Beijing sees the Tibet issue as a challenge to its mission to unify the homeland
Chinese repression at the time of the Cultural Revolution was brutal
The law of retaliation, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, It is written in the DNA of the Hanes, the majority ethnic group in China and whom in the West we call Chinese because they make up the 91% of the 1.350 million of the country's inhabitants. Hence, its leaders do not tremble when it comes to punishing anyone who attacks the highest mission that the Chinese Communist Party granted itself. (CCP) in 1949, after his victory in the civil war: the reunification of the homeland. That is to say, The restoration of existing borders before the decay of the Qing dynasty (1664-1911) and the occupation by the foreign powers of large areas of China.
It would not be surprising, therefore, that now he retaliates against Spain —as he did against Norway for the concession of the Nobel Peace to the dissident Li Xiaobo— for the arrest warrant issued by the National Court against several former leaders, including former president Jiang Zemin (1993-2003), as alleged responsible for a crime of genocide against the Tibetan people. Beijing, that does not admit that no one questions their borders, considers it an interference in its internal affairs.
If there has been no full -fledged folly., Despite the totalitarian excesses of Mao Zedong, It is because the great helmsman is seen as the strategist that was able to reunify the country and expel foreigners from China. Mao's path is drawn to blood and fire between those who released the country and the torch have been collected by its successors. "We must continue fighting to achieve Chinese dream and the great rebirth of the nation", Xi Jinping said in his first speech as head of state, Last March.
Chinese dream has multiple interpretations, such as re -quadruply the per capita income of the population from here to 2049, When the Centenary of the Popular Republic is fulfilled. But in the high spheres of power, The dream is linked to the territorial unity, Included Taiwan. Successfully achieved the integration of the old colonies of Hong Kong and Macao, on which China recovered sovereignty in 1997 and in 1999, respectively, Beijing is confident that the so -called Rebel Island —whose economy is today closely linked to the continent— End to accept the Chinese hug.
The PCCH was returning one after the other to the state's fold —With the exception of Taiwan, where the nationalist government took refuge— The most Díscolas provinces, that with the support of different powers they tried to become independent. "Tibet and Mongolia gravitated in a state of quasiautonomy under the influence of the respective orbits of the British Empire and the Soviet Union", recalls former US National Security Advisor Henry Kissinger, in his book China. Xinjiang was in the same situation..
To China, Tibet has been part of its national territory since the Mongol dynasty (Yuan, 1279-1368) expanded the confines of the empire to the Himalayas. The Qing made the inclusion of Tibet in their borders official and sent the first Hanes to settle on the Roof of the World. In the 19th century, The weakness of the Qing facilitated the struggle between the British and Russian empires to divide Asia. in 1914, London got, after supporting the independence of Tibet declared the year before, that the Tibetan representatives sign the distribution document for their region, that left the area of the so -called McMahon line under British control. Beijing did not give validity to the text by considering that Tibetans had no legal power to decide on China's borders.
The popular liberation army entered Tibet in 1950 And in less than a year the Dalai Lama and Beijing reached the agreement of 17 Points, that gave autonomy to the region within Chinese sovereignty. But the United States, Faced with China in the Korean War, He tried to weaken her by stirring Tibet, for what the CIA sent groups of paratroopers to train the guerrillas. in 1959, There was the revolt that ended with the flight of Dalai Lama and his government to India.
Chinese repression since then, especially during the Great Cultural Revolution (19661976), has been brutal. With the arrival of Deng Xiaoping in 1979, The tactics were changed and commercial and cultural colonization was carried out., with huge investments in infrastructure to connect the region to the rest of China. This improved the lives of Tibetans, but the fear of being assimilated unleashed 1988 the biggest revolts in 30 years. Beijing declared martial law and since then there have been continuous clashes between Tibetans and Chinese security forces.
