In our own case, we don't consider the loss of a monastery or a monument the end of our entire way of life. If one monastery is destroyed, sometimes it happens. Therefore, we don't need to respond with desperate violence. Also, if you resort to violent methods because the other side has destroyed your monastery, for example, you then have lost not only your monastery, but also your special Buddhist practices of detachment, love, and compassion. I could justify violence only in this extreme case, to save the last living knowledge of Buddhism itself.
China is much bigger, richer, more powerful militarily, and has much better skill in diplomacy.
They outdo us in every field. But they have no justice. We have placed our whole faith in truth and in justice. We have nothing else, in principle and in practice. We have always been a nation different from the Chinese.