Crisis in Tibet - Human rights violations by China

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Ray, how many ethnicities are there in India?

Which of them are Indians, and which of them aren't?

Do they marry each other, or the marriages are strictly confined to the same ethnicity?
Whole lot of them.

No one forces them to become something they are not.

Indian is merely a generic entity that binds.

Yes, one marries inter community, but that is not to change the demographic pattern since it would make no difference.
 

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burning monks old monk anyone
Old Monk burns!

While the 7 years aged XXX rum grade is the most popular, there are the Supreme & Gold Reserve varieties which are gaining in popularity. These are aged for 12 years and are blended with highly matured spirits.The Supreme also comes in a special bottle, with the shape of a standing monk.The top part of the monk's head is the bottle cap, which also doubles up as a peg measure.

It is sold in four size variants 180 ml (quarter/ pauaa), 375 ml (half/ addha), 750 ml (commonly referred to as a "khamba" meaning "full bottle"), and a 1 liter bottle.

Old Monk had been awarded gold medals at Monde World Selections since 1982. Old Monk is also sold by some retailers in USA, UK, Japan, UAE and Canada.

 

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Uighur and Tibetans are not Chinese, because Hans are Chinese and they are not Hans.

That apart, Xinjiang and Tibet are Autonomous Regions of China but that does not make them Hans.

Uighurs and Tibetans by culture, traditions, customs, religion, language and so on an are nowhere close to being Hans.

That your Han teacher married an Uighur does not come as a surprise since that is historically the Chinese made the 'barbarians' transmogrify to being Hans by marrying them, mostly by force. Then there are other ways that are adopted by the Hans, wherein they forced people to quit their culture, traditions, language and religion to forget their ethnicity and become Hans.



You see all this being done in Xinjaing and Tibet.
In fact, there is more people understand their native ethnic language in Xinjiang and Tibet in 60yrs ago. Just look at the literacy rate, you will know... In Tibet and Xinjiang, both Tibetan and Uighur language is being taught in grade school. However, during the Delai Lama's time 80% or more were serfs. They can't even read their own classics. The same apply to Xinjiang, more people are able to read the Koran than in the Past.

For the matter regarding to cultural and even actual genocide, both Tibeten and Uighur are not restricted by one child policy. Legal system even cheats Uighurs much more lenient than they treat Han in Xinjiang... As about the claim you make about Chinese government forcing Uighur and Han to intermarriage, you better double check your fact and give sufficient evidence(meaning credible source). I am deeply insulted by your comment. My second grade Chinese teacher was my younger sister's Ganma干妈(Godmother in chinese term), I have childhood memories that I sleepover their houses during weekend. My sister and mother visit Xinjiang upon invitation or the Grade School teacher's family's invitation I request an apology, anyway, I don't expect an apology from you... Please have some standard here.

As far as living condition of Uighur in Xinjiang, it is much better than people who live India. According to the Chinese State Council the GDP per capital in Xinjiang in 2009 is 19926rmb or 2917usd(exchange rate in 2009 current exchange rate would put it at $3162). In contrast, according CIA World Factbook, the GDP per capital in 2010(exchange rate) is at $1293.33... This is sad. The Uighur Chinese who live in miserable life actually earn more than their Indian counterpart.

Another fact is India export 3,000 thousand metric tons of Rice every year(Grains rice exports statistics - Countries compared - NationMaster)(not sure if the figure is accurate), this made India the third biggest rice exporter in the world(this is I am sure), while many struggle to fed themselves in India. India is still self-sufficient because people are on healthy diet, people consume much less meat just like other developing nation like China(although meat consumption increase rapidly in recent years in China).

PS: I meant not to offend anyone. I do not like do living standard comparison because country have its own development stage(India's market reform begin about 10 yrs later than China during 1991 crisis). Also, China is a country where majority of people still live in extreme poverty according to Western Standard, things are getting better, but it takes time. I was compelled to make the reply in this manner because of the insult simply got me nut.
 
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Lobsang Tenzin freed in critical condition after 25 years

By Lobsang Wangyal

MCLEOD GANJ, India, 3 May 2013

Lobsang Tenzin, one of the longest-serving political prisoners in Tibet, was released last week, and he is said to be in critical health condition, according to an exile Tibetan group.

On the day of his release on 24 April, he had completed an 18-year term of imprisonment in Chushul Prison in the outskirts of the Tibetan capital, Lhasa, according to Tibetan Centre for Human Rights and Democracy (TCHRD).

He was first arrested on 19 March 1988 for participating in a demonstration in Lhasa protesting against Chinese rule in Tibet. He was then about 24, and a former student of Tibet University in Lhasa. Since then he has been imprisoned in Drapchi, Pawo Tramo and Chushul prisons.

TCHRD reports that his home, at Bhanak Shol in Lhasa, is heavily guarded and monitored by security personnel and other government officials who continue to turn away visitors, among them Lobsang Tenzin's relatives and neighbours.

Exile Tibetans say Lobsang Tenzin was sentenced to death by a Chinese court without a trial. He was charged with the murder of a Chinese policeman during the 5 March 1988 protest in Lhasa. His death sentence was commuted to life in March 1991 due to international pressure, and then in 1994 was reduced to a term of 18 years due to his "good behaviour" in prison.

He has suffered mistreatment and torture at the hands of prison guards, resulting in numerous health complications. He is believed to be suffering from damaged kidneys, hepatitis and diabetes.
http://www.tibetsun.com/news/2013/05/03/lobsang-tenzin-freed-in-critical-condition-after-25-years
 
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China crushing Tibetan dissident groups in Nepal


Wary of dissident Tibetan groups making Nepal a hub for their "anti-China activities", Beijing appears to have taken to squeezing the Himalayan nation on the issue by using its developmental initiatives there as a counter-pressure tactic. China, which already boasts of a wide involvement in Nepal that covers all critical areas including defence, infrastructure development, and cultural activities, is now focusing on taking up development initiatives across Nepalese villages adjoining Tibet, besides liaisoning with Nepalese border authorities and security officials to enhance border security and upgrade police stations at points used by Tibetans to cross into Nepal.

