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Dalai Lama does not represent all Tibetan or Tibetan Buddhism and he has lots of enemies, even within Tibetan Buddhism. Enclosed photo showing a demonstration against Dalai Lama by Tibetan Buddhism Monks in Germany. In this photo many Germans(like many of us) were very much surprised.

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"Nonviolence" in the mouth of "Dalai Lama"

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On July 1, 2006 Qinghai-Tibet Railway put into operation

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In this world today everywhere is full of hatred, greed, terrorism and nature disaster.

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U.K. <<Guardian>>: Down with the Dalai Lama

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Interview: Abolishing Tibetan feudal serfdom equates to ending slavery in U.S

2008-07-24 10:31:00

There is no difference between the abolishing of feudal serfdom in Tibet and the ending of slavery in the United States, a senior Chinese Tibetologist said Monday.

Many Americans understand neither the history and the current situation in Tibet, nor China's Tibet policies, which always lead to wrong judgment on Tibet-related issues, especially when they are influenced by "one-sided" information, Tobdrub Wangben, vice minister of China's State Commission for Ethnic Affairs, said in an interview with Xinhua before leaving the United States for Canada.

"When I told Larry Seabrook, current New York City councilman from District 12 in New York City, that the abolishing of the feudal serfdom in Tibet in the 1950s is the same as the ending of the slavery system in the United States, Seabrook understood quite well what I was driving at," he said.

After hearing a brief introduction about the situation in Tibet and the facts of the March 14 riots in Lhasa, Seabrook offered to help Americans improve their understanding of Tibet by arranging them to visit Tibet and form their own opinion.

"If we could tell Americans as much as possible about the truth on Tibet, many of them could change their stereotyped ideas about Tibet," said Tobdrub Wangben, head of a four-member Chinese Tibetologist delegation, which arrived in New York last Thursday to promote understanding on the Tibet issue.

Harboring the hope that the delegation could tell more truth on Tibet to the American public, Tobdrub Wangben said regular and frequent exchanges of ideas between the two peoples are fairly important.

The U.S. tour was quite fruitful as many U.S. officials and legislators said that what they heard about Tibet was different from what they had heard in the past, he added.

Therefore, Tobdrub Wangben said, they expressed hope that more delegations of this kind would come to the United States and exchange ideas with the American public on a regular basis.

"The American public has shown great interest in Tibet, and of course, we will come back and satisfy their demands," he said.

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The changed and unchanged 'Shangri-La'

2008-12-02 10:54:00

Quite a lot of people care about China's "Tibet issues", there is always a "Shangri-La" with oriental mystery, shadowiness and idealism flashing in their minds.

Tibet indeed has such mystery: spectacular scene of snow land plateau, unique language culture, long aged Tibetan Buddhism¡&endash;however, sometimes it's easy to ignore a basic fact if let the imagination spread freely beyond the practice, that is, the story of "Shangri-La" still took place in the earth, and it happens following basic axiom.

A Canadian historian A. Tom Grunfeld wrote in his book "The making of modern Tibet" that Tibet is "a land so wrapped in obscurity that almost any fantastic tales about it, or allegedly from it, are received with awe and believed, unquestioningly, by countless individuals the world over. A land whose society and history have been so romantically homogenized that many call themselves "experts" after reading a mere handful of texts, assuming that the uniformity of these accounts indicates their accuracy".

However, history records the old Tibet with irrefutable facts that it was not the "Shangri-La" as people imagined. There were one million people living in Lhasa in 1950s, 900,000 of whom were homeless. There were only 20,000 people living in urban areas in Lhasa. More than 1,000 needy people and baggers were seen on streets. An elder Tibetan told "At that time, there were many people fighting with dogs for food on streets in Lugu in the southwest of Jokhang Temple". Nowadays, Tibetan people have much longer life expectancy with current 67 years old from 35.5 years old in the old Tibet. The economy keeps fast development for the past 7 years with double digits increase rate above 12%.

Compared the old Tibet with the one after peaceful liberation, which is the truly "Shangri-La", it is not so hard to make the conclusion.

Protecting the unique culture of "Shangri-La" never means to protect wildness and backwardness. The culture protection in Tibet must adapt to the development, progress, union and happiness of the whole Tibetan people. Only the Tibetan culture can be better protected at the same time of economic development and life improvement, not going back to the darkness of caesaropapism and feudal serfdom system.

As a matter of fact, to better protect Tibetan culture, Chinese central government has put significant fund on the maintenance of the Potala Palace, Norbu Lingka and Sagya Monastery. A more than ever maintenance project for 22 monasteries and ancient culture constructions will be implemented from this year. China also sets up department specifically for correction and publication of different versions of Tibetan Tripitaka... For protecting the blue sky and clean water in Tibet, Chinese government will allocate 22 billion yuan from now to build more than 160 ecological environmental protection project.

Today's Tibet takes much care on its invaluable culture features, which is the unchanged "Shangri-La". Today's Tibet also puts great efforts on moving forward and getting rid of backwards and unwisdom, which is the changed "Shangri-La".

"Change" is a well sounded slogan in today's world, no matter in America or in Europe, people often hear the words: We need change. For Tibet, "Shangri-La" is inheriting the traditions in the unchanged, embracing the future in the change.

*Based on article written by Ye Xiaowen, director of State Administration for Religious Affairs of China.

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The Dalai Lama, killer of Tibetans' dream of Shangri-La

2008-12-09 09:26:00

A glimpse into the Dalai Lama's final years in Tibet, before his fleeing China in 1959, will allow people to form a clear mind picture of what Tibet was like under the rein of "His Holiness"- In 1956, the Dalai Lama, with the pretext that the central government "would soon move on Lhasa," issued an appeal for gold and jewels to construct another throne for himself. This, he argued, would help rid Tibet of "bad omens." One hundred and twenty tons were collected. When the Dalai Lama fled to India in 1959, he was preceded by more than 60 tons of treasure.

Till 1959, Tibet's Buddhist monastic nobility represented by the Dalai Lama and other Tibetan elites had long controlled all land in the Himalaya region on behalf of the "gods." In a then society of feudal serfdom and slavery, much the way as the medieval Catholic Church exploited peasants in feudal Europe, they monopolized Tibet's wealth by exacting tribute and labor services from serfs and herders. Tibetan serfs and herders had little personal freedom. Without the permission of the priests, or lamas, they could not do anything, and were considered appendages to the monastery.

The Dalai Lama was the most supreme and powerful serf owner, and any subordinate acting against the supreme was considered rebel and could be brutally mutilated or killed immediately. Shrouded in the darkness of theocracy, old Tibet was backward in both economy and culture, and the Tibetan people lived in dire poverty while enormous wealth accumulated in the monasteries and in the Dalai Lama's palace in Lhasa.

Shangri-La, "the paradise on the earth," as a fanciful land to many and an eternal myth which can always conjure up people's imagination about all beauty and serenity, was in those days literally a "lost paradise" to ordinary Tibetans, where they were deprived of even the basic living conditions. The Dalai Lama, however, did nothing for the general good of the Tibetan society, instead, he and the leading few tried desperately to solidify the exploitative system in the name of defending Tibetan culture and religion. Once they felt their privileges threatened, they would forgo the disguise of deity and even turn to violence.

Throughout these years, the words "democracy" and "human rights" have found their way in the vocabulary of the "government-in-exile," operating out of Dharamsala in India. But the Dalai Lama's commitment to democracy seems brittle, as he has yet to recognize the separation of church and state as a "modern democratic principle". Even worse, as a political figure clad in saffron, the Dalai Lama has for years ceaselessly lobbied around to rally the international support for his so-called 'Greater Tibet autonomy,' but in actually, "Tibetan independence" in a disguised form. The hypocritical nature of the Dalai Lama and the "government-in-exile" was further exposed by its relationship with the U.S CIA, and its wicked plots within the Chinese territory to seed and incite the ethnic feud among the Tibetans, which is doomed to a failure, as more and more Tibetan people begin to realize only through stability and common prosperity, can a real Shangri-La descend upon the snow-capped plateau.

In recent days, the poor shows staged by the "government-in-exile" and its affiliate "Tibetan Youth Congress" have gone far beyond redemption, and their secessionist nature is discerning to anyone with the rational thinking, Tibetan people inclusive. In the ordinary Tibetans' mind, the dreamy land, Shangri-La, means a common blessing shared by all, not a sort of paradise accommodating merely the happy few. But a place of common happiness in Tibetans' dream is by no means the thing that the Dalai Lama would and could bring to them.

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No one knows about Tibet better than the people from India

<<The Hindu>> Journalist first-hand Tibet visit experience:

Social well-being a striking aspect of life in modern Tibet

| by: Parvathi Menon | From: The Hindu

2008-08-28 14:16:00

Life has changed beyond recognition since 1959, when the system of monastic feudalism presided over by the Dalai Lama was overthrown and over a million serfs were set free.

In what used to be the dungeons of the Potala Palace, once the winter palace of the Dalai Lamas in Lhasa and now a religious and tourist site, is an unusual museum. The Zhol jail, a place where disobedient or rebellious serfs and labourers were subject to horrific forms of torture, was once located here. Today, photographs, paintings, models, and sound effects are used to recreate the brutality of the ancien regime against those classes whose labour created and sustained the splendid monument that soars above.

The squalor, poverty and social hierarchies of Lhasa, captured vividly in black and white photographs of the 1940s and 1950s, belong to a historical phase now squarely in the past.

Today the Potala Palace overlooks a city of modern infrastructure and conveniences. It has attractive tree-lined avenues, a busy business district, hotels, cultural centres and open spaces like the 12.2 square km Lhalu wetlands, a protected marsh that acts as what our hosts refer to as the kidneys of the Lhasa urban area. The modernity of the capital bears the impress of a strong Tibetan stamp in architecture, dress, and cultural practice.

Apart from warm clothes and altitude sickness pills, a foreign visitor to Tibet usually carries baggage of another kind. This is a belief that the 'real' Tibet lies hidden somewhere beneath what the eye sees and the mind registers; that the well being and modernisation evident in contemporary Tibetan society is a sort of maya. This perspective has been shaped by a vast literature and propaganda offensive that has emanated over the years from within the support base of the 14th Dalai Lama. It comes in large part from people who have not set foot in Tibet, and has, unfortunately, many well-meaning adherents.

A report published this year by the Dalai Lama's Dharamsala-based Government-in-Exile and titled Environment and Development in Tibet: A Crucial Issue has this to say: China claims that Tibet is experiencing growth and prosperity, but the reality is that, under Chinese rule, Tibetans are impoverished, marginalised and excluded; the sensitive and globally important ecology of Tibet is deteriorating; and many plant and animal species face extinction.

In fact, the fatal flaw of the report is that it has been written by people who have not visited their research area, for it is evident to any visitor's eye that the allegations of the impoverishment, marginalisation, and exclusion of Tibetans are unsubstantiated.

I was part of a journalists' delegation invited by the Chinese government to Tibet in July this year. To a visitor, the relatively high levels of living standards of people in the Tibet Autonomous Regions (TAR) are a striking feature of observable social life. In Lhasa, small towns and the villages of Tibet, there are no crowds of people ill, destitute, and unemployed - on the contrary, the overwhelming visual impression is of a population healthy and gainfully employed. Schools and universities hum with activity, and cultural assets like museums and ancient monasteries are treasured - these are but some marks of a society that is on the move.

Older Tibetans emphasise that life has changed beyond recognition since 1959, when the system of monastic feudalism presided over by the Dalai Lama was overthrown and over a million serfs were set free.

I consider myself middling-prosperous, says Zhuoga, the head of an eight-member farming family in Gapa, a village of 60 households, 10 km from Lhasa. She and her family members offer fruit, biscuits and Tibetan tea to her visitors in her warm and colourful sitting room decorated with Tibetan thangkas (religious scroll paintings) and carpets.

The Zhuoga household's annual income of 20,000 yuan (roughly Rs. 140,000) comes from her oilseed and corn harvest, from the rent paid by vegetable farmers for land they lease from her, from a 500 yuan annual subsidy given by the Government, and from collective work she and the family put in on village projects. School education and health care are free. Although a Buddhist, she thinks the Dalai Lama is not a good man as he masterminded the disturbances of March 14th 2008. We could not go to the city for work, she said. I was angry and scared.

Life now is like this, says Pingtso Tashi giving a thumbs-up sign. And before 1959 it was like this. He holds up his little finger. This 58-year old dam inspector and farmer is the son of former serfs. Today, hard work pays, he said. Every village family owns land and the average individual land holding of the village is 3.8 mu (15 mu = 1 hectare)

A range of special preferential policies and measures for social and economic development apply to Tibet. There is a preferential taxation policy by which income tax in Tibet is three percentage points lower than elsewhere, and farmers and herdsmen are completely exempt from taxes and administrative charges. There is a preferential interest rate on bank loans, the rate being two percentage points lower in the TAR than in the rest of China.

Yang Chen and Deji, microbiologists working for a bio-pharmaceutical company in Lhasa, and their office colleagues, are part of a cheerful and spirited group of women dressed in formal western office wear who have come to see a photographic exhibition on Tibetan women at the Tibet museum in Lhasa. Asked about the exhibition and whether it reflects the progress of women in Tibet, Yang Chen says, Yes it does. Today we are equal to men in every way. She and Ms Deji have two daughters each, and hope that the girls will one day become doctors. The one-child norm does not apply to Tibetans and other ethnic minorities as it does to Han Chinese.

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Modern education a key to Tibet's social and economic progress

2008-09-04 10:01:00

| by: Parvathi Menon | From: The Hindu

Before 1951, 92 per cent of the population of Tibet was illiterate. That proportion is now 44 per cent.

A report published this year by the Dalai Lama's Dharamsala-based "Government-in-Exile" and titled Environment and Development in Tibet: A Crucial Issue (available on their website) seeks to perpetuate the myth that Tibetans are fast becoming a minority in their homeland as a result of a state-sponsored policy of Han settlement in Tibet. In fact, of the Tibet Autonomous Region (TAR) population of 2.8 million, Tibetans account for 92 per cent, other ethnic minorities for around 2 per cent, and Han Chinese a little under 6 per cent.

Government officials in Tibet emphasise that the accusation that Han Chinese control the administration of Tibet is wrong. Tibetans constitute a majority of the cadre within government and the Communist Party. According to Duo Ji Ciren, Vice-Commissioner of the Administrative office of Nyingchi prefecture, 70 per cent of civil servants in Nyingchi prefecture are either Tibetans or from other ethnic minorities, and key prefectural posts are held by Tibetans.

Education has been key to social and economic progress in Tibet. Modern education only began after 1951. In 2007, enrolment in primary schools reached 98.2 per cent, in middle schools 90.97 per cent, in high school 42.96 per cent, and in colleges 17.4 per cent. Before 1951, 92 per cent of the population of Tibet was illiterate. That proportion is now 44 per cent, although the illiterate are now concentrated in the older age groups.

"You had to be a monk if you wanted education in the old society," said Dr. Losang Yundeng, 51, Director of the 210-bed County Peoples Hospital in Nyingchi. An ethnic Tibetan from a poor family of labourers in a remote village in Nyingchi prefecture, he was sent to one of the first schools to be opened in his village. When a medical team visited the village in 1972, the 15-year-old boy was chosen by his village to train as a barefoot doctor. After the Cultural Revolution, Dr. Yundeng trained at the Nanjing Medical College and later at the famous Norman Bethune Medical Academy to become a doctor.

Dr. Wangmo, 44, a brilliant Tibetan plant pathologist and professor in the Department of Plant Technology at the Tibetan Agriculture and Animal Husbandry College, Nyingchi, speaks of how education transformed life in her village. "I studied in a village which you could only get to by horse," she said. "But education gave us ability and confidence. In my school, 80 per cent of the children were Tibetan and our Tibetan education was very good." In the college where she teaches, half of the 3,000 students are girls and 80 per cent of all students are Tibetan.

Dr. Wangmo's current research is on understanding the structure of a fungus called Cordyceps Sinensis, which grows wild in certain high-altitude counties. Called "yatsagompo" in Tibetan, the fungus, which looks like an innocuous dry twig, has been the reason for a sudden increase in incomes among certain communities living in these regions. Used in traditional medicine and valued for its healing properties, the fungus is highly priced. "I have seen people earn 80,000 yuan a year from this," Dr. Wangmo explained. Her research team is also working on how to undertake the sustainable cultivation of this precious resource.

Indeed, the issue of ecological sustainability and protection of the natural habitat is one over which demonstrable measures have been taken. The Tibetan plateau is a cradle of the planet's natural wealth. It has the world's highest peaks and lakes, gives birth to Asia¡¡¥s mighty rivers, and has vast deposits of mineral and forest wealth.

The 10-hour drive from Lhasa to the Nyingchi prefecture, one of TAR's ecological treasure houses, is as remarkable for its stunning landscapes as it is for the absence of heavy motor traffic, roadside hoardings, the defacement of rock surfaces with advertisements or writing, and litter. The Nyingchi Prefecture has a forest cover of 46 per cent, the largest virgin forest in China. The preservation of the ecology is central to government policy here. "Our slogan is 'Build Nyingchi as the largest district in western Tibet with the best preserved ecology,'" said Mr. Ciren, its administrative head. The beautiful Environmental Museum in Nyingchi offers a stunning display of its plant and animal wealth.

China's Tibet policy was defined to us by Dong Yunhu, Director General of the State Council Information Office, as "the continuous improvement in the living standards of Tibetans," By this criterion, the implementation of China's Tibet policy is marked by measurable and visible success.

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Genuine Tibetans Ottawa, Canada 2008-07-23

Interview: Tibetologists say Tibetan culture well preserved

2008-07-24 10:04:00

The Tibetan culture has been well preserved and developing, said a visiting senior Chinese Tibetologist on Wednesday in Canada.

Tobdrub Wangben, professor of the Chinese Central University for Nationalities, told Xinhua in an interview that the Dalai Lama's claim of the so-called "cultural genocide" in Tibet is totally groundless.

Wangben is heading a four-member Tibetologist delegation on a three- day visit to Canada to promote understanding on the Tibet issue. The delegation has met with scholars from the Canadian International Council, local media outlets, government officials and parliamentarian representatives.

The total population of Tibetan ethnic group in Tibet has increased from nearly 1 million before 1951 to 2.77 million last year, while the illiterate rate dropped significantly from 95 percent in 1951 to 28 percent last year, Wangben explained with figures to make it clear whether the culture in Tibet was being damaged or developed.

When asked about the restrictions that foreign media encountered in Tibet, Wang Pijun, a senior official with the China Association for International Cultural Exchange, said that the Chinese government attaches great importance to strengthening communications and understanding with the international community on the issue of Tibet, and has arranged several rounds of visits by foreign correspondents to Tibet.

The government has promised to arrange more such tours in the future, Wang added.

Talking about the Dalai Lama's claim of not seeking Tibet independence, Lian Xiangmin, Director of Science and Research Office at China Tibetology Research Center, said people should not only look at what he says but also at what he does.

"The Dalai Lama said he is not seeking Tibet independence while he is the leader of the illegal Tibet government in exile," said Lian.

And it is also stated in the charter of some organizations such as the Tibetan Youth Congress (TYC) which seeks Tibet independence that they will listen to what the Dalai Lama says, and the Dalai Lama said he support the TYC's cause, Lian added.

Luorong Zhandui, professor of the Social and Economic Research Institute under the China Tibetology Research Center and a Tibetan himself, noted that the economy of Tibet and living standards of people there have improved greatly during the past years. The Qingzang Railway has proved to boost the local tourism considerably, and this is of vital importance to the industrial development of Tibet and to the promotion of Tibetan culture, he said.

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Genuine Tibetans Sydney, Australia 2008-07-24

Tibetologist: China will not change policies on Tibet

2008-07-25 09:48:00

A Tibetan professor said in Sydney on Thursday that the incident took place on March 14 would not result in a policy change towards Tibet from the Chinese government.

The Chinese government will continue its support to Tibet to keep the peace and stability in the autonomous region, said Professor Sherap Nyima, head of the Chinese Tibetan delegation nowon a visit in Australia.

"The Chinese government will provide 170 billion yuan to Tibet during the period of the 11th Five-Year Plan (2006-2010) to improve social life and infrastructure there," Nyima said at a Tibetology seminar in the New South Wales Parliament House.

The seminar was attended by NSW members of parliament, representatives from the Chinese community in Sydney and local media.

Tibet has undertaken great changes in the past few decades, said Nyima, who is the Vice-President of the Central University of Nationalities of China, adding that the average annual income of the Tibetans increased to around 10,000 yuan in 2007 from 241 yuanin 1965 and the average life expectancy almost doubled in the pastfive decades.

Professor Tseyang Changngo, a member of the delegation and Vice President of the Tibet University in Lhasa, also said the Chinese government has spent lots of money and exerted great efforts in cultural protection in the region.

"I teach Tibetan history and women and gender studies in Tibetan language at my university. Tibetan language is also taught in primary and middle schools in Tibet. We Tibetans can even have Microsoft office software in Tibetan language and can send mobile messages in Tibetan language," she said.

At the seminar, Nyima also refuted criticisms that the Chinese government tried to change the demographic composition of Tibet by sending a large number of Han Chinese into the region. The real situation is totally different, he said.

"There are 2.8 million people in Tibet, of which Han Chinese only account for five percent and the Tibetans 92 percent. Moreover, Tibet is part of China and why the Hans are not allowed to come and help Tibetans build a better Tibet?" the professor asked.

Nyima said many people outside China know little about Tibet because they have never visited the place and are misled by Dalai Lama and a few foreign media with ulterior motives.

"I come here hoping to communicate directly with you and tell you the real truth about Tibet. I hope more people will visit Tibet from Australia and more Tibetan scholars will come here to exchange ideas with you," he said.

The seminar was organized by the Australian Council for the Promotion of Peaceful Reunification of China.

The Tibetan delegation arrived here on Wednesday and will visit Canberra and Melbourne before leaving for New Zealand.

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Genuine Tibetans Warsaw,Poland 2008-10-24

Chinese Tibetologists exchange views with university students in Poland

2008-10-24 14:56:00

A delegation of Chinese Tibetologists on Thursday met teachers and students from Warsaw University and briefed them on the social-economic development in Tibet.

At a symposium attended by more than 30 teachers and students from the university, Shen Kaiyun, head of the delegation, said that Tibet has gone through great changes in the past five decades and its cultural heritages have been protected and passed on very well, which is inseparable from the efforts made by the Chinese government.

According to Shen, the Chinese central government has allocated a total of 170 billion yuan (24.9 billion U.S. dollars) to Tibet over the past decades and made many favorable policies to build a well-off Tibet.

When asked about the government's investment in Tibet, Shen said that the Chinese government had spent much more money on Tibet than the autonomous region generated.

Besides its efforts to help develop the economy in Tibet, the government also did a lot to enhance its cultural and ecological protection, Shen added.

Shen invited the Polish people who are interested in Tibet to visit the land in the future.

The delegation of Chinese Tibetologists arrived here Monday for a four-day visit.

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Genuine Tibetans Oslo, Norway 2008-10-20

Chinese Tibetolgists end visit to Norway

2008-10-20 15:50:00

A delegation of Chinese Tibetologists ended their visit to Norway on Monday after exchanging views with the Norwegian public and briefing them on the developments in Tibet.

Norwegian Vice President of the Lower House Olav Gunnar Ballo said that he had learned more about the reality in Tibet through his talks with the Chinese Tibetologists.

Shen Kaiyun, head of the delegation, made a presentation on Tibet's economic and social development, religious freedom and the preservation of traditional Tibetan culture to the hosts.

In fluent English, Dawa Ciren, a researcher in the Tibetan Academy of Social Sciences, also briefed the hosts on the protection of environment and wild lives in Tibet.

During their talks with Egil Lothe, president of Norwegian Buddhist Union, the Chinese Tibetologists also gave an account of religions in today's Tibet.

There are more than 1,700 temples and 46,000 clergies in Tibet nowadays, Shen said.

The Chinese government has put a large amount of money to preserve and repair temples, an indication of religious freedom in Tibet, Shen added.

Egil Lothe praised the frank exchange of views between the two countries, saying it helped Norwegians to get a better understanding of Tibet.

During their meeting with officials from the Norwegian Foreign Ministry and University of Oslo, members of the delegation also briefed them on the Chinese government's position and the reality of Tibet.

