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[Snow_Fox]

From what I've read so far this is the most disappointing section and I almost wonder why it was written.

In the past, from what has been written we know Tibet has broken away from China and is surrounded by a mystical barrier that cuts it off from the outside world. The former CEO of renraku was able to enter Tibet because of Dunkelzahn's gift but after 4 1/2 pages of print. we have virtually nothing new.

There is a little on the leadership and lama's but that is it. A brief reference to it looknig much the same as before and the barrier is weakening but there are too many questions left open that could have been better answered with less shadow talk and more information.

1) modern Tibet is having its ancient culture crushed by the han chinese who are out breeding and building over the Tibetan culture. Has this been reversed? Were the Han civilians evicted like pink skins from the NAN? Absorbed into society? Disappeared? What the heck, this is kind of significant. A runner getting into Tibet knowing that before the barrier went up, might be expecting to get by speaking Chinese. There is a significant portion of the population today, rl, that only speaks Chinese. Maybe an ethnic chinese American running in China can "blend" in China, what about when she gets to Tibet? Are there Han chinese or not? Are the old cities still standing or not?

2)Is something special about the land? The barrier seems to have just sprung up and now it is weakerning making it more like the Mana "fog" in Brittany than the barrier around Ireland. There is a reference to the Chinese army mage saying the place has changed but no other detail. Good? bad? wilder? Structured? New drapes? what?
The CEO of Renraku passed the barrier and was never seen again. There is no reference to him here BUT it was implied he would gain something. Since, as far as I know, Japan has never had an interest in Tibet, there are no cultureal problems for him like there might be in Manchuria or Nanking. so what happened? I mean I can understand his fate being still a mystery but could we get a clue what might have happened? What happened to others?

I can understand devleoper not wanting to go too far for point 2, this can still be a later developement. but my first point is very valid and I am really disappointed that it was in no way addressed. I hate to say it this way, but I think the writer really skipped on research.

I will appologise if there are details in the China chapter about an evacuation of the Han Chinese before the barrier went up. I have not yet read the China chapter, but if not, this really is a poor job or research because just a casual reading of current news services shows how tibet today is losing cultureal ground to China.