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Free Tibet to Save South Asia

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Free Tibet to Save South Asia
Tibetan Buddhist monks and nuns attend a sit-in solidarity rally against the Chinese Communist Party’s rule of Tibet in the Indian capital city of New Delhi on Feb. 2, 2013. Raveendran/AFP via Getty Images
Patricia Adams
Lawrence Solomon
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“Free Tibet” has been a rallying cry since communist China’s 1951 occupation of that nation, but more is at stake than reestablishing the sovereignty of Tibet or stopping China’s human rights abuses.

Patricia Adams is an economist and president of the Energy Probe Research Foundation and Probe International, an independent think tank in Canada and around the world. She is the publisher of internet news services Three Gorges Probe and Odious Debts Online and the author or editor of numerous books. Her books and articles have been translated into Chinese, Spanish, Bengali, Japanese, and Bahasa Indonesia. She can be reached at [email protected]
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