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Main Question: =Could Tibet Survive without the help of China? = **Research Questions ** //What was Tibet like before China took over? **Answer**// There was no technology but the right to speak freely. Some people think Tibet has Changed for the better others for the worst. //When did China take over? **Answer** 1949,  Why did China take over? **Answer:** Tibet has gold, coal, and uranium. there is said to be over 126 useful minerals in Tibet. That may have been one of the reasons China took over. How do the people of Tibet feel about China taking over?// **Answer:** A lot of Tibetans are against it and have staged protests against the Chinese government. Although some think Tibet has changed for the best with better technology and roads etc.  //Who is the leader of the Chinese Government in charge of Tibet?//    Its current President is [|Hu Jintao] and its head of government is [|Wen Jiabao]. <span style="COLOR: rgb(75,68,68)">//What is Tibet like now? **Answer** You have to live how the Chinese government WANT you to.// <span style="COLOR: rgb(19,26,32)"><span style="COLOR: rgb(159,4,4)"> What are the living standards in Tibet before China took over. **Answer:** For the peasan ts and factory workers the life standards have always been what we would call'unlivable' I personally think that China taking over hasn't really affected the living standards, only for farmers and people who got their taken over. Richer people living standards are a good or better than ours. //<span style="COLOR: rgb(177,93,162)"><span style="COLOR: rgb(148,120,232)"><span style="COLOR: rgb(102,102,102)"><span style="COLOR: rgb(75,68,68)">What support / help does China actually give to Tibet? // **Answer:** China is building roads and railways in Tibet. It said that it was giving money to build schools etc. <span style="COLOR: rgb(177,93,162)"><span style="COLOR: rgb(148,120,232)"><span style="COLOR: rgb(102,102,102)"><span style="COLOR: rgb(75,68,68)">//What industries or exports does Tibet have which could support the country if China stopped their support?// <span style="COLOR: rgb(11,10,10)">**Answer** Silk, milk, cheese, minirals //Would Tibet need help from another country / countries to help it to survive - if so who might they be?// **Answer:** Yes, possibly need India. <span style="COLOR: rgb(255,0,72)"> http://room3inquiry.wikispaces.com/megan+1

=<span style="COLOR: rgb(177,93,162)"><span style="COLOR: rgb(148,120,232)"><span style="COLOR: rgb(102,102,102)"><span style="COLOR: rgb(75,68,68)"><span style="COLOR: rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="COLOR: rgb(11,9,11)"><span style="COLOR: rgb(207,129,218)">**Key Words**      = ==<span style="COLOR: rgb(177,93,162)"><span style="COLOR: rgb(148,120,232)"><span style="COLOR: rgb(102,102,102)"><span style="COLOR: rgb(75,68,68)"><span style="COLOR: rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="COLOR: rgb(11,9,11)"><span style="COLOR: rgb(207,129,218)">      == <span style="COLOR: rgb(177,93,162)"><span style="COLOR: rgb(148,120,232)"><span style="COLOR: rgb(102,102,102)"><span style="COLOR: rgb(75,68,68)"><span style="COLOR: rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="COLOR: rgb(11,9,11)"><span style="COLOR: rgb(207,129,218)"><span style="COLOR: rgb(249,11,11)">NOTE: Keywords are mainly nouns (naming words) - using a thesaurus can often help extend your keywords. <span style="COLOR: rgb(11,9,11)"> Tibet Before China, date China governs Tibet, Tibet's economy 1950. china wanting Tibet?, feelings china taking vover Tibet, leader of Chinese government, Tibet's human rights 2008, living standards Tibet 2008 & 1950. Support/help Tibet. Tibet 2008. Tibet help countries NOT china. Tibet exports. **<span style="COLOR: rgb(209,122,192)"> Info **
 * "Approximately 40 per cent of China's mineral resources are in Tibet, including gold, coal and what are estimated to be the world's largest uranium deposits (many under Tibet's most sacred sites such as the [|Potala hill] in Lhasa).
 * Altogether more than 126 industrially useful minerals lie under Tibetan soil; soil that the nomadic people consider as sacred."
 * ""Water is also soon to be one of Tibet's most exploited resources. Much has been heard of the notorious Three Gorges Dam further down the Yangtse, but the Chinese are also undertaking massive damming schemes in Tibet.
 * Approximately ten major dams are planned in the immediate future, with all the devastation and displacement of local Tibetan communities that will entail."
