This has got to be the joke of the year! Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Qin Gang claims that President Obama should be sympathetic to China as an African American person whose personal hero is President Abraham Lincoln. You know, China keeping Tibet at all cost is equivalent to President Lincoln freeing slaves!

First, let me state my position on the Tibet issue. I do not know if the Tibetan people want the Chinese in their land or if they want their own independent state. What I do know that China’s excuse that “since one billion people want Tibet to be part of China, therefore it should be part of China”, is wrong and baseless. So if this one billion people want Vietnam, they get it?

I would rather see a plebiscite where people in Tibet and Xinjiang vote to see if they want an independent state or be with the Chinese. It is the 10th Amendment, or better known as Amendment X. Remember Rick Perry suggestively threatened to use it to secede during the Tea Party protests? I think that is fair, and as I said earlier, I really do not know if the two states would really want to separate. Economy in those states has been booming.

In no way is the situation of Tibet similar to the situation in the American Civil War. For one the United States did not start any hostilities, the Confederate States did. While President Lincoln did not give approval for the secession, he did start any war. China invaded Tibet, which was free for only 37 years, in1949. That itself is the difference.

Had the Chinese done any homework whatsoever, they should know that there is nothing in common between our American Civil War and the Chinese claim to Tibet. It is entirely different. They are as similar as a donkey is to an apple.

President Abraham Lincoln fought for states to free slaves and stop slavery. It is, was and always would be a morally correct standpoint. It is not debatable at all. Whereas, Chinese claim to Tibet is. Chinese have tried to exert Han culture in Tibet by whatever means necessary, something that has added questions to China’s already-bad record on human rights.

We have got to wonder, what the Chinese are going to say next: Since the President is a fan of the White Sox he should allow the Chinese to censor freedom of speech in China. You have got to be kidding me!

This also highlights the problems President Obama would be facing in Asia this few days. From a Japanese government that is trying to move her closer to her Western neighbors (China, Korea, etc) rather than her Eastern ones, to the Chinese who already have so much power with regards to America thanks to her holding about $1 trillion of our debt and having influence on problem areas like Iran, Sudan and Burma, making up nonsensical remarks.

How President Obama acts, reacts and the outcome of this trip is going to have a huge standing on American foreign policy. It is something that is going to affect us all in the near and mid term futures. There are questions like : How is President Obama going to persuade China on Iran? Is America going to carry on asking the Chinese to buy our debt? Or is he going to move away from that and ask China to devalue her yuan? Can America keep her bases in Japan? How is he going to deal with North Korea?

You can be sure of one thing though, you can get all the important facts on this site.

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