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Pommezani · Joined: 01 Sep 2006 Posts: 231 Location: France

hi! i'm french, and I just saw fruits with lichi on google... hehehehe

RedRose · Joined: 21 May 2004 Posts: 2735 Location: GuangZhou, China

welkins2139 · Joined: 29 Mar 2006 Posts: 252

RedRose · Joined: 21 May 2004 Posts: 2735 Location: GuangZhou, China

ltp-008 · Joined: 09 Apr 2006 Posts: 258

To Redrose:

I think that we should respect personal privacy,ieltsinsider doesn't want to expose his or her nationality ,it is his or her right,would you agree with that?

I heard that there are a few softwares created by sofeware specialists which they can break the blockage being imposed by Chinese government,hundreds of thousand of people in China use them everyday,so Chinese government censorship doesn't work very well,many Chinese can get infromation through this way.

I think that in terms of economy China is no longer pure communist country any more,its economy has being gradually transformed from command economy in which every goods are distributed by government into free-market economy ,due to this reforms Chinese economy has been improved a lot,many ordinary Chinese people's lives have been enriched .But in terms of politics China is still a dictatorship country -a communist country in which their people lack of a lot of rights such as freedom of press,election and religion and so on.

So I think that following the success of economic reforms in China,most Chinese people would like to have more rights,they would like that the Chinese communist regime reforms its political system which makes China a democratic and free country,if doing so not only does China become economic power in the world but also become political power in the international affairs which rest of countries in the world would respect China even more.would you agree with that?

beancurdturtle · Posted: Fri Sep 08, 2006 9:37 pm Post subject:

I think it's better to live in a country where you know and understand the limits to your freedoms, than to live in a country where your freedoms are constantly limited and threatened but everyone denies the truth.

Better to live knowing the truth, than to deny the truth and live a fantasy.
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RedRose · Joined: 21 May 2004 Posts: 2735 Location: GuangZhou, China

ad-miral · Joined: 01 Sep 2006 Posts: 1488

Pommezani · Joined: 01 Sep 2006 Posts: 231 Location: France

oh? then what did you see? A pen-is too? Laughing

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No, i just saw the fruit... should I be worried about this? Laughing

KHF · Joined: 15 Dec 2005 Posts: 100 Location: ON, Canada

ad-miral · Joined: 01 Sep 2006 Posts: 1488

Tibet is a poor country. http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tibet

1. They had had a good time in the 7th and the 50th century, then in the 13th century the Mongolians took over Tibet and attacked them repeatedly. The last surviving religious party (Dalai Lama) became the official government.

2. In the 18th century China came and established their "government". The Tibetans rebelled and killed the "governor", then China came, marched troops in and set a new "governor", the Tibetans didn't reoppose.

3. So the Dalai Lamas governed with big influence of India, Turkistan and China.

4. During a conflict between Great Britain and Russia the British feared of an Russian occupation of Tibet, so 1904 the British invaded Tibet with military. They forbid the Tibetans to make economical exchanges with other countries than Britain, and that Tibet shouldn't have any contact to other countries without the British permission.

5. In 1907 England, China and Russia decided that China should protect Tibet as a half-sovereignty country.

6. 1950 the Communist Party, one of the two big parties in China (the recent government) took over Tibet without being really defensed by the Tibetan Army. Afterwards in 1959 the Tibetans revolted the occupation. On 21th march the Chinese invaded Tibet with military.

all wars are horrible, nearly all countries made war, and China is one of the big countries which made the least wars in comparison to Europe and America. However our task now is to try to stop the following wars. I bet that America could get it, with his war against muslim religion.
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KHF · Joined: 15 Dec 2005 Posts: 100 Location: ON, Canada

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tibet#Evaluation_of_PRC_rule

Tibet was "poor" in what aspect? Financially or spiritually? Say if it was indeed poor, what did that have anything to do with an invasion?

You mentioned the British "expedition" that's really a colonial expansion. Don't you find the PROC actions reminiscent of that?

BTW, you ignored the other examples I gave.