Tibet and immigration

[Universe Prince]

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/13/world/asia/13tibet.html

"No responsible government will sit idle for such crimes, which gravely encroach human rights, gravely disrupt social order and gravely jeopardize the life and property security of the masses," said [Chinese President Hu Jintao], according to Xinhua, the government's official news agency. Mr. Hu's remarks were his first public comments about the Tibetan unrest, which began on March 10, and they hewed to China's official line that separatists intent on splintering China had engineered the protests. Mr. Hu also sought to counter critics who have blamed repressive government policies against Tibetan culture and religion for the turmoil. "Our conflict with the Dalai clique is not an ethnic problem, not a religious problem, nor a human rights problem," Mr. Hu said while meeting with the Australian prime minister, Kevin Rudd, on the sidelines of the Boao Forum for Asia, an annual gathering of business and political leaders on China's Hainan Island. "It is a problem either to safeguard national unification or to split the motherland."

A few minor changes, and this could be commentary from an American about cracking down on illegal immigration.

[Plane]

Does China need to be big?

Does it need to be bigger in the future?

Do thy look upon sparsely populated areas as potential for greater China?