Tibet

Territory

Any time a Chinese government official, or a FM spokesman, tries to draw comparison between a Communist Party policy and an historic event in the West, a PR disaster appears in the making. How many people outside China would equate Chinese rule in Tibet with Abraham Lincoln's emancipation of slaves? Yet, Qin Gang found enough audacity to lecture to President Barrack Obama:

“President Obama, as a black president, certainly knows well the great significance of the U.S. Abolition Movement initiated by President Lincoln. The old Tibet in the reign of Dalai enforced dark serfdom and he was head of Tibetan serfdom. In 1959, China completely abolished serfdom, which was a great step forward in the human rights cause. Such a move is of the same nature as the abolition of slavery by President Lincoln in the U.S. President Obama should understand better the Chinese Government's position against Tibet independence and Dalai's separatist activities on the international stage."