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China equates Tibet to US Civil War | China has equated the unrest prevailing in Tibet to the US Civil War of the 1860s. In a special message
for President Barack Obama, Beijing said he (Obama) is black, he admires Abraham
Lincoln, so he, of all people, should sympathize with Beijing's effort to prevent
Tibet from seceding and sliding back into what it was before its liberation by
Chinese troops, a feudalistic, slaveholding society headed by the Dalai Lama.
"He is a black president, and he understands the slavery abolition movement and
Lincoln's major significance for that movement," the New York Times quoted Qin
Gang, a spokesman of the Chinese Foreign Ministry, as saying at a news conference.
"Thus, on this issue we hope that President Obama, more than any other foreign
leader, can better, more deeply grasp China's stance on protecting national sovereignty
and territorial integrity," he added. Some scholars and analysts see this as an
expression of an aggressive expansionism that will only deepen as China moves
toward superpower status. Others argue that China is driven more by the need to
recover territory wrested from it during the decades it was known as the Sick
Man of Asia, when pieces of it were humiliatingly annexed by European powers and
Japan. Obama can expect to get an earful from Chinese officials not only on the
Dalai Lama, whom the president says he will meet after the China trip, but also
on Taiwan, the self-governing island that China says is a rebel province.
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