"From the perspective of Chinese Communist Party ideology, China was a victim of Western imperialism from the mid-19th century to the mid-20th century, and, as a result, the Chinese tend to remember the humiliations they suffered while rarely considering their own nation to be an imperial power."
In this way, in "The Struggle for Tibet" (Verso, 2009), author and scholar Wang Lixiong sets out his theses about the past, present and possible future of China and Tibet. Coauthored with historian Tsering Shakya, this superb collection of essays written between 2002 and 2009 presents arguments that elucidate not only the current state of Tibetan-Chinese relations, but also issues that may challenge the very fundaments of the power base of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP).
Chinese communist policies toward Tibet, and political actions there, have been, to a large extent, a mirror image of those pursued by Josef Stalin in the Soviet Union from the early 1930s until his death in 1953. The Soviet Union that Stalin ruled over as a dictator was a multiethnic and multicultural conglomeration of nationalities directed from Moscow under the universal banner of state communism.