Seti recognizes Tibet as part of China, what do you think?

Well, the title pretty much sums up my question, but I'll elaborate a little here...

Out of curiosity I looked for Tibet as an option in the drop-down window when choosing my country of origin. It, in a small way, surprised me that Tibet was not an option. Albeit, China says Tibet is now a part of the motherland and all that, but because the Tibetan Government is in exile and the matter is thus in ongoing dispute, does that mean the rest of the world should take China's word for it because they invaded Tibet and planted their own flag there?

I'll concede the point here that the United States Government does not recognize Tibet's sovereignty.

In the interest of general chatter amongst fellow crunchers, what do you all think?

Cheers,

- Samten
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After reviewing my post I realize that my communication leaves room for unintentional harm. I do not mean to say that the Seti Project should recognize Tibet as an independent nation. I am but a cruncher - one of many. I have nothing to do with what the Project does/decides. Forgive me if any of my comments came off as "They should do this or that", that was not my intent, and I apologize in advance to whomever my original post may possibly offend. My curiosity simply gave birth to the desire to pose the question to my fellow crunchers as to their opinions on Tibet as an independent nation, and *not* whether the Seti Project should or should not recognize it as such.

That being said, ML1 (Martin): I agree that China is very sensitive on the subject of the Tibet issue. So much so, that the attempts of President Obama to address the issue has caused tension is some respects to China/US relations. China did not like that President Obama met with His Holiness the Dalai Lama at all, and took it as foreigners getting involved with the internal affairs of China itself.

I caution the bashing of China, however, as a whole. China has produced many great things for people all around the world. I mean, how many items in any of our homes have a "made in China" stamp on the bottom if it, for instance?

But to eradicate and entire culture of its heritage by attempting to squash its very nature (that of its religion as a main point and thus the practicing of such), is, in my humble opinion, a very unfortunate thing to have happen to any group of people.

I understand the approach of wanting to modernize Tibet, but to do something like that by force and take away their independence seems like a very harsh way of going about it.

Just my thoughts. Any other opinions out there? :)

- samten

[ EDIT: grammar/spelling errors ]
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Seti@Home is initiated and dominated with americans. But today americans owe to china close to 2 trillion dollars. In the last decade all those proud american media almost stopped of broadcasting about chinese ethnic clensing of tibetans and shinjan-uighurs.

In the last 2 years chinese army did terrbile mass killing of uighurs in Shinjian / Xingian area but no any proud freedom claiming western media talked about it. Because today EU government is begging money from china just like how american government practiced in the past 10 years.

So for money maybe most westerners are ready to trade their soul. Well at least at government level and at propaganda machine level it is proven truth.
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Mandtugai!

If western hemisphere truly that self proclaiming leading civilization what ever democracy practitioner etc things they must not cooperate with modern day mass ethnic clenser plus human rights violator. That is the ground condition. But the reality is majorly turning the other way.

Today all of us use chinese made something everyday then on the other side 90% of all chinese rivers or clean water sources badly polluted there which results more than 1 million cancer deaths annually over there. All resulted with "cheap labor invention".

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=URLriIJASV8

This is true value of all those big brand electronics or clothes:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hU51toichqw
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Mandtugai!

The sad about Tibet, is that this situation will be maintained for a very long time. China is now one of the fast growing economies in the world, Europe and US are dependent on their cheap labour.

In one word, governments of the US and Europe are greater defenders of the human rights, but when it comes to China they just smile and close their eyes and smile to the constant violations that are occurring everyday there.

Tibet is the same, they all receive the Dalai Lama and smile to him and agree about the human rights violations that are occurring in Tibet, but on the other hand they just don’t take an official position against china, because Tibet is not interesting either economically or strategically to Europe or the US.

At the end is just the common hypocrisy of diplomacy.

Tibet is the same, they all receive the Dalai Lama and smile to him and agree about the human rights violations that are occurring in Tibet, but on the other hand they just don’t take an official position against china, because Tibet is not interesting either economically or strategically to Europe or the US.

At the end is just the common hypocrisy of diplomacy.

Seti@Home is initiated and dominated with americans. But today americans owe to china close to 2 trillion dollars. In the last decade all those proud american media almost stopped of broadcasting about chinese ethnic clensing of tibetans and shinjan-uighurs.

In the last 2 years chinese army did terrbile mass killing of uighurs in Shinjian / Xingian area but no any proud freedom claiming western media talked about it. Because today EU government is begging money from china just like how american government practiced in the past 10 years.

So for money maybe most westerners are ready to trade their soul. Well at least at government level and at propaganda machine level it is proven truth.