The Chinese Tibetologists arrived in Oslo on Wednesday for a visit to Norway.

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Genuine Tibetans in Prague 2008-11-10

Chinese Tibetologists introduce Tibetan development in Prague

2008-11-11 13:40:00

A visiting delegation of Chinese Tibetologists gave an account of social and economic developments in Tibet here Monday.

Speaking at a press conference here, Zhu Xiaoming, the head of the delegation, said Tibet has experienced tremendous changes over the past 50 years to become one of the most attractive places in the world.

Today, Tibet not only has unique natural scenery but also boasts well-preserved ethnic culture, Zhu said.

"All this was made possible thanks to the joint efforts of the Chinese government and the Tibetan people," he said.

On the negotiations between the Chinese central government and the Dalai Lama's representatives, Zhu said progress had been made in the talks and there was no need to be pessimistic about their prospects.

Chinese central government officials and the Dalai Lama's private envoys have held three rounds of talks this year and nine rounds since 2002.

The door for the Dalai Lama's return to a patriotic stance is always open, but the door to "Tibet independence," "half independence" or "independence in a disguised form" has never been open, nor would it be open in the future, Zhu said.

The Chinese government has clearly pointed out that if the Dalai Lama gives up his separatist stance and activities to split the motherland, the two sides could continue contacts and negotiations on his personal future, said Zhu.

Speaking about how the Chinese government has improved the living conditions of Tibetans, Zhu said the central government has poured 170 billion yuan (about 25 billion U.S. dollars) into improving the Tibetan people's life over the past decades.

The central government has also adopted other preferential policies to make sure Tibet can develop together with other regions of China, Zhu said.

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Genuine Tibetans in Italy 2008-11-17

Chinese Tibetologists introduce Tibet to Italian people

2008-11-18 09:15:00

A delegation of Chinese Tibetologists ended their visit to Italy Monday, during which they held talks with Italian politicians, economists and scholars and briefed them on the social and economic developments in Tibet.

The delegation, led by Zhu Xiaoming, deputy director-general of China's Tibetology Research Center, made a four-day visit starting from Friday in Italy at the invitation of Italy's China Foundation.

During the visit, the delegation gave an account of the history, the regional autonomous system, the freedom of religious belief and the development of cultural protection in Tibet.

They also disclosed to the Italian people the truth of the March 14 riot and briefed them on the negotiations between the Chinese central government and the Dalai Lama's representatives.

The Italians said with the introduction of the Chinese delegation, they had a new knowledge about Tibet and wished further communication between the two countries to provide more information on a true Tibet for the Italian people.

Finland will be the next stop for the delegation to visit.

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Genuine Tibetans in Paris 2008-11-18

Chinese Tibetologists introduce a true Tibet in Paris

2008-11-19 13:53:00

Journalists are listening to the introduction, photo from Chinanews.com.

French journalists are having an interview, photo from Chinanews.com

A delegation of Chinese Tibetologists, who are now touring France, gave an account of the cultural, economic and social achievements of Tibet to journalists of France and England, on November 18 in Paris.

Journalists from France 2, Humanite, Radio France International, Reuters and etc. listened to the introduction.

Zheng Dui, head with the Religionary Research Center of China Tibetology Research Center, led the six-member delegation, including Xie Gangzheng, head of Sichuan Tibetology Research Center, Su Faxiang, professor of the Central University for Nationalities, Dawa Tsering, director of the Scientific Research Office of China Tibetology Research Center, Wu Xuefeng, director of The Association of China Foreign Culture Exchange and other members.

Speaking of the talk between the Chinese central government and private representative of Dalai Lama, Zheng Dui said Chinese central government had thrice talked with the private representatives of Dalai Lama. Door for talk with Dalai Lama side, is always open. The achievements in Tibet in economic, cultural, social aspects since the ethnic cultural construction, can't be denied while the "Tibet independence" and "independence in a disguised form" under the guise of so-called "high degree of autonomy", will never be accepted.

When talking about the religionary relief in Tibet, Zheng said Tibet enjoyed freedom of belief with more than 1,700 religionary venues and some 45,000 monks, but they should also abide by the law.

Xie Gangzheng introduced the economy and culture in Tibetan-inhabited areas in Sichuan Province while Dawa Tsering introduced the great changes in Tibet since the peaceful liberation of Tibet with his own experience.

The Chinese Tibetologist delegation arrived in France on November 16 for a four-day visit, during which they held talks with French politicians, writers and scholars and oversea Chinese students and briefed a true Tibet to them.

http://eng.tibet.cn/index/news/200811/t20081119_438896.htm

Genuine Tibetans in Helsinki 2008-11-19

Chinese Tibetologists introduce Tibet development in Helsinki

2008-11-19 13:41:00

A delegation of Chinese Tibetologists on Tuesday briefed their Finnish hosts on Tibet's history and its social and economic developments.

The delegation, led by Zhu Xiaoming, deputy director-general of China's Tibetology Research Center, held separate meetings with Finnish politicians, media members, and representatives for overseas Chinese and Chinese students in Finland.

During a meeting with lawmakers, the Chinese Tibetologists cited data and examples to illuminate the point that Tibet has been part of China throughout history.

They also gave an account of social and economic developments in Tibet, the true story of the March 14 riot in the Tibetan capital Lhasa, as well as the Chinese government's negotiations with the Dalai Lama in recent years.

Over the past decades, the average life span of Tibetans has increased from 35.5 to 61 years, nine-year compulsory education has been accessible to over 90 percent of Tibet's school-aged children, and the per capita GNP has exceeded 10,000 yuan (about 1,470 U.S. dollars), said Zhu, adding all those are facts that Tibetans are living a life which is unimaginable under the serf system.

On negotiations between the Chinese central government and the Dalai Lama's representatives, Zhu said government officials and the Dalai Lama's private envoys have held nine rounds of talks since 2002.

Finnish Congressman Ilkka Kantola welcomed the Chinese scholars' introduction on Tibet and hoped Finland and China can enhance exchanges to give Finnish people more chances to know China.

Also on Tuesday, Zhu met with representatives from Finland's major media and answered questions concerning Tibet. He also exchanged views on Tibet with overseas Chinese and Chinese students.

The Chinese delegation arrived in Finland on Monday.

http://eng.tibet.cn/news/today/200811/t20081119_438850.htm

Genuine Tibetans in Finland 2008-11-19

Chinese Tibetologists introduce Tibet in Finland

2008-11-20 13:10:00

Zhu Xiaoming (R), head of the delegation, talks with Kantuola, chairman of Finland parliament human rights group, in Finland's capital city Helsinki, November 18, 2008.

Ren Wenquan, director of the International Exchanges Center of China Foreign Affairs University, introduces the cultural development of Tibet, in Finland's capital city Helsinki, November 19, 2008.

Finland experts enquire something about the development of Tibet in Finland's capital city Helsinki, November 19, 2008.

A delegation of Chinese Tibetologists, who are now introducing Tibet in Finland, currently briefed the cultural, economic and social achievements of Tibet in recent years to Finland's local politicians, media and oversea Chinese in Finland's capital city Helsinki.

http://eng.tibet.cn/index/news/200811/t20081120_439065.htm

Genuine Tibetans in Spain 2008-11-23

Chinese Tibetologists hold deep talk on Tibet in Spain

www.chinaview.cn 2008-11-24 14:57:37

BEIJING, Nov. 24 -- The delegation of Chinese Tibetologists, who are having a four-day visit in Spain, exchanged views on Tibet with local personages of all circles in the of Home of Asia Building, in Spain's capital city Madrid on November 21.

Zheng Dui (L), head of the delegation as well as director with the religionary institute of China Tibetology Research Center, introduces Tibet in Madrid, capital city of Spain, November 21. (Photo: China Tibet Information Center)

The delegation briefed the social and economic development of Tibet since the democratic reform, current condition of Tibet, truth of March 14 Lhasa riots as well as meaning of the so-called "high degree of autonomy" put forward by Dalai Lama, to Spain's local experts.

Chinese Tibetologists always spend half of the time every year in deploying investigations in Tibet's rural areas. They introduced Tibet with their own personal experiences.

Zheng Dui, head of the delegation introduced the present situation of Tibetology research in China. He said, China has witnessed a great development in Tibetan studies with more than 50 related research centers involving some 2,000 people.

On the national culture and religionary relief, Zheng Dui said, in order to better carry forward and protect the Tibetan culture, both Tibetan and Han languages teaching were used from primary to senior high schools in Tibet, some universities even have their own Tibetology research academies.

There are more than 46,000 monks in Tibet now, taking up a high proportion of the local population-2.8 million people. Besides, both the central and local government of Tibet have allocated a huge investment to repair as well as reopen some religionary venues in the last ten years, in a bid to guarantee the freedom of religionary relief in Tibet, Zheng, also director with the religionary institute of China Tibetology Research Center, added.

Speaking of the Dalai Lama, Zheng Dui said relative department of China has talked with Dalai's private representatives for several times. The so-called "high degree of autonomy" put forward by Dalai Lama to seek for independence of Tibet, will never be accepted by both the central government and Tibetan people.

Two Spain's local journalists said they had got a new and clearer understanding as well as produced more interest in Tibet after listening to introduction of Chinese Tibetlogists with their personal experiences. They also expressed their desires to travel Tibet someday.

(Source: China Tibet Information Center)

http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2008-11/24/content_10405163.htm

Genuine Tibetans in Denmark 2008-11-26

Senior official of Denmark Parliament meets with Chinese Tibetologists

2008-11-27 13:44:00

Okun, the first speaker of the national parliament of Denmark met with delegation of Chinese Tibetologists, who are now visiting Copenhagen, on November 26.

The Chinese Tibetologists briefed conditions concerning Tibet's economy, society and culture after the democratic reform of Tibet on the meeting.

According to Zheng Dui, head of the delegation, Tibet has more than 46,000 monks, taking up a high proportion of the region's total population, says more than 2.8 million. Bilingual education of Tibetan and Han was carried out from primary to senior high schools.

Okun held that Denmark side always agreed with "one China" policy and Tibet is a part of China. He expressed his wish that talk between Chinese central government and representatives of Dalai Lama, would be fruitful and constructive. Of great importance is, he said, both side should seek for a reliable and peaceful solution that gears to the need of future while "one China" policy remained the same.

The delegation also introduced the cultural, economic, religionary development as well as Tibetan studies to oversea Chinese on the same day in Chinese Embassy in Denmark.

On November 25, the delegation held a seminar to exchange views with experts of North Europe Asia Research Center, Tibetan Studies Office of the International Culture Research Department of Copenhagen University. The Chinese Tibetologists expatiated on the yesterday and today conditions of Tibetan studies, history of the integration of religion and politics in Tibet.

Deerman, director with North Europe Asia Research Center said what the Tibetologists introduced was just what they need.

The delegation, consisted of six Chinese Tibetologsits, has arrived in Copenhagen, capital city of Denmark, on November 24 for a five-day visit.

http://eng.tibet.cn/news/today/200811/t20081127_440265.htm

Chinese Tibetologists, led by Zheng Dui, director of the Religious Study Institute under the China Tibetology Research Center, talk with representatives of the local media and academic circle on topics including the development of southwest China's Tibet Autonomous Region, in Arhus, Denmark, on Nov. 27, 2008. (Xinhua Photo)

Representatives of Arhus media and academic circle listen to the introduction of southwest China's Tibet Autonomous Region by Chinese Tibetologists, led by Zheng Dui, director of the Religious Study Institute under the China Tibetology Research Center, in Arhus, Denmark, on Nov. 27, 2008. (Xinhua Photo)

http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2008-11/28/content_10425837.htm

Genuine Tibetans in USA 2008-12-07

Sita talks on Tibet in Oversea Chinese League of USA

2008-12-09 10:09:00

Sita (L), vice minister of the United Front Work Department of CCCPC

Sita, vice minister of the United Front Work Department of CCCPC as well as deputy head of China Overseas Friendship Association, talked on Tibet with oversea Chinese personages in southern California, in the Oversea Chinese League of USA on December 7, US local time. He stressed:"There is no way out for the Dalai Lama's 'Tibet independence' in any disguised form."

http://eng.tibet.cn/index/news/200812/t20081209_442001.htm

Tibetan cultural & Art exhibition rises curtain in Shanghai

2008-12-14 14:19:00

The attending officials are cutting the ribbon on the opening ceremony, photo from CTIC by fanfan.

Raidi, vice-chairman of 10th National People's Congress committee is delivering a speech on the opening ceremony, photo from CTIC by fanfan.

Yao Xiaodu, director of Shanghai United Front Work Department of the Communist Party of China is addressing at the opening ceremony, photo from CTIC by fanfan.

Gyari¡¤Losang Tenzin, vice chairman of the TAR Government and China Association for Preservation and Development of Tibetan Culture (CAPDTC) is giving a speech on the opening ceremony, photo from CTIC by fanfan.

On December 13, the "Auspicious Hada-Tibetan Cultural & Art Exhibition" rose its curtain in Shanghai East Asia Exhibition Hall after about 2-year preparation with over 1 million yuan investment. Raidi, vice-chairman of 10th National People's Congress committee and some other officials attended the opening ceremony.

http://eng.tibet.cn/index/photo/200812/t20081214_443057.htm

Official: Door to Tibet talks remains 'open'

2008-11-20 09:07:00

Independence for Tibet autonomous region can never be considered, but the door remains open for talks with representatives of the Dalai Lama, a senior government official said on Tuesday.

Zhu Weiqun, executive vice-minister of the United Front Work Department (UFWD) of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee, made the remarks when meeting a group of overseas Chinese in Paris.

The remarks came after three rounds of talks with the Dalai Lama's representatives after the March 14 riots in Tibet that caused the loss of lives and economic damage.

Central government officials and representatives of the Dalai Lama have held nine rounds of talks in total since 2002.

The latest was held in Beijing from Oct 31 to Nov 5.

"It is impossible for the central government to talk with the Dalai Lama's personal representatives over the so-called Tibet issue. The Tibet government-in-exile is illegal, and the central government will not talk with it," Zhu was quoted by the People's Daily as saying on Wednesday.

"There is no compromising on this issue," he said.

"The central government will talk only with the personal representatives of the Dalai Lama about his future on the condition he gives up his wrong stance."

Zhu, a major central government negotiator with the Dalai Lama's representatives, said that although the Dalai's side has always changed its strategies in accordance with the situation, the Dalai Lama's stance on pursuing independence has never changed.

"For all these years, the central government has made every effort possible (for the Dalai Lama's return to the patriotic stance).

"To give up his pursuit of independence and to do something good for the country and the people is the only way out," Zhu said.

In another development, delegations of Chinese Tibetologists have visited countries including the Czech Republic, Italy, France and Finland recently to brief their hosts on Tibet's history and its social and economic developments.

In the latest stop, a delegation of Chinese Tibetologists led by Zhu Xiaoming, deputy director-general of the Tibetology Research Center held separate meetings with Finnish politicians, media members and representatives for overseas Chinese and Chinese students in Finland during Monday and Tuesday.

During a meeting with lawmakers, the Tibetologists cited data and examples to show that Tibet has always been part of China throughout history.

http://eng.tibet.cn/index/news/200811/t20081120_439006.htm

(99)Tibetans against Dalai Lama's return

by: 2007-06-21 09:10:33

Qiangba Puncog, chairman of the regional government of Tibet Autonomous Region, speaks at a press conference in Beijing June 20, 2007. [china.org.cn]

( Qiangba Puncog is a native Tibetan, born and raised in Tibet )

The chairman of the regional government of Tibet Autonomous Region has said that the majority of Tibetan people do not want the Dalai Lama to return to the region.

Qiangba Puncog, chairman of the regional government, was asked to comment, at a press conference in Beijing, on two letters written by Puncog Wanggyai, a member of the Communist Party in Tibet, to Chinese President Hu Jintao in 2004 and 2005 asking for permission to let the Dalai Lama come back to Tibet. He was asked if the letters represented the view of the majority of the Tibetan people.

"I have not seen the letters but I have heard about the content. The content I know about differs greatly from the common opinions held by the majority of the Tibetan people," he said.

"His (Puncog Wanggyai) opinion does not represent the view of the majority of Tibetan people, nor does it represent views of the majority of officials in Tibet. It only represents a handful of people," said Puncog.

"The Dalai Lama travels around the world in Buddhist robes not for religious matters but to make Tibet issue an international one and to realize his own political purposes," he said.

He said the Dalai Lama's pursuit of autonomy or establishment of the greater Tibetan area actually disguised his pursuit of independence.

"People from the Dalai Lama side believe, 'once this succeeds, independence is not far away', and this reveals what they really want to do," he said.

Puncog said the channel of communication with the Dalai Lama and his personal representative has always been open. "I think the key question lies in the Dalai Lama giving up the claims of independence and separatist activities," he said, "we all expect him to show his sincerity and truly do some good deeds for the Tibetan people and the country during his lifetime."

http://en.tibet.cn/news/tin/t20070621_256885.htm

Genuine Tibetan held talks with Australian officials

21:37, July 25, 2008

Visiting Chinese Tibetologist delegation on Friday held meetings with Australian officials, members of parliament and scholars, and briefed them about the situation in Tibet.

While meeting with Nic Manikis, Director of Office of Multicultural Affairs in Australian Capital Territory, Professor Sherap Nyima(local Tibetan born and raised in Tibet), head of the Chinese Tibetologist delegation, said the Chinese government has taken special measures to protect Tibetan culture and attached great importance to improve the education in the autonomous region.

Before 1951, only two percent of children received education, but now, 98 percent of children can go to schools with more than 1000 schools being established, of which 6 are universities, said Nyima, who is the Vice-President of the Central University of Nationalities of China and an expert on Tibetology.

Responding the concerns of Gary Humphries, the federal parliament senator, about the temples in Tibet. Nyima told him that temples in Tibet have been well protected by the local government .

"There are more than 1700 temples in Tibet with more than 46,000 lamas. It is a big amount in terms of its population of 2.8 million," the Tibetologist said.

Nyima assured Australian officials that the Chinese government had promised to maintain its policy towards the minorities as well as its support to the economic development in Tibet, after the incident in Lhasa on March 14.

"Only a tiny part of Tibetans took part in the incident, how could that change the determination of the central government to maintain its policy in Tibet?" Nyima said.

Grant Dooley, assistant secretary of North Asia Branch at the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, said Australian government has always maintained its policy that Tibet is part of China. He also hoped that the talks between the Chinese government officials and the private representatives of Dalai Lama could have some results so that the Tibetan issue can be solved.

During its stay in Canberra, the Chinese delegation also held talks with scholars and experts on Chinese affairs in Australia National University, including Richard Rigby, Executive Director of Chinese Institute of ANU and exchanged ideas and opinions about the Tibetan affairs.

The Tibetan delegation arrived in Australia on Wednesday for a five-day visit before heading for New Zealand to continue its tour.

http://english.peopledaily.com.cn/90001/90776/90883/6459708.html

A frank discussion between Genuine Tibetan and NZ MPs

www.chinaview.cn 2008-07-30 10:19:52

WELLINGTON, July 30 (Xinhua)-- "I value today's discussion, and it is very important for human-to-human exchanges. I wish the Beijing Olympics a great success," Rick Barker, New Zealand minister for internal affairs and civil defense, told a group of Chinese Tibetologists on Tuesday.

At the Parliament Building on Tuesday, the Tibetologists held discussions and exchanged views with seven members of parliament from the Labor, National and Green parties on the current situation and history of Tibet.

Professor Sherap Nyima, head of the Chinese Tibetologist delegation, told the MPs that the 14th Dalai Lama, during his visit to Europe last year, had said 2008 would be a "critical year," attempting to take advantage of the Olympics to put pressure on the Chinese government and draw attention of the international community. The violent incident in Lhasa on March 14 occurred against such a backdrop.

"Scholars should have their own voice. As a Tibetologist, I have been thinking about the root cause of the March 14 incident in Lhasa and will write several essays on that subject," said Nyima, who is the Vice-President of the Central University of Nationalities of China.

Commenting on Green Party MP Keith Lock's questions, Hu Yan, professor of the Party School of the Communist Party of China's Central Committee, said, "The Dalai Lama has been in exile for half a century, and only a very small number of Tibetans were with him. They can not represent the Tibetan people. The Dalai Lama was attempting to provoke national hatred by saying 'all Tibetans hate Han nationals'."

"It is totally untrue. I had worked in Tibet for about two years and I have many Tibetan friends there," said Hu Yan, who is a Tibetologist

Labor MP Jill Pettis, who has visited Tibet before, was interested in the impact of the opening of Qinghai-Tibet Railway to the life of the local Tibetan people.

Professor Tseyang Changngo, a member of the delegation and Vice President of the Tibet University in Lhasa, said the Tibetan people described the Qinghai-Tibetan Railway as a "Road to Heaven" and "Road to Happiness".

"The railway contributed to Tibet's economic development and made it very convenient for Tibetan herdsmen to go to Lasha to pay pilgrims and see doctors and for students to study in other big cities of China," she said.

The Chinese Tibetologists also held frank discussions with some 10 international relations scholars of the Victoria University, as well as Foreign Ministry officials on Tuesday.

They will hold discussions with representatives of the local Chinese community in Auckland on Wednesday and meet the New Zealand media.

http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2008-07/30/content_8848234.htm

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Destiny of Dalai Lama is desperate hopelessness

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Video: Documentary: The Dalai Lama .

Signed article: On the "Memorandum" of the Dalai clique

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Freedon of Religion in Tibet

From Words of Past Tibet-Tour Hikers

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U.K. Policy Recognizes Tibet,China sovereignty

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France says not to back "Tibet independence" in any form

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Reform and opening-up improve Tibetans' life

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Commentary: Dalai Lama's remarks add to his mistakes

Very unwise for such remarks during negotiation period in China

Dalai Lama's lie certainly upsets all Genuine Tibetans in Tibet

It may fool all of USA but not Genuine Tibetans living in Tibet.

Ultimately Genuine Tibetans will decide whether Dalai can return.

Tibet University and Preservation of Tibetan culture

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To Learn Nowadays China

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Introduction:

The Whole World knows: Dalai Lama allows himself to be used

as a tool by western powers keen to humiliate China during the last 50 years.

For half a century Dalai Lama had done too many things to distort history of Tibet,

fabricating lies to spoil the image of China, cruelly harm Chinese people's feeling

and demolish national unification of China. Too much Bad-Blood created by Dalai.

Tibet has achieved a lot in the past 50-odd years,

but Tibet's success and progress has nothing to do with the Dalai Lama.

TIBET before Dalai Lama left Tibet in 1959

TIBET after Dalai Lama left Tibet in 1959

He by no means can represent Tibet or the Tibetan people now.

So, China's central government is not going to discuss

with Dalai Lama the current situation of Tibet,

position of Tibet, future of Tibet, or the destiny of the Tibetan people.

Worldwide only 100,000 Foreign Tibetans but there are 2.8 millions Tibetans in Tibet

After bloody 3.14 Riot, 2.8 millions Genuine Tibetans against Dalai Lama's return

In August 2008 Dalai Lama lost his last chance at Beijing Olympics as his last straw.

Due to recent Global Financial Crisis his total donations received had fallen deeply.

After 50 years at age 73 Dalai Lama is begging China to allow him to return to Tibet.

For half a century Chinese government always opens doors to the Dalai Lama for talks.

To negotiate with China is actually to negotiate Dalai's future.

Because he is not able to represent neither Tibet nor Tibetan on any legal grounds,

and China will never consent to negotiate with him

when he claims himself as the political figure of the "government-in-exile".

Therefore, to negotiate with China is actually to negotiate Dalai's future.

During the talks, these concessions to China made by Dalai furiously provoked terrorist TYC

Further, Dalai's desire to return Tibet is in conflict with his evil usefulness to western powers

To know Dalai we should not only listen to what he says, but also look at what he has done.

The following articles disclose content of the six talks with Dalai's Representatives in China.

Due to conflict of interest, USA and Europe will have to completely abandon Dalai Lama!

Big Problems for Dalai Lama within Foreign Tibetans circle:

1. Grabbing Power against Dalai TYC resolves from violence to terrorism

2. Tibetan Buddhism believers fighting Dalai in both India and Europe

Difference between Genuine and Foreign Tibetans

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1. International Political arena:

A. Most strikingly, the Dalai Lama is used as a battering ram by western governments

in their culture war with China. The reason he is flattered by world leaders and

bankrolled by the CIA is not because these institutions care very much for liberty in Tibet,

but rather because they want to ratchet up international pressure

on their new competitors in world politics: the Chinese.