Recent intelligence assessments by the Indian security agencies have drawn the government's attention to attempts by China to "crush" Tibetan activities in Nepal. Nepal is a major shelter destination for Tibetans who cross over in large numbers before proceeding to India or elsewhere. Over the years, many Tibetans have settled in Nepal, leaving Beijing worried that the dissident elements among them may be working against China's interests.

In a bid to thwart such designs, China has proposed to develop some village development committees (VDCs) contiguous to [China-occupied] Tibet, jointly with the Nepalese ministry of physical planning. As per the proposal sent recently to the Nepalese government, China would support basic infrastructure building in some of these VDCs. The project, Indian intelligence agencies' warn, would enable a sizeable Chinese presence in these border VDCs, and also let Beijing exercise control over the crucial border link used by Tibetans to cross into Nepal.

Under the proposed "nationwide assistance programme" awaiting clearance by Nepalese authorities, the Chinese would also provide basic supplies to VDCs in at least 15 border districts.

Incidentally, the Chinese have gone beyond development initiatives to counter the alleged Tibetan "dissident activities" in Nepal. Chinese Embassy officials based in Kathmandu have been regularly visiting border areas, including remote north-western districts like Humla and Mustang, to check the security situation and use their interaction with the Nepalese border authorities to push for tighter monitoring of the Sino-Nepal border. The Chinese officials seek to know the equipment and support mechanism needed for better border security and convey these requirements to Beijing so that they can be factored in future agreements with Nepal.

Another key initiative aimed at greater control over areas bordering Tibet, is China's offer to upgrade police stations along the Sino-Nepal border. Chinese embassy officials, intelligence reports say, had lately visited police stations along the border and made a proposal to renovate them, which is now under consideration in Kathmandu. If accepted, the Chinese side would get a significant say in policing in sensitive border areas. However, what may be more worrisome for India is if China's focus shifts to modernizing police stations along other borders as well.

New Chinese ambassador Wu Chuntai's security background may only help to step up vigilance and counter-efforts against the Tibetan population in Nepal, feel Indian intelligence experts. Chinese security officials have been apprising the Nepalese authorities to be on the lookout for Tibetan groups from India visiting Nepal to "influence" Tibetans settled there.
China crushing Tibetan dissident groups in Nepal .:. Tibet Sun
So much for Peaceful Rise of PRC..
 

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Refrain from statements denigrating Dalai Lama: US to China
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ON THE WEB, 10 May 2013

Asking China to refrain from making statements that denigrate the Dalai Lama and Tibet's unique cultural, linguistic and religious traditions, the United States has said [that] the Tibetans [should] be permitted to express their grievances freely.


"We have asked the Chinese government to refrain from statements that denigrate the Dalai Lama and Tibet's unique cultural, linguistic, and religious traditions," the state department spokesman, Patrick Ventrell, told reporters at his daily news conference yesterday.

"Our lines and our policy (on Tibet) have not changed.
We continue to call on the Chinese government to permit Tibetans to express their grievances freely, publicly, peacefully and without fear of retribution," he said in response to a question.
Refrain from statements denigrating Dalai Lama: US to China .:. Tibet Sun
 

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Global youth group blames China for self-immolations in Tibet
Tibetan Youth Congress President Tsewang Rigzin

By Lobsang Wangyal

ON THE WEB, 12 May 2013

One of the largest global network of youths have condemns China's continued occupation of Tibet and oppression of the Tibetan people, and regards these as the root cause of all the self-immolations by Tibetans.

In a two-day meeting of the World Council of the International Union of Socialist Youth (IUSY) from 8-9 May in the German city of Dortmund, the members called on China to allow an international fact-finding delegation, including UN officials, foreign diplomats, and media, to assess the ground realities in Tibet.

They further called on China to stop harassment, arbitrary arrests and imprisonment of family members, relatives, and friends of Tibetan self-immolators, and to release all political prisoners including 11th Panchen Lama, Gedun Choekyi Nyima.

About 130 youth leaders from around 60 countries were represented in the meeting. The president of the Tibetan Youth Congress, Tsewang Rigzin, represented Tibet.

He presented an in-depth report on the unprecedented number of self-immolations inside Tibet. Rigzin told the delegates that: "Political repression, cultural assimilation, environmental destruction, and economic marginalisation of the Tibetan people by the illegal Communist Chinese regime has led the Tibetan people to resort to the only option left for them to defy the continuing occupation of Tibet and oppression of the Tibetan people".

He urged the youth leaders to lobby their leaders back home to pressure the Chinese government to resolve the issue of Tibet.

A video about the self-immolations in Tibet was screened to further educate the delegates.

IUSY was founded in 1907 and is the largest political youth organisation in the world, with about 150 member organisations from more than 100 countries fighting for change all over the world.

The IUSY World Council is held every two years to determine policies and their implementations, and who controls the activities of the Presidium.
Global youth group blames China for self-immolations in Tibet .:. Tibet Sun
 

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Weakness of the Oppressor and the Aggressor - Leaked document exposes psychological traumas faced by Chinese armed police in Tibet
The Tibetan Centre for Human Rights and Democracy (TCHRD) has got hold of a fascinating manual which exposes the psychological trauma faced by the People's Armed Police (PAP) in Tibet.
I wonder if a similar manual has been distributed to the jawans and officers posted for years opposite the Indian troops in Ladakh (in the Ali [Ngari] Military Sub-Command, under the Xinjiang Military Command of Lanzhou Military Region).

Though not confronted with violence like the PAP in Sichuan or Gansu, the young Han soldiers must have a traumatic psychological life, just because their political bosses in Beijing insist on grabbing a few sq. kilometers more of Indian land.
It is easy to redo the world with 'ifs', but 'if' China was a normal country, 'if' China was a normal neighbour, its leaders would allow others to dream, like President Xi is now exhorting his countrymen to do.
Today in Tibet, Tibetans can't dream.

If China was a normal country, it would be good for the poor PAP's soldiers who do not understand what they are doing in Tibet. It would also be good for China's finances (let us not forget that Beijing's budget for 'internal security' is higher than the Chinese Defence budget).
It would be good too for China's image and good for the Tibetans who only aspire to some 'normal' basic freedoms.
If China was a 'normal' neighbour, its leadership would not pick up fight with most of its neighbours, forcing the latter to increase their defences and put up infrastructure all over the Himalayas.
But it is only 'if'; today, China is not a 'normal' State.

