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Tibet oppression no solution for China

Oct. 18 (Daily Telegraph/by Peter Foster): It is hard to conceive of a plainer statement of powerlessness in the face of oppression, than dousing oneself with petrol and applying a match.

For as long as conditions in Tibet are oppressive, the great apparatus of the Chinese state – it’s army, secret police and propaganda machine – can never win the argument.

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Note: The writer, a columnist for Daily Telegraph (UK), lives in Beijing.