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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LOL. NED. Literally the organization responsible for color revolutions around the world
Found Vladimir Putin
Drat! You found me out! Yes, it is I, Vladimir Putin, here posting on Lemmy to spread well documented historical facts!
https://www.propublica.org/article/the-national-endowment-for-democracy-responds-to-our-burma-nuclear-story
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)
https://youtu.be/7OFyn_KSy80?t=823
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.
You really, really should watch the video (series) I linked. It’s long, but it says everything I’m about to say. It’s really important to watch it if you genuinely believe that George Soros and the NED caused the Euromaidan.
Second, it is not russophobic to criticize Vladimir Putin. He is a murderer who has killed hundreds of thousands of Russians with his failed color revolution attempt in the Donbas.
Now let me point out the historical facts that your comment missed.
The US had no part in “dismantling” the Soviet Union. It was the communist coup attempt, the Afghanistan War, and an overdependance on oil exports that ended the Soviet Union.
The CIA did overthrow governments during the First Cold War (as did the tankies).
However, after the collapse of the Soviet Union, there was a complete shift in the US’s foreign policy under the Bushes, Clinton, and Obama, which lasted up until the new Cold War we find ourselves in. The US did not overthrow any South American governments during the 90’s-2010’s. The two American attempts at regime change in the 2000’s, Iraq and Afghanistan, were much more heavy-handed than the Cold War era coups, and were explicitly pro-democracy, albeit imperialistic. The failures of Iraq and Afghanistan led to extreme apathy for international conflict in the US, there was zero will from Americans to interfere in Ukraine, even if the US had the resources to do it (they don’t). The US has had universal hegemony, there was no point for them to spend money invading countries.
The National Endowment for Democracy, founded in the 1980’s, has not had any part in any “Color Revolutions”, all it does is give grants to pro-democracy politicians and groups.
The fact of the matter is that “color revolution theory” is a conspiracy theory (aside from some overzealous political science authors during the Iraq war). This conspiracy theory is 99% promoted by the Russian ruling class to justify their bootlicking for Vladimir Putin.
Russians could have had democracy, but they threw it away, and now all the Russian Tsarists have left are stupid conspiracy theories saying that democracy is a Jewish hoax.