'Weakness of the Oppressor': Leaked document exposes psychological traumas faced by Chinese armed police in Tibet
May 13, 2013
TCHRD has received a Chinese language copy of a manual published by the Sichuan Provincial Political Department of the People's Armed Police Force (PAPF, also called PAP), titled "Guide on Psychiatric Wellbeing While Maintaining Stability" that was circulated among different contingents, detachments and squadrons located at the province, prefecture, and county levels of Sichuan.

The manual contains issues raised during a videoconference meeting held by Sichuan Province People's Armed Police Force regarding the psychological and moral issues arising from stability maintenance work in Tibetan areas. Although the manual was drafted before Xi Jinping's appointment earlier this year, there is no sign that he will change any of his predecessor's policies regarding Tibet.

Experts in psychiatric health departments of armed police hospitals and other relevant organs jointly drafted the 29 questions and answers on how to cope with the violent nature of the PAPF's work in the Tibetan areas of Sichuan Province. The 29 questions and answers focus "on providing guidance to some PAP officers on effectively deal with the common psychological traumas" caused by the horrors of their job in Tibet, and to "further improve the quality of capability of stability-maintenance work in Tibetan areas, particularly the PAP officers and other armed forces who need thorough educational and ideological guidance on their work."
Edited and approved by Fu Wan Xuan, the director of the Sichuan Political Department of PAP and his deputy, Chen li Xue, the manual was drafted by Wang Jun Xiang, Cheng Jian Wei, Xie Lei, Wang Bin , and Zhang Wen Chun, all mental health experts working in military and armed hospitals.


In a broader sense, the manual starkly exposes the falsity of the Chinese government's claim that Chinese rule has 'liberated' and brought happiness to Tibet. Repression and violence not only take a toll on the lives of the repressed but also those who perpetrate it. The casualties of China's "life and death struggle" in Tibet, as exposed by this manual, are the victims and perpetrators alike. Those assigned with stability maintenance work in Tibet struggle with psychological problems as their most fundamental beliefs in right and wrong are twisted, violated and made irrelevant. Scientific studies have pointed out that these psychological symptoms are not limited only to first time officers but also the veterans. In this manual, China speaks mainly of some officers who are psychologically traumatized by their experience of implementing repressive policies sanctioned and supported by the Chinese central government in Beijing.


The manual provides guidance on maintaining the psychological health of PAP forces in Tibetan areas while simultaneously providing instructions for the same PAP forces on how to effectively maintain stability, utilizing the tactics that cause the psychological problems, such as police violence against protestors. Some PAP officers, unable to cope with changed conditions in Tibet, leave or become afflicted with psychological illnesses. The 25-page manual offers advices on the difficulties and doubts harbored by armed police officers in Tibet.

Point 11 in the manual talks about the psychiatric issues faced by some PAP officers who find it impossible to block from their minds images of an armed crackdown.
The manual mentioned the "3/16" incident in Ngaba when Phuntsok, a Tibetan monk, became the second Tibetan to self-immolate and the "3/18 incident of beating, smashing, burning and looting" in Serta (Ch: Seda) and Kardze (Ch: Ganzi) counties. In both these cases, PAP forces flagrantly abused their power and fired indiscriminately into huge crowds of peaceful protesters in Tibet. The level of repression in these areas has only increased since then as Tibetan areas in Sichuan Province remain under rigorous surveillance and blocked to outsiders. Not surprisingly, the manual states that PAP officers who had participated in the "3/16" and "3/18" incidents as well as the violent crackdowns may suffer from nightmares or insomnia as they are reminded of their involvement in such incidents. The small saving grace of the ongoing tragedy in Tibet in this contxt is that there are some armed Chinese officers whose conscience are pricked and morally outraged by the inhumane consequences of their actions.

On the psychological crises suffered by some armed officers when faced with defiant Tibetan protesters, point 16 says:
Some comrades when they see troublemakers challenging them with Tibetan swords and stones lose their composure and become confused and discouraged, while some, when they see [protesting] maroon-robed monks, become uncomfortable and confused. [Some comrades] even fear to react when faced with such situations. Such reactions diminish the strength of armed forces' valour and resolve in punishing [the troublemakers]. This situation is taken very seriously by the armed forces and efforts are made to complete the work successfully.

In this context, it is useful to remember that since 2008, the Chinese government has unleashed the scourge of domestic Chinese nationalism to justify its violent rule in Tibet and thus widening the ethnic hostility between Tibetans and Chinese. Official Chinese media has labeled Tibetans as ungrateful, uncivilized and wild people. Point 16 is an example of the Chinese attempts to instill enmity in the PAP so they will not hesitate to attack Tibetan protestors. This is in stark contrast to the Chinese singing paeans to ethnic unity.


Rather than speaking of ethnic unity, the manual reinforces the myth of wild, fearful Tibetan barbarians in the eyes of the Chinese saying:
No matter how [physically] strong or intimidating the Tibetan separatists may look, we [the armed forces] fulfill the needs of the masses. Under the leadership and support of the Chinese Communist Party, Central Military Commission, and president Hu Jintao, as well as support from the masses, we can fight the battle of maintaining long-term stability in Tibet.
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It should be noted that the increased security build-up and repressive measures in Tibet are implemented with active support from the central government authorities including the Chinese president.
The manual describes the conflicts faced by some PAP officers about the choice of their career after experiencing the "dangerous and complex" work of stability maintenance in Tibet. It says:
The duty of maintaining stability in Tibet is tough, ridden with dangers, full of conflicts, [daily struggle] between death and life in the hailstorm of swords and guns
In the section dealing with the issue of emotional breakdowns and other psychological symptoms suffered by some first-time Chinese officers in Tibet, the manual says:

Many armed officers and soldiers posted for the first time in Tibet to work in stability maintenance become indisposed with psychological problems, including difficulty managing tempers and becoming scared to the point of losing confidence. Particularly during tense standoffs and unexpected incidents, a handful of officers become frozen with fear and paranoia unable to respond in timely fashion.
It further adds:

By clearly recognizing the political strategy [and context] of the stability maintenance work in Tibetan areas, we must ensure the victory of Chinese government and the Chinese state by following the 'three principles', the 'three principles of caution', and the 'six mindsets required during PAP actions'.

