China needs Tibet for 1. Source of all river waters (a scare commodity in the future). If it can build a railway to Tibet for political reasons not economic as Jiang Zemin said, it is a matter of time before it diverts the Tibetan glacier waters to save 300 million Chinese in proper chinese provinces from drought and starvation. 2. To test nuclear weapons and experiment their radiation effects on Tibetan people. Also unconfirmed reports of uraniam discovery have been made. 3. To next claim Arunachal and othe regions in Uttaranchal and Assam as extensions of Tibet (like a cancerous cell) in seacrh of oil, gas and minerals in N.E. India.
China wants Xinjiang for 1. Oil, gas and other resources in the region and near the Central Asisan republics. Build pipelines from these regions for its growing oil needs.
I hate commies, but I admire the Chinese commies for being patriotic unlike our Indian commies who prostrate before Mao and the Red army and do their bidding in India. The Chinese commies came out with their own version of communism unlike out commies using Karl Marx etc. Bottomline, the Chinese commies are no longer commies, but run the Red Empire in a capitalistic way as a Red Mafia. They will never allow any challenge to the red Mafia's authority be in from Falung Jong, Tibet (forming 40% of Red Empire) nor Taiwan. They will not grant genuine autonomy to Tibet since 40% of Red Empire and a growing number of Chinese revere Dalai Lama a direct threat to the Red Maf
