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Drama detected! Chinese government should run plebiscite and ask locals about their willing to be under Chinese government. That's all. [[User:Siberian explorer|Siberian explorer]] 18:13, 12 December 2010 (CET):
: Come on, guys, are you serious? Can we just leave out historic or political debates here and stick to what's hitchhiking-related? We always kind of had a consent here to stick to the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:PRC_provinces_big_imagemap definitions from Wikipedia] or the UN instead of trying to find our own political view. According to Wikipedia, Tibet is not a special administrative region, but one of 5 autonomous regions of China. Either we list them all, or none of them. But as we don't list the regions for any country, I'd say, remove them. That's what I'll do now. --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 18:33, 12 December 2010 (CET)
::No, I don't think we can or should. China forbids us to hitchhike in Tibet. If [[Tibet]] is just a normal part of China, why would there be such a restriction? As to [[Hong Kong]] and [[Macao]], they are (in some ways) probably comparable to [[Guernsey]], [[Jersey]], or some of the former Dutch Antilles, and have special political status. They should most definitely be listed separately.
::Also, given my critique on Mipplor, you might want to read this, [http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9200820/Elgan_How_spammers_will_poison_your_social_graph Elgan: How spammers will poison your social graph], especially the paragraph that contains ''... One of the best known is the Chinese government's so-called 50 Cent Army, which involves thousands of people paid to post pro-Chinese Communist Party opinions on message boards and social media sites inside China and around the world. ...''