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Tibet conflict

Philip Bowring written in the IHT together very concisely what lies behind the conflict erupted again just between Tibetans and Han Chinese.
The handling of the Han Chinese with the minorities is a history of centuries of oppression, and practice in Tibet since the 50s is now just one new chapter in the long line of Han Chinese hegemony. Bowring and represents almost exactly the reasons for the actions of the government in Beijing, which amount to brutal suppression: There are three reasons

for the Communist leadership's inability to address the issue other than by repression. First, given that Beijing's first priority is government centralization, the official designation of any "autonomous region" in China is a façade.
Second, there is the innate superiority of the was in the Han race, a notion historically reflected in China's attitudes to all its neighbors as well as toward the non-Han minorities within its borders.
Third, the three regions with significant minority populations that are actual or potential trouble spots are all frontier areas that Beijing regards as strategically important.

that there will be no independence for the three major minorities (Tibetans, the Uighurs, and Koreans), is set for Bowring: China is incapable of

offering minorities either cultural equality or autonomy. Officialdom and much of the population treats minorities either with suspicion or as colorful tourist attractions. This leads to an informal apartheid - evident in the housing, schools and social organization in Tibet and Xinjiang - reinforced by official arrogance.

I can from my travels to Sichuan, Yunnan and the North Korean border area Bowring confirm. Also, my Han Chinese students shared the resentment against minorities that they perceived not as such but as a rule. For them it was just folklore, with which my students have been the best proof of how much does the nationalist propaganda. They took the Tibetans, Hui, Uygur and Korean true only disguised as Chinese and dressed up by so consistently itself and also could be in costumes (which they did not perceive as costumes!) photograph (as you can see it in national parks or tourist locations again and again). On my trip to the border with Myanmar, I was able to witness how the New Year celebrations a minority my Han Chinese took part as naturally as if it were a jolly party. As I hesitated but then the breath of so much ignorance.

Bowring view of the further future is not rosy. It assumes that meet the strident nationalism of the Communists as a hard separation rate is more economic, cultural and social discrimination of minorities against the Han increases:

For now, the Olympics notwithstanding, China will rely on an iron fist to quell dissent. Over the longer term, Beijing will have consider whether to step up efforts to integrate the minority regions into China through money, infrastructure and migration. That might well raise the level of resentment among Tibetans and Uighurs against their relatively rich, commercially exploitive colonizers. Han Chinese may, however, become increasingly reluctant to live in restive minority regions when a better, safer living is available elsewhere.
It is possible that Beijing might eventually allow a little real autonomy in the hope that separatism can be contained. But it is more likely that China's own rising nationalism will meet its match in the determination of Tibetans Uighurs and Koreans not to be swamped by a Han version of Manifest Destiny.

ADDENDUM, 10.08.2008: The opening ceremony of the Olympic Games at 08 August showed the folkloric use of the minority once again very clearly. The symbolism was supportive attitude: the various national minorities have in common the Chinese flag. Later it was revealed that there were no members of minorities, but disguised Han Chinese, who carried the flag.