Chinese Military Secures Tibet's Capital from Rioters

[SIG220]

And they did so by killing less than 100 people.   Although it does appear that some of them may have been Buddist Monks.

The Chinese really have evolved as a nation, since becoming America's top trading partner.


Checkout this photo of the troops clearing the streets using Armored Personnel carriers:





And here is a closer view of these vehicles:





NOTE the propellers on the rear.   These fighting vehicles are fully amphibious, and can easily cross rivers.


For more details about this story:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/15/world/asia/15cnd-tibet.html?ref=world


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[mg1942]

fu hao!

[wrongwayric]

Looks like a clone of something we currently have in the U.S. military only.....ours has a bigger gun and better armor. Now if we could just get china to attack Iraq/Iran? They are after all becoming the worlds leading user of oil products.

[Lumpy]

SISU copy.

[Holden McGroin]

And they did so by killing less than 100 people.   Although it does appear that some of them may have been Buddist Monks.

Some of those monks are badasses.

[NUKE]

Why are the Chinese so uptight about monks anyway? Don't monks kind of just keep to themselves?

[Lumpy]

Communists aren't too keen on religion, and the monks are against the Chinese occupation/governing of Tibet.

[SD67]

Monks represent enlightened independent thought, communism's deadliest enemy.

[Dowding]

I hate monks.

I love Chinese food.

Go China!

[-tronski-]

^ what he said

...plus its totally awesome how the Chinese used those APC's to pacify the populace

 Tronsky

[Elfie]

Why does China feel the need to occupy Tibet anyways? A quick search doesn't show Tibet as having a lot of natural resources, in fact Tibet seems to derive a large chunk of its GNP from tourism.

[sunfan1121]

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Some of those monks are badasses.

[SIG220]

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Some of those monks are badasses.

The female Kung Fu stars really get to me.

Here is a photo of Brenda Song, a Kung Fu and Tae Kwon Do expert from LA:





She recently stared in the Disney Channel's TV Movie: " Wendy Wu: Homecoming Warrior"

In it, she plays a teenage high school student who must defend her school's Homecoming from a sinister gang of martial arts criminals.

The movie is currently out on DVD, if you missed it:





Only the "Kicking Edition" is available, however.

Apparently the "Non-Kicking Edition" did not sell very well.   

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[bozon]

Monks represent enlightened independent thought

Was that a cynical remark? 

[SD67]

Absolutely not.
My Cousin is married to a Tibetan refugee, he is quite distressed about the things going on in Tibet at the moment.
The thing I cannot seem to get past is how the Chinese government has not be openly ridiculed the way <insert your preferred western leader here> would have been if they had referred to the Dalai Lama as a terrorist.