At least one reason why the Dalai Lama can pose as "the ultimate spiritual authority"

and all-round supreme leader of Tibetans and their future is

because influential elements in the west have empowered him to play that role.

In doing so, they have been complicit in the infantilisation of the Tibetan people.

B. Since Dalai clique masterminded Tibet riot on March 14, 2008,

Members of Dalai clique in Tibet were all sef-exposed, identified and arrested.

To those being arrested due to 3.14 riot, Dalai Lama cannot be trusted any more.

Because of this Dalai has no more influence within 'Tibet,China' from now on.

Without any Dalai clique in Tibet, Dalai Lama has depleted all his political asset.

In August 2008 Dalai Lama lost his last chance at Beijing Olympics as his last straw.

C. Dalai Lama allows himself to be used by western powers to humiliate China.

D. Tibet has achieved a lot in the past 50-odd years,

but Tibet's success and progress has nothing to do with the Dalai Lama.

TIBET before Dalai Lama left Tibet in 1959

TIBET after Dalai Lama left Tibet in 1959

He by no means can represent Tibet or the Tibetan people now.

So, China's central government is not going to discuss

with Dalai Lama the current situation of Tibet,

position of Tibet, future of Tibet, or the destiny of the Tibetan people,

but only the future and destiny of Dalai Lama himself.

E. As Dalai Lama has lost his usefulness, western powers will get rid of him.

An example:

U.K. Policy Recognizes Tibet,China sovereignty

France says not to back "Tibet independence" in any form

F. Very few European politicians today will agree to meet with Dalai Lama

G. Recent Global Finacial Crisis lowers donation income for Dalai Lama.

Dalai Lama's situation is definitely in Desperation and Hopelessness.

2.Within Foreign Tibetans circles:

Foreign Tibetans are those who left Tibet with Dalai Lama in 1959,

and are victims not only of ignorance

but of a well-organized campaign of misinformation.

Most of Foreign Tibetans were born and raised in India or Nepal,

never see Tibet with their own eyes in life

to be able to judge things for themselves.

A. Competing for Power against Dalai TYC resolves from violence to terrorism.

Tsewang Rigzin(president of TYC) clamored revengeful human bombs.

Against Dalai Lama's proclaimation TYC no longer will "protesting peacefully".

B. Due to too many broken promises and lies from the mouth of Dalai Lama

Young Foreign Tibetans everywhere do not trust Dalai Lama anymore...

C. Living Buddha of New Kadampa Sect is leading Foreign Tibetans and

European believers to fight against Dalai Lama in both India and Europe.

D. Dalai Lama is seriously losing control among Foreign Tibetans circles.

3. In Tibet Autonomous Region of China:

Genuine Tibetans (most as a serf) remained in Tibet after 1959

and Genuine Tibetans (i.e. Raidi, a former serf) live in Tibet forever.

Raidi is Vice chairman Standing Committee National People's Congress

Tibet has achieved a lot in the past 50-odd years,

but Tibet's success and progress has nothing to do with the Dalai Lama.

Genuine Tibetans are those who have built modern Tibet

and should be the only people who make decisions for Tibet

and for the future of Tibetan generations.

A. No one in Tibet believes in Dalai Lama, even among Tibetan Buddhism believers.

To those being arrested due to 3.14 riot, Dalai Lama cannot be trusted any more.

Because of this Dalai has no more influence within 'Tibet,China' from now on.

For half century Dalai Lama had done too many things to distort history of Tibet,

fabricating lies to spoil the image of China, cruelly harm Chinese people's feeling

and demolish national unification of China. Too much Bad-Blood created by Dalai.

B. After bloody 3.14 Riot, 2.8 millions Genuine Tibetans against Dalai Lama's return

C. Genuine Tibetans appreciate large sum of money invested by Central Government

into reconstruction and development, progress in education,

the religious freedom, the improvement of health, society, life.

China issues white paper, refutes charge of "cultural genocide" in Tibet

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4. Resulting Situation:

Dalai Lama's situation is definitely in Desperation and Hopelessness.

His luck ran out with western powers and among Genuine and Foreign Tibetans

It is sincerely hope that before his approaching death Lhamo Toinzhub

(14th Dalai Lama) will give up his dream (so called 'Tibet Independence')

and for once in his entire life doing something good for people of Tibet.

This is the ONLY WAY to avoid ending up in history like Iranian Czar or Filipino Marcos!

Tibet has achieved a lot in the past 50-odd years,

but Tibet's success and progress has nothing to do with the Dalai Lama.

TIBET before Dalai Lama left Tibet in 1959

TIBET after Dalai Lama left Tibet in 1959

After 50 years at age 73 Dalai Lama is begging China to allow him to return to Tibet.

Since Dalai clique masterminded Tibet riot on March 14, 2008,

Members of Dalai clique in Tibet were all sef-exposed, identified and arrested.

Because of this Dalai has no more influence within 'Tibet,China' from now on.

Thus Dalai Lama by no means can represent Tibet or the Tibetan people now.

So, China's central government is not going to discuss

with Dalai Lama the current situation of Tibet,

position of Tibet, future of Tibet, or the destiny of the Tibetan people.

Greeting Tibetan Buddhism believers who called this Nobel Peace "lying"

Due to Desperation and Hopelessness in all aspect ...

That is why Dalai Lama keeps sending Representatives to China for negotiation.

To negotiate with China is actually to negotiate Dalai's future.

Because he is not able to represent neither Tibet nor Tibetan on any legal grounds,

and China will never consent to negotiate with him

when he claims himself as the political figure of the "government-in-exile".

Therefore, to negotiate with China is actually to negotiate Dalai's future.

During the talks, these concessions to China made by Dalai furiously provoked terrorist TYC

To know Dalai we should not only listen to what he says, but also look at what he has done!

Too many lies, tricks and pretension from the mouth of Dalai Lama in the past ...

Master Long of Sangdan Temple(Tibetan Buddhism Temple) summed up all Tibetans feeling:

"... The Party and the central government are kind indeed.

Dalai Lama has kept on saying that he cares about Tibetan people,

but we never saw him give us even a coin.

At present, he even wants to split China. That is mirage!..."

For this reason, 2.8 millions Genuine Tibetans against Dalai Lama's return

Commentary: Dalai Lama's remarks add to his mistakes

Very unwise for such remarks during negotiation period in China

Dalai Lama's lie certainly upsets all Genuine Tibetans in Tibet

It may fool all of USA but not Genuine Tibetans living in Tibet.

Ultimately Genuine Tibetans will decide whether Dalai can return.

Important to know Dalai Lama was conned

to leave Tibet in 1959 by western powers

(mainly U.K. and USA Ambassador in India).

This part of history has already been verified

by official declassified historical Diplomats'

correspondence released over 50 years period.

Tsewang Rigzin(president of TYC) constantly

clamored with revengeful human bombs.

Since we are all fighting Terrorism together,

Western powers have the responsibility to stop

Nobel Peace to use his Tibet Youth Congress

as Terrorists against (and to threaten) China.

Please view following:

By ex-CIA: CIA's Secret War in Tibet

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Wall Street Journal : CIA Campaign Against China 50 Years Ago

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U.K. Policy Angers Tibet Ahead of Beijing Talks

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Following U.K. paper first step in right direction:

U.K. Policy recognizes Tibet,China sovereignty

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The door of the central government for the Dalai Lama to return to the patriotic stance has always been open and will remain open in the future. However, the door for "Tibet independence," "half independence" or "covert independence" has never been open, nor will it be open in the future.

Signed article: On the "Memorandum" of the Dalai clique

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How much USA loves Dalai Lama?

The following photo said it all..

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After Obama meeting Dalai exited backdoor of

White House where trash was sent out...

Without USA tax-payers' money support

Dalai Lama will soon be finished...

Sita talks on Tibet in Oversea Chinese League of USA

2008-12-09 10:09:00

Sita (L), vice minister of the United Front Work Department of CCCPC

http://eng.tibet.cn/index/news/200812/t20081209_442001.htm

Dalai Lama's utter distortion of Tibet history

www.chinaview.cn 2009-03-11 00:18:32

BEIJING, March 10 (Xinhua) -- On March 10, 1959, the Dalai Lama and his supporters started an armed rebellion in a desperate attempt to preserve Tibet's feudal serfdom and split the region from China.

On Tuesday, exactly 50 years later, the Dalai Lama claimed that Tibetans have been living in "hell on earth," as if the Tibet under the former feudal serfdom ruled by him were a heaven.

The Dalai Lama also alleged at a gathering in India's Dharamsala to mark his 50 years in exile that "these 50 years have brought untold suffering and destruction to the land and people of Tibet."

Unfortunately, the Dalai Lama has not only been on the wrong side of history, but also has got the history upside down. Miseries of "hell on earth" and "untold suffering" occurred nowhere but in the slavery Tibet symbolized by the Dalai Lama.

Even from historical books written by Western scholars, people can draw the conclusion that Tibet under the rule of the Dalai Lama clique was a society of feudal serfdom that trampled human rights and easily reminded visitors of the dark age of medieval Europe.

The feudal serfdom had truly brought "untold suffering and destruction" to the serfs and slaves who accounted for 90 percent of the then population.

The slavery Tibet was just "hell on earth" as Carles Bell, who lived in Lhasa as a British trade representative in the 1920s, observed that the Dalai Lama's theocratic position enabled him to administer rewards and punishments as he wished. That was because he held absolute sway over both this life and the next of the serfs and coerced them with that power.

In 1959, after the failed rebellion by the Dalai Lama and his followers, the central government of China carried out the long-delayed emancipation of millions of serfs and slaves in Tibet.

Great achievements have been made in Tibet since then in various fields such as politics, economy and culture. The following are just a few examples of those achievements:

-- The central government has adopted a policy of "political unity, freedom of religious belief and separation of politics and religion" in Tibet to ensure locals' political rights and that all religious beliefs are politically equal.

-- Tibet has seen its gross domestic product soar from 174 million yuan (25.4 million U.S. dollars) in 1959 to 39.591 billion Yuan (5.78 billion dollars) in 2008, with an annual growth rate of8.9 percent.

-- Tibet's roads totaled 51,300 km in 2008, a sharp increase from the 7,300 km in 1959.

-- The average life expectancy in Tibet has increased from 35.5years in 1959 to 67 years at present.

Anyone without prejudice will recognize the remarkable progress in Tibet.

"Tibet has achieved remarkable economic progress and undergone profound changes since 1959 when its democratic reform began," Argemiro Procopio, a professor of international relations at the University of Brasilia, said after a trip to Tibet.

Louise T. Blouin Macbain, a well-known publisher and philanthropist, said after traveling to Tibet that "what I have seen is positive and I am especially thankful to the great efforts made by China over the years in preserving Tibetan cultural independence and its monasteries."

When the Dalai Lama claimed there is "cultural genocide " in Tibet, "I don't know which Tibet is he actually describing," she said. "As for me, it's not the one that I have seen with my own eyes."

Why then such a distortion of historical facts by the so-called Nobel Peace Prize winner? Because it is only through the distortion of history could he deceive Western audiences and disguise his true intentions.

Since their exile, the Dalai Lama and his followers have never stopped pursuing activities to split Tibet from China and restore their theocratic rule despite his claims to the opposite.

But just as the rebellion by the Dalai Lama clique failed disgracefully 50 years ago, its fantasy of "Tibet Independence" is also doomed to failure, because of the firm opposition from the Chinese people, including the Tibetans in Tibet.

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Spanish Tibetologist: "What I see and hear in Tibet differs from Dalai Lama's propaganda"

10:42, March 08, 2009

"What I have seen and heard in Tibet completely differed from the distorted propaganda by the Dalai Lama," a renowned Spanish Tibetologist has said.

The March 14 riot in Lhasa in 2008, involving violent crimes against people and property, was premeditated and masterminded by followers of the Dalai Lama, Inaki Preciado Idoeta told Xinhua in a recent interview.

"But the Dalai Lama neither made an apology for the riot nor condemned those who perpetrated the violence," said Precidao Idoeta, one of the first Spanish diplomats to China and also a famous sinologist in Spain.

He has visited Tibet several times since the 1990s and also temporarily lived there for his research.

"I can speak Chinese and the Tibetan language and communicate well with the local people, so I can get first-hand materials about the region," he said.

Commenting on Dalai Lama's accusation that the Chinese government has destroyed the Tibetan culture and language and the Tibetan people have no freedom of religion, he said that was an excuse used by the Dalai Lama to split the country.

"Under the current education system in the autonomous region, all the Tibetan students are required to learn the Tibetan language during the nine-year period of compulsory education," he said.

File photo shows Inaki Precidao Idoeta, one of the first Spanish diplomats to China and a famous Sinologist and Tibetologist in Spain, posing with lamas at the Waqiu Temple in Xinlong County of Ganzi Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, southwest China's Sichuan Province, June 16, 2005. What he has seen and heard in areas where people of China's Tibetan ethnic group are living "completely differed from the distorted propaganda by the Dalai Lama," Inaki Precidao Idoeta said in a recent interview with Xinhua. (Xinhua Photo)

"Many books and magazines in Tibet are also compiled in the Tibetan language. All these show that the Tibetan culture has been well protected and inherited," the scholar said.

Talking about the plan of the so called "Tibet government-in-exile" to hold "a series of commemorative events" from this March to the next, Preciado Idoeta said the Dalai clique needed to do something after receiving large amounts of money from western anti-China forces.

They will not stop making trouble because the clique has an entire network of international anti-China forces and the support from some western media, he added.

Some western media have been playing a shameful role in the past years by distorting truth on Tibet, deceiving readers and spreading those malicious rumors last year, the Spanish expert said.

An article will be published without hesitation if it criticizes the Chinese government and supports the Dalai Lama, however, the objective reports written by people who know the truth about Tibet are hard to appear in those media, he said.

The western people are blindfolded owing to those biased reports and China should try to get them shake off those wrong ideas. China should take measures to boost its overseas reports and introductions on Tibet, as to make people know the current situation in Tibet in a better and comprehensive way, Preciado Idoeta said.

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For whom is Tibet a "hell on earth"?

www.chinaview.cn 2009-03-10 22:28:56

By Xinhua Writer Zhou Yan

LHASA, March 10 (Xinhua) -- Tuesday is a special date for Tibetans. For the 2.8 million residents in the southwest China autonomous region, it marks 50 years since feudal serfdom was abolished; but for the 14th Dalai Lama and his "government-in-exile," it marks five decades of futile attempts at independence.

Fifty years after he fled China and having failed time and again to foment widespread unrest in Tibet and other Tibetan communities in western China, the Dalai Lama is apparently at his wit's end.

Tibetan pilgrims turn the pray wheels in front of the Potala Palace during the Grand Summons Ceremony in Lhasa, southwest China's Tibet Autonomous Region, on March 10, 2009. (Xinhua Photo)

In a speech to mark the 50th anniversary of his exile, the Dalai Lama abruptly shook off his pacifist outlook and smiles to give some gibberish far below the intelligence of the "spiritual leader" himself, and poles apart from truth.

In this speech, delivered in the northern Indian hill town of Dharamshala, the Dalai Lama denigrated Tibet's 50 years of democratic reform, sustained economic growth and improved human rights as "untold suffering and destruction to the land and people of Tibet."

He also slandered the Chinese government as having killed hundreds of thousands of Tibetans and transformed the plateau region into a "hell on earth.

"The Tibetan people are regarded like criminals, deserving to be put to death," the spiritual leader said.

The Dalai Lama might have staged some fanfare in front of the "Tibet independence" forces overseas, and bewitched some Westerners with his assumptions that though groundless, sometimes sell well internationally -- the "nearing extinction" of the Tibetan culture and identity, for instance.

An elderly Tibetan holding a prayer wheel walks on the famous market street, Pogor near the Jokhang Temple in central Lhasa, capital of southwest China's Tibet Autonomous Region, March 10, 2009. (Xinhua/Gong Bing)

The Dalai Lama calls Tibet a "hell on earth." But many Tibetans I know, particularly the elderly people who still remember the past, say Tibet is at its best stage of development . Why do the opinions vary so much?

With no exception, the 14th Dalai Lama and all his predecessors represent the aristocrats and serf owners in old Tibet. So when the democratic reform took place and all the serfs stood up to own land and become men with dignity, Tibet became "hell on earth" for the Dalai Lama and his likes.

This "hell on earth" is precisely "paradise on earth" for the ordinary Tibetans. Under no circumstances would these people allow the Dalai Lama to restore the old social strata in their homeland, under the name of the "middle way" or "meaningful autonomy."

Anyone with the least knowledge of Tibet knows clearly, under the ruling Communist Party of China, how schools, hospitals, quake-resistant homes and other facilities have been built to improve the quality of Tibetans' lives; how roads, airports and a railway have been constructed to bring in some of the most-needed supplies and how modern technologies have enabled farmers to build vegetables and fruits on former infertile land.

Anyone who has been to Tibet cannot help exclaiming at its well-preserved culture: the centuries-old treasures housed in the Potala Palace, the Jokhang Temple and more than 1,000 other monasteries; the traditional artwork and opera; the elegant, Tibetan-style homes; the eating habits, featuring yak butter, highland barley and other cuisine, and the unique language, one of the few Chinese dialects that are still widely used in both written and spoken forms.

An ethnic Tibetan monk walks in front of a giant "thangka", a sacred painting on cloth, to be displayed on a hill outside a monastery in Tongren, northwest China's Qinghai province Monday, Feb. 2, 2009. (Photo: China Daily)

Ask Loga, 85, if the Tibetans are living in a "hell on earth." The Lhasa resident, who speaks only Tibetan dialect, has been a pilgrim to Sera Monastery nearly every day since he was 13. Thanks to the improved quality of life, the average life expectancy of Tibetans has nearly doubled since the democratic reform, to about 67.

With the interpretation of a Tibetan colleague, Loga told me he was "in good shape except that he was blind in one eye." The hearty smile on his weathered face tell me he is happy and content.

Fifty years after the Dalai Lama's flight from China, some Tibetans still revere him as their "spiritual leader." They do this because as devout Buddhists, they worship him as the reincarnation of all previous Dalai Lamas. It's this status, rather than his words or deeds, that earned the 14th Dalai Lama some awe.

For the Dalai Lama, 50 years is a long time. Tibet is no more the former land of poverty from which he fled. Its people are no more living under the serf owners' whips, totally ignorant to what is going on in the wide world.

If the Dalai Lama really wants to do something beneficial for his fellow Tibetans, he should stop lying, abandon his separatism mentality and show some sincerity in settling the Tibet issue properly.

(Xinhua correspondents Niu Qi, Pempa Tsering and Soinam Norbu contributed to this story)

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What a hell of Dalai Lama's crisis management?

www.chinaview.cn 2009-03-10 22:29:41

by Xinhua Writer Cheng Zhiliang

BEIJING, March 10 (Xinhua) -- Enjoying celebrity like a Hollywood star, the Dalai Lama can by no means be too patient for only one day to the negligence of world media which are occupied by economic concerns since the global financial crisis.

His time to shine comes in March, an eventful month in Tibetan history. The aura around him captured limelight again when on Tuesday he, with his supernatural power as a divine monk, turned a happy land into "hell on earth."

The trick lies in his mouth.

In a speech in the northern Indian hill town of Dharamshala to mark his abortive rebellion 50 years ago, the lama said the Chinese government has transformed the plateau region into a "hell on earth."

He must have lost his supernatural power of clairvoyance, if he has, when he, ignorant of the scenes of prostrating believers in front of the Potala Palace and dancing farmers in their own fields, alleged in the speech that "Tibetan people are regarded like criminals, deserving to be put to death."

He also forgot in the speech what a "paradise" in Tibet was like during his rule when about 95 percent of the population were serfs and slaves before 1959.

The "gentle", "smiling" monk has never stopped speaking ill of the Chinese central government, but pathetically this time he made false accusations at a wrong time.

The Dalai Lama had been in the spotlight since last March through the Beijing Olympics, but he has not been at the center of the stage since the economic downturn grabbed the attention of politicians and media.

In a way like a kid trying to draw attention from other people by crying, the marginalized old monk started a round of false accusations which were rhetorically flaring and demagogic but untenable in fact.

In contrast to the imagination that more than 1 million Tibetans had been killed in the past 50 years, the fact is that the population of Tibet increased from 1.2 million in 1959 to 2.87 million in 2008, with more than 95 percent of them from Tibetan and other ethnic minorities.

Luckily, more and more lay people now can see what is really happening in Tibet through their own eyes.

There is also people who have a record of history in their heart. Ngapoi Ngawang Jigme, once a Galoin (cabinet minister) of the former local government of Tibet, pointed out that if Tibet's cruel serfdom and theocratic regime continued, the serfs would all died and the aristocrats would not be able to live either. "The whole Tibet would be destroyed," he said.

Of course, the "spiritual leader" also has his own earthy concerns amid the financial turmoil. As the global downturn is taking its toll throughout the world, the Dalai Lama may have to face reduced financial support from his western patrons.

The monk is never short of sycophants, who may harbor various sentiments.

But before he wins the whole world, he has to convince those millions of Tibetans first, telling them what a Shangri-la Tibet meant when they or their fathers were serfs and slaves.

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Dalai Lama group's sabotage will not block Tibet's development

14:14, March 09, 2009

By Li Hongmei People' Daily Online

Although sabotage from the Dalai Lama group remains the biggest menace to Tibet's development, it will by no means block the progress of the Tibetan society at large. This year marks the 50th anniversary of the region's Democratic reform, and March 28 will be the Serfs' Emancipation Day agreed upon unanimously by the Tibetan Autonomous Regional People's Congress to commemorate annually the day in 1959, when Tibetan surfs and slaves, then accounting for more than 90 percent of the region's population, were freed after the central government foiled an armed rebellion staged by the Dalai Lama and his supporters.

But for all these years, the Dalai Lama group has never showed any signs of ceasing to promote the notorious 'Tibet Independence.' They tried to collude with their agents in Tibet and even sent people to the region; the so-called 'Tibetan government in-exile' masterminded and fomented the destructive March 14 Lhasa riots last year. A handful of exiled Tibetans went to such extremes that they explicitly and repeatedly expressed their attempts to separate Tibet from the Chinese territory, their defeated attempts ranging from harassing and disturbing the international tour of Beijing Olympic torch relay to dogging and making trouble to the Chinese leaders' international visits.

Additionally, through creating chaos that harm the region's stability, they intend to internationalize the so-called 'Tibet issue'; through fabricating stories about the 'Chinese suppression' on Tibetan culture and religion, they attempt to rally the international support; and through lobbying around by mixing up black and white, they try to confuse the public opinion and convince the world, by manipulating evidence, that the temporary security measures, taken by the government to deter the possible disturbances form the pro-'Tibet Independence' forces, are 'tightened clampdown upon Tibetans.'

When most parts of Tibet were celebrating their traditional Tibetan New Year, or Losar, the 'Tibetan government in-exile' launched the so-called 'somber protests' trying desperately to fuel the anti-Chinese sentiments among the Tibetans. But in actuality, most Tibetans live a life as normal as usual. Their New Year's celebrations, religious activities, including major rituals, have all along going on as usual. 'They (the Dalai Lama and his supporters) are not willing to see the stability and development in Tibet,' said Legqog, director of the Standing Committee of the Tibetan Autonomous Regional People's Congress on the sidelines of the ongoing sessions of NPC and CPPCC. 'This year they have intensified their secessionist activities,' he added.

By the way, if his memory does not decay, the Dalai Lama should remember that he used to so readily accept the appointment from the central government as Vice-Chairman of the NPC Standing Committee before his fleeing Tibet. And if he would like to relate Tibet in history, he should have the knowledge that the title of 'Dalai Lama' came into being in Emperor Wanli's reign of the Ming Dynasty, and Tibet became an Administrative Region of China even as far back as the Yuan Dynasty. But "His Holiness' the Dalai Lama seems to have been suffering amnesia or playing ignorant when he has devoted himself all these years to globe-trotting as a political monk clad in saffron in a bid to win the support for his 'noble cause' of 'Tibet independence.'

