Trump signs bill expressing support for Hong Kong protesters

President Trump signed the Hong Kong Human Rights and Democracy Act on Wednesday, reaffirming U.S. support for the city's autonomy after months of pro-democracy protests.

YET in Tibet, monks are still setting themselves on fire against Chinese rule. I guess Tibet is just not important to anyone BUT the Tibetans and wherever the Chinese premier visits in South Asia, ( most recently Nepal and India), Tibetan activists are frequently arrested ahead of his arrival and held in jails with no court and long after the premier has left.
PLUS Tibetans are frequently arrested in china for any kind of pro Tibet movement.

In Nepal it is ILLEGAL to sell free Tibet stickers, free Tibet tee shirts and the Tibetan flag!!!



A Tibetan man named Yonten sets himself on fire in a village in Meruma township, Ngaba (in Chinese, Aba) county, a Tibetan region in the western Chinese province of Sichuan, November 26, 2019.
https://www.rfa.org/english/news/tibet/ ... 81135.html

Thats 156 the number of self-immolations by Tibetans since the wave of fiery protests against Chinese rule of their homeland began in 2009.

and the world sits by and does fuck all cause their afraid of angering the Giant

There may be many areas in the PRC where human rights are concerning. The Uighurs have been getting some attention recently, but there's always that suspicion that they may be aligned with extremists so they don't get much sympathy in the west. The Tibetan issue has been going on for longer but perhaps is more shrouded and so doesn't get reported on much?
If Trump wants to comment on the Hong Kong protests that is his call. Hong Kong is obviously more visible but I'm not sure why the protests are inspiring too much care internationally. Maybe that's because it doesn't seem like a particularly bad place to live, I don't know.

.....If Trump wants to comment on the Hong Kong protests that is his call

Its not just trump commenting on the protestors, they passed a bill

The Senate on Tuesday passed a bill that compels the government to support Hong Kong pro-democracy activists by requiring it to impose sanctions on Chinese and Hong Kong officials responsible for human rights abuses in the territory.

Would also require the State Department to annually review the special autonomous status it grants Hong Kong in trade considerations. That status is separate from the relationship with mainland China, and a revocation of the status would mean less favorable trade conditions between the United States and Hong Kong.

regarding the next Dali Lama

Tibetan Religious Figures Reject Chinese Role in Dalai Lama Reincarnation
Top Tibetan religious leaders gathered in Dharamsala, India this week have resolved that the choice of successor to the Dalai Lama will be made according to tradition and left to the 84-year-old spiritual leader, with no interference from China.

The Nov 27-29 14th Tibetan Religious Conference convened at the seat of the exiled Tibetan government and produced the special “Dharamsala Declaration” that sets out policy for the reincarnation of the Dalai Lama.
“The authority of decision concerning the way and the manner in which the next reincarnation of the XIV Dalai Lama should appear solely rests with His Holiness the XIV Dalai Lama himself,” it said.

“No government … will have such authority. If the Government of the People’s Republic of China for political ends chooses a candidate for the Dalai Lama, the Tibetan people will not recognize and respect that candidate,” said the declaration.

HK is gathering attention cause there lots of Foreigners living there and its a big international banking center.
Tibet is nothing to anyone, even thou the CIA was involved there in the 50's
BOTH are "supposed" to be autonomous regions

The Tibet Autonomous Region or Xizang Autonomous Region, called Tibet or Xizang for short, is a province-level autonomous region in southwest China.

Yet it is firmly controlled by China and none of this 1 country 2 systems, the population is being exterminated.
Free Tibet