Every now and then you can see Free Tibet! stickers on car bumpers. It's mostly run-down last-century Golfs and Astras owned by tree-hugging alternative types happy to latch on the popular campaign spearheaded by such political and intellectual giants as Richard Gere, Björk and Brad Pitt. Well, Tibetan Buddhism is so cool in certain (tree-hugging) circles and the Rolex-brandishing Dalai Lama, raised by a Nazi, is so deliciously ethnic and cute. A perfectly calculated market appeal on top of a formidable celbrity endorsement.
This decades-long CIA-funded propaganda stunt clearly falls in line with the official China containment doctrine of the US - the country with not exactly a clean slate of respecting other countries' sovereignty spanning from the illegally annexed Kingdom of Hawaii to the Southwest pried out from Mexico. The "champion of human rights" should really think twice about throwing stones whilst living in a glass-house: Human Rights Record of the United States makes a very interesting read.
But the most off-putting is the hypocrisy of the ill-informed who find no problem with using dozens of Chinese-made products yet have objections to the Olympic Games being held in Beijing. Be consistent, halfwits, stop using ALL Chinese goods!
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