“But nobody gets X in China. It just doesn’t work like that. You’re dealing with one of the biggest power systems in the world. Instead, burn a government building, put a flag up, and then you’ve achieved this huge victory because China has created a symbolic form of politics in which everyone is supposed to have forgotten that they were independent once. So, just by doing that, you have completely changed the political equation”
Kurzes, aber sehr interessantes Interview in Foreign Policy über die Aufstände in Tibet, die vom Olympia-Ausrichter China blutig niedergeschlagen wurden sind.