No. 1 is a minor point. In fact, the economical importance of Tibet to China is very minimal. In 2005, the income of Tibet is 1.43 billion Yuan (~USD 200 million), and Beijing has poured in 18.6 billion Yuan (~USD 2.6 billion) to Tibet.

No. 2 is by far the most important issue. Tibet is buffer state between China and India.

No. 3 is important too, but more importantly, the sovereignty of the country is the basis for CCP's rule. If they can't even defend it, they will lose support from the 1.4 billion Chinese people.

No. 4 and 5 are reasonable.

You missed one point, nearly all major rivers in China originate from the Tibet Plateau. The water source is vital to China's development.

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I read two articles from Austrian newspapers recently:

Tibet und das Elend des Secondhand-Journalismus from Dear Standard
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and Mit Zorn lässt sich die Tibet-Krise nicht lösen from Die Presse
Mit Zorn lässt sich die Tibet-Krise nicht lösen « DiePresse.com

Although I nearly forgot all the German I learned in college, thankfully there is also the google language tool.

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Thanks for the time and effort you've put in these last few days. Please tell your wife it was worth while

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Actually thats the article I had in mind when posting innitially I think.

Damn, you speak German? Are you a little language wonder?

I think those two articles are quite a good counterpoint to the rest of the news coverage on this issue here.

What do you think about those two articles? Do you agree with their view?

PS:
just as little information. Der Standard is the left leaning newspaper and Die Presse is the rather conservative one in Austria. I don't think this matters on such a foreign issue like this one though.

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In order to better protects the Potala Palace this national culture inheritance, in 1961 the State Council listed as the nation key cultural relic preservation organ it, allocated funds to service every year, specially in 1989, the country carried on the historical to Potala Palace service, lasted for 5 years, successively invested 53 million Yuan, sent out more than 10 provinces, the area more than 150 experts technical personnel directly to participate in the maintenance engineering, service spot 100, after the service scale is Potala Palace reconstructs (for 300 years) biggest. The project in line with entire old as before principle, carries on the prompt effective rescue to this national heritage, causes ancient Potala Palace to have the charm.

Thats not so much the point. The question is, how many potential resources does Tibet have? If you say that there is only little of worth to exploit there, the argument falls. But if there is something one could potentially exploit (iron ore, coal, ... whatever) it stands.

Very good argument. Perhaps the resource from point number 1 is water

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I can't believe that I'd forgot you are just next to Germany.

The thing is the reaction of Chinese people are in fact completely controlled by the goverment through state owned domestic media system, especially student, since people have no alternative source of information, and it seems to be a handy diplomatic tool for the GOV.

Blackhole emerged from my storage of history, though I am not particularly interested in history. Obviously this is the first time I heard about it, my old impression of today's Germany is a country founded just some 140 years ago, a total blank before that.

Does it make sense that a war fighting for religion seems unlikely to cause people to give up religion?

I just remembered that I've stayed with several Americans(all have at least MA degree) for a short period and their attitude toward religion seemed extremely serious which to me as a atheist is pretty much a shock. After that I realized that I would never join them and they would never become atheists neither, and if this situation is about to change, the hope could only be put on posterior generations.

Indeed.

And don't forget the military potential of this piece of land, launching at this altitude, a short range missile becomes medium range missle, a medium range missile? easily cover most part of China and India, whoever get it holds the advantage.

Oh, great! This could be the single best reason why China would not give it up no matter how great the price is.

Development? Survival I think is more appropriate. My city is already suffering from water shortage now.