Yes it was, for 300 years during the Qing dynasty. When the Qing dynasty collapsed, countless little warlord states popped up, and Tibet was one of them. It was never internationally recognized and is still claimed by the ROC (Taiwan).
overthrowing the existing oppressors to take their place as Tibets new oppressors
They weren’t Tibet’s “new oppressors,” they were its liberators. The serfs were freed from serfdom, and their life expectancy doubled thanks to the PRC.
I remember hearing similar arguments growing up in the southern US. “The north didn’t really liberate anyone, because the former slaves just had to go up and work in their factories with awful conditions. The working conditions in the Confederacy weren’t really that bad for the time, and the real bad guys were the Union for forcing the southern states back into the Union against our wishes.”
That was, of course, a load of bullshit. While the conditions of factories were awful, and there’s plenty of room to criticize them, it was still a massive improvement over literal slavery. Just as the Union wasn’t perfect, neither was/is the PRC, however, criticizing either of them for liberating people from horrible conditions and involuntary servitude and defending the “sovereignty” of the masters is completely absurd.
Yes it was, for 300 years during the Qing dynasty. When the Qing dynasty collapsed, countless little warlord states popped up, and Tibet was one of them. It was never internationally recognized and is still claimed by the ROC (Taiwan).
They weren’t Tibet’s “new oppressors,” they were its liberators. The serfs were freed from serfdom, and their life expectancy doubled thanks to the PRC.
I remember hearing similar arguments growing up in the southern US. “The north didn’t really liberate anyone, because the former slaves just had to go up and work in their factories with awful conditions. The working conditions in the Confederacy weren’t really that bad for the time, and the real bad guys were the Union for forcing the southern states back into the Union against our wishes.”
That was, of course, a load of bullshit. While the conditions of factories were awful, and there’s plenty of room to criticize them, it was still a massive improvement over literal slavery. Just as the Union wasn’t perfect, neither was/is the PRC, however, criticizing either of them for liberating people from horrible conditions and involuntary servitude and defending the “sovereignty” of the masters is completely absurd.