Why autonomy should be so dangerous? Your right, historic events made our thinking rigid (history can repeat). China has 56 nationalities (Tibet being one). Let me point out a few of the problems here: 1. Giving autonomy to one means autonomy to all. 2. We know what happened in China during 1912 to 1927. Sub-cultures in different region of China raise their own army and became Warlords. China was a mess!! Japan took advantage of this and formed a puppet government in Manchu. I don't have to go on, you should know what happen after that. 3. Tibet has always been the so called western frontier. Historically where outlaws disappeared into (safe haven). We may seem far removed from the ground reality and out of context, but we do have our reasons. The think tank in CCP are not all delusional. We would love to be in multi-national harmony. Unfortunately, memories of our past conflict preclude this. Only if mankind can forgive and forget. Just look at the Tibetan rioters burning down buildings and killing innocent people. This was not the first civil unrest in Tibet and will not be the last.
"Change will come from within China" - Hu Yaobang - give me a break!! He would've done the same. He was in the politburo when troops were sent into Tibet in 1959.
