000			01116nam a2200181Ia 4500
999			_c9353 _d9353
020			_a9788182749221
082			_a305.800515 _bSAV-
100			_aRinaldi, James
245		0	_aSaviours and fools
260			_aNew Delhi _bPantagon Press _c2017
300			_ax, 251p
504			_aincludes bibliography and index
520			_aThe Western world has been trying to “free Tibet” for the last 30 years. It hasn’t gone well. China remains predictably intractable towards any Western admonitions, and repression inside of Tibet has now increased to the point where Tibetans are lighting themselves on fire in desperate, fatal protest. Arrogance has led the West to believe that its perspectives on democracy and Tibet will eventually lead to Tibetan freedom; yet, after three decades, the accumulated mass of governmental edicts, congressional legislative initiatives and verbal challenges to China has led to nothing more than a worsening of the Tibetan condition. ------
650			_aWestern World
650			_aDemocracy _zNepal _zIndia _zChina
650			_aLegislative Initiation _zTibet
942			_cBK _2ddc