If you can't distinguish Mongol, Han, and and Manchu, and if you can't distinguish between the Yuan dynasty of the 13th century and today's Chinese government in regard to such things as technology of government surveillance, building of rail lines, deployement of modern military forces, use of modern telecommunications for propaganda purpose, and so-on, you have no feel at all for historical reality. Motorised Chinese miltary forces, bolstered by sophisticated computer-aided intelligence and air power, together with an aggressive policy of population transfer, are hardly the sorts of tactics that the Yuan Mongols had at their disposal, and this is why the Yuan situation in Tibet—and all other premodern "Chinese" situations—was so largely an episodic and symbolic one, as opposed to the current long-term occupation. By the way, does the recent description of the DAlai lama, by a top Chinese foreign ministry offical, as a "wolf wrapped in monk's robes, a devil with a human face and a beast's heart," really fill anybody with confidence that the Chinese government is dealing with this situation in a reasonable way?