Tibet 1950, Comparison to Troy ?

Question

Where did the Peoples Republic of China invade etc? Can this be compared to the Invasion of troy and ensuing capture?

Answer 1

Wow.

I don't think I would have ever made that comparison.

Troy was invaded for a reason.

The Queen of a Spartan King....his wife... ran off with a Prince of Troy....not his wife.

Wives were almost like property back then.

So, basically, the Prince stole the King's property.

And it was his WIFE...th ultimate insult.

It was a harsh and long and well balanced war.

Tibet..... a peaceful, spiritual country that shunned modernizations that was basically ruled by a holy man.

Chinese political powers saw the chance for to add to their empire and control and Tibet was easy pickings.

They invaded a country that couldn't fight back...certainly not the industrial power of China.....and not with what little antique weapons it had.

It was no war. It was a slaughter.

The Greeks and Spartans were ticked off at Troy.

The Chinese weren't even angry with Tibet.....they thought they were weak, they just wanted it, so they took it.

Sorry, I cannot see any comparison whatsoever.

Answer 2

The thing to understand about Troy is that the causes for the Greek invasion are steeped in myth.  Supposedly, because a Trojan prince named Paris judged Venus to be a more beautiful goddess than Hera or Minerva, Venus promised him the love of the most beautiful woman in the world (Helen).  The problem is, she was already married to the king of Sparta, Menelaus.  So, Venus brought events into motion that led to Paris landing in Sparta and falling in love with Helen.  Paris and Helen then fled back to Troy, and Menelaus declared war on Troy.

China wanted Tibet's land.  (Though the reason they gave for invading Tibet was that they wanted to liberate the serfs of Tibet from Tibetan aristocrats and imperialist oppression in general.  There was serfdom, but it was not widespread, and in fact did not exist at all in the northeastern two-thirds of Tibet.)

The war between the Trojans and the Greeks lasted for seven years and would have ended in a stalemate had not Odysseus come up with the idea for the Trojan Horse.

The war between China and Tibet was really over before it began.  The Chinese People's Liberation Army (about 40,000 men) quickly overwhelmed Tibetan forces (about 5,000 men) at Chamdo.

Hope that helped!