However, this rallying call cannot hide the consequences of China's Tibetan policy, which has not only damaged Tibetans but also caused a moral crisis among the very people China relies on to execute their inhumane strategy.
Claude Arpi: Weakness of the Oppressor and the Aggressor

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Street brawl erupts "between Chinese and Tibetans" in Beijing
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ON THE WEB, 13 May 2013
The dissident Chinese artist Ai Weiwei has filmed a fight in China in which dozens of Han Chinese brawled with Tibetans in a street in Beijing.

The artist, who has exhibited at London's Tate Modern but has also had run-ins with Chinese authorities himself, caught the mass bust-up on camera on Sunday.

Witnesses said the scrap was between ethnic Tibetan street vendors and Beijing's native Han restaurant workers.

Police were filmed trying to control the men as they hurled chairs at each other in front of a restaurant on the capital's popular 'Ghost Street'.

Several were shown with bloodied faces.

Nearby, a young woman was shown standing next to an apparently-injured woman lying on the ground.

Once the fight had been mostly dispersed, officers struggled to prevent one group, who onlookers said were Tibetan, from hurling bricks, stones and chairs at the restaurant front.

Mr Ai, China's most famous contemporary artist, said he was out with his mother when he saw the brawl happening at around 5.30pm local time (0930 GMT).

He said the fight appeared to be between security guards at a Sichuanese restaurant and Tibetan vendors who sell jewellery on mobile stands.

Han Chinese witnesses told the Reuters newswire service that the fight had started when security workers refused to allow the vendors to sell on the pavement in front of their restaurant.


Restaurant workers refused to speak to Reuters, and it was not immediately possible to confirm the identities of anyone involved in the incident.

It was also unclear whether any brawlers were arrested or seriously injured.

The restaurant windows had already been replaced on Monday morning, and workers said they were "refurbishing".

Mr Ai was an artistic consultant on the Beijing National Stadium for the 2008 Olympics.

His artwork made up of thousands of sunflower seeds at the Tate Modern in 2010 was seen by an estimated 3.4 million people.

He has been openly critical of the Chinese government's stance on democracy and human rights. In 2011, he was held for more than two months despite no charges being filed.

The footage is just the latest incident in a long history of tension between Tibetans and Han Chinese.

Many of those living in Tibet feel deep resentment that the region, in China's south, is being occupied by ever-increasing numbers of Han migrants since the Chinese government moved to make travel there easier.


The Chinese government, based in the capital Beijing, regards Tibet as underdeveloped and has spoken of the need to increase the standard of living for those living there.
Street brawl erupts “between Chinese and Tibetans” in Beijing .:. Tibet Sun
 

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How long could civilian Tibetans could withstand before armed Han Chinese? :hmm:
 

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Xi Jinping meets the Tibetan Delegation at the NPC
A few days back, I mentioned on this blog that Lobsang Sangay, the 'Prime Minister' of the Tibetan government-in-exile had stated in Washington DC that he accepted: "the Communist Party's rule in Tibet".
This raises several questions which should be debated by the Tibetan Diaspora.
In the context, it is however interesting to look at a report of the first encounter between the newly-elected CCP's General Secretary and a Tibetan delegation.
Ma Haoliang, one of the Beijing correspondents of the Hong Kong newspaper, Ta Kung Pao provided a detailed report of Xi Jinping's visit to the Tibet delegation at the National People's Conference on March 9, 2013.
Ma was apparently present during the event.
Xi Jinping made the following points:

Xi Jinping offered the pledge that his new leadership group would pay the same close attention to Tibet as previous leadership groups and would continue to emphasize "the maintenance of stability and leap-frog style development" (weihu wending 維護穩定and kuayueshi fazhan 跨越式發展) following China's own special pathway and according to Tibet's special characteristics.
Xi however cautioned that there can be no stability in Tibet without economic development. A constant vigilance must be exercised vis-a-vis ethnic problems, sensitive religious issues and sudden waves of Tibet independence sentiment.
Xi affirmed that China will not bend to the pressure produced by collusion between foreign hostile forces and those seeking Tibet independence.
Xi stated that the special characteristics of Tibet must be respected with even greater protection to its culture and religious faith as well as continuous support for its rapid, leap-frog economic development.
The Party's General Secretary remarked how impressed he was by Tibet during his July 2011 trip for the 60th anniversary of Tibet's 'peaceful liberation'.

Ma Haoliang, the journalist says that Wang Huning [1], Chang Xiaobing [2] and Ding Zhongli [3] were present during Xi's visit to the Tibetan Delegation at the NPC. He explained that they were members of the TAR delegation because they represented three faces of the vital Aid Tibet program, i.e., Central Government aid, economic aid and scientific aid.
Xi also noted that a large number of senior officials attending the March Twin Meetings in Beijing are presently, or have in the past, directly shouldered responsibilities in Tibet issues; he says that the numbers will only increase in the future insuring that the Centre will continue to pay close attention to this region.
The Hong Kong newspaper then mentions the connection of Xi's father with Tibet (the reporter may have been informed by Wang Huning or Li Zhanshu [4] of the relations between Xi Sr. and Tibet).
The article quotes Xi Zhongxun who was said to be close to the 10th Panchen Lama and who interacted with the Dharamsala delegations in the 1980s when he was responsible for United Front Work.
Xi Zhongxun was quoted as saying to the Tibetans from Dharamsala, "It is not possible speak about Tibet as a 'nation'."
He would have also said "Calling for a high degree of autonomy cannot be entertained. You must change this attitude of yours. We definitely are not on the same wavelength."
Xi Sr. would also told the delegations: "You people are still raising something called a Greater Tibet Autonomous Region. This fundamentally is not a reality and also is an impossible demand."

