinese-sourced official documents created before the 1950 occupation in hopes of credibly refuting the CCP’s false narrative around Tibet’s historical sovereignty. For example, China has not historically played, or sought to play, any role in the selection process of the Dalai Lama.
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Edit: here they are right on queue. 🖕
Cowbee’s gonna have big feelings about this
How to get arrested by the Chinese government 101
LOL. NED. Literally the organization responsible for color revolutions around the world
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Drat! You found me out! Yes, it is I, Vladimir Putin, here posting on Lemmy to spread well documented historical facts!
Was there a “color revolution” in Burma? I thought the color revolution conspiracy theory only applied to post-Soviet countries.
Anyways, the term “color revolution” is part of an anti-democratic conspiracy theory promoted by various dictatorships, most notably the Russian Federation, which has used it to falsely claim that the Euromaidan Revolution was orchestrated by the US.
(go ahead, post the Nyland phone call)
Here’s a video essay by Sarcasmitron that goes into the origins of the Color revolution conspiracy theory. (Starting from the second chapter, as the first chapter was mostly about US imperialism in the Iraq War)
Anyways, the term “color revolution” is part of an anti-democratic conspiracy theory promoted by various dictatorships, most notably the Russian Federation, which has used it to falsely claim that the Euromaidan Revolution was orchestrated by the US.
A historic. The term color revolution emerged a decade before Euromaidan. The fact that NED orchestrated revolutions in former Soviet republics in the years following the dismantling of the Soviet Union is incidental. The CIA had been conducting regime change operations covertly long before NED came into existence. NED came into existence after the CIA’s covert ops were publicly exposed and they promised to change. The change was to create NED, have the USG openly fund it, and continue doing the same things in NED that they were previously doing in the CIA.
Again. This is all a matter of public record and the sources are all US sources and all of them are from before Euromaidan. There’s no need to invoke Russophobic notions of evil nor engage in “conspiracy theory” to support this position.
There are some people that want to bring back the confederacy in the United States… so what?
That is not at all related…?
How is “China is lying in order to justify its invasion, ongoing occupation, and cultural erasure of our nation” at all related to “Some people in the south romanticize the idea of slavery”?
Gonna give you a hint about what was going on in Tibet before reunification with China…
It was slavery. 95% of the population was a peasant class.
First off, again, the source isn’t glorifying slavery or pre-invasion Tibet only that Tibet was independent from China and would like to not be occupied.
Thirdly, “freeing” slaves and then preventing them from governing themselves, shelling peaceful protestors, and bombing cultural heritage sites doesn’t really make you seem like the good guy. Oh and you know, kidnapping an innocent child to control/destroy a religion is kinda not good either.
The confederacy also didn’t want to be occupied and some people would like to go back to pre-invasion confederacy.
Tibet as localized governance and a federal government. They have some control, similar to how the US has a federal government. Obviously the government structure is different and China has more control at the federal level. I don’t care.
The US killed far far more people during the Civil War. Still justified.