Unfortunately, the Dalai Lama group's attempt to split China is doomed to a complete failure, as Tibet was, is and will always be an inalienable part of the Chinese territory. Facts will never be bent by any plot and intrigue. As a living Buddha was quoted as saying, 'separatists will find no room to replay a scenario they plotted in the riots in Tibet last March.' In today's Tibet, people cherish a peaceful and harmonious life, which is not easily come by. Hence a small group of secessionists who attempt to make troubles have already lost social and public support.

The State Council Information Office published on Mar.2 a white paper on the situation in Tibet before and since 1959. And currently, an exhibition on the same topic is also held in Beijing. Both of them will display the true Tibet and the historic changes that Tibet has ever seen since the Democratic Reform in 1959.

It is no point the Dalai Lama group making all this bluff and bluster, as the fact in itself is the most eloquent proof to show what a real Tibet is now like and what the majority of Tibetans truly feel. Tibet will progress, whatever happens, and people will sooner or later discern the truth out of facts, even if the Dalai Lama group has been acting in a way beyond redemption, and no matter how much they have deliberately distorted both history and reality.

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Tibet official: March Lhasa riots won't repeat

09:53, March 07, 2009

A senior Tibet official said here Friday that the violent riots, which resulted in the death of at least 18 civilians in Lhasa last March, won't repeat.

Although the riots have caused tremendous damage to the social and economic development and people's life in Tibet, it did not change the fundamentals of the steady development in Tibet," Qiangba Puncog, chairman of the Tibet Autonomous Region government, said.

"The overall situation Tibet is stable," he said on the sidelines of the ongoing parliament session.

Qiangba Puncog said he cannot rule out possibilities that some individuals might make reckless moves next week, but he believed that "riots like those in last March won't happen again."

His view was echoed by Chubakang Tubdain Kaizhub, a living Buddha and chairman of the Tibet Branch of the Buddhist Association of China.

There will be "no problems" of stability in Tibet this year, as" a small group of secessionists who attempt to make troubles have lost social support," said Chubakang Tubdain Kaizhub, a member of the Standing Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC) National Committee, the country's top political advisory body.

"A handful of separatists can by no means win the people's heart, and their disturbance would only result in the collapse of the social foundation for their existence," said he.

MARCH 28 CELEBRATIONS

In response to questions on securities measures on March 28, Qiangba Puncog said necessary measures will be taken in Lhasa on day, when celebrations will be held to mark the democratic reform that emancipated millions of serfs and slaves 50 years ago.

But no extraordinary measures like martial law will be enforced, said Qiangba Puncog at a panel discussion open to media.

The regional legislature in January endorsed a bill to set March 28 as Serfs Emancipation Day for annual observation in the region. Celebrations will be held in Lhasa and Beijing to mark the occasion this month.

Legqog, director of the Standing Committee of the Tibetan Autonomous Regional People's Congress, said the approval of Serfs Emancipation Day is an important move to wage a "tit-for-tat struggle" against the Dalai Lama group.

"We'll, for a long period of time, face austere test in maintaining unification of the motherland, fighting ethnic splittism, and maintaining social stability," said Legqog.

"Since the Dalai Lama and his supporters failed in an armed rebellion and fled abroad 50 years ago, they have been dreaming of restoring the reactionary, dark, barbarian and backward feudal serfdom in Tibet, and they have never stopped activities to split the motherland and undermine ethnic unity," he said.

In 1959, the central government foiled an armed rebellion staged by the Dalai Lama and his supporters.

"The younger generation in Tibet may know little about this history," Legqog said, adding the Serfs Emancipation Day would help "remind the younger generation of the bitter past so that they would cherish today's development, changes and new life."

CHALLENGE REMAINS

Despite efforts to maintain stability in Tibet, officials said disturbance and sabotage from the Dalai Lama group still remains and hinders Tibet's development.

Citing tourism as an example, Lhasa Mayor Doje Cezhug said Tibet economy enjoyed a fast growth in 2007 and early 2008. But the violent riots on March 14 last year denied the autonomous region a good chance of development.

Local economy, mainly driven by tourism, was "severely hurt" by the March riots last year, said Doje Cezhug.

Lhasa received 1.35 million tourists in 2008, down half from the previous year, and the tourism income dropped by 58.66 percent to 1.17 billion yuan (about 172 million U.S. dollars).

"We were also faced with other difficulties such as halt of factory production and investment outflow and shrink because of investors' panic after the riots," said the mayor.

He noted that the city has taken a series of measures to restore normal economical and social order, including reinforcing social public security and promoting tourism by tax cut and tax exemption policies.

"We will strive to ensure economic growth, people's well-being and social stability this year," said the mayor.

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What kind of olive branch from the Dalai Lama?

2008-08-21 11:23:00

Just on the former day of the opening ceremony of the Beijing Olympic Games, "New York Times", an American newspaper, published an article titled "An Olive Branch from the Dalai Lama" by Nicholas D. Kristof, a journalist who once worked in China. The article introduces the Dalai Lama's new opinions about Tibet.

Before analyzing the Dalai Lama's new ideas, I would like to share two points which puzzle me most.

Firstly, the Chinese government always opens doors to the Dalai Lama for talks. As a matter of fact, from 2002 to the beginning of this year, the departments concerned have conducted six rounds of talk with the Dalai Lama. In addition, after the March 14 Riots the United Front Work Department (UFWD) of the Communist Party of China (CPC) had dialogues with the Dalai Lama twice although local people in Tibet Autonomous Region (TAR) were very angry with separatists due to great damages caused by riots. If the Dalai Lama has any new ideas indeed, he should communicate with the central government directly instead of conveying his comments by western media. The proposition from a western journalist not only makes people disbelieve its authenticity but also doubts the Dalai Lama's sincerity. Does he wish to solve the issue or just to strengthen public relations among the western world for another time?

Secondly, one point of the Dalai Lama's new allegation is that the object of the dialogue should be changed to the supreme leader from the United Front Work Department of CPC, which is out of all reason. That would do no good to the following dialogue. On the contrary, it will set new blocks to the progress. So I have to suspect the Dalai Lama's sincerity of resolving issues.

The first point of the Dalai Lama's new ideas is that "the Dalai Lama is willing to state that he can accept the socialist system in Tibet under Communist Party rule", which he regards as an important compromise. Actually, this is what the Dalai Lama should do according to the dialogue. It is really wise enough to interpret an inevitable thing as a big compromise, in terms of negotiation skills. It is a popular tactic in western public relations to put forward a fake topic and then gain virtual profit by making compromises. With the establishment of the Tibet Autonomous Region in 1965 after the democratic reform in 1959, the socialist system has become the foundation of Tibet's society today. The result of changing the reality is unimaginable. On the foundation of current social system, TAR has made great progress on the way to modernization. Further promoting the autonomous region is millions of Tibetan people's requirement and rights. It is selfish that some few people hope to change the progress of the history, which is impossible as well.

The second point of view is about the Dalai Lama's so-called "greater Tibet". He can accept the current boundary between TAR and other provinces but calls for "greater Tibet" "to be placed under one administration" and demanded "to create a Regional Authority for Tibetan Affairs that would administer key aspects of life" in greater Tibet. That is to say, he would like to gain the practical domination over greater Tibet by superficially giving up greater Tibet. Here we can learn the negotiation tactics of "moving forward two steps by moving back one step". In history, there has never been "all Tibetan areas" with an effective and consolidate administration. In the rule of law, his claiming greater Tibet disregards other nationalities' rights completely. As for politics and real life, if the plan of greater Tibet takes effect, a race launder with unprecedented scale will happen. Thus the plan of greater Tibet itself is ridiculous and persisting this plan is one of the greatest barriers for the dialogue between the central government and the Tibet separatist group. The Dalai Lama changed the expression way of the issue of greater Tibet without giving up the preposition actually, which is the essence of the problem of the so-called new ideas.

After recommending the new policy of his highly-praised Dalai Lama, Kristof raised a series of detailed requests on behalf of the Dalai Lama, such as allowing the Dalai Lama to arrive in or depart from China according to his will; restricting other ethnic people's migration; stopping the patriotism education in monasteries; permitting pre-school age children to go to school; promoting the status of Tibetan language and boosting the occupancy of Tibetan cadres. In my opinion, it is the Dalai Lama's rights to raise requests, but all those requests should be based upon rationality and reality.

Let's have a simple discussion at some topics. Firstly, the so-called migration problem. In terms of the modern nomology, except the well-organized and large scale migration to some areas based upon governmental public power and resources, it is the basic rights under the guarantee of constitution for citizens to migrate according to one's own interest demand within the frontier. It is wrong to restrict individual free migration according to the nomology and according to the modern human rights view, it is also improper. Now the fact is that there is no issue for government to organize migration to Tibet or some other Tibetan-inhabited areas while the government should respect and protect the behavior of individual migration according to market economy demand.

Secondly, permitting pre-school age children to go to school. The key problem is the balance of rights claim. China respects citizens' religion freedom according to the law and in opposite, the citizen must respect the law to fulfill the legal obligation and this is a kind of balanced contract relationship. It is the rights for children to enjoy education and the duty of parents and the government to help children to finish compulsory education. The reasonable claim is to help those children finish education and allow them to choose their religion belief after they have ability to fulfill their rights to perform their rights according to the constitution.

Thirdly, about the Tibetan language. With the development of modernization, any nationality will meet the challenge of adjusting to the modernization and protecting the traditional culture. A clear fact is that since the Reform and Opening-up, the Chinese Government has done a lot to popularize Tibetan language, protect and develop the Tibetan culture and has also made a lot of progress. In stead of criticism without any fact basis, the Chinese Government deserves affirmation and encouragement for its efforts on Tibetan language and Tibetan culture.

In Kristof's quotation cited from the Dalai Lama, a marked paragraph shows that he pays much attention to those words: "The main thing is to preserve our culture, to preserve the character of Tibet, That is what is most important, not politics." It sounds really good, but if you read carefully, you will still feel that culture is just used as an excuse as what the Dalai Lama cares most is the politics.

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Tibet official on Dalai Lama's "autonomy for Tibet"

UPDATED: 11:12, June 21, 2007

Qiangba Puncog, The Chairman of China's Tibet Autonomous Region

(Qiangba Puncog is a native Tibetan, born and raised in Tibet)

The Chairman of China's Tibet Autonomous Region said on Wednesday that the "high-degree autonomy for Tibet" advocated by the Dalai Lama goes against not only the aspiration of the people in Tibet, but also the Constitution of China and the basic system currently in place.

Qiangba Puncog, chairman of the regional government, made the remark at a news briefing on Tibet's social and economic development held in Beijing, responding to a question raised by a reporter.

"To know the Dalai Lama we should not only listen to what he says, but also look at what he has done," said the Tibetan official.

"The region gained its autonomy in 1965. The system of regional autonomy for minority nationalities has made Tibetan people masters of their own destiny. Affairs relating to Tibetans have been well managed, making possible huge progress in present-day Tibet," said Qiangba.

The Dalai Lama's call for a "high-degree autonomy for Tibet" is against the people's wishes and against the Constitution and basic system in place, he said.

Qiangba took issue with the Dalai Lama's calls for a "greater Tibet". "If we look at history, we can see there has not been such an area since the dismantling of the Tubo kingdom in the ninth century, and there have been different administrative systems for Tibetans in Sichuan, Tibet and other regions," he said.

"The Dalai Lama travels around the world in Buddhist robes not out of religious zeal but to internationalize the Tibet issue and achieve his own political purposes," Qiangba said.

He said the Dalai Lama's pursuit of autonomy or establishment of the greater Tibetan area were staging houses to conceal his pursuit of independence.

"People from the Dalai Lama side believe, 'once this succeeds, then (Tibet's) independence is not far away', and this reveals their real intentions," he said.

The official was asked to comment on letters asking for permission to let the Dalai Lama come back to Tibet.

"I have not seen the letters but I have heard about the content. The ideas expressed differ greatly from the opinions held by the most Tibetan people," he said.

"His opinions do not represent the view of the majority of Tibetan people, nor do they represent the views of the majority of officials in Tibet. They only represent a handful of people," said Puncog.

Puncog said the channel of communication with the Dalai Lama and his personal representative has always been open. "The Dalai Lama has to give up his independence goal and his separatist activities," he said, "we all expect him to be sincere and to do some good deeds for the Tibetan people and the country during his lifetime."

The official said he deeply regretted the recent meeting between the Australian Prime Minister John Howard and the Dalai Lama.

The Dalai Lama is not a religious figure but a politician, said the official, adding that people in Tibet know what kind of person the Dalai Lama is.

"Dalai Lama has been involved in activities to split the country since he went into exile abroad 48 years ago," said the official. "I believe that meetings between foreign political leaders and the Dalai Lama are matters that concern the unity of our nation and the integrity of Chinese territory."

"People in Tibet, just like the Chinese government, are firmly against foreign political leaders meeting with the Dalai Lama," said Qiangba Puncog.

A Chinese foreign ministry spokesman last Friday protested to Australia about the Dalai Lama's visit there.

"Turning a deaf ear to China's representations, the Australian side has allowed the Dalai Lama to visit Australia and meet with Australian political leaders, including Prime Minister John Howard. We consider this a rude intervention in China's internal affairs", spokesman Qin Gang said.

"We hope the Australian side will correct its attitude to the Dalai Lama in the interests of overall bilateral relations", Qin said, urging Australia to take effective measures to eliminate the "negative influence" of the Dalai Lama's visit and to offer no platform for his "secessionist activities".

Source: Xinhua

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Most lawmakers in Tibet are ethnic minorities

www.chinaview.cn 2008-12-10 20:27:56

LHASA, Dec. 10 (Xinhua) -- Regional ethnic autonomy is practiced in Tibet Autonomous Region with lawmakers from the Tibetan and other ethnic groups holding 94 percent of the seats in local legislatures, a senior regional lawmaker said.

There are more than 34,000 delegates from Tibet to People's Congress at region, city, county and town levels, said Adain, vice chairman of the standing committee of the Tibet Autonomous Regional People's Congress.

Residents in Tibet showed increased participation in elections, as 96.4 percent of voters voted last year to elect members of the incumbent legislatures, up from 93.1 percent in 2002 and 91.6 percent in 1991, Adain said.

Adain said that the concept of "Tibet independence" promoted in Dalai's "Memorandum on Genuine Autonomy for the Tibetan People," would never be accepted by the people in Tibet.

The Chinese government has policies in place for the autonomy of ethnic minorities.

The Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, established in 1947, was the first autonomous region for ethnic minorities in China. It was followed by the Xinjiang Uygur, Guangxi Zhuang, Ningxia Hui and Tibet autonomous regions.

Under the unified leadership of the Chinese government, regional autonomy for ethnic minorities is practiced in areas where there are concentrated populations of ethnic minorities. Self-governing bodies are established in these areas for the exercise of autonomy.

As of 2007, China has established 155 ethnic autonomous areas. Of these, five are autonomous regions, 30 autonomous prefectures and 120 autonomous counties.

Among the country's 55 ethnic minorities, 44 have autonomous areas -- covering 75 percent of the total ethnic minority population.

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Dalai Lama's olive branch isn't fresh

2008-08-22 13:37:00

As the 29th Beijing Olympic Games opened on August 8th and made a great achievement, some anti-China forces feel enormous lonely, they can't accept such smooth and successful games nor the host country is highly praised by media from all over the world. Some of them therefore wrote an article titled "An Olive Branch from the Dalai Lama" on New York Times on the day the games opened. It's about the so called "Tibet issue" and a series of approaches of concession is also included. The solution which makes both sides feel uncomfortable to certain conditions is an olive branch from the Dalai Lama to Chinese government. However, after carefully interpreting the solution, it's not another solution at all and it's absolutely an old trick.

One of the main discussions in the article is the "Greater Tibetan Area". That is usually interpreted to mean a huge expansion of the political boundaries of the Tibet Autonomous Region to encompass about one-fourth of China, taking in parts of Qinghai, Gansu, Sichuan and Yunnan Provinces. The Chinese government stands fast on this point.

The article states that one way to bridge that gulf would be "to create a Regional Authority for Tibetan Affairs that would administer key aspects of life in all Tibetan areas, particularly education, culture and religion. Already, for example, Tibetan-language school textbooks are harmonized in different provinces, and this regional authority would likewise oversee practical aspects of life in areas with Tibetan populations, all under Chinese law." The result is "This would allow Tibetan areas to be placed under a single administration without changing political boundaries."

The solution is no doubt the latest version of seeking Tibet independence on the "Greater Tibetan Area". The words "key aspects of life in all Tibetan areas" is so ambitious with too much meanings. So it explains and states "particularly education, culture and religion." However, it again emphasizes "This regional authority would oversee practical aspects of life in areas with Tibetan populations", which also means too much, not only cultural and religious affairs.

In fact, making an administration authority for Tibetan affairs haven't existed in China's history nor accord to China's current political system. The political boundaries in China are made in consideration of historic tradition and administration convenience. It's not simply made by nationalities. Besides, China is home of 56 nationalities who live in mixture in large areas and in groups with small population. This is the same in Tibet Autonomous Region and other Tibetan autonomous prefectures and the situation has last for thousands of years.

To sum up, the compromise solution, or the olive branch is not fresh at all. The reason to write such article is to sully China's international image at the time the Olympic Games open and all the people from all over the world thank to Chinese government and people who have made great contributions to the Olympic big families and share the spirit of Olympics beyond political differences under the Olympic Flag.

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What to negotiate with Dalai Lama?

2008-07-01 16:41:00

To most people, no matter in the old Tibet or in Dharmsala today, where Tibetan government-in-exile locates, Dalai Lama is both a political and a religious figure. Although Dalai himself frequently refers to the "government-in-exile" as a "democratic government", he has never denied he is the political leader. But it does not make any sense at all to compare theocracy to a democratic system. If it did, people would assume he either lacks or ignore common sense.

Theocracy was abolished in Tibet. This is the reason why Dalai left Lhasa in 1959(click here), and it is also the result of his absence.

Tibet is an autonomous region, so the Tibetan autonomous government is the only legal government to represent Tibet, not that government-in-exile.

Therefore, to negotiate with China is actually to negotiate Dalai's future. Because he is not able to represent neither Tibet nor Tibetan on any legal grounds, and China will never consent to negotiate with him when he claims himself as the political figure of the "government-in-exile". I am not sure whether Dalai is clear about this or not.

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What to talk with Dalai Lama?

2008-07-01 16:39:00

Seems a new round of talks between the Beijing central government and the Dalai Lama will start soon. Then, what are the topics on the table? Is it the current situation of Tibet, position of Tibet, future of Tibet, or the destiny of the Tibetan people, of course NOT.

The reason is simple. Dalai is a Buddhist lama, his past political status was based on the system of theocracy. The system, in which a society is ruled by a priest or monk who represent a god, has been abolished in Tibet long before. So if one is going to discuss with a monk the position and future of Tibet, and destiny of Tibetan people, doesn't that give an impression that China will allow theocracy to resume in Tibet?

Tibet is an autonomous region of China, and representing it is the government of the Tibetan Autonomous Region. The 14th Dalai Lama has set up an "exile regime" in Dharmsala, India, and he claims to be the leader of the exile regime. The fact is that not a single state in the world today admits the legitimacy of Dalai Lama's exile government in Dharmsala. If the central government is going to discuss the position, future of Tibet, and destiny of Tibetan people, doesn't that give an impression that Dharmasala exile regime is legitimate?

Tibet has achieved a lot in the past 50-odd years, but Tibet's success and progress has nothing to do with the Dalai Lama(click here). He by no means can represent Tibet or the Tibetan people now. So, China's central government is not going to discuss with Dalai Lama the current situation of Tibet, position of Tibet, future of Tibet, or the destiny of the Tibetan people, but only the future and destiny of Dalai Lama himself.

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Last opportunity for Dalai Lama

2008-07-01 16:41:00

The 14th Dalai Lama is running out of opportunities. And that's why he is using the Beijing Olympics as his last straw. But could he really make the best use of this opportunity? Some Westerners are providing Dalai Lama with badly-needed guidance and support, which shed light on why he frequented Western countries in a rush. However, there are vast differences in the interest of those Westerners' and Dalai's, which can be seen through the fact that Dalai has been given a cold shoulder by the West from time to time in the past decades.

Therefore Dalai should tell the difference in interests and stop binding himself to certain political forces, which will lead to his loss of opportunities. Judging from the current situation, Dalai Lama is losing his most important opportunities on mending ties with the Chinese central government.

Of course, it remained to be seen whether Dalai Lama still has any power and influence to muster, without the support of some political forces in the West.

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Chinese central government officials meet with Dalai Lama's private representatives

www.chinaview.cn 2008-07-03 15:37:37

BEIJING, July 3 (Xinhua) -- Du Qinglin, head of the United Front Work Department of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee, met with private representatives of the 14th Dalai Lama in Beijing recently, the department said on Thursday.

Du, also the vice chairman of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC), told the two representatives, Lodi Gyari and Kelsang Gyaltsen, the central government's policy towards the Dalai Lama is consistent and explicit. The door for dialogue is always open.

The Dalai Lama should openly and explicitly promise and prove it in his actions not to support activities to disturb the upcoming Beijing Olympic Games, not to support plots to fan violent criminal activities, not to support and concretely curb the violent terrorist activities of the "Tibetan Youth Congress" and not to support any argument and activity to seek "Tibet independence" and split the region from the country, he said.

While the country is welcoming the 30th anniversary of its reform and opening up, Tibet, together with the rest of the country, has progressed to realize economic development and improve people's living standards while protecting the environment and effectively using resources, he said.

In Tibet, the adherence to the CPC leadership, the socialist system and the regional autonomy of ethnic minorities will not be altered, he said.

The central government will apply its policies in Tibet, support the region's economic and social development and work to improve living standards of people in Tibet as it did before.

Du also briefed them about the Wenchuan earthquake on May 12 and the relief work.

He said at time of difficulty, the Chinese nation has shown strong cohesiveness and profound love among its people. The relief work serves as vivid illustrations of China's protection of human rights.

The CPC implemented its principle of putting people first and ruling the country for the people, while the advantages of socialist system are also manifested in the quake relief, as indicated in the policy of saving lives first, nationwide mobilization for quake relief and timely and smooth flow of information, he said.

Zhu Weiqun and Sitar, two deputy heads of the department, also met with the Dalai Lama's representatives and exchanged ideas on detailed issues.

If the Dalai Lama makes positive moves, the next round of contact may be held before the end of this year, according to the officials of the department.

The Dalai Lama's representatives also expressed their ideas on several relevant issues and said they would report the results to the Dalai Lama.

During their stay in Beijing, the two toured the Olympic stadiums and talked with some Tibetologists.

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China blames Dalai Lama side for breaking promise

2008-11-11 09:57:00

A Chinese central government official said here Monday the Dalai Lama side has failed to honor the promises they made in previous talks.

In the previous talks, the Dalai Lama's representatives did not seriously reflect on fundamental issues, said Sita, vice minister of the United Front Work Department of the Communist Party of China, noting "the political foundation of contacts and talks with them is that Tibet is an inalienable part of China.

"They did not keep their words as well, which ruined the atmosphere of the meeting," he said at a press conference.

In talks held in July, the Dalai Lama's representatives said they had no problems following the "four not-to-supports" put forward by the central authorities:

not supporting activities that disturbed the upcoming Beijing Olympic Games;

not supporting plots inciting violent criminal activities;

not supporting and concretely curbing violent terrorist activities of the pro-secession "Tibetan Youth Congress";

not supporting any argument and activity seeking "Tibetan independence" and splitting the region from the country.

However, Sita said in the few days before and after the opening of the Olympics, the Dalai Lama supporters organized protests in front of about 40 Chinese embassies abroad, with more than 16,000 participants. They also hired foreigners to protest around Olympic venues.

From July 28, the "Tibetan Youth Congress" held several fasts in protest and on Aug. 7 it announced the beginning of the second phase of "Tibetan People's Uprising Movement".

In September, Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao also faced security threats from supporters of "Tibet independence" when attending the United Nations General Assembly in New York, Sita said.

Zhu Weiqun, executive vice minister of the United Front Work Department of the Communist Party of China Central Committee, said he expected the Dalai Lama to move to continue the talks.

"He should truly give up his stance and activities to split the motherland, openly acknowledge that Tibet and Taiwan are inalienable parts of China and the People's Republic of China is the country's only legal government."

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Signed article refutes "Memorandum" of the Dalai clique

19:05, November 21, 2008

Xinhua News Agency on Friday released a signed article by Yiduo on the "Memorandum on Genuine Autonomy for the Tibetan People" of the Dalai Lama and his followers.

