On Tibet-Xinjiang Problem

Someone asked my stand on Tibet/Xinjiang issues. As far as I think, the suppression, the bloodshed and all the lurid grievous news are neither a religious issue nor ethical. Just as most other nasty things going on in China, the minority problem is fundamentally political.

I think a quotation from Marx fits precisely well in to the situation:

The German Jews desire emancipation. What kind of emancipation do they desire? Civic, political emancipation.

Bruno Bauer replies to them: No one in Germany is politically emancipated. We ourselves are not free. How are we to free you? You Jews are egoists if you demand a special emancipation for yourselves as Jews. As Germans, you ought to work for the political emancipation of Germany, and as human beings, for the emancipation of mankind, and you should feel the particular kind of your oppression and your shame not as an exception to the rule, but on the contrary as a confirmation of the rule.

                           --Karl Marx, On the Jewish Question (1843)

Let me explain this a bit more. If you read enough Chinese news (not from People's Daily of course) you should be well-informed about the tension between the government and the people.

Yes, there are Tibetans who are suppressed due to their belief. There are Uigurs who are stifled because of their ethical identity. However, I'm sure there are more Hans who are exploited in the countryside and city sweatshops.

Yes, the People, no matter they are Tibetan or Uigur or the Han, Buddhists or Muslims or atheists, are suffering from the biggest post-totalitarian bureaucracy on the earth. If the political reform cannot be pushed to resume, they will continue be suffered under "Socialism with Chinese Characteristics", a good name for the joint-oligarchy ran by corrupted Communists and demoralized capitalists.

In current situation, advocating for a "free" Tibet or an independent East Turkestan are doomed to be barren. Quite contrary to those "freedom fighters"' original idea, the regime will only use international condemnation as a proof to justify its conspiracy theory that China's problems are all because of some evil anti-China powers. With its total control on media, the regime can easily agitate more hatred among Chinese people and between Chinese and the West.

Therefore, a much better way to help Tibetans or Uigurs or Muslims or Christians in China is to sponsor and support the growing civil society in China. None of the communist regimes collapsed simply because of wars or military intervention. They collapsed thanks to the internal resistance from their own people.