Tibet

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Tibet

• Has it benefited under Chinese control?

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Arguments to support Culture

• As part of the Peoples Republic of China, China
  has invested a huge amount of money in developing
  key historical monuments, cultural and
  recreational facilities in Tibet
• There are drama and opera groups that meet the
  cultural needs of the majority of the people
• 4.86 billion yan has been invested in 62 projects
  over 6 years

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Arguments to support Education

• People are able to get a good education as
  illiteracy was as high as 95
• Universities offer degree examinations in Tibetan

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Arguments to support Better Lifestyle

• Tibets GDP has increased by 130
• Over 30,000 Tibetans worked with the Chinese in
  the initial road construction and were paid
  generously in special Da yuan silver coins

• This money was the introduction of a cash-wage
  system in Tibet and this was the first time that
  ordinary Tibetans had access to disposable
  income.
• Incomes in Tibet have increased

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Arguments Against

• Forced to become part of China
• Not allowed to follow their own religion, Dalai
  Lama not allowed to return to Tibet, monasteries
  burned down and monks in jail
• Still more poverty in Tibet than in China, lower
  life expectancy and less people in Tibet
  graduating from university

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Arguments Against Education

• Less than 7 of population have ever had the
  opportunity to attend middle school and fewer
  attend secondary school where the language is
  Chinese

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"peaceful liberation" of Tibet

• the mass exodus of the Dalai Lama and 80,000
  Tibetans from their ancestral homeland are hardly
  what one would expect to result from a "peaceful
  liberation."
• the cross-border flow of Tibetans continues last
  year alone more than 3,000 Tibetans crossed the
  Himalayas to gain political and religious freedom
  and to pursue a modern education in India, home
  of the Tibetan government-in-exile.
• Tibet continues to be the least literate region
  in China, with a higher than sixty percent
  illiteracy and semi-literacy rate
• whereas China's illiteracy rate has fallen to
  under seven percent

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AgainstBetter Lifestyle

• It is true that roads and factories are
  constructed and that almost ninety percent of the
  TAR Government budget is subsidized by the
  central government in Beijing. However, the bulk
  of the subsidies are spent on developing cities
  to encourage Chinese migrants from inner China to
  settle in Tibet,

• Although some Tibetans seem to have benefited
  from the growth (a few Tibetans own fleets of
  Land Cruisers and luxurious houses), improved
  economic conditions in the cities seem not be
  reaching most Tibetans.

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It is estimated that as much as 60-70 of the
population in Lhasa now is Chinese.

• According to a census, there are more than 3,500
  to 4,000 shops and restaurants in Lhasa, but
  Tibetans own only 400-450 of them, leaving the
  remaining 85 under non-Tibetan (usually Han
  Chinese) ownership.
• One reason for the Chinese-dominated commerce is
  that Chinese migrants entering Tibet use their
  clan and local village networks to support their
  own ethnic group another factor is the use of
  guanxi (connections) among Chinese officials to
  exploit economic opportunities.