The "Memorandum" was presented to the central government by the private envoys of the Dalai Lama during their talks with the central government in Beijing weeks ago.

The article says the "Memorandum", described by the Dalai Lama side as "in accordance with China's Constitution and laws", was full of contradictions with the Constitution and laws.

It says by claiming "Genuine Autonomy" in the name of Constitution, the Dalai side tried to deny the regional autonomous system of ethnic minorities, which is China's basic policy and political system on ethnic issues protected by the Constitution.

The administrative divisions of Tibet and other areas inhabited by Tibetans have been formed since the Yuan Dynasty (1271-1368), and the former local government of Tibet has never governed any other Tibetan areas outside Tibet.

The so-called "Greater Tibet", which takes one quarter of China's territory, had no historical, realistic and legal basis, the article says. "It is a key component of the advocacy of the Dalai side to separate the nation, and its essence is 'Tibetan independence'," it says.

The article says the Dalai Lama side intends to create a scenario of pure Tibetan autonomy while restricting exchanges and bonds among different ethnic groups, which would provoke conflicts and lead to segregation.

It says that the memorandum said nothing about the ownership of the sovereignty of Tibet and completely ignored the fact that Tibet was and is part of China.

"This issue cannot be ignored because it is fundamental to the improvement of the relationship between the Dalai Lama and the central government," the article says.

The article says that the "Memorandum", from its title to content, talks all about the "Greater Tibet" and "high degree of autonomy".

Its purpose is to set up a "half independent" or "covertly independent" political entity controlled by the Dalai clique on one quarter of the Chinese territory, and when conditions are ripe, they will seek to realize "complete Tibet independence", the article says.

The article also reiterated the central government's attitude towards the Dalai Lama, saying "The door of the central government for the Dalai Lama to return to the patriotic stance has always been open and will remain open in the future."

"However, the door for 'Tibet independence', 'half independence' or 'covert independence' has never been open, nor will it be open in the future," the article added.

Source: Xinhua

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Chinese government looks to post-Dalai Lama era

2008-11-11 09:58:00

An official with the Chinese central government on Monday called on the Dalai Lama to "do something beneficial " for the Tibetan people before he passes away.

Zhu Weiqun, executive vice minister of the United Front Work Department (UFWD) of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee, made the remark at a press conference held by the Information Office of the State Council, or Cabinet.

"We hope that he (the Dalai Lama) could correct his mistakes and get closer to the central government and do something beneficial for the people, including the Tibetans, during the remainder of his life, no matter if his health condition is good or poor," the official said.

"He is in his 70s and in a poor health condition after all, we do not expect him to leave an infamous reputation in history," Zhu said.

China's central government revealed more details of its contact with the Dalai Lama last week in which Du Qinglin, vice-chairman of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, met with the Dalai Lama's private representatives, Lodi Gyari and Kelsang Gyaltsen.

Zhu, UFWD Vice Minister Sita and Executive Vice Chairman of theTibet Autonomous Region Pelma Trilek also held talks with them while they were in China from Oct. 31 to Nov. 5.

On behalf of the central government at the conference, Zhu made unusual remarks on the Tibetan situation and the Tibetans in exile after the current Dalai Lama's passing away.

"We believe that in the present situation most of the Tibetans in exile will not support violence and terror and even in the future we believe most of them will not agree to use violence or terrorism against China or the Tibet Autonomous Region," Zhu said when replying to CNN reporters.

The official said some foreigners and Tibetans in exile had warned that violence and terror might increase in Tibet after the Dalai Lama's passing away.

"Some of them were just blustering and some of them were really reminding us of the possibility," he said.

The office also made a comment on the Dalai Lama's recent visit to Japan by saying "he was quite dynamic although in his 70s and poor health condition".

Zhu warned the Dalai Lama that his religious title, and those of his predecessors, were all given and approved by the central government. If he did not listen to the government's advice and continue his pro-independence policies, the Dalai Lama will leave a bad reputation in history and bring shame on the conferring regulation of the title which has been practiced for more than 450 years.

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China says no compromise on national sovereignty, refutes Dalai's so-called "middle way"

www.chinaview.cn 2008-11-10 19:37:36

BEIJING, Nov. 10 (Xinhua) -- China said here Monday that no concessions would be made on issues concerning the national sovereignty following talks between central government officials and private envoys of the Dalai Lama.

"The unification of the motherland, territorial integrity and the national dignity are the greatest interests of the Chinese people. We will never make a concession," Zhu Weiqun, executive vice minister of the United Front Work Department (UFWD) of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee, told reporters.

The Dalai Lama's private representatives, Lodi Gyari and Kelsang Gyaltsen, were in China from Oct. 31 to Nov. 5, during which period Zhu, UFWD Vice Minister Sita and Executive Vice Chairman of the Tibet Autonomous Region Pelma Trilek held talks with them.

Du Qinglin, vice-chairman of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, also met with them.

This is the ninth round of talks between Chinese central government officials and the Dalai Lama's private envoys since 2002 and the third round of talks this year.

Zhu admitted contacts and talks "failed to make progress". He said the Dalai Lama side should "shoulder full responsibility for that".

Asked to comment on the reports in which the Dalai Lama said he would not follow a so-called "middle way" if the talks failed, Zhu said the claim of "middle way" aimed at outright Tibetan independence and thus unacceptable to the central government.

The Dalai Lama put forward the idea of "middle way" in the 1980s.

Zhu said the Dalai Lama explained the approach many times, including in the "five-point peace plan" in 1987, the "seven-point new suggestions" in 1988 and a "Memorandum" tabled to the central government by his private representatives during the recent talks.

Zhu said those remarks and documents showed that the Dalai Lama's "middle way" had five basic features. "The first is that the Dalai Lama does not acknowledge that Tibet is part of China since ancient times."

"The Dalai Lama said on many occasions that when the Chinese People's Liberation Army (PLA) entered Tibet, Tibet was an independent country and now Tibet is still an independent country, which was illegally occupied," Zhu said.

He said it is known to all people with some historical knowledge that the Chinese central authorities have exerted undisputable and effective administration over Tibet since the beginning of the Yuan Dynasty (1271-1368).

"By denying China's sovereignty over Tibet, the Dalai Lama is seeking a legal basis for his activities of 'Tibet independence', 'semi-independence and 'independence in a disguised form'," Zhu said.

'Secondly, the Dalai Lama is scheming for a 'Greater Tibet', which has never existed," he said.

Zhu said the so-called "Greater Tibet" included not only the whole Tibet Autonomous Region, but also a large territory of Qinghai Province, Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture of Gannan in Gansu Province, Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture of Garze and Aba in Sichuan Province, Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture of Deqen in Yunnan Province and some other areas.

"In total, it covers one fourth of China's entire territory," Zhu said.

Zhu said Tibetan areas outside Tibet had never been under the administration of Tibet's local government. When Tibet was peacefully liberated in 1951, the jurisdiction of the local Tibet government did not exceed the current area of the Tibet Autonomous Region.

Zhu said the attempt at a "Greater Tibet" also harbors malicious intentions.

"China is a country in which various ethnic groups live together. If ethnic groups in China all ask for an autonomous region in which only people of their own groups could live, the whole country would be cast into chaos," he said.

Zhu said the third feature of the "middle way" was to overthrow the current social and political system in the Tibet Autonomous Region under the pretense of "high degree of autonomy".

The official said the Dalai Lama and key supporters had said on many occasions that a "high degree of autonomy" meant that except for diplomatic and military affairs, all political, economic, cultural, educational and religious affairs should be subject to the administration of Tibetans.

In that case, feudal serfdom would be re-established over one-fourth of the Chinese territory, he said.

Zhu said the fourth feature was that it asked the central government to withdraw the PLA from "Greater Tibet" area.

"Everybody knows that the army is a basic guarantee of territorial integrity, national security and social stability," Zhu said. "I believe not a single nation would agree to withdraw its own army from its own territory."

Zhu said the fifth feature of the "middle way" is the exclusion of other ethnic groups from the area of "Greater Tibet".

Zhu said the Dalai Lama's "five-point peace plan" stated clearly that the migration of other ethnic groups to Tibet must be curbed and the Han migrants must leave Tibet.

That means, once the Dalai Lama retained power in Tibet, racial discrimination, segregation and purges would be inevitable, Zhu said.

The official urged the Dalai Lama to "do some good things for the country and the people including the Tibetans". He reiterated that the door for the Dalai Lama's return to a patriotic stance had always been open and would remain open.

"But the door for 'Tibet independence', 'half independence' and' independence in a disguised form' had never been open, nor would it be open in the future," he said.

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China says serious differences in talks with private envoys of Dalai Lama

13:14, November 10, 2008

A Chinese central government official says recent talks with the Dalai Lama's private representatives were "frank and sincere," but serious differences remain.

Zhu Weiqun, executive vice minister of the United Front Work Department (UFWD) of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee, made the remarks at a press conference held by the Information Office of the State Council here on Monday.

Du Qinglin, vice-chairman of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, met with the Dalai Lama's private representatives, Lodi Gyari and Kelsang Gyaltsen.

Zhu, UFWD Vice Minister Sita and Executive Vice Chairman of the Tibet Autonomous Region Pelma Trilek also held talks with them while they were in China from Oct. 31 to Nov. 5.

In talks held in July, the Dalai Lama's representatives said they had no problems following the "four not-to-supports" put forward by the central authorities, but they completely broke that promise, Zhu said.

The four promises include: not supporting activities that disturbed the upcoming Beijing Olympic Games; not supporting plots inciting violent criminal activities; not supporting and concretely curbing violent terrorist activities of the pro-secession "Tibetan Youth Congress"; not supporting any argument and activity seeking "Tibetan independence" and splitting the region from the country.

"They absolutely forgot to carry out their promise and did not stop boycotting and destroying the Beijing Olympics," Zhu said. "Instead, they intensified sabotaging activities and continued to attack the Central Government."

"They supported the 'Tibetan Youth Congress' and other organizations to publicly advocate 'Tibetan independence' and fanned or organized violent criminal activities," Zhu added. "They also continued to set up a claim to internationalize the Tibet issue, trying to make use of foreigners pressuring the central government."

"They continued to collude with such dregs as overseas democracy activists, 'Falungong elements' and 'Eastern Turkistan terrorists', trying to form so-called 'united front work' to oppose the Chinese government and split the motherland," he said. "All of these have caused the Chinese people strong aversion to their actions."

This is the third talk between the central government and the Dalai Lama's private envoys this year. Previous discussions were held in May and July.

Source: Xinhua

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Sarkozy not to meet Dalai Lama during his stay in France this month

11:16, August 07, 2008

French President Nicolas Sarkozy will not meet the Dalai Lama during the latter's 11-day stay in France in the coming week, the Elysee Palace said in a communique Wednesday.

The communique was released two days before Sarkozy's visit to Beijing for the Olympic opening ceremony.

The Dalai Lama will visit France on Aug. 12-23.

In a joint interview with some Chinese media operating in France, Sarkozy stressed the significance of the friendly Sino-French relations, saying that the friendship between the Chinese and French people is embedded in the long history, everlasting and unshakable.

The president said his visit to Beijing would prove that the friendship between France and China is a fundamental axis of France's foreign policy which conforms the deep aspirations of both peoples and is a necessary factor in building a more just, safe and harmonious world order.

Sarkozy will leave soon for the Olympic opening ceremony Friday. During his short stay in Beijing, he will meet with his Chinese counterpart Hu Jintao and Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao to discuss vital issues as well as future cooperation.

Source: Xinhua

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Tibet Fought Against Foreign Invasion

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U.K. Policy Recognizes Tibet,China sovereignty

Miliband clears up Britain's Tibet policy

2008-11-03 09:26:00

A statement by UK Foreign Secretary David Miliband posted on the Foreign Office website on October 29 tidies up an obscure detail of British foreign policy and makes it clear that the British government fully recognizes Chinese sovereignty in Tibet.

Previously, in a fine distinction fully understood by only a few specialists in international law, Britain had recognized Chinese suzerainty but not sovereignty in Tibet. Suzerainty is defined, rather unhelpfully, by Webster's dictionary as "the authority of a suzerain" or "paramount authority". The earlier British position dates back to a 1906 Sino-British convention signed in the wake of a 1903-1904 invasion of Tibet by British imperial forces under the command of Colonel Francis Younghusband.

Miliband said that Britain's previous position on the status of Tibet was defined at the start of the 20th century, and was "based on the geo-politics of the time" and "the outdated concept of suzerainty". He went on to say that "Some have used this to cast doubt on the aims we are pursuing and to claim that we are denying Chinese sovereignty over a large part of its own territory. We have made clear to the Chinese Government, and publicly, that we do not support Tibetan independence."

Although many will regard it as a footnote to history, the shift in Britain's policy will be seen as undercutting the legal case for Tibetan separatism. The Wall Street Journal quoted a spokesman for the self-styled Tibetan government-in-exile as saying Miliband was "testifying a falsehood."

Speaking to journalists in Beijing on Saturday, the former governor of Hong Kong, Chris Patten, said the move to abolish what he called a "quaint eccentricity" in British policy was long overdue. He praised Mr. Miliband for bringing the UK into line with the rest of the world, including the Dalai Lama, in recognizing China's sovereignty in Tibet.

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Australian councilor: Tibetans live a happy life

2008-11-05 10:33:00

"Your house is really comfortable and you live a happy life," said Michale Johnson, a councilor from Australia after visiting Dorje, a farmer in Naqen Township of east suburb in Lhasa, capital of Tibet Autonomous Region.

Dorje offers Qingke to Michale Johnson according to traditional Tibetan etiquette in his two-floor house and Michale Johnson has paid much attention to the cheese made by Droje himself. Michale Johnson shows his surprise at such an 11-room comfortable house Dorje has.

Dorje has moved into the new house for two years and all the 60 households' locals in Dorje's village have enjoyed subsidy from the local government when they built their new building.

Michale Johnson said he would introduce a Tibet he has seen to all the public in Australia.

Invited by the Chinese government, Michale Johnson, a councilor from Australia arrived in Lhasa on November 2 for a four-day visit. As scheduled, they will leave Lhasa on November 5 after visiting some famous scenic spots.

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<<The Wall Street Journal>> NOVEMBER 1, 2008

U.K. Policy on Tibet,China

U.K. Policy Angers Tibet Ahead of Beijing Talks

By SHAI OSTER

NOVEMBER 1, 2008

BEIJING -- The Tibetan government-in-exile criticized Britain's move to more explicitly recognize China's sovereignty over Tibet, a dispute that could complicate talks between Beijing and representatives of Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama.

The U.K. has long acknowledged Chinese control over Tibet, but its policy for nearly a century has stopped short of formally recognizing Tibet as part of Chinese territory -- a stance that bothers China's government. In a statement on Wednesday, British Foreign Secretary David Miliband called that past British policy an "anachronism" and effectively abandoned it, saying that the U.K. does recognize Tibet as "part of the People's Republic of China."

The shift is largely symbolic, but some analysts say it could further weaken the position of the Tibetan exiles in ongoing talks with China. Britain's stance was unusual among foreign governments, and its rejection of that position could undercut Tibet's argument that it wasn't seen as part of China before Chinese troops occupied the territory in 1951.

A British official at the foreign office in London said on Friday that Mr. Miliband's statement represented only a clarification, and that the U.K.'s actual position hasn't changed. On Friday, Thubten Samphel, spokesman for the Tibetan government-in-exile based in Dharmsala, India, said: "Before 1950, we had many treaties with British India government in which Britain recognized Tibet as an independent country." For the U.K. to say now that it always saw Tibet as a part of China is "testifying to [a] falsehood," he said.

The Tibetan statement came as two high-level Tibetan emissaries arrived in China for five days of talks, starting the eighth round of negotiations since 2002 over the future of Tibet. The last round ended with an impasse in July, during heightened international pressure on China before the Beijing Olympics in August.

British officials said Mr. Miliband's statement was aimed at helping the negotiations.

The Dalai Lama has said repeatedly that he seeks not independence, but autonomy and the ability for Tibetans to worship freely and maintain their culture. China's Ministry of Foreign Affairs declined to comment on the British statement.

-Krishna Pokharel in New Delhi and Alistair MacDonald in London contributed to this article.

Write to Shai Oster at shai.oster@wsj.com

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Dalai Lama's 'new olive branch'

2008-08-22 09:51:00

A "new olive branch" from the Dalai Lama has staggered to the public by a western guy through a piece of western newspaper.

Nicholas D. Kristop has published an article on New York Times on August 7, the day before the opening of 2008 Beijing Olympic Games and for the first time, the Dalai Lama is willing to state that he can accept the socialist system in Tibet under Communist Party rule while "the main thing is to preserve our culture, to preserve the character of Tibet, That is what is most important, not politics", according to that article.

What's the matter with Tibet and what crisis Tibetan characteristic is facing? What kind of problem makes the Dalai Lama sacrifice so much, even to compromise a lot to be willing to accept the socialist system to "preserve them"?

This topic is too gigantic and Tibet is also too far away. Let's just come to the details. A few days ago, I went to Dongdan and near the Xiehe Hospital I found a small shop with a lot of Tibetan Buddhism figures in its shop window and lots of Thangka and monks pictures on its wall. At that time, I really wanted to take some photos just for my western friends to tell them how the Tibetan culture is in today's Beijing. It's a pity that the shopkeeper refused me. So for as I know, there are many other kinds of such shops in Beijing run by Tibetans or local residents. Whether it can be run for long or not, it only depends on the business. Can this phenomenon reflect an aspect of current Tibetan culture?

Yesterday, I went to China Tibetology Research Center for some work. Two kilometers east away from the Bird's Nest where the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games opening ceremony was just held, the Tibetan-style building is next to some other Tibetan-style buildings, such as Tibet Mansion, Tibet Middle School, Tibetan Medicine Mansion and also the newly-finished Tibet Folk Custom Museum. Painted in deep purple, a kind of characteristic color for the top of Potala Palace and some Tibetan Buddhism monasteries as well as the color of Tibetan monks' robe, those Tibetan-style buildings gather together just like a Tibetan village in Beijing. In deed, the Tibetan culture has special characteristics and we can touch the characteristics only from the Tibetan buildings which we can easily find on street. We can definitely say that the Tibetan culture has never boomed in today's Beijing as there are so many Tibetan books and newspaper, literature and art, music and etc. What is the problem with protection and development of Tibetan culture? If there is, there is only one problem, that is after so many distort words from the Dalai Lama and some western media, how can the Chinese Government make more and more westerners believe that the Chinese Government has no genocidal policy for Tibetan culture.

As for the Tibetan characteristics, there are some Tibetan characteristics in the long history including elite and draff. There are some uncultured and outdated "characteristics", such as the feudal serf system under the combination institution of politics and religion and the feudal dictatorship of Tibetan Buddhism monasteries and large numbers of monks. Yes, all those dictatorship have disappeared and of course there is no measure to keep such "characteristics". Once there was such characteristic in the history of different ethnic groups and different countries, why should Tibet keep such "characteristics" while most of the westerners weren't keen on the medieval inquisition, the tithe and the indulgence.

The "olive branch" also mentions the disquieting future:" much of Tibet is likely to have been drowned in a sea of Chinese migration" and also delivers some "prescription":" to restrict migration into all Tibetan areas, inside and outside the "autonomous region," through China's existing system of residence permits. The Chinese authorities would stop issuing resident permits, known as hukou, to non-Tibetans for any Tibetan area..."

The fact is that the Chinese Government has no policy that the Dalai Lama said to encourage large numbers of immigration to Tibet, but with the economic development and social life progress of China, it is an indisputable fact that the population flow between western and eastern China is increasing. There is other ethnic people in Tibet while there is also some other ethnic people including Tibetan in eastern China. Many countries have experienced or are experiencing the nationalities flow. All the ethnic people are equal in China and if we don't allow other ethnic people to enter Tibet, will we allow Tibetans to go to the inland cities? If the restriction is only effective to some ethnic people, does it mean that there is one or some nationalities has or have special rights? And how about the others? While if we set some restriction to all the nationalities, will there be some so-called "Human Rights Issue"? In fact, we can find paper material recording that 1,300 years ago in the beginning of Tang Dynasty, there was Han-Tibetan intermarriage and intermarriage with other nationalities is an important characteristic of Tibetan culture. If there is some restriction for population flow, don't you be afraid of losing this "Tibetan characteristic"? Can all the different ethnic young people in Tibetan-populated areas fall in love according to their will? Or they can only enjoy their separation life? How about those "Tuanjie Zu", second generation or third generation with half, a quarter even eighth blood of Tibetan? In my opinion, there is no capable leader in China can solve such complicated problem and I'm afraid that we should hire some advisors from western countries.

There are some words confusing me in that article and I can't distinguish it is from the Dalai Lama or just from Nicholas. But it mentioned so-and-so institution won't take part in the talk with the representative of the Dalai Lama or such and such secretary in Tibet transfers to some other post, I believe he has put his foot in it.

Yes, the Dalai Lama expressed his will of returning home again, so please admit your fault and see clearly of the situation to drop your bargaining with the Central Government. In last half century, you have done too many things to distort the history of Tibet, spoil the image of our country, harm Chinese people's feeling and demolish the unification of our country and keep such situation is really not the best choice.

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Dalai Lama urged to truly not support "Tibet independence"

www.chinaview.cn 2008-11-06 19:47:57

BEIJING, Nov. 6 (Xinhua) -- In a statement issued Thursday, a senior Chinese official urged the Dalai Lama to not support, plot or incite violent criminal activities or propositions aimed at "Tibet Independence."

Du Qinglin, vice-chairman of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, made the remarks while meeting with the Dalai Lama's private representatives, Lodi Gyari and Kelsang Gyaltsen, during the past few days in Beijing.

Du said the Dalai Lama should respect history, face reality and conform to the times, as well as fundamentally change his political propositions.

The Dalai Lama was also urged to respond with sincerity to his commitments made during contacts in July. Those include: not supporting plots to fan violent criminal activities, not supporting and concretely curbing violent terrorist activities of the "Tibetan Youth Congress", and to create favorable conditions for the meetings to make progress.

Concerning the fundamental issue of safeguarding national unification and territorial integrity, not the slightest wavering or departure would be allowed, Du said, noting that no "Tibet independence," "half independence" or "covert independence" would be tolerated.

The central government's policy toward the Dalai Lama was consistent and clear. The door for dialogue has always been open, said Du, who is also head of the United Front Work Department of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee.

Although violent criminal activities such as beating, smashing, looting and burning occurred in Lhasa earlier this year, the central government still arranged three meetings with the Dalai Lama's private representatives, showing the sincerity and generosity of the central government, Du said.

The official urged the Dalai Lama to make a choice that would be good for the nation, its people and history as well as himself.

During the meeting, Du briefed the representatives on the Beijing Olympics and Paralympics, the successful flight of the manned spacecraft Shenzhou-7, the economic and social development in the Tibet Autonomous Region and the country at large, as well as the quake and snow storm relief efforts in Tibet.

He said the victory over difficulties and challenges and the new achievements in reform, opening-up and modernization construction should all be attributed to the persistent adherence to the development path of socialism with Chinese characteristics.

The historical trend of China's peaceful development could not be deterred. Tibet becoming more prosperous and progressive in the homeland was also a fact witnessed by all, Du added

Adherence to the CPC's leadership, the socialist path with Chinese characteristics and the regional autonomy system for ethnic minorities were stipulated in China's Constitution, which were also the most prominent political reality in Tibet, said Du.

No activities that defy the "three adherences" and defy the Constitution would be tolerated. He stressed that the "three adherences" must be implemented unwaveringly and unswervingly.

All organizations or individuals must act in accordance with the Constitution, safeguard its dignity and abide by it and the law on the regional autonomy system for ethnic minorities, he added.

According to Du, while implementing the law on regional autonomy for ethnic minorities, the following principles should be followed:

-- The interests of the country and the Chinese nation should be put above all else. National unification and ethnic solidarity must be resolutely safeguarded;

-- The regional ethnic autonomy system is exercised under China's unitary system and is different from the federal system or confederation as implemented in some countries;

-- The regional ethnic autonomy system is a basic policy for solving ethnic issues in China and a fundamental political system in the country. It is different from the "one country, two systems" system implemented in Hong Kong and Macao;

-- The regional ethnic autonomy system is a combination of ethnic autonomy and regional autonomy and will never allow ethnic splitting in the name of "true ethnic autonomy" to undermine ethnic solidarity.

