Tibetan Chinese are Chinese
Dear Editor:
Re: City of Toronto owes its Tibetan citizens an apology
I am writing to object to your editor’s one-sided and biased report in the article “City of Toronto owes its Tibetan citizens an apology.”
Before you force the “CCP-controlled” identity on me, I need to tell you that I am a JD student in the US and already took a job with a major US law firm in the US, I am not and have never been a CCP member, and I am absolutely free of any CCP intervention in my life.
There are a few fallacies in your article. First, more world leaders decide to attend the Beijing Olympics opening ceremony than those who excused themselves so far. Second, the article is charged with one-sided tones and did not report the event fairly.
To understand why so many overseas Chinese students went on the square, please do some research, read up on Chinese history, and listen to regular Chinese people’s voices before you put out your biased report. Tibetan Chinese are Chinese, just like Beijinger Chinese, Shanghainese Chinese, or Cantonese Chinese. China has 56 ethnic groups, and being Tibetan does not mean they are not Chinese. If you conduct any kind of sensible research among regular Chinese people, you will realize people’s strong sense of territorial integrity has nothing to do with the CCP. Indeed, given that 99.9% (my educated guess) of the Chinese population firmly believe that Tibet was, is, and should always be part of China, no government dares to go against its people’s will on this issue.
This article is such a disgrace to your newspaper. It does not go unnoticed. I hope your paper will stop promoting misunderstandings and fanning resentment among your readers.
Qin Zou
