ZT: Issue of Tibet, from the perspective of an Indian

Just came back from lunch where our cafeteria has two projectors showing CNN news that French police was trying to stop the protesters\' interference against the Olympic torch relay. Therefore, the Tibet discussion naturally started. I am sure it is not shocking any one of you of the perception from Americans and British.

What\'s shocking me is that a view from an Indian coworker. He thinks that it is a grand scheme of the divide and conquer strategy of the west. From his own experience, the British controlled current day India, Pakistan, Myanmar (or Burma), Bangladesh (or eastern Pakistan before official independence) , etc. altogether as one piece and the British didn\'t want the independence at that time. Of course, right at the time when the British was ready to leave, they fell in love with the independence movement.

Divide and conquer.

Now watching the China threat and Indian threat could be possibily combined together as 2.3 billion people of the whole Asia continent, we probably shouldn\'t be surprised that the British and American fall in love with the independence movement again.

As a Chinese American, I have to admire my Indian coworker\'s understanding of the English speaking European American\'s mentality. No wonder some of them claim that they are Caucasians, not Asians.

Then along this line of thinking, I couldn\'t help thinking why the Americans are not too excited about this Tibet issue as the Europeans do this time. It is probably (just a guess) that the US sees EU is getting so big and the currency exchange rate went from $1 to 1.3 euro before to now $1.5 to 1 euro which is a serious economic threat. So having a strong Asia against EU is not a bad idea. As far as EU is concern, it doesn\'t want Asia to replace EU\'s dominating role in its rising economic power.