Two days (March 11), the meeting was reported by Radio Lhasa: "Xi Jinping joins TAR delegation's group discussion".
Here the 'official' comments on the meeting:

On March 11, TAR party committee Secretary and TAR delegation leader Chen Quanguo convened a meeting of TAR delegates to the 1st session of 12th NPC and read out and studied the spirit of the important speech given by General Secretary Xi Jinping during his participation in the group discussion of TAR delegates.
Chen Quanguo said, "We must treat studying, publicizing and implementing the spirit of the important speech of the General Secretary as a vital political task for the present and the near future and seriously study and intensively implement it collectively to gain ideological unity with the spirit of the important speech of the General Secretary.
Uniform arrangements must be made for the Central Committee's strategy on Tibet affairs, use the General Secretary's speech to ideological arm and guide implementation and boost work.
With clear priorities the nature of the spirit should be understood, the development path with Chinese characteristics and Tibetan characteristics must be followed to achieve speedy economic and social development people's life must be improved and protected and efforts made to en able the masses to lead a happier and beautiful new life.
National unity must be strengthened and developed resolutely, the masses of divergent nationalities should be encouraged to share same fortune and same ideology, and co-exist in harmony and resolve problems with united spirit.
Basic work for long term stability should be carried out successfully and continued stability, consistent stability and over all stability of TAR must be protected. Building cadres force should be strengthened and the fine tradition of talking less and working more, working with dedication and not leaving till results are achieved should be promoted and relations between the party and masses of divergent nationalities should be strengthened. The foundation of the Party's rule in Tibet should be strengthened so that the important goal of building moderately prosperous society by 2020 along with the entire nation can be achieved.
The saying, "Empty talk leads to downfall of the state and practical work leads to growth of the state and practical work leads to growth of the state, must be borne in mind and in accordance with the reality of Tibet responsibility should be increased, methods adopted, tasks divided and implemented to carry out precise development and stability. New steps should be adopted to promote scientific development and swift development, achieve new success in improving people's life, new progress should be achieved in boosting and strengthening national unity, new outlook given to protecting social harmony and stability and new look given to strengthening building of the party".
Chen Quanguo stressed that everyone in TAR, from top to bottom, should regard implementation of General Secretary Xi Jinping's important speech as the nerving force and seek truth from fact, be pragmatic, persevere and overcome limitations and through swift development and long term stability make the party central committee led by general secretary Xi Jinping satisfied and create happiness for the masses of divergent nationalities. The province level TAR leaders in Lhasa also held meeting and released and studied the important speech given by General Secretary Xi Jinping during his participation in the group discussion of TAR delegation.


[1] Wang Huning became member of the Politburo of the 18th CPC Central Committee in November 2012.
[2] Chang Xiaobing served as director of the telecommunications administration department of the Ministry of Information Industry until 2004; he was then appointed as chairman of China Unicom (China United Telecommunications Corporation Limited) in that same year.
[3] Ding Zhongli is presently the director of the Institute of Geology and Geophysics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. He also serves as vice-chairman of the Chinese Quaternary Science Committee. In 2008, he became vice-president of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2008.
[4] In 2012, Li Zhanshu became Director of the General Office of the CPC Central Committee; he is a member of the Politburo of the 18th CPC Central Committee.
Claude Arpi: Xi Jinping meets the Tibetan Delegation at the NPC
 

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Tibet and China's territorial integrity
Agence France-Presse (AFP) recently reported from Washington DC that Lobsang Sangay, the Prime Minister of the Tibetan government-in-exile had declared that he accepted: "the Communist Party's rule in Tibet".
According to AFP, during a visit to Washington, Sangay assured Beijing that "[China] will face no threat to its sovereignty if it eased its grip [on Tibet]".
Sangay said that Dharamsala was "not challenging China's sovereignty or territorial integrity" though the exiled Administration wanted greater autonomy: "What we seek is genuine autonomy as per the framework of the Chinese constitution. ...In short, if the Chinese government implements their own law, we would take that as genuine autonomy. That, we think, is a moderate, reasonable solution which is a win-win proposition both for the Chinese government and the Tibetan people."
The AFP quoted Barry Sautman, a social scientist who studies Tibetan issues at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, who believed that Sangay's remarks indicated that "the Tibetan government-in-exile had moved away from its [earlier] position. "¦The Tibetan government-in-exile wants to appear reasonable and engage in discussion."
Sangay is naïve when he states that he assumes that Tibetans could get "decision-making positions in the region - notably Party Secretary"; adding that "he was not challenging the structure of the ruling party." He is probably the only Tibetan to believe this.
Jiang Zhaoyong, a Beijing-based expert on ethnic issues told the AFP: "Beijing will not take his remarks seriously and make significant change."
Many in Dharamsala will be relieved by this comment.
While Sangay is preaching a rapprochement with the Communist regime, the Party continues its attack on the Dalai Lama.
Cui Yuying, a Tibetan national holding the senior post in the Chinese Government (deputy director of the State Council Information Office) told some visiting Nepalese and Indian journalists: "The [Tibetans] respect [the Dalai Lama] culturally and in their religion, but they don't agree with his political ideology."
The Tibetan lady-official told PTI: "The Dalai Lama has been living in India as a guest. The Indian government has said that it will not allow the Dalai Lama to indulge in any political activity. China has full confidence in [the Indian Government]." She added that Tibetans in exile were welcome to return to Tibet 'on an individual basis'.
Is Lobsang Sangay ready to listen to his countrywoman Cui, and 'try' the Communist regime's rule on the Roof of the World?
It is doubtful that there will be many takers in Dharamsala.
Tibetan author Bhuchung D. Sonam commented on Sangay's statement, "[it] contradicts two of the fundamental principles that his administration stands for – the Middle Way policy and democracy. The basic premise of the Middle Way policy is neither to seek separation from China 'nor accept the present conditions of Tibet under the People's Republic of China'. "¦Currently the CCP trumps over the rule of law and China's constitution exists to serve the party. The Middle Way policy "¦does not accept the over-lordship of the Chinese Communist Party as the prime minister seems to suggest."
Further, the Communist leadership can always argue that they have already started implementing the devolution of power. Beijing will say that the Standing Committee of the CCP's Tibetan Autonomous Region already consists of 7 Han and 6 Tibetans: (in order of precedence: Chen Quanguo, Han, Secretary; Jampa Phuntsog, Tibetan, Deputy Secretary; Padma Choling, Tibetan, Deputy Secretary; Lobsang Gyaltsen, Tibetan, Deputy Secretary; Wu Yingjie, Han, Executive Deputy Secretary; Deng Xiaogang, Han, Deputy Secretary; General Yang Jinshan, Han, Member; Jin Shubo, Han, Member; Gungpo Tashi, Tibetan, Member; Chodak, Tibetan, Member; Norbu Dhondup, Tibetan, Member; Dong Yunhu, Han, Member; Liang Tiangeng, Han, Member).
What would Lobsang Sangay do if he was co-opted into the above group? As long as the Party exists, it is difficult to see 'democracy' being introduced on the Roof of the World or in the Middle Kingdom. Without democracy a 'genuine' solution seems a mere chimera.

