[LINK] Some Friday links

[rfmcdonald]

• Nicholas at 1948 wonders just how oppressed Tibetans are by China. His conclusion? They're no more oppressed than the Chinese, and possibly less so in some areas like the one-child policy (three if you're Tibetan).


• Will at The Dragon's Tales has a long survey of some recent articles on China, touching on foreign policy, military doctrine, demographic prospects, and China's dependence on external trade and foreign consumers.


• Edward Lucas reports, among other things, that ethnic Romanians in Ukraine's Bukovina region are applying for Romanian passports on the model of their Moldovan co-ethnics.


• Joel at Far Outliers has a couple of posts (1, 2) on the relatively new phenomenon of Micronesian emigration that promises to create relatively quite large diasporas.


• Joe.My.God addresses the subject of Merv Griffin, outed by the media only after his death, and comes to the conclusion that for all of Griffin's gay-friendliness his failure to come out on his own means that "as a gay man, as a human being, he was a failure."


• Strange Maps records how Germany almost got a different frontier with Poland. If not for Stalin's desire to annex L'viv to Soviet Ukraine, Germany might have kept Lower Silesia after 1945.