A whole load of hypocrisy from the west on this thread. When did we return lands to the aboriginies in Oz? Good ol' USA, returned the stolen lands to the natives americans yet? Didn't think so.

We messed up their cultures good and proper. How can we complain if China has done or does the same?

A Brown, Edinburgh, UK

William, Atlanta:

Since when is telling the truth slander?

William in Glasgow has a point - we have never made good on the damage we did. We could still but their is no political will for it. Why? These groups that we annihilated are now minorities. Get off the moral high horse.

Some comments here remind our histrory in America & Australia, red Indians got massacred to almost extinct, an entire civilisation got wiped out, Aborigines were hunted like animals. What we could truly help is to tell the Chinese not to repeat our mistakes. We haven't got a moral high ground!

William G, Glasgow,

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Hey Austin,

Ur an idiot. The Asians are reproducing and therefor polluting the earth? Come on, man.

What is a volcano? What is "natual oceanic oil seepage?

Just because you bought global warming (BS) doesn't mean its reality. Its politically expedient alone.

Thinkof Mt Pinatubo, which released MORE harmful toxins into our atmosphere than MANs HISTORY. One volcano!

Paddy, DC, BeSTRONG--NOT Paranoid!!!

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To add to Hai,London

In Guantanamo US,the Uighurs detainees have not been proven guilty, yet they are referred as terrorists & locked up for 8 straighth years.

In Urumuqi China,the Uighurs were committing crime and shown on television, suddenly they become the discriminated suppressed group.

Logic and Reason, London, UK

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Paul: Be real; look at the past 200 years of history and you know who practiced hegemony and tyranny. The regime had done huge for the Tibetans except those which could lead to separation. What they haven't done is to apologise for the damages of the cultural revolution, a tragedy to all Chinese.

William G, Glasgow,

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Britain always loves riots in other countries. They want people in other countries to be divided and in fighting always, but why? Yes why...because then they can sell arms to both sides. The national news papers and agencies carry the government's propaganda machinery and the cans.

Prof. Wilfred Anthony, braga, portugal

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"China is not a democratic country and has been oppressing its minorities for thousands of years. "
You know nothing about chinese history. Han was often oppressed by others, like Britain.

John, Portland, USA

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