China's sovereignty or territorial integrity
But much more serious for India, Sangay said that Dharamsala will "not challenge China's sovereignty or territorial integrity"?
What does it mean?
When Chinese troops entered Daulat Beg Oldi (DBO) in Ladakh, Beijing said it was China's territory. Is Lobsang Sangay ready to accept this definition of China's of 'territorial integrity'?
Take another example: Okinawa. Recently The People's Daily published an article arguing that China has 'ownership' rights over the Ryukyu islands' chain, which includes Okinawa island, where several US bases are located. The Chinese scholars argued that the agreement between Japan and the Allied Forces during the World War II, giving the ownership of the Ryukyu Islands to Japan, should be questioned.
Zhang Haipeng and Li Guoqiang of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences wrote: "It may be time to revisit the unresolved historical issue of the Ryukyu Islands."
Later asked if China considered Okinawa part of Japan, Hua Chunying, the Chinese Foreign Ministry spokeswoman just said scholars had long studied the history of the Ryukyus and Okinawa.
Will the Tibetans support by Beijing's position on China's 'territorial integrity vis-avis Japan?
Closer to us is Arunachal Pradesh; China claims the entire state of Arunachal Pradesh as its own territory [i.e. Southern Tibet]. Does it mean that Dharamsala will not "challenge China's sovereignty or territorial integrity"?
Will the Tibetans deny that they had signed an agreement with India in 1914 delineating their common border (at least in India's North-East).
Let us not forget that most of the Chinese claims along the 4,000 km Sino-Indian border (which was the Indo-Tibet border till 1954), are based on what used to be Tibetan 'incursions' south of the McMahon line in Tawang, Lohit, Siang and Subansari sectors. What will be the Tibetan position, if they do not want to challenge China's territorial claims?
What about the relatively less-known central sector? For example, the Chinese claims in Barahoti (called Wuje by China) in Uttarakhand are based on the occasional 'visit' by some Tibetan herders south of the Himalayan watershed in the area; ditto for the nearby valleys of Sangchamalla and Lapthal.
The Nilang/Jadhang in the Jadh Ganga valley, north of Gangotri, also claimed by China because some Tibetan tax-collectors would have occasionally entered before 1950 what has always been part of the Tehri State. Beijing has also claimed the Hupsang Khud, west of Shipki Pass, in Kinnaur district of Himachal Pradesh. In a new set up, will the Tibetans side with the People's Republic of China in their territorial claims?
Another serious issue is that under the Middle Path scheme advocated by Lobsang Sangay, 'foreign affairs and defence' would be under the Central Government, while the local Tibetan government would enjoy a 'genuine' autonomy in subjects like culture or education.
In such a scheme, in the case of a 'stand-off' such as the recent one in Ladakh or a larger conflict like in 1962, what will the stand of the Tibetans be?
Will they challenge China's position or will they side with India which has generously granted them asylum for more than 50 years? It is a valid question.
Lobsang Sangay's statement has extremely serious implications for India's territorial integrity. He should certainly clarify his position.
A last side issue: since he ascended to the Middle Kingdom's throne, the new Emperor Xi Jinping has proclaimed the Great Dream of China: 'The China Dream will bring blessings and goodness to not only the Chinese people but also people in other countries.' The Chinese intrusion in Ladakh certainly did not fit with what India had understood of Xi's Dream.
This brings another question: do the Tibetans have a Dream?
It can't be to live under the yoke of the Communist Party of China.
Most of the 120 Tibetans who immolated themselves certainly had a Dream: "To see a Free Tibet in their next lives".
 

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You must remember the majority of tibetans are not living in Tibets, they are in other parts of China.They are free to move anywhere in the country just as
many hans are moving into Tibet.Everytime there is opening of a new economic zone or frontier,many people move there to seek their fortune.The western press
love to potrray this as the deliberate "dilution" to displace the local people.Another good example is the island province of Hainan that now has so
mainlanders that in the capital Haikou you find half the population are not locals.
Here in the US,the hispanic population in many states have outstripped the white population,especially in the south.There is no law saying that cubans
cannot gather in Miami.As a nation ,we should stop looking at race as a dividing factor.There are many nations that are multi-ethnic like Brazil and Malaysia
and they manage to keep country whole and progressive.
When riots broke out in Xinjiang,Erdogan,the Turkish screamed "genocide" without even knowing the truth on the ground.After a few hundresds deaths,mostly
han,who commited genocide ?It is a handfull of radicals!The govt. prosecuted those involved and is very sensitive to backlash and media reports
if not handled properly.The riots have since died
The same goes for Tibet. The western press never miss an opportunity to paint China in a bad light.Just like the radicals in Xinjiang who caused trouble,
there are also similar elements in Tibet that are subversive, but the majority of the people do not subscribe to their agenda. If they do,both Xinjiang
and Tibet would still be war zones still. They are not.It is peaceful.
One must remember China has over 50 ethnic minorities and on the whole they have lived together in harmony better than in India.
 

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How long could civilian Tibetans could withstand before armed Han Chinese? :hmm:
You should ask: how long could an ordinary tibetan withstand in front of modern living style which can only be provided by Han Chinese.
 