 * Overall, in terms of both the administration and exploitation of Tibetan resources, Tibet now fully qualifies to be considered a colony of China on the old imperial model. Chinese immigrants at all levels, from farmers and traders up to
 * [|government and party officials], rarely speak any Tibetan. On the other hand, any Tibetans who want to find reasonable employment must be able to speak Chinese ([|Mandarin]). The Chinese regularly draw attention to the
 * amount of money they are spending to develop Tibet, but this expenditure mainly benefits the Chinese not the Tibetans. Minerals, water and timber are all extracted to supply China's hungry domestic market and industrial needs.
 * Tibet is situated between the two ancient civilizations of China and India, but the tangled mountain ranges of the towering Himalayas serve to distance it from both.Tibet is nicknamed "the roof of the world" or "the land of snows".
 * The Chinese occupation of Tibet has entirely changed the life and lifestyles of the Tibetans.
 * Despite over 40 years of Chinese occupation of Tibet, the Tibetan people refuse to be conquered and subjugated by China.
 * <span style="COLOR: rgb(234,52,52)">**(Question one:)** //When China invaded (or liberated, depending on your point of view) Tibet in 1950, as far as economic development Tibet was perhaps the most backwards place on the face of the earth.//
 * //These deeply religious people had none of the trappings of twentieth century economies: they had no electric power, no automobiles (except for two given to the 13th Dali Lama in the 1930’s which were kept at the Summer Palace in Lhasa)//
 * //or highways and they rarely used even bicycles or carts as they viewed the wheel as a religious symbol (Darma wheel, prayer wheels, etc.). In fact, when the British started to use trucks to transport goods between India and Tibet in the 1930’s, Tibetan authorities forced them to stop and revert to yak caravans.The mountainous route from Lhasa to Gyantse, which by travelers’ accounts had been extremely hazardous, until it was replaced by a new highway which opened in 2003 and much of the infamous Friendship Highway has now been paved as well. China has also dammed the river on the way to Gyantse to provide needed electrical power to Lhasa and remote villages alike. City streets have been paved and cleaned up. Others think:// <span style="COLOR: rgb(0,0,175)">The Tibetan people lost their freedom of speech and religion, their right to be free and independent people, along with their right to self determination. Tibet was once a peaceful country with a rich culture and a unique religion. Today they have lost all this and they remain an oppressed and violated nation. Their religion, culture, and identity is slowly decaying because the people of Tibet are being smothered by the Chinese, and they have no way of expressing themselves.
 * Han Chinese residents, the country's dominant ethnic group, who have been migrating steadily to Tibet over the last decade, bringing with them their popular culture. Opponents believe that the large influx of Han Chinese will ultimately extinguish the local culture.
 * **Question Three:** Since the early 1950s, the State has been giving special support to Tibet's economic development. It has allocated large amounts of financial subsidies, subsidized special projects and invested in key construction projects. It has also amassed and dispatched large amounts of materials to the Tibet Autonomous Region. Since the beginning of the 1980s, the State has arranged for government departments and other provinces, municipalities and autonomous regions to give Tibet manpower, material, financial and technological aid, with an aim of boosting the Tibetan economy and improving the people's livelihood. By 1997, the financial subsidies and investment in the key capital construction projects from the Central Government exceeded 40 billion Yuan.
 * Since 1980, the State has adopted a looser policy toward farmers and herdsmen in the Tibet Autonomous Region for them to build up their own economic strength. It stipulated that this is a long-term policy that "the farmland is distributed among farming households for individual management,"and "livestock are allocated to individual households, and independently owned, bred and managed by them."Farmers and herdsmen are exempt from agricultural and animal husbandry taxes. Collective enterprises and individual industrial and commercial businesses that produce and sell daily necessities are exempt from industrial and commercial consolidated taxes. Individual farmers and herdsmen and collective enterprises that sell or swap agricultural, animal husbandry and sideline products or handicrafts on market are also exempt from taxes.
 * Its current President is [|Hu Jintao] and its head of government is [|Wen Jiabao].
 * Poor conditions and living standards that have involved millions of Chinese workers and peasants in the past few years.

<span style="COLOR: rgb(75,68,68)">Why can't China try to find a way that both China and Tibet will agree on? //(that no one will get hurt)// <span style="COLOR: rgb(102,102,102)"><span style="COLOR: rgb(75,68,68)">Who is the main leader of the organization that is controlling Tibet. (is it just one person like in the WW2 and Hitler or is there more?) <span style="COLOR: rgb(102,102,102)"><span style="COLOR: rgb(75,68,68)">Why isn't the government democratic in China? <span style="COLOR: rgb(102,102,102)"><span style="COLOR: rgb(75,68,68)">Is China ashamed about what it is doing? If not why is it not letting reporters etc. into the remote areas of it border?)
 * <span style="COLOR: rgb(194,86,177)">Last terms questions: **