Horror past better forgotten
By Sydney Shapiro | China Daily | Updated: 2008-04-17 07:22
The rallying cry of the international lynch mob out to slander China at any cost has a familiar ring. They claim they are trying to bring "freedom and democracy" to Tibet.
I dug back in my memory and found I had discussed that very thing in a book I wrote in 1997 called My China.
My "quote" was seen early in the West when the Foreign Language Press published the English original of My China in 2000 (starting on page 189) for the Light On China series, and also when I Chose China was published in New York in 2000, starting on page 143. Permit me to quote:
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