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You must remember the majority of tibetans are not living in Tibets, they are in other parts of China.They are free to move anywhere in the country just as
many hans are moving into Tibet.Everytime there is opening of a new economic zone or frontier,many people move there to seek their fortune.The western press
love to potrray this as the deliberate "dilution" to displace the local people.Another good example is the island province of Hainan that now has so
mainlanders that in the capital Haikou you find half the population are not locals.
Here in the US,the hispanic population in many states have outstripped the white population,especially in the south.There is no law saying that cubans
cannot gather in Miami.As a nation ,we should stop looking at race as a dividing factor.There are many nations that are multi-ethnic like Brazil and Malaysia
and they manage to keep country whole and progressive.
When riots broke out in Xinjiang,Erdogan,the Turkish screamed "genocide" without even knowing the truth on the ground.After a few hundresds deaths,mostly
han,who commited genocide ?It is a handfull of radicals!The govt. prosecuted those involved and is very sensitive to backlash and media reports
if not handled properly.The riots have since died
The same goes for Tibet. The western press never miss an opportunity to paint China in a bad light.Just like the radicals in Xinjiang who caused trouble,
there are also similar elements in Tibet that are subversive, but the majority of the people do not subscribe to their agenda. If they do,both Xinjiang
and Tibet would still be war zones still. They are not.It is peaceful.
One must remember China has over 50 ethnic minorities and on the whole they have lived together in harmony better than in India.
There are a couple of misrepresentation of facts in your post.

Firstly, it is immensely difficult to know what is happening in China because of the tight control over the media, be it Chinese or foreign.

Whenever there is any problem/ riot/ unrest, the area is sealed off to all, to include Chinese as also foreigners.

That apart, the Justice system is so arbitrary that one cannot speak out one's mind. Those who do are 'set right'.

Therefore, the issue of 50 ethnic minorities are living in harmony than in India is patently a statement that is beyond verification.

In China, unlike the US, moving around of people is not that easy, even though the Hokou system has been relaxed, and that too, not for any other reason, but to have cheap labour from the rural areas. even now, migrant workers are prevented from accessing social services in the city they're working in.

That is hardly the 'moving around' comparable to India, or for that matter, the US.

Many Hans are not 'moving into' Tibet or Xinjiang. They are moving as per President Jiang Zemin.'Go West' diktat.

About 2.5 million Han arrived in Xinjiang between the late 1990s and the late 2000s. Han settlers get free transportation, insurance, housing and help finding jobs and starting businesses.

Beijing has loosened immigration rules and offers tax incentives to encourage Han Chinese to head to Tibetan and Xinjiang to open new businesses. In many Xinjiang cities, Chinese live in modern apartment blocks while Uighurs live in run-down mud-brick homes.

It might interest you that phrases like "Han only" and "No ethnic minorities" routinely appear in classified job ads. The Los Angeles Times reported a job listing in a government-rum employment agency that went: "Room service staff needed. 18-40 year old. Junior high school degree required. Han only."
(some of the facts are from XINJIANG AND CHINA: POLICIES, SETTLERS, SEGREGATION, DEVELOPMENT AND GO WEST)

As reported in The Washington Post , the fate of Tibetan culture has taken on a new urgency in recent months since the World Bank approved a $160 million loan, over U.S. and German objections, that included millions to help move 58,000 people, including some Han Chinese, onto land claimed as traditionally Tibetan.

Opponents charge that the resettlement, designed to give farmers from an overpopulated region access to more land and water, will speed the assimilation of Tibetans, a deeply religious people whose language, world view and customs differ sharply from the Chinese. Controversy around the project grew in August when Chinese authorities detained American activist Daja Meston, an Australian, and a Tibetan interpreter after they traveled near the project's proposed site in Dulan county. While in police custody, Meston jumped from a window and broke his back. He was later released and after treatment at a Boston hospital is now recovering at his home in Massachusetts.

Overall it is obvious that the policies originally designed to eliminate the socio-economic grievances of the local populations produce the opposite effect. The impressive economic growth of the regions is much less impressive than it seems in pure numbers. Development rates are high because of the extensiveness,
not the intensity, of the development,48 and the benefits of this growth are not divided equally either: 'while the standard of living of the Hans has risen manifold,
the living standards of the native people remain static'.49 In short, state economic policies can be characterised as 'non-engaging', meaning that they 'have been
imposed rather than negotiated, and are designed to benefit the center rather than the region'.

Preferential policies and investment programmes do not achieve the initial purpose of overcoming ethnic resistance by satisfying their economic needs since they mainly benefit Han; they create the appearance that the state is making efforts to help the backward regions and serve as a Trojan horse to attract more Han to those regions.
http://www.lfpr.lt/uploads/File/2012-28/Kutkauskaite.pdf

Han Migrant Influx Threatens Uyghur Farms (Uyghur Service, Radio Free Asia, March 11, 2013)


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Excerpt: The growing number of migrants has led to Uyghurs increasingly losing land and job opportunities to their Han counterparts who benefit from generous government subsidies, Uyghur farmers in Xinjiang told RFA's Uyghur Service. They said that government incentives for Han Chinese include grants for seeds and fertilizers, free farm equipment and other opportunities to defray the costs of farming that Uyghurs are denied access to
Reports from Xinjiang: Incoming Chinese Pres. Xi to Inherit Major Ethnic Crisis, Instability : ISLAMiCommentary

So, the so called unfettered 'moving around' that you are professing is not that simplistic and pure as you would like all to believe.
 
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You should ask: how long could an ordinary tibetan withstand in front of modern living style which can only be provided by Han Chinese.
Han Chinese are not there to provide "modern living style"... you are there to LOOT Tibet land.
 
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Han Chinese are not there to provide "modern living style"... you are there to LOOT Tibet land.
China is a great looter.

They loot wherever it is possible

China 'looting' Africa of its fishing

Just 9% of the millions of tonnes of fish caught by China's giant fishing fleet in African and other international waters is officially reported to the UN, say researchers using a new way to estimate the size and value of catches.

Fisheries experts have long considered that the catches reported by China to the UN's Food and Agriculture Organization (UNFAO) are low but the scale of the possible deception shocked the authors.

"The study shows the extent of the looting of Africa, where so many people depend on seafood for basic protein. We need to know how many fish have been taken from the ocean in order to figure out what we can catch in the future," says Daniel Pauly, at the University of British Columbia (UBC). "Countries need to realize the importance of accurately recording and reporting their catches and step up to the plate, or there will be no fish left for our children."

The alleged gross misrepresentation of the official Chinese catch suggests that many countries are being systematically cheated, leaving them unable to devise effective management plans to conserve stocks. The long term implications for food security could be severe because many millions of people in developing countries depend on fish both for their livelihoods and for their diets.