Two deputy heads of the United Front Work Department and a vice chairman of the Tibet Autonomous Region also had dialogue with the Dalai Lama's representatives.

Those officials said the door for the Dalai Lama to return to the patriotic stance had always been open and would remain open in the future. However, the door for "Tibet independence", "half independence" or "covert independence" had never been open, nor would it be open in the future, they warned.

The representatives also stated their opinions and promised to report faithfully to the Dalai Lama.

They toured the Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region. Scholars briefed them on the laws, policies and practices concerning China's regional ethnic autonomy system during their stay in Beijing.

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Dalai Lama warned not to seek secession

2008-11-09 09:35:00

China will never tolerate any attempts at "Tibet independence", or waver "in the slightest" in safeguarding national unity and territorial integrity, a senior official has said.

"Tibet independence is out of the question," said Du Qinglin, head of the United Front Work Department (UFWD) of the CPC Central Committee, after meeting with two representatives of the Dalai Lama recently.

"Semi-independence or independence in any disguised form will not be tolerated either," Du reportedly told the two envoys, Lodi Gyari and Kelsang Gyaltsen, Xinhua said on Thursday.

The meeting, held in Beijing, was the third between the central government and the Dalai Lama's representatives after the March 14 Lhasa riots.

Du said regional autonomy for ethnic minorities is part of the central government's fundamental policy, but it will never tolerate any attempt to damage ethnic unity.

He urged the Dalai Lama to respect history, face reality, comply with the times and correct his political stance "fundamentally". The Dalai Lama should not support or incite violence to seek "Tibet independence", he said.

"The Dalai Lama should honor the promises he made during the July negations, and try to create conditions for the negotiations to yield results," Du said.

In July, the Dalai Lama's envoys accepted the government's conditions of:

not supporting plots aimed at inciting violent criminal activities;

not backing terrorist activities of the secessionist "Tibetan Youth Congress", and instead taking concrete steps to check them; and

not supporting statements or actions seeking "Tibet independence" to split the region from the country.

Du said the government's policies toward the Dalai Lama have been consistent and clear, and the door to dialogue is always open for him.

"Despite the violence in Lhasa (in March), we have arranged three rounds of talks with his representatives. That reflects the sincerity of the central government. We hope the Dalai Lama will choose a path that benefits the country, the people, the history and also himself," Du said.

Zhu Weiqun and Sitar, two deputy heads of the UFWD, and Baema Chilain, vice-chairman of the Tibet autonomous region, also met with the Dalai Lama's envoys.

In a statement, Lodi Gyari said the envoys would not comment on the talks until after a special meeting of Tibetan exile communities and political organizations, to be held Nov 17-22 in Dharmsala, India.

The two said they would report the results of the talks to the Dalai Lama.

The two envoys visited the Ningxia Hui autonomous region. They also talked with a few scholars on ethnic regional autonomy policies in Beijing.

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Signed article: On the "Memorandum" of the Dalai clique

www.chinaview.cn 2008-11-21 14:28:56

by Yiduo

BEIJING, Nov. 21 (Xinhua) -- At a press conference of the State Council Information Office on Nov. 10, Zhu Weiqun, executive vice director of the United Front Work Department (UFWD) of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee, UFWD Vice Director Sita and Executive Vice Chairman of the Tibet Autonomous Region Government Pelma Trilek briefed media on their talks with private representatives of the Dalai Lama from Oct. 30 to Nov. 5.

Zhu said the Dalai Lama's private representatives presented the central government a "Memorandum on Genuine Autonomy for the Tibetan People", which has drawn wide attention. On November 16, the Dalai side held a press conference in India. They distributed the "Memorandum," and claimed that it was completely in accordance with relevant clauses of China's Constitution and law and it could meet Tibetan people's demands of special interests, if it was implemented substantially.

After a careful reading of the "Memorandum" and checking it against relevant Chinese laws, I found that contradictions with China's Constitution and laws were everywhere in the "Memorandum."

Denial of China's regional autonomy system for ethnic minorities

The "Memorandum" suggests, "The exercise of genuine autonomy would include the right of Tibetans to create their own regional government and government institutions and processes that are best suited to their needs and system compatible to their own requirements and characteristics. It would require that the People's Congress of the autonomous region have the power to legislate on all matters within the competencies of the region."

The so-called local "matters" listed by the "Memorandum" are 11 issues such as language, culture, religion, education, environmental protection, utilization of natural resources, economic development and trade, public health, public security, administrative regulations on migrants, and exchanges with foreign countries. It also says that the central and local governments should set up a way to jointly solve issues of common concern and common interest and neither the central government nor the autonomous region could change the basic clauses of regional autonomy without the consent of the other side.

To say it straight, it is what the Dalai Lama has repeatedly emphasized in recent years, "Except for foreign affairs and defense, all other issues should be given charge and full authority to Tibetans," and Tibet should follow the method of "One Country, Two Systems" and adopt "genuine autonomy, " and its "autonomous right" should be broader than that applied to Hong Kong and Macao.

China is a unitary nation, unlike some nations that are federal states or confederations. Article 3 of the Chinese Constitution says, "The division of functions and powers between the central and local State organs is guided by the principle of giving full scope to the initiative and enthusiasm of the local authorities under the unified leadership of the central authorities."

Article 15 of the Law on Regional Ethnic Autonomy says, "The people's governments of all national autonomous areas shall be administrative organs of the State under the unified leadership of the State Council and shall be subordinate to it." There are no such problems as equal "negotiations" between the central and the local governments, seeking for mutual "consent" from one another, and establishing a "way to jointly resolving (problems). "

China has established a regional autonomy system for ethnic minorities, which is cordially supported by people of all ethnic groups. The legislative framework of the Chinese regional ethnic autonomy has been well established and the legal system is being improved constantly. To date, government departments concerned have issued 22 supplementary documents, while the whole country has stipulated 134 provisions on autonomy, 429 separate provisions, and 74 supplementary regulations for the Law on Marriage and the Law on Election.

Since the founding of the Tibet Autonomous Region in 1965, people of different ethnic groups have actively participated in the management of the national and regional affairs, by fully practicing their autonomous rights endowed by the Constitution and law.

Of the deputies of all the previous regional people's congresses, those from Tibetan and other ethnic groups have always accounted for 80 percent or more, while all the chairmen of the regional people's congresses and regional people's governments have been Tibetans. The regional people's congress and its standing committee have stipulated 253 local laws, regulations and separate provisions, involving politics, the economy, culture, and education.

The regional autonomy system for ethnic minorities is the basic policy for the country on ethnic issues, and it is a fundamental political system for the country. Both the Constitution and the Law on Regional Ethnic Autonomy have defined clearly the right of autonomy of all the autonomous regions.

Unlike Hong Kong and Macao, Tibet does not have the problem of restoring the sovereignty and practicing a different social system, and thus it can not copy the models of "One Country, Two Systems," "Hong Kong People Govern Hong Kong," "Macao People Govern Macao," and "A High Degree of Autonomy." By proposing the so-called "Genuine Autonomy" in the name of the Chinese Constitution, the Dalai Lama in fact attempted to deny China's regional autonomy system for ethnic minorities and the unified leadership of the central authorities, and set up another system according to their "political design."

Demand for an independent, uncontrolled "right of legislation"

The "Memorandum" says, "Thus, whereas the Constitution intends to recognize the special need for autonomous regions to legislate on many matters that affect them, the requirements of Article 116 for prior approval at the highest level of the Central Government -- by the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress (NPC) -- inhibit the implementation of this principle of autonomy." "The exercise of autonomy is further subject to a considerable number of laws and regulations, according to Article 115 of the Constitution.... The result is that the exact scope of the autonomy is unclear and is not fixed."

It seems that the Dalai Lama side demands not only the "power to legislate on all matters within the competencies of the region" but the "legislative power" independent from the central authorities. Article 57 of the Constitution says that the NPC is the highest organ of state power, and Article 58 says that the NPC and the NPC Standing Committee exercise national legislative power.

The Constitution is the fundamental and supreme law for a nation, and all laws and regulations, including autonomous regulations of ethnic autonomous regions and separate provisions of ethnic autonomous regions must not be contradictory to the Constitution. Meanwhile, regulations and separate provisions of ethnic autonomous regions often involve adaptations of state laws. It is reasonable that the Constitution demands for prior approval by the NPC Standing Committee before the regulations become effective. The procedure will not undermine the decision-making right of autonomous regions. Instead, it grants the right with a higher level of legislative protection. The "Memorandum" denies the supreme power of the NPC Standing Committee and demands for legislative power that is equivalent to the state level. Is it compatible with the Chinese Constitution?

Seeking for a "Greater Tibet" Without any Historic, Realistic and Legal Basis

The "Memorandum" suggests, "The entire community, comprising all the areas currently designated by the PRC as Tibetan autonomous areas, should be under one single administrative entity. The current administrative divisions, by which Tibetan communities are ruled and administered under different provinces and regions of the PRC, foments fragmentation, promotes unequal development, and weakens the ability of the Tibetan nationality to protect and promote its common cultural, spiritual and ethnic identity."

It is known to all that the administrative divisions of Tibet and other areas inhabited by Tibetans have been formed since the Yuan Dynasty (1271-1368), and the former local government of Tibet has never governed any other Tibetan areas outside Tibet. In history, Tibetan people had lived in different administrative regions, and they had formed close ties with other ethnic groups living in the areas and formed regional cultures of different characteristics.

The PRC, since its founding in 1949, has established the Tibet Autonomous Region, 10 other Tibetan autonomous prefectures and autonomous prefectures for both Tibetans and other ethnic groups, and two Tibetan autonomous counties. All the Tibetan autonomous areas have adopted the regional autonomy system for ethnic minorities.

Article 14 of the Law on Regional Ethnic Autonomy says, "Once an ethnic autonomous area is established, it shall not be abolished or merged without legislative process. Once the boundary of an ethnic autonomous area is confirmed, it shall not be changed. If it is really necessary to abolish, merge or change it, it must be done through sufficient consultation between the relevant departments of the higher state organs and the autonomous organ of the ethnic autonomous region and applied for approval according to legal process."

In this case, why has the Dalai side tried to create a "Greater Tibet" that did not exist in history and has no realistic basis?

In the autobiography of the Dalai Lama, one sentence exposes the "top secret." The Dalai Lama says that since the 1950s he has been pondering on how to win independence for "Greater Tibet. "

There is a map of the "Tibetan State" he has imagined on the head page of his autobiography. In the hall of the so-called "Tibetan Government in Exile" in India's small town of Dharamsala, hung their dreamed-of "Map of the Tibetan State," which takes up about one quarter of China's territory. Apparently, the so-called "Greater Tibet" is a key component of the advocacy of the Dalai side to separate the nation, and its essence is "Tibetan independence."

Trying to create isolation among ethnic groups

The memorandum says, "To us it would be vital that the autonomous organs of self-government have the authority to regulate the residence, settlement and employment or economic activities of persons who wish to move to Tibetan areas from other parts of the PRC (People's Republic of China) in order to ensure respect for and the realization of the objectives of the principle of autonomy."

In a sovereign nation, citizens of different ethnic groups are free to choose where to live. This is the basic human rights. It is normal that people of Han nationality and other ethnic groups visit Tibet and Tibetan people do business, receive education and find jobs in other parts of China. This is conducive to exchanges among ethnic groups and common progress.

China's system of regional autonomy of ethnic minorities is based on the history, relations among ethnic groups, and local economic and social conditions. It is not purely the autonomy of a single ethnic group nor a single region.

Since the Tibet Autonomous Region was founded, the population of Tibetan people and other ethnic minorities have always at least accounted for 95 percent of the total. The "large-scale migration to Tibet, initiated by the Chinese government", as claimed by the Dalai Lama and some foreigners, has never happened.

China's then leader Deng Xiaoping told then U.S. President Jimmy Carter in a meeting in 1987, "As a region with a small population, Tibet is too large to be developed only through the efforts of 2 million Tibetan people. It is not a bad thing for some Han people to help them. If you simply judge China's policy on ethnic minorities and the Tibet issue by the population of Han people in Tibet, you will not come to a right conclusion. The key issue is how to benefit Tibetan people, to make the regional development fast and to put Tibet in a leading position in China's drive to realize Four Modernizations (modernization in agriculture, industry, technology and defense)."

The Dalai side intends to create a scenario of pure Tibetan autonomy while restricting exchanges and bonds among different ethnic groups, which actually provokes conflicts and creates isolation among ethnic groups. Anyone who has lived in the 20th Century would know the consequences of such a policy.

Trying to stop promotion and use of Putonghua

The memorandum says, "Tibetan must be respected as the main spoken and written language. Similarly, the principal language of the Tibetan autonomous areas needs to be Tibetan."

The fourth article of China's Constitution is, "The people of all nationalities have the freedom to use and develop their own spoken and written languages." The Tibet Autonomous Region also issued a regulation on learning, using and developing the Tibetan language.

In addition, the 19th article of the Constitution is, "The state promotes the nationwide use of Putonghua (standard Chinese)." The law on regional autonomy of ethnic minorities says in its 49th article, "In autonomous regions of ethnic minorities, authorities shall educate and encourage officials to learn languages of different ethnic groups. Officials of Han nationality shall learn languages of local ethnic minorities. Officials of ethnic minorities shall learn to speak and write commonly-used Putonghua while learning and using their own languages."

Based on these laws, all decisions, regulations, circulars and other documents of the People's Congress (local legislature) and governments of all levels in the Tibet Autonomous Region are written in both Chinese and Tibetan languages. So are official seals, certification papers, letterheads, logos and traffic signs. This has greatly improved the capability of Tibetans and other ethnic groups to learn from each other and communicate.

The memorandum talks a lot about the Tibetan language, but does not mention a word about the promotion and use of Putonghua. This actually echoes the so-called "extinction of Tibetan culture," which has been repeatedly elaborated by the Dalai Lama in recent years, as well as his accusations that the Chinese government is restricting the use of Tibetan. It intends to create a false impression that no one but they care about the fate of Tibetan culture and language.

Strongly opposing government's management of religious affairs in line with laws

The memorandum says, "Religion is fundamental to Tibetans;" "The freedom covers the right of monasteries to be organized and run according to Buddhist monastic tradition, to engage in teachings and studies, and to enroll any number of monks and nuns or age group in accordance with these rules. The normal practice to hold public teachings and the empowerment of large gatherings is covered by this freedom;" "The state should not interfere in religious practice and traditions, such as the relationship between a teacher and his disciple, management of monastic institutions, and the recognition of reincarnations."

Religion not only is ideology, but also involves social activities and institutions. It definitely involves public and state interests. Any country may manage religious affairs in line with laws as no religion enjoys a privilege higher than the Constitution and laws.

The 36th article in the Constitution is, "Citizens of the PRC enjoy freedom of religious belief.... The state protects normal religious activities. No one may make use of religion to engage in activities that disrupt public order, impair the health of citizens or interfere with the educational system of the state." The 46th article also says, "Citizens of the PRC have the duty as well as the right to receive education." A regulation on religious affairs, issued by the State Council, says in its third article that religious organizations, religious practice and believers should abide by the Constitution, laws, regulations and rules.

Despite clear laws and regulations, the Dalai Lama insists that the religion is supreme. This is not surprising because before his exile, the Dalai Lama was in fact the chief of the feudal slavery system by which the old theocratic Tibet was governed. Even now he is the "political and religious leader" of his group-in-exile. So it is not surprising that he still dreams of restoring such a "wonderful system."

Completely ignoring fact that Tibet is always part of China

The memorandum has said nothing about the ownership of the sovereignty of Tibet and completely ignored the fact that Tibet has been part of China since ancient times. Tibet has always been an inalienable part of Chinese territory. Since the central authorities formally administered Tibet in the Yuan Dynasty (1271-1368 A.D.), China has exercised unquestionable sovereignty over Tibet. The fact that Tibet is part of China has been widely recognized in the world.

This issue cannot be ignored because it is fundamental to the improvement of the relationship between the Dalai Lama and the central government.

In its preamble, the Constitution says, "The PRC is a unitary multi-national state built jointly by the people of all its nationalities." The fourth article is, "All the national autonomous areas are inalienable parts of the PRC."

But even today, the Dalai Lama side repeatedly claims that Tibet was an "independent country" before the People's Liberation Army entered Tibet in 1949 and that Tibet is "an occupied nation under colonial rule."

If Tibet was a colony of China and an "occupied" nation, as he claimed, it would enjoy sovereignty of its own and the right to gain independence in the future, according to international law. This would in fact deny China's sovereignty over Tibet and violate the principle set by the Constitution and law on regional autonomy of ethnic minorities that the autonomous areas are inalienable.

Provided that the memorandum ignores this fundamental issue, the Dalai side actually presages future movements to openly claim "Tibet independence."

Claiming "Tibet government-in-exile" as representative of Tibetan people

The "memorandum" says, "The objective of the Tibetan Government in Exile is to represent the interests of the Tibetan people and to speak on their behalf," and that after an agreement was reached on relevant issues, the "exile government" would be dissolved and the Dalai Lama would not assume any political post in the future.

However, Tibet was peacefully liberated in 1951 and with the democratic reform in 1959, the feudal serfdom under theocracy was overturned and the people's democratic government was established and more than 1 million serfs were emancipated. In 1965, the regional autonomy system for ethnic minorities was exercised, and people of various ethnic groups became the masters of their own affairs.

Therefore, it is the central government and the Tibet Autonomous Regional People's Government, elected by the People's Congress of the Tibet Autonomous Region, that can represent the Tibetan people.

The so-called "Tibet government-in-exile" was created by the upper class of the serf owners who launched a failed armed rebellion in 1959, and then fled China. It is totally illegal and has been recognized by no country in the world.

The Dalai Lama side described the illegal "government-in-exile" as the representative of the Tibetan people, and told the international community that their contacts and talks with the central government was the "Tibet-China negotiation" and "Han Nationality-Tibetan Dialogue" on so-called issues of "Tibet's political status" and "high degree of autonomy." They attempt to confuse the nature of the contacts and talks and mislead the public, and it served them right to be solemnly denounced by the central government.

To sum up, the "Memorandum," from its title to content, is still about the "Greater Tibetan-inhabited Area" and "high degree of autonomy." It becomes more deceiving as it is disguised in legal terms and claims to be "in accordance with China's Constitution and laws."

Its attempt is to set up a "half independent" or "covertly independent" political entity controlled by the Dalai clique on soil that occupies one quarter of the Chinese territory, and when conditions are ripe, they will seek to realize "total Tibet independence."

As early as the 1980s when central government leaders like Xi Zhongxun, Ulanhu and Yang Jingren were meeting with visiting groups sent by the Dalai Lama, they made it clear that neither "Tibet as a country" nor "high degree of autonomy" would be tolerated, and that the "Greater Tibetan-inhabited Area" was absolutely out of the question.

Nearly 30 years have passed, and the Dalai Lama side still insists on issues of "Greater Tibetan-inhabited Area" and "high degree of autonomy." They never truly relinquish their stance on splitting the homeland, which is the fundamental reason why their contacts and talks with the central government have never made substantial progress for so many years.

What Zhu Weiqun said at the press conference made it clear about the nature and objective of the contacts and talks.

He said, "We only accept Mr. Lodi Gyari and his party talking with us as the private representatives of the Dalai Lama, and the topics can only be the Dalai Lama completely giving up separatist propositions and activities and his seeking forgiveness from the central government and all Chinese people for his own future. We will never discuss with them anything like the 'Tibet issue'. To help the Dalai Lama better understand the central government's attitude and realize his own mistakes, we will listen to their explanations, and the objective is still to check if he has given up his separatism and is trying to get close to the central government."

We can see that the central government's policy toward the Dalai Lama has been consistent and clear, and it has been treating him with the utmost decency and kindness and trying to give him a way out.

Although the Dalai Lama ran away in 1959, his position as the vice chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress was retained for him until 1964. Ever since 1979, relevant departments have organized dozens of visits to China for his private representatives and relatives to help them understand the country's development and policy.

The central government has repeatedly stated that so long as the Dalai Lama truly relinquishes his stance on "Tibet independence", stops splitting activities, openly acknowledges Tibet as an inalienable part of China, acknowledges Taiwan an inalienable part of China, and acknowledges the People's Republic of China as the only lawful government in China, we will have contacts and talks with them on his personal future.

Even after the violent criminal activities of beating, smashing, looting and burning occurred in Lhasa on March 14, and even with the fact that the Dalai clique sabotaged the Beijing Olympics, relevant departments of the central government still arranged three meetings with the Dalai Lama's private representatives, showing its sincerity.

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Signed article: A breach of constitution under pretext of religion

17:44, December 04, 2008

Following is a signed article by Liu Hongji, a researcher with the China Tibetology Research Center, on the Dalai Lama side's recent claim of "genuine autonomy."

A breach of constitution under pretext of religion

by Liu Hongji

In the "Memorandum on Genuine Autonomy for the Tibetan People", the Dalai side, by claiming that "the Tibetan government in exile represents the interests of the Tibetan people and speaks on their behalf", listed several "basic needs" (including religion) of "genuine autonomy", which was quite misleading.

The Memorandum said that "We recognize the importance of separation of church and state, but this should not affect the freedom and practice of believers." It also says that "An interpretation of the constitutional principle in light of international standard would also cover the freedom of the manner of belief or worship. The freedom covers the right of monasteries to be organized and run according to Buddhist monastic tradition, to engage in teachings and studies, and to enroll any number of monks and nuns or age group in accordance with these rules. The normal practice to hold public teachings and the empowerment of large gatherings is covered by this freedom and the state should not interfere in religious practices and traditions, such as the relationship between a teacher and his disciple, management of monastic institutions, and the recognition of reincarnations."

As a matter of fact, freedom of religious belief is one of the basic rights endowed to the Chinese citizens by the Chinese Constitution. Article 36 of the Constitution says "Citizens of the People's Republic of China enjoy freedom of religious belief. No state organ, public organization or individual may compel citizens to believe in, or not to believe in, any religion; nor may they discriminate against citizens who believe in, or do not believe in, any religion. The state protects normal religious activities. No one may make use of religion to engage in activities that disrupt public order, impair the health of citizens or interfere with the educational system of the state. Religious bodies and religious affairs are not subject to any foreign domination." In addition to the Constitution, other Chinese laws, including the Criminal Law, the Civil Code, the Law on Regional Ethnic Autonomy, the Military Service Law, the Law on Compulsory Education, the Law on education, the Electoral Law for the National People's Congress and the Local People's Congresses, the Organic Law of Village Committees, the Labor Law and the Law on Advertising all stipulate that citizens' freedom of religious belief are protected and public organizations and individuals should not discriminate against citizens who believe in or do not believe in any religion. But one thing should be clarified, freedom of religious belief does not mean religious activities are also free from government regulation or legal obligations. To believe in a religion or not is a personal issue and a free choice, but religious activities, which might affect other people, must be bound by law.

To protect citizens' freedom of religious belief, maintain social harmony and regulate religious affairs, the State Council issued a Regulations on Religious Affairs in 2004. Article 2 of the Regulation says that no organization or individual may compel citizens to believe in or not to believe in any religion. Nor may they discriminate against citizens who believe in any religion or citizens who do not believe in any religion. Religious citizens and non-religious citizens shall respect each other and co-exist in harmony, and so shall citizens who believe in different religions.

The provisions concerning protection of citizens' freedom of religious belief in the Constitution and laws have been seriously implemented in Tibet. Tibet now has more than 1,780 religious sites, about 46,000 monks and nuns, four mosques and one catholic church. Religious groups co-exist harmoniously and their religious activities are held orderly in Tibet. Without genuine freedom of religious belief, this would be impossible.

