The ChiComs have accomplished wonders in Tibet, Newsweek wants us to know.

Since 2001, Beijing has spent $45.4 billion on development in the Tibet Autonomous Region (TAR). . . . About a third of the money went to infrastructure investment, including the train connecting Beijing to Lhasa. “A clear benefit of the train was that it makes industrial goods cheaper for Tibetans, who, like everyone else in the world, like household conveniences, but normally had to pay very high prices,” said Ben Hillman, a Tibet expert from the Australian National University’s China Institute.

But do those trains run on time?

“Cellphone service in parts of western Tibet is better than in parts of New Jersey,” said Gray Tuttle, an assistant professor of modern Tibetan studies at Columbia University.

Plainly what we need to do, if the oppressed feudal serfs of New Jersey are to enjoy a better life, is to hand that state over to the ChiComs. They’d have it ship-shape in no time!

[Here’s my own take on Tibet from 2003, which I don’t think needs any updating.]