But a spokesman for the UNFAO, the agency that keeps track of global fisheries catches, disputed the new figures. "The estimates in this paper of Chinese catches off west Africa are far too high."


In their new study, scientists at UBC estimate that China's "distant water" fleet of 3,400 vessels catches 4.1m tonnes of fish every year, worth $11.5bn, from the coastal waters of 93 countries. But the Chinese government, says the report, tells the UNFAO that its vessels only took an average of 368,000 tonnes a year from 2000-2011.

The team of 20 researchers calculated the number of Chinese vessels fishing in international waters by consulting news reports, online articles and local fishery experts and estimated that nearly 75% of all the fish caught by Chinese vessels came from African waters, with almost 3m tonnes a year from west Africa.

According to the UNFAO, the west African coast has some of the world's most abundant fishing grounds, but almost all are fully or over-exploited by international fishing fleets.

The FAO spokesman said the estimated 3m tonne take by China off west Africa was on the same scale as the total catch of all 22 west African coastal states and 38 foreign nations fishing in the region in combined. He noted that unregulated catches are by definition unreported but said the "best" estimate for these was less than 560,000 tonnes a year.

If Chinese vessels are taking far more fish than suspected, it would mean that many poor countries are losing tens of millions of dollars, having signed contracts with Chinese companies to catch far fewer fish. However, the study does not try to estimate the amount of illegal fish caught by Chinese vessels.

According to Greenpeace, sub-Saharan Africa is now the only region on earth where per capita fish consumption is falling, largely because foreign fishing fleets have removed so much fish.

Public pressure both in Europe and in developing countries has forced European fleets to stop fishing in some west African coastal waters, but Chinese vessels have moved in, to the consternation of local fishing fleets.

"Chinese agreements are generally the most private and secretive and are often only known to a few individuals within a host country's ministry," says the report.

"China hasn't been forthcoming about its fisheries catches," says Dirk Zeller, a co-author of the study. "While not reporting catches doesn't necessarily mean the fishing is illegal—there could be agreements between these countries and China that allow fishing—we simply don't know for sure as this information just isn't available."

The authors estimated that 345 Chinese ocean-going vessels fish African waters with several thousand others working in Pacific waters. Some of the fish is sold on the international market but much is returned to China. The only large regions of the world where Chinese distant water vessels do not operate are the Arctic, the Caribbean and the coasts of North America and Europe.


China 'looting' Africa of its fish
 

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Video: A rare glimpse inside Tibet at a time of unwelcome change
Video: A rare glimpse inside Tibet at a time of unwelcome change

Western reporters have had scant access to the Chinese province of Tibet since 2008, when a series of protests and riots calling for greater autonomy coincided with the Beijing Olympics. China, wanting to tamp down the protests and avoid more international criticism, shut down most foreign access to Tibet. The rise of self-immolations by Tibetans has not made Beijing any more eager to open up the province, which is being flooded by Chinese migrants from the ethnic Han majority.
It was a big deal, then, when France24 reporter Cyril Payen secured a visa to visit the province. He interviewed a number of Tibetans, who spoke with surprising candor about Chinese oppression, a lack of religious freedoms and a fear that inflowing Chinese migrants will erase their ancient culture. Payen says the Tibetan capital of Lhasa feels like "an Orwellian world of surveillance, like a city under occupation."
"We don't have any freedoms or human rights today," a young activist tells the reporter, agreeing to meet only for a moment in a busy market. She says of her Buddhist belief that the Dalai Lama is sacred, "If we said that, then we would be put in jail."
Payen also visits the construction around the Jokhang Temple, a U.N. world heritage site that is considered the most sacred building in Tibet. Controversially, Chinese officials are building a shopping plaza there, part of a larger construction boom in Lhasa that activists say is destroying the city's heritage.
The reporter also visits with a Tibetan monk who says he's afraid to leave the monastery. Payen signs off by calling the Tibetan capital "a shadow of what it once was.
 

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Plan for Dalai Lama to visit Hong Kong may fall prey to Beijing's meddling
A religious group has invited the Dalai Lama to Hong Kong in September and is confident that the trip will go ahead, despite the tensions between the Tibetan spiritual leader and the mainland's government.

Philip Li Koi-hop, chairman of the Hong Kong Tibetan and Han-Chinese Friendship Association, said he has visited the Dalai Lama four times in India between 2009 and 2011.

"One time I asked him if he wanted to come to Hong Kong. He answered 'Yes', and said a University of Hong Kong professor had invited him earlier. But the Hong Kong government rejected the visit," Li said yesterday.

Li sent his current invitation to the 77-year-old spiritual leader following his return from his latest visit.

The Dalai Lama's office has not yet given him a reply, but Li said that was normal protocol.

Li hopes to use media pressure to urge the Dalai Lama to come to Hong Kong as well as to lean on the Immigration Department to allow the visit.

But political scientist Dr James Sung Lap-kung of City University said the invitation would prompt Beijing to meddle in Hong Kong's affairs.

He said the central government had taken a "hardline approach" to the Dalai Lama for a long time and that the chances it would suddenly soften its stance to allow the visit were slim.

Li has applied to the Immigration Department to allow the Dalai Lama to visit the city, but it has not given an answer. It has said only that it processes all applications according to the law and current immigration policy.

It said it would consider all factors related to an application before making a final decision.

Li says that if the exiled leader is allowed to enter Hong Kong, his visit will represent significant progress in easing tensions with Beijing. He says he is confident that the Dalai Lama will be able to make the trip.

The association has also sent letters to authorities on the mainland, and to President Xi Jinping, about the proposed visit. It has yet to receive a reply.

The 14th Dalai Lama was named in 1950, a year after the founding of the People's Republic of China. He has not returned to Tibet since a failed uprising against Chinese rule in 1959.
Plan for Dalai Lama to visit Hong Kong may fall prey to Beijing’s meddling .:. Tibet Sun
 

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Han Chinese are not there to provide "modern living style"... you are there to LOOT Tibet land.
Sorry, their beloved Dalai Lama had sold their land centuries ago to us, we can't loot sth what belongs to me!
 

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