Reply #8: Nope, never will happen. [View All]

Unlike the Palestinians, there were only the Tibetans on their side. And unlike the Israelis, the Chinese are plentiful, and aren't subject to Western mores. They're cultural supremacists on their territory, and like Islamists who say that Palestine has, since many thousands of years BC, been entirely Arab, the official Chinese catechism contains a fundamental of belief something akin to "once Chinese, always Chinese--and happily so for the subjugated".

Chinese settlements, spread of Chinese language, marginalization and putting the Tibetan culture in a museum for "preservation"--but only as long as it's a little token of culture, in the sense of some food, some dance, maybe using the language in culture-based clubs like an Italian-American Culture Society or whatever they were called.

With easier access to Tibet's resources, more Chinese will simply pour into the area. What's left of the local culture will be made Han.

Tibet will be preserved for tourists, much like the roadside stands selling Navajo trinkets preserves Navajo culture for tourists.