What the Dalai side asked for was absolute religious freedom which was not bound by law. They asked to manage monasteries and enroll monks and nuns according to "religious tradition" and "religious rules", which, in fact, meant that they wanted to resume the old "religion first" regime led by the Dalai before Tibet's democratic reform. By then, Tibet had 2,676 monasteries and 120,000 monks and nuns, accounting for one tenth of Tibet's total population. Monasteries, which owned more than one third of the means of production in Tibet, sustained the Tibetan feudal serfdom as one of the three major estate-holders. The other two were local bureaucrats and nobles. The old regime didn't benefit Tibet. Instead, it impeded Tibet's social development. According to the Tibetan Annals written in the Qing Dynasty, Tibet had a total population of 1.3 million in 1737. During the following 200 years, Tibet's population didn't increase. Instead, it declined to one million in 1951. Its economic situation was even worse. In 1951, Tibet was still a feudal serfdom society with no modern industries and education. What the situation would be if the old system was restored in Tibet in which one tenth of the population was monks and nuns? By 2007, Tibet has recorded 2,83 million population. If 280,000 people were monks or nuns and did not work, the pressure on laymen to support them would be crippling.

Education is the foundation for social development. Article 2 of the Law on Compulsory Education says that "The compulsory education is the education which is implemented uniformly by the state and shall be received by all school-age children and adolescents. It is a public welfare cause that shall be guaranteed by the state." Article 4 says that "All children and adolescents who have the nationality of the People's Republic of China and have reached the school age shall have equal right and have the obligation to receive compulsory education, regardless of the gender, nationality, race, status of family property, religion, belief, etc." And Article 5 stipulates that "The people's governments at all levels and their relevant departments shall perform all functions as described by this Law and shall ensure the right to compulsory education of all school-age children and adolescents. The parents or other statutory guardians of school-age children and adolescents shall ensure that school-age children and adolescents go to school to receive and complete the compulsory education." The Dalai side's claim of enrolling any number of monks and nuns or age group in accordance with Buddhist monastic tradition violated the Law on Compulsory Education and will not help improve social development.

Currently, religious followers in China enjoy full freedom of religious belief. Almost all Tibetan Buddhists have scripture halls or Buddha statue niches at home, and they can invite monks to hold scripture recitation and religious ceremonies at home. Lhasa receives more than one million Buddhist followers annually, and the Jokhang Monastery is full of believers worshipping or rolling their prayer wheels. By denying the fact that the Tibetan people enjoy freedom of religious belief and asking for an amendment to the Constitution with so-called 'international standard', the Dalai side is attempting to restore theocracy in Tibet. Enditem

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China urges U.S. to stop supporting Dalai Lama in any form

www.chinaview.cn 2008-07-28 11:18:54

BEIJING, July 28 (Xinhua) -- Relevant people in the United States should stop supporting and conniving with the Dalai Lama and separatist forces for "Tibet independence," the Foreign Ministry said here on Monday.

Ministry spokesman Liu Jianchao made the remarks when commenting on a report that Republican presidential candidate John McCain had met last Friday with the Dalai Lama, who was visiting the United States.

"China is seriously concerned about the report," Liu said, noting the Tibet issue is China's domestic affair.

China opposed the Dalai Lama conducting separatist activities in any country with any individual and opposed anyone making use of the Dalai Lama issue to interfere in China's domestic affairs. The stance is persistent and clear, Liu said.

He urged relevant people in the United States to abide by the basic principles of international relations, see clearly the true face of the Dalai Lama as separating China and destroying social stability and national unity in Tibet under the cloak of religion and stop supporting and conniving with the Dalai Lama and the separatist forces for "Tibet independence," as well as anything interfering in China's domestic affairs and damaging Sino-U.S. relations.

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"Nonviolence" in the mouth of "Dalai Lama"

16:29, June 24, 2008

Buddhists always preach that no living things are to be killed and all violent actions have to be opposed. "I say that 21st century should be one of dialogue," the Dalai Lama told his audience on May 19 when he delivered a speech in Berlin, and he said repeatedly that he only wants autonomy for Tibetans. "This (21st century) should be the century of peace and dialogue," he noted.

Can his remarks hold true for the whole 21st century? Only three days latter, on May 22, he alleged in Paris that if the talks between his personal envoys and China broke down, grave violence may occur in Tibet again.

So, it is quite possible for "nonviolence" and "grave violence" to slip back and forth in the mouth of the same person.

Dalai Lama has passed himself off as "a disciple of the Gandhi school" and so he adheres to the nonviolence. He, nevertheless, has hardly expected what Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (1869-1948), the leader of the Indian nationalist movement against British rule, had explicitly said, "Nonviolence is not a garment to be put on and put off at will. Its seat is in the heart, and it must be an inseparable part of our very being."

But the Dalai Lama has indeed taken nonviolence as a garment to hide his shame and so he has put on and put off at will. Why does he need to put on such a garment? He could be overjoyed if "stayed naked and then he would have nothing to worry about," as a popular Chinese saying goes. It is not because he is not willing but he won't able to do so. As he had said explicitly in an address in Oslo in 1989: If Tibetans took up arms, Communist troops in China would have the excuse for the suppression of them and they would be possibly be extinct.

The Dalai Lama claimed that he advocates "nonviolence"but he is not able to stop the Tibetan Youth Congress (TYC) and other radical forces from going in for violence, as he said that some of the Tibetans in exile listened to him while others did not. As is known to all, 80 percent of the staff of the government in exile were TYC members, and the so-called "the charter (or constitution) of Tibetans in Exile" specifies that these Tibetans must obey the "supreme political and religious leader Dalai Lama."

Since the Dalai Lama is the "supreme leader" who controls and governs all the supreme power in politics and religion, how he is not able to check TYC and curb violence?

In numerous journals owned by TYC, there are often articles concerning the use of violence or to spouse armed struggle to materialize their dream of "Tibetan independence". There are also agitating articles in recent years to urge Tibetans to follow suit of Palestinians to carry out suicide bombing, and openly alleged that they had a lot to draw on from the terrorism of the September 11 attacks of 2001 in the U.S. The Dalai Lama, however, has turned a deaf ear and blind eye to all this.

While parroting "nonviolence", the Dalai Lama has often instigatted and voiced his support to violence both in public or in private. Sufficient evidence has showed that the March 14 Lhasa violence was part of the "Tibetan People's Uprising Movement," a schemed plotted by the Dalai clique. So, he was so elated that day and repeatedly exhorted that he appreciated with all his heart the Tibetans inside the border for their absolute loyalty, courage and determination.

What the Dalai Lama has"appreciated" is the unrest erupted in Lhasa on March 14 when rioters set fire to and looted public facilities, residential houses and shops. On the same day, he told American reports that he would not stop Tibetans because they had the right to do whatever they desired.

To date, the dust has been settled in Lhasa, the capital of the Tibet autonomous region, and the splendid, towering snow mountains around remain holy. The Dalai Lama, however, has turned somewhat impatient, anxious and restless, and he even predicted that grave violence could possibly recur in Tibet. Was it something not more plain and definite that what he had "appreciated" days before the "March 14th" riot'? And what he was really hinting, inciting and expecting?

With a too fast replacement of the "nonviolence" garment by the garment of "violence", it seems that flaws or burst seams are apt to be exposed. No wonder some personality in the West have referred to the Dalai Lama as the "Drama" Lama and often found what he said or preached joining in the fun or playing the game merely on the occasion.

In order to retain the Dalai Lama's "Buddhist" compassionate face and rope in the kind-heated people, the Dalai clique have all along brandished the "nonviolence" as their banner. Whenever following in their footprints, these people can see the stripes of "violence" on their buttocks, and then roar with laughters and disperse helter-skelter.

By People's Daily Online and its author is Zong Yiwen, a council member of the China Religious Culture Communication Association

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Dalai clique is chief criminal of violent crimes

16:54, June 07, 2008

The three bombing cases that took place in eastern Tibet's Qamdo prefecture in April have recently been cracked. All suspects are Buddhist monks who have been instigated by the Dalai Cliques' separatist thought. Plots of the attacks echo the 3.14 unrest. The Dalai clique is the chief criminal of the three bomb attacks.

"Buddhists should believe in clemency. True Buddhists should learn Buddhist scriptures by heart; love their country and their religion; abide by the law; and bring happiness to people. They should not involve themselves in cruel murders and sabotage," said Dainzin Chilai, vice-chairman of the China Buddhist Association and vice-chairman of the People's Political Consultative Conference of the Tibet Autonomous Region. His words are a reminder of the essence of Buddhism, and criticism to the Dalai clique and the few monks who are keen on violent attacks.

People's actions are inseparable from their thoughts. The bomb attack suspects are inspired and instigated by the Dalai clique's propaganda. Having listened to overseas radio broadcasts for a long time, they have accepted the Dalai Lama's separatist thoughts. Once know the happening of the Lhasa incident and the contents of "Tibet Uprising" planned by the Dalai Lama, they actively cooperated with the Dalai clique. The three bomb attacks indicate how dangerous the Dalai Lama's separatism is and therefore demands our attention.

Facts prove again that "Tibet Independence" is unpopular and violent acts are intolerable. Those who try to undermine social stability come to no good end; and the separatist activities will never succeed.

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Tibetologist: 14th Dalai Lama political figure bent on "Tibet independence"

www.chinaview.cn 2008-05-04 00:08:54

NEW YORK, May 2 (Xinhua) -- The 14th Dalai Lama, described as a "spiritual leader" by some Western media outlets, is actually a political figure who has never given up "Tibet independence," a Tibetologist said here Friday.

"Painting him as a 'spiritual leader' is totally misleading," said Renzhen Luose, an ethnic Tibetan native of Yajiang County, Ganzi Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture in Sichuan Province who once served as director of the province's Institute of Tibetan Studies.

The "Tibet Government-in-exile" amended its so-called draft "constitution" of 1963 in 1991, expressly stated Tibet as an "independent nation" where all matters must be approved by the Dalai Lama before they become effective, and on the Dalai Lama's official website, a so-called "draft for future political system" provides plans for "political construction" and "establishing ties with the United Nations," said the Tibetologist.

All these prove that the 14th Dalai Lama's claim that he had never sought independence is a total lie, said the Tibetologist.

In his autobiography, the 14th Dalai Lama himself has also described his role as mainly secular, as the leader of the "Tibet government-in-exile," Renzhen Luose said, adding that describing the 14th Dalai Lama only as a "spiritual leader," as has been the case with many Western media outlets, is mistaken and does not accord with reality.

Renzhen Luose, who is a consul at the Chinese Consulate-General in New York, also discussed the relationship between Tibetan Buddhism and Tibetan culture and whether the Dalai Lama is the only leader of Tibetan Buddhism during a two-hour meeting with reporters from New York-based Chinese-language media organizations.

He said Tibetan Buddhism has four major sects -- Gelug, Sakya, Kagyu and Nyingma -- and many sub-sects, and in the past, their influence changed as the Chinese central government's support differed.

In the late Qing Dynasty, Renzhen Luose said, the sect of Gelug, where the Dalai Lama and the Panchen Lama were institutionalized, achieved dominance with the support of the central government and established a theocracy that integrates religion with government.

During that period, despite efforts by the Gelug sect to crack down on other sects, the Dalai Lama had never had unified leadership over Tibetan Buddhism, the Tibetologist added.

Born and raised in a Tibetan region, Renzhen Luose said he has maintained contact with fellow Tibetan Chinese all along, visited nearly all areas with Tibetan communities and worked at different levels of grassroots governments. Long being a scholar of Tibetan history and culture, Renzhen Luose has published dozens of research papers on Tibetans' ethnic origins and on the origin and evolution of the Tibet question.

"Having myself experienced and witnessed the changes in Tibet and other areas with Tibetan community, I believe I am more qualified than the Dalai Lama to comment on the current situation in Tibet," he said.

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Interview: British invasions probed as root cause of Tibetan separatism

www.chinaview.cn 2008-04-06 21:33:25

BEIJING, April 6 (Xinhua) -- Tibet, a region coveted by western nations since the Opium War in the 1840s, has long been an inalienable part of Chinese territory and the Tibetans have been part of the big multi-national Chinese family. The so-called issue of "Tibet Independence," is originally an outcome of aggression by imperialist nations, said a Chinese expert.

Britain launched two invasions into Tibet, in 1888 and during 1903 and 1904, in an attempt to build up an exclusive colonial influence in the region. It also tried to separate Tibet from China and ultimately turn it into a "buffer zone" against British-controlled northern India.

"These two wars shall never be forgotten," said Hu Yan, a professor from the Party School of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China.

"You may tell those Tibet separatists that Chinese people will never forget history and it was imperialist nations that had invaded Tibet and had been trying to separate Tibet from China," he said.

FIRST INVASION: VIOLATION OF CHINESE SOVEREIGNTY

After the Opium War, Britain planned to build a road as a trade channel between China's southwestern Yunnan province and Myanmar in a move to scramble for more economic benefits in the region.

During the pre-construction research session in 1875, a translator named Augustus Raymond Margary from the British consulate in Shanghai was killed as a result of local protests. Britain grabbed the opportunity and managed to force the Chinese Qing government to sign the Chefoo Convention, which allowed the British to "visit and explore" Tibet.

Having realized the greedy nature of the British invaders, the local Tibetan government built heavy fortifications on Ling Tu mountain along the border between Tibet and Sikkim in 1886.

Britain, outraged and which allegedly claimed the fortified area within the British-controlled Sikkim territory, warned the Qing government of military action unless the defensive measures were dismantled in time. Having tried in vain with warnings, in 1888 Britain launched military attacks against Tibet. Tibetan troops were defeated largely due to their outdated weapons and shortage of supplies.

After the war, the Qing government signed two more unfair treaties with Britain in 1890 and 1893. As a result, the Qing government acknowledged that Sikkim remained under British control and accepted Britain's proposal of border divisions between Tibet and Sikkim.

The Qing government also agreed to open the southern Tibetan city of Yadong (Chomo) as a business hub where Britain was granted extraterritoriality and exempted from trade duties on both imports and exports and five years.

The unfair treaties not only violated China's sovereignty but also infringed the interests of the local Tibetan government.

In spite of the treaties signed, Tibetans continued to herd in their home pasture land. They even managed to destroy the border stones erected by Britain in an open protest against the border division and the unfair treaties.

SECOND INVASION: MASSACRE OF TIBETAN SOLDIERS AND CIVILIANS

At a time when Britain used India as its staging ground to press ahead its invasion plan of Tibet, the Qinghai-Tibet plateau also became the target of aggression by czarist Russia.

Britain considered the Himalayas as the barrier of the Indian subcontinent and Tibet, located just on the other side of the mountains, should belong to Britain's sphere of influence.

If Tibet were to fall into the hands of Russia, British India would be completely exposed to the threat of Russia. Governor-General and Viceroy of British India Goerge Curzon believed that Britain should pursue the Forward Policy to preempt Russia in the scramble for control of Tibet.

In July 1901, Secretary of State for British India George Hamilton delivered a note to the Russian Foreign Ministry, claiming that Britain would not keep silent on the contacts between Russia and Tibet.

In a letter to Hamilton, Curzon even proclaimed that "We regard the so-called suzerainty of China over Tibet as a constitutional fiction -- a political affectation which has only been maintained because of its convenience for both parties." He urged the government to approve the plan of the British invasion of Tibet.

In 1903, under the name of negotiations, an invading army sent by the government of British India crossed the border line and intruded into Tibet.

Led by F.E. Young husband, the British Army went into Pagri through Yadong. On March 31, 1904, the invading troops clashed with Tibetan troops in Qumigxung, north of Pagri.

Armed with outdated weapons including swords, spears and matchlock guns, most of the 1000-odd Tibetan troops were injured or killed by the British troops, an old colonial power, with maxim guns and big guns, the most advanced weapons of the day.

This was the British imperialists' savage and impudent massacre of Tibetan soldiers and civilians.

Gyangze County fell twice, on April 11 and on July 6, 1904. On August 3, British troops invaded Lhasa, first time the ancient holy city was trampled under the iron heel of imperialists throughout the ages.

Days before the British invasion, the 13th Dalai Lama left the Potala Palace with a handful of his followers and fled to Outer Mongolia through China's Qinghai province.

The British invading troops withdrew from Lhasa in late September 1904, as supplies and communications could not be guaranteed.

Britain's two invasions in Tibet were blatant armed aggression, Hu said, adding that it has been the longest among all the aggressive activities launched by imperialists in Tibet.

ILL INTENTIONS, INTRIGUES NO SECRET

Britain expanded its influence in Tibet after the two wars of aggression, which also fostered a hotbed for the emergence of the pro-Britain upper-class elements of Tibet, Hu said.

After realizing that the plateau could not be conquered by armed forces, the Britain imperialists began to build up their influence in the upper-class elements of Tibet, instigating them to oppose the Chinese government in a bid to separate Tibet from China, bring it into the British sphere of influence and become its dependency as well as a buffer zone in protection of the northeastern border of British India, Hu said.

"This was an invasion," said Patrick French, a British scholar and author of "Young husband, the Last Great Imperial Adventurer," when talking about Great Britain's invasion of Tibet in 1999.

During a small workshop held in London in the Fall of 2003, a few British scholars including French reached consensus that robbery admittedly occurred in the Tibet war.

In his book "Duel In The Snows" published in 2004, British scholar Charles Allen points out that in order to become the first group of Europeans in that area, F. E. Young husband and his clique created all kinds of conspiracies and intrigues to cheat the public and the media.

These were the most commonly used despicable means by imperialists at the time. History is a mirror of reality. Anyone's attempt to agitate for "Tibetan independence", like the serious crimes of aggression against Tibet committed by imperialist powers in the past, is doomed to failure.

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Tibet issue is not about religion

BEIJING, April 29 (Xinhua) -- The People's Daily newspaper on Tuesday posted a commentary saying the Tibet issue was not a religious issue.

The Dalai clique called for the international community's concern for the Tibet issue, claiming Tibetans lacked religious freedom, the commentary said.

An open court session in connection with the Lhasa violence on March 14 is held at the Intermediate People's Court of Lhasa, capital of southwest China's Tibet Autonomous Region, April 29, 2008.

An open court session in connection with the Lhasa violence on March 14 is held at the Intermediate People's Court of Lhasa, capital of southwest China's Tibet Autonomous Region, April 29, 2008. (Xinhua Photo)

However, the Dalai clique's accusation against China contradicts the facts, the commentary quoted Narasimhan Ram, editor-in-chief of the Hindu Newspaper Group, as saying.

It said the living Buddha reincarnation, various ritual ceremonies and resumption of academic degrees of monks showed that religious activities in Tibet were normal.

Currently, Tibet has over 1,700 monasteries of Tibetan Buddhism,46,000 monks and nuns, four mosques and one Catholic church, the commentary said, stressing all religious activities go on smoothly in Tibet.

On average, there was one religious venue for every 1,600 Tibetans, but only one church for every 3,125 people in England, it said.

In recent years, many learned monks won Gexe Lharampa, the highest academic degree of the four ranks in the Gexe system, from the yellow sect, or the Gelugba school of Tibetan Buddhism, annually.

The commentary also said common followers have religious freedom. Sutra streamers, prayer wheels and other religious instruments are ubiquitous in Tibet.

Most followers have built scripture chambers in their own houses and over 1 million Tibetans went to Lhasa to pay homage to Buddha.

The Chinese government has allocated more than 700 million yuan(about 100 million U.S. dollars) since 1980 to maintain 1,400 monasteries and cultural relics. The Potala Palace, Norbu Linkag and the Sakya Monastery were renovated with central government funding.

The central government has also made efforts to collect and publish Tibetan Buddhism classics, including the Tibetan Tripitaka.

Many Tibetan traditional festivals have been preserved, including Spring Festival according to the Tibetan Calendar, and Shoton (Yogurt) Festival.

The commentary said the government respected and protected the religious freedom in conformity with the law.

Nowadays, religious freedom is the basic right of Chinese citizens. In addition, the legitimate rights of religious staff and followers are protected by law.

In the dark ages, only Tibetan Buddhism could be followed but nowadays religion in the autonomous region had developed with time. With Tibetan Buddhism dominating, more religions have been introduced to this area, including Muslim and Catholicism with 3,000 and 700 followers, respectively.

The above facts have showed explicitly the Tibet issue was not about religion but only a card played by the Dalai clique to woo sympathy from others, the commentary said.

The essence of the Tibet issue was a scheme for "Tibet independence" and this couldn't be disguised as a religious problem, it stressed.

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"Tibet issue" is definitely not human rights issue

15:37, April 30, 2008

Dalai clique has worked to promote the "Tibetan Human Rights issues" on its tours of Europe and the United states since the 50s and 60s of the 20th century. So, the human rights have been solemnly turned into a trump card in their hands as well as the weaponry they exploit to call the attention of the international community to the so-called "Tibet issue".

Then, is the "Tibet issue" an issue of human rights?

Concerning the human rights, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights made a clear and explicit explanation. "All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights," says the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. "No one shall be held in slavery and servitude¡&endash;"

Old Tibetan society under the rule of the Dalai clique was rigidly stratified, however, and local Tibetans were divided into three social strata within nine grades, where once five percent superstructure (monks and aristocracy) ruled the serfs, making up over 95 percent of the total population, who were economically exploited ruthlessly, politically oppressed and mentally controlled, and even their right to live could not be guaranteed.

Tibetologist Alexander Daweinier of France in her "Old Face of New China in Tibet", said all (serf) farmers were life-long liabilities in old Tibet, and that all serfs then lost all the freedom as human beings. With the peaceful liberation of Tibet in 1951, the one million serfs then began to enjoy genuine democracy, freedom and human rights.

How can the endeavor to let former slaves be masters of their own destiny be termed as the act of "encroaching upon human rights" and how can there be such an absurdity is in the world today! Late senior leader Dang Xiaoping said, "what are human rights, how many people are there meant for; and whether these rights belong to the minority, to the majority or ¡&endash;"

If some people are said to have lost their "human rights" in Tibet, it is meant to the Dalai clique, which represents the handful of serf owners who lost their absolute "special privileges" to kill the innocent at will.

In fact, it is better for the Dalai clique to resolve their own human rights issues rather give heed to the non-existent Tibetan Human Rights issues. The Dalai clique is composed of high-level or upper-class monks and aristocrats to be represented by the Dalai families, and ordinary Tibetan exiles, nevertheless, remain in the status of being enslaved, with most of them huddling in slums in Dharamsala, India, and yet they still have to pay a type of "independence fee' for the Tibetan government in exile; they do not have any human rights to speak of at all, and at what time has Dalai clique ever paid any attention to this reality.

The Declaration on the Right to Development, adopted by the United Nations General Assembly on December 4, 1986, confirmed that the right to development is an inalienable human right. Since the peaceful liberation of Tibet, local economy has retained an annual growth of up to 12 percent for years, local farmers and herders are covered by the government-sponsored medical care system and their kids enjoy free boarding and education at their schools. Moreover, recent years represent the fastest period of growth in history for Tibetans to own their private homes.

In sharp contrast, the Dalai clique, who has bent on propagating or promoting the so-called "human rights," has not contributed in the least to the development of Tibet, and instead repeatedly infringed upon the rights and interests of people of various ethnicities in the Tibet region. They harassed the life and production of Tibetans residing inside Tibet in early years and, in recent years they turned to infiltrations for disruption, and successively plotted violent incidents to undermine the rights of Tibetans for survival and to development.

Dalai clique has kept up hyping the so-called Tibetan Human Rights issues with a lot of publicity simply for the reason that it poses a"fashionable topic". Meanwhile, there are always some Western politicians to work in coordination with them and speak in "all seriousness" to hoodwink people who are not aware of the truth. Hoisting the banner as "the defenders of human rights", they tried all means to denigrate the development and progress scored in new Tibet, while not uttering a single word on how old Tibet had trampled upon human rights of local Tibetans.

A noted Russian Tibetologist has referred to "three factors" in citing Dalai Lama, who had ruthlessly persecuted serfs in old Tibet, as the defender of the "human rights", namely, ignorance, shamefulness and betrayal of justice for selfish private interests. And an ace Canadian scholar is even more to the point when he said some people who "interested" themselves in the Tibet issue, not out of their "moral support" or "sympathy", but to serve the needs for their strategic global layout.

Espousing "Tibetan human rights" to stir up ethnical sentiments and to draw on the support of the West and ultimately to achieve Tibetan independence and separate China - Consequently, we can see therefrom what issue really is the Tibetan Human rights issue of the Dalai clique.

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What issue is "Tibet issue"?

17:00, April 16, 2008

Dalai Lama clique has made repeated appeals and statements to impose pressure or punitive measues upon China, and Nancy Pelosi of the United States and others of her ilk also kept up noises and uproars. Meanwhile, the U.S. House of Representatives and Senate, and the European Parliament (EP) have passed resolutions on Tibet one after another. So the so-called "Tibet issue" has become increasingly fashionable.

