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The Tibet Crisis

The issue of the freedom of Tibet is a far pressing issue in the 21 st Century, especially being just after the era of decolonization. Tibet, in this regard, is no different, being under the administrative control of the People’s Republic of China, in other words, a colony of China. Here, if we are to be rational, we have to evaluate the situation of China and the ideology behind the annexation of Tibet. The Communist regime of China, at the time, we shouldn’t forget, had the ‘Forward Policy’, so whatever the Chinese did was justified, at least in their minds. In other words, they had cause to do, what they did. For someone who has a little sense of knowledge would know that, the concept of right and wrong is a fallacy, so, at the end of the day, it boils down to what one believes and if the Chinese believed that, in doing what they were, they were right, that was just their perspective of things. Besides, probably, the then Chinese Leader envisaged a Unified China with Tibet as