China vows to silence Dalai Lama in Tibet

[Zonesylvania]

Can somebody say that the crapsack world (country?) trope has never been better exemplified than with something as intolerant as this?

Now they're making themselves look so intolerant, nobody's going to feel like letting this slide by.

[viperfan7]

[QUOTE=Jamsponge;42738325]Did they have to use the word 'silence'? Like, maybe it's a lost-in-translation thing, or maybe it's sensationalism, but normally that word is a euphemism for 'quietly murder'.[/QUOTE]

I'm quite sure they know exactly what they said

[Mbbird]

[QUOTE=Medevila;42739190]Or China overtaking the west

it's a 50-50[/QUOTE]

No.

[laserguided]

Yeah Chinese bullshit in Tibet is well known, they're trying to assimilate Tibetans, they wouldn't even let a Chinese friend of mine go into Tibet because he had been to Canada.

[Daniel Smith]

[QUOTE=ZakkShock;42738323]"Hostile Voices."

Are you fucking with me?
Jesus Christ, how are you a world super power[/QUOTE]

China is not a superpower, it's a great power. The United States is the only superpower in the world.

[Thelurker1234]

[QUOTE=ironman17;42738669]And pray to whatever nightmares dance in the void they don't acquire any. Though Imperial China was once a thing in days gone by, maybe you're right; hopefully the days of empires have long faded into the realms of fantasy and historical fiction.[/QUOTE]

Empires are still around btw, a lot of european countries still have imperial holdings
like this one
[IMG]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/18/French_Guinea.gif[/IMG]

And I'd call china an empire with it and tibet

[Killuah]

I'm not a fan of the Dalai Lama and his feudal system and I think China stopping him gaining power is a good thing but censorship never is the right way.

[lapsus_]

Leave him alone already :(

[Helix Snake]

[QUOTE=Killuah;42743885]I'm not a fan of the Dalai Lama and his feudal system and I think China stopping him gaining power is a good thing but censorship never is the right way.[/QUOTE]

Didn't the Dalai Lama say at some point recently that his theocracy was a complete failure and that they should have had a democracy from the beginning?