So, people cannot but ask what issue is actually the "Tibet issue"?

To answer this question, people'd better ask Ms. Pelosi first. In her view, the Tibet issue has originated from the suppression of the Chinese government in Tibet. So, if she and her peers do not interfere in the "Tibet issue", she said with anxieties, "we have lost all more authority to speak on behalf of human rights."

Of course, we might as well see the appeals and statements of the Dalai clique, and the "Tibet issue" it is here being referred to includes "the lack of freedom in religious belief" and the so-called "ethnic inequalities".

Then, what is the "human rights issue" of the "Tibet question"? We first of all cite an example of the recent Lhasa riots. Faced with such violent actions as beating, smashing, looting and arson in Lhasa and other ethnic Tibetan areas since March 14, how can the government sit idle, and who will then come over to protect the human rights of innocent civilians? If the government's settlement of this incident is meant to encroach upon the human rights, Ms. Pelosi should better ask herself about the Los Angeles civil unrest happened right before her eyes 16 years ago, in which the US government aroused much military and police power and arrested more than 100,000 people.

The riots of 1992 in Los Angeles stunned the entire U.S. with its resultant 53 deaths, 2,325 injuries and an immense loss of property damage.

As for the Dalai Clique, people will never forget that Tibet was still under the semi-feudal serfdom till the first half of the 20th century, which was much darker and more sinister and vicious than the days under the "integration of the state and religion" in the Middle Age Europe. The ecclesiastical and secular serf owners, though accounting to less than five percent of the population of Tibet, controlled the personal freedom of serfs and slaves, who then made up 95 percent of the Tibetan population. These wretched of the earth could have their hands and feet chopped off, eyes gouged out, tongues cut or be subjected to other tortures and fatal penalties; and so they could hardly have a guaranteed right for survival under serfdom.

Afterward, it is ascribed to the peaceful liberation of Tibet in 1951 and the ensuing democratic reform in 1959 in the region that let serfs of old Tibet to gain their dignity and human rights.

Tibet's total population has increased from 1.14 million in 1951 to more than 2.8 million today; compulsory education, medical services and a minimum living allowance system have covered the whole of the Tibetan autonomous region. With such a historical background and present reality, how the Dalai clique, the chieftains of serfdom in old Tibet, are qualified to talk excessively and glibly about the "human rights" issue of Tibet?

The "Tibet issue" is also not a "religious issue". If Tibet is lacking the "freedom in religious belief', then how can people explain scenes of Lamaseries across the region crowded with believers or worshippers of varied ages to burn incenses, thousands upon thousands of Tibetans make pilgrimages to Lhasa, and suspending sutra streamers and Mani stone mounds put up by devout believers can be seen everywhere in Tibet?

It is even more absurd for the Dalai clique to clamor the so-called "ethnic inequalities". Let alone huge state appropriations made for developing traditional Tibetan medical science and Tibetan medicine, China has input more than 700 million yuan (about 100 million US dollars) to overhaul the imposing Potala Palace in Lhasa over recent years and to overhaul, rescue-repair and preserve traditional Tibetan culture.

Thanks to increased allocations from the central government, the Tibetans are the first among ethnic minority groups in China to have an international standard language, so that the Tibetan is currently an ethnic miority language with a permit to enter global information super highway networks.

In fact, it is crystal clear what the exact issue of the "Tibet issue" is. Dalai clique tries to seek "Tibet independence" under the signboard of varied "issues" -- This can seen from the "middle way" solution he has kept to, from their negation of the existing political system in Tibet, from their attempt to create the "Greater Tibet' that had been non-existent in history, and from their request urging other ethnicities to move out of Tibet and for the pullout of troops from the "Greater Tibet".

In the final analysis, the "Tibet issue" is not at all a "human rights issue", a religious issue, or an ethnical issue, but an issue concerning China's state sovereignty and territorial integrity, and an issue of core interests for the Chinese nation. Not a single nation on earth can tolerate to see its sovereignty sustain losses or sit idle to see its territory being seceded. On this issue, the Chinese government has made it very clear that the unity of the Chinese nation is the supreme, overriding principle, and there is no room whatsoever for any bargain on the issue of sovereignty. So any scheme to encroach upon China's sovereignty and meddle in China's internal affairs on the Tibet issue is only futile under whatever banner is hoisted.

By People's Daily Online and its author is He Zhenhua

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Only by halting violence can there be harmony

15:16, May 08, 2008

The Chinese nation has always attached importance to social harmony. For the Dalai clique that claimed its "willingness to be a member of the big family of the People's Republic of China," it also openly voiced its "appreciation and support" to the building of a harmonious society in the country.

Just as the Dalai clique said, a harmonious society cannot be separable from "freedom" and the "rule of law" and, as is known to all that either "freedom" or the "rule of law" has nothing in common with one thing -- violence. The Universal Declaration of Human Rights, signed 60 years ago, notes that human beings have the freedom of averting terror and shortages, as terror and shortages are often associated with violence. So violent crimes also pose a direct challenge and trample upon the civilization of a modern legal system; and a society which indulge and tolerate violence can absolutely not be a harmonious society.

The Dalai clique, nevertheless, plotted and incited the March 14 Lhasa riots, in which they resorted to violence to disrupt the peaceful life of Tibetans, and brought terror and scourge to the innocent people, thus seriously infringing upon the "freedom" and "rule of law', and fundamentally undermining social harmony in Tibet. If such violent moves are prettified as "peaceful protests" with the "courage and resolve" and they themselves bragged as "winning the endorsement and support" of the international community, then why they should have given such expressions to the endorsement and recognition of the harmonious society, and how they would carry out their commitment to the sake of "interests of the Tibetan people"?

For the Dalai clique, they claimed they worked for the future of Tibet but has been bent on whipping up violent incidents in the past half century ever since 1959 for sabotaging the production and living environment of people of varied ethnicities in Tibet; they alleged they worked for "freedom" and the "human rights" for Tibetans but continuously encroached upon the ordinary people's basic rights of survival and development ¡&endash; The failure of their deeds to match their words cannot but let people doubt the sincerity of the Dalai clique, and people cannot but pander over what a member of the Tibetan Youth Congress (TYC), a terrorist organization, has said, namely, "peace and non-violence" were only spoken to leading Western powers.

Violence cannot give rise to harmony, and still less win public will. When peace and development have been turned into the tide of the contemporary world, violent actions to the detriment of peace have become the common foe of all people in the world yearning for peace. Under the pretexts of the "human rights" issue, or a religious issue, or whatever issues, with whatever purposes, violence can only mean moving against the current of the times and is therefore unacceptable.

Violence runs counter to what the Dalai clique has said about the Tibetan Buddhism culture with the protection of benevolence as the core. In the history of human civilizations, Buddhism has been regarded as a religion of peace and goodwill since ancient times. The vain attempt of the Dalai clique to seek "Tibetan independence" with the use of violence has not only harmed the quintessence of Buddhism with "mercy at heart" but also runs counter to the Buddhist core foundation of "not hurting all living beings", let alone carry forward and develop the Buddhist culture to seek harmony.

With the formation of equal, harmonious relationships among people of various ethnicities in Tibet since its peaceful liberation in 1951, a situation of harmony among the people of ethnicities for common prosperity has taken shape. In disregard of this reality, the attempt of the Dalai clique to fan up violent actions to disrupt the peaceful life of Tibetans and their fundamental well-being and even to connive at some extremists' evil-doings from violence to terrorism not only runs counter to the tide of the times but is unacceptable. If the Dalai clique really wants to support the construction of a harmonious society and to work for the interests of Tibetan people, it should proceed from the most rudimentary thing - that is to halt plotting and instigating violent actions.

By People's Daily Online and its author is He Zhenhua

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Only by halting separatist activities can there be a way out

16:04, May 07, 2008

All people, including Buddhist monks, have their own motherland, and their hearts always yearn and turn to their motherland.

The Qinghai-Tibet Plateau on the roof of the world is the common homeland of the Han people, Tibetans and people of other ethnic minorities. Tibet has been an inalienable part of China since ancient times. It became an administrative region directly under the administration of the central government of China's imperial Yuan dynasty (1271-1368 A.D.). Tibet was subsequently subjected to the administration of the central authority from the imperial Ming (1368-1644) and Qing (1644-1911) dynasties and the Republic of China (1912-1949) through the People's Republic of China upon its establishment in October 1949.

In history, Tibet has never been an independent nation, nor any power in the world has ever recognized the so-called "Tibet independence". This has been an indisputable historical fact and a common acknowledgement of the sons and daughters of the Chinese nation, including Tibetan compatriots.

The attempt to seek "Tibet independence" and to separate the motherland in disregard of this rudimental historical fact and the common feelings of people of all ethnicities in China not only violatrd religious rites or tenets and the established historical rules or practices, but also undermines the tradition of patriotism of Tibetan Buddhism. There are very rich and profound contents of patriotism in the classic tenets of Buddhism. And past generations of eminent monks made important contributions in safeguarding the unity of the motherland.

From the struggles against colonialist powers of the West between 1624 and 1632 to the war of resistance to British imperialist armed aggression against Tibet in 1888 and 1904, and from the remarks of the 13th Dalai Lama that he knew very well that sovereignty could not be lost though Britons indeed had lured¡&endash; and the famous speech "Tibet Is China's Territory" by the Ninth Panchen Lama, or Bainqen Erdini Qoigyi Gyaincain (1938-1989).- All these have demonstrated the patriotic tradition of Tibetan Buddhism and the patriotic spirit of eminent Buddhist monks.

The shared history and common belief have enabled Tibetan compatriots and people of other ethnicities in the motherland to share weal and woe and turn mutually dependent on each other. The Tibetan culture, as an important component part of the Chinese culture, can keep up developing and prospering only when it is deep rooted in the culture of the Chinese nation.

Great changes or many vicissitudes of life in Tibet over the past five decades or so have shown to the world that the people in Tibet cannot bid farewell to the dark serfdom and move toward the modernization development if without the unity of the motherland, without the peaceful liberation and without reform and opening to the outside world in the past three decades. Breaking away from the embrace of the motherland and going in for the system of integrating politics with religion does not comply with general historical trends or the tide of the times and still less with the common aspiration of the people of the whole Chinese nation, including Tibetan compatriots.

State sovereignty and territorial integrity represent the fundamental interests of the Chinese nation, and it is the lofty duty and the mission of every Chinese citizen to safeguard the unity of the motherland and ethnical unity. History has proven and will continue to prove that the scheme to secede the motherland can never succeed but is doomed to failure.

Abandoning all views or propositions for separating the motherland and halting all activities in this regard - this will test the sincerity of the Dalai clique in safeguarding the unity of the motherland, the sincerity in what the Dalai clique said "Tibet remains in China" and the "true heart" in what is meant by the Dalai clique with the words, "for the interests of Tibetan people". People of the Chinese nation both at home and overseas shall wait and see if they will work with their concrete actions for safeguarding the unity of the motherland and if they truly "think of the future for Tibetans".

By People's Daily Online and its author is He Zhenhua

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On the 14th Dalai Lama's betrayal of Buddhism

+ - 13:28, October 11, 2007

Thursday's People's Daily (overseas edition) carried a signed article titled "Why does the "Buddhist leader" frequently violate dharma and break faith: on the 14th Dalai Lama's betrayal of Buddhism".

The basic criterion to distinguish pious Buddhists from bogus ones is "taking precepts as masters" and "abiding by precepts to practice Buddhadharma". dGe-lugs-pa Sect, the Yellow Sect of Lamaism, of the Tibetan Buddhism is even better known for its strict observance of those commandments. Master Tsongkha-pa wrote in his book, the Great Exposition on the Stages of the Path to Enlightenment, that "the great achievers will be so only in name if they fail to fully follow Buddhist precepts and teachings". Though the commandments followed by Tibetan Buddhists vary, they are all based on the common ground of four precepts, namely no killing, stealing, adultery and lying. Monks would be seen as committing serious offenses if they betrayed one of the four precepts. However, the 14th Dalai Lama, a self-claimed "Buddhist leader", repeatedly broke the commandments and betrayed his faith by violating the precepts of no killing and lying.

Firstly, let's look at how he betrayed the precept of no killing. In the late 1950s, Tibetan reactionary leaders launched an armed rebellion in an attempt to permanently maintain the feudal serfdom and their autocratic rule. The 14th Dalai Lama was the chief representative of the feudal serfdom. The armed rebels set houses on fire, looted Tibetan people and raped women. What happened then still lingers in Tibetan people's minds today. In the late 1980s, the Dalai Lama clique stirred up unrest in Lhasa, which seriously harmed people's lives and damaged their property. Moreover, who was behind the mid 1970s assassination of Gung-thangTshul-khrims, one of the leaders of the Group 13, who failed to obey Dalai's orders? Who nodded to plot and implement the assassination of Li-thang A-thar? Who, in the late 1990s, sent killers to the home of Rin-po-che Kun-bde-gling and seriously wounded him? Who threatened to exterminate the "life and activities" of two young Rin-po-ches, Chi-jang and Sun-po? Vjigs-med Tshe-ring, who once was one of the key members of the Dalai Lama clique, said that at least ten Tibetans, who disagreed with the Dalai Lama, had been assassinated.

Secondly, let's have a look at how the 14th Dalai Lama violated the precept of no lying. The Dalai Lama sent a telegram in 1951 after the signing of the agreement on the peaceful liberation of Tibet, in which he said that the agreement, signed on May 23, 1951,was based on friendship and thus won unanimous support from the local government of Tibet, Tibetan monks and the people. But on March 10, 1961, the 14th Dalai Lama said in a speech that the agreement was written fully in the will of the "Red Han" and was signed by his representative, who was put under house arrest. In 1953, the 14th Dalai Lama wrote an article, saying that Tibetans were one of the ethnic communities in China, which enjoyed long and rich history and Tibetan people enjoyed freedom and equality as all the other ethnic groups did in China after they returned to the great family of the motherland. But on March 10, 1960, he said in another speech that Tibet has been "a completely independent country" with its own political system and government ever since the Tibetan people created their own written language.

In 1954, I accompanied the 14th Dalai Lama and the 10th Panchen Lama to Beijing. Till now, the zealous and respectful manner that the Dalai Lama demonstrated during that visit is still vivid in my mind. In the eulogy he presented to Chairman Mao Zedong in both Tibetan and Chinese, he extolled Chairman Mao as the "red sun", which "glorifies the whole nation, drives away invaders, and brings peace and blessing to people of all ethnic groups". However, when he fled abroad, he went back on his words and broke the precept of no lying by wantonly attacking and defaming his home country and calling on the so-called free world to unite to block the development of his own people and motherland.

It is known to all that in the early Qing Dynasty (1644-1911), the Fifth Dalai Lama paid respects to Emperor Shunzhi and was conferred by the Emperor with honorific title. The title and position of Dalai Lama was also legalized by the central authorities during the visit. The move not only helped maintain the unification of China, but also boosted the social stability and economic development in Tibet. The Tibetan people, who were profoundly grateful to the Fifth Dalai Lama, commended him as "theGreat Fifth". It was shocking to many people that as a descendent of the Fifth Dalai Lama, the 14th Dalai Lama unabashedly attacked the Fifth Dalai Lama in May 1986 at a gathering of Tibetan people in the Netherlands, saying that it was shameful for the Fifth Dalai Lama to have "joyously accepted the mandarin jacket conferred by the Qing emperor." He also derided the Fifth Dalai Lama for paying respects to the central authorities, saying he had" lost face by setting up the relations." Those sayings were Dalai Lama's real thoughts, which also proved that he had totally betrayed his ancestors and his religion.

During the late 1980s and early 1990s, the 14th Dalai Lama believed that the dramatic changes in the former Soviet Union and east Europe brought new opportunities for "Tibet independence". In August 1991, he said in France and Switzerland that it would take no more than five or ten years for Tibet to be separated from China. In January 1992, he said again that Tibet would achieve independence in five or ten years. In 1995, it seemed that Dalai Lama gained more "magic power" even though his clique was low in morale. In March of the same year, he formally issued a prophecy, proclaiming that great changes would take place in China that year or in the following year. In August, he said in public that the "upcoming changes in 1995 or 1996" would benefit his group. As a matter of fact, Tibet did witness "great changes" in 1995. During that year, Tibetan people celebrated the 30th anniversary of the founding of the Tibet Autonomous Region, and most of the 62 key construction projects in Tibet financially supported by the whole nation were completed. Also in 1995, the divine reincarnation of Panchen Lama was successfully completed. The development of Tibet played a joke with the "magic power" of the 14th Dalai Lama, which, perhaps, is the judgment on Dalai Lama for his betrayal of the precept of no lying.

The spiritual essence of the tenets and canons of the Tibetan Buddhism include the basic essentials of observing the rules, sincerity, equilibrium, even share of wealth, altruism and harmony, which are also the basics of the healthy practice of Buddhism over the past 2,000 years and grounds for Buddhists to cultivate themselves through meditation and encourage people to do good. All Buddhists should follow the tenets to distinguish right from wrong on cardinal issues and make further progress in their religious accomplishment. However, the 14th Dalai Lama has been playing with the divine Buddhism to achieve political goals and purposely mislead the public, which fully demonstrates his hypocrisy in faith.

By Shi Shan, the author is a research fellow in Tibetan Buddhism, who used to work in Tibet for a long time.

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Official: Dalai Lama's U.S. award not to affect Tibet's stability

15:30, October 16, 2007

The planned award to the Dalai Lama by the U.S. Congress will not affect Tibet's stability, an official of southwest China's Tibet Autonomous Region said Tuesday in Beijing.

"It will only be an injection of cardiotonic to secessionist activities," Qiangba Puncog, chairman of the regional government of Tibet, told reporters at the ongoing 17th National Congress of the Communist Party of China (CPC).

The Dalai Lama is to receive the Congressional Gold Medal, a top U.S. civilian award, on Wednesday at the U.S. Capitol. The ceremony is said to be attended by U.S. President George W. Bush.

"The award won't have much influence on the stable development of Tibet," said Qiangba Puncog, a delegate to the Party congress.

He said the Dalai Lama has received dozens of awards in the West, and has been taking advantage of his special identity to be a cat's paw for some people. "This is not the first time, nor will it be the last. But his influence is very limited."

The awarding plan has sparked a discussion Tuesday in the Tibet delegation to the Party congress, which opens to Chinese and overseas journalists.

Tibet's Party chief Zhang Qingli voiced indignation and discontent.

"The Dalai Lama has never stopped, or slowed down his secessionist activities since he fled China 48 years ago," he said.

What the Dalai Lama has been doing runs contrary to his status as a "spiritual leader", said Zhang. "How can someone who does not love -- and even seeks to split -- his own country receive a welcome in some countries and even get awards? It's actually trampling on such awards."

The Tibetans have experienced great improvement in their lives in the past decades and know very well who really care for their well-being, Zhang said. "The Tibetans whole-heartedly uphold the CPC, and the will of the people is quite clear."

Qiangba Puncog said it depends largely on the Dalai Lama himself and his group whether his consultation with the Chinese government could make any progress, whether he would return to China and whether he would be able to do something beneficial to the Tibetan people in his life.

"The central government's policy is consistent: the precondition and fundamental requirement for the consultation on Dalai's return is that he has to give up his 'Tibet independence' claim and all secessionist activities, and admit that Tibet is an inalienable part of China," Qiangba Puncog said, adding this is also the key to resolving the issue.

"(Tibet's) independence is not acceptable, nor is semi-independence or independence in any disguised form," he said.

Qiangba Puncog said the central government had shown "utmost forbearance" by leaving him a post of vice chairman of the National People's Congress Standing Committee until 1964. "The central government never closed the door to consultation and contacts with Dalai Lama even though he did a lot to undermine Tibet's social stability."

Another Party delegate from Tibet pointed a finger to U.S. leaders, hoping they should do more things which are conducive to the relations with China.

"(We) hope the U.S. leaders will refrain from doing anything detrimental to Sino-U.S. friendship and the Chinese people, and from interfering in China's internal affairs," said Ragdi, a Tibet-born vice chairman of the National People's Congress (NPC) Standing Committee, China's top legislature.

Source: Xinhua

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Forum on development of China's Tibet opens in Vienna

by: 2007-11-30 09:58:39

Nyima Tsering, vice chairman of China's Tibet Autonomous Region, addresses the First Forum on the Development of Tibet, China, in Vienna, Nov. 29, 2007. (Xinhua/Liu Gang)

The First Forum on the Development of Tibet, China is held in Vienna, Nov. 29, 2007. (Xinhua/Liu Gang)

Qian Xiaoqian, deputy director of State Council Information Office of the People's Republic of China is making a speech in the forum, Nov. 29, 2007.

Tibet will further open up to the outside world and attract more direct foreign investment while promoting ecological and environmental protection, Nyima Tsering, vice chairman of the Tibet Autonomous Region of China, said here Thursday.

"We shall participate in domestic and international economic cooperation and competition in more fields and on a higher level, and strengthen cross-regional economic and technological exchanges and cooperation," Tsering said at the opening of "the First Forum on the Development of Tibet, China" in Vienna.

He said Tibet would work hard to develop an open economy and promote regional economic and trade cooperation on different levels and by various means, especially with southern Asian countries, in the wake of the launch of the Qinghai-Tibet Railway.

In his speech, Nyima Tsering elaborated on the progress achieved by Tibet over the past four decades and the challenges facing Tibetans.

He said that to pursue sustainable and balanced development of the autonomous region, Tibet must continuously push forward the "frog-leap" mode in economic and social development, accelerate infrastructure construction and promote the construction of "a new countryside."

It is a priority of the Tibetan government to improve the working and living conditions of farmers and herdsmen and increase their incomes, he said.

Tibet will also deepen reform and innovate systems, he added.

"We shall follow the established path of market economy development, treat the market as a guiding force, and continue to actively reform the investment and financing mechanism so as to attract more investment," he said.

According to Nyima Tsering, since the establishment of the Tibetan autonomous region, Tibet has been in the best period of economic development with the fastest economic growth thanks to the strong support of the central government of China and unselfish assistance by other parts of the country.

Tibet has maintained an economic growth rate of over 12 percent for the past six consecutive years, and in 2006, the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) of the region reached 29.1 billion yuan (about 3.93 billion U.S. dollars), 89 times that of 1965, he said.

Over the last four decades, Tibet has witnessed comprehensive progress in social construction, he said.

"A fairly complete modern educational and medical care system has been installed in Tibet," he added.

There are six universities, 118 high schools, seven intermediate vocational schools and 880 elementary schools in Tibet, with a total enrollment of 540,000 students and attendance of 96.5 percent of the school-age population, he elaborated.

The life of the Tibetan people has improved significantly over the past four decades, he said.

"Social stability is being continuously maintained and people are enjoying their life and work," he said.

In his words, Tibet is a region rich in local resources, such as abundant grasslands, mineral, water, forest, flora and fauna, and tourist resources, which have created great conditions for Tibet's development.

But to achieve further progress, Tibet faces much challenges, he pointed out, citing weak infrastructure basis, investment and vulnerable ecological environment among others.

"We deeply understand we must make a lore more effort in the long run, and will sincerely implement a human-oriented and scientific outlook for coordinated and sustainable development, and work hard to solve existing problems while adhering to a policy of reform and development," he added.

The senior Tibetan leader encouraged people around the world to visit Tibet more instead of listening to "untrue" and "unfriendly" reports about the region.

"Tibet is a place where people live happily and also a beautiful tourist resort," he said. "I believe a fast-growing and new Tibet will leave every visitor an unforgettable memory."

The two-day forum on Tibet is jointly sponsored by the State Council Information Office of China, the Chinese embassy in Austria, the permanent mission of China to the United Nations and other international organizations in Vienna and Austrian organizations including the Organization to Support the Austrian and Chinese Economic Cooperations.

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Tibet's progress

by: 2007-06-22 09:39:36

Six consecutive years of GDP growth above 12 percent. Double-digit increases in per capita net income for farmers and herdsmen four years in a row.

Such strides mean a lot to the Tibet Autonomous Region (TAR).

As TAR Chairman Qiangba Puncog told a press yesterday in Beijing, the Tibetans owe a lot to stronger financial support from the central government as well as assistance from the rest of the country.

For more than 50 years, financial expenditures and investments in Tibet's infrastructure have relied mainly on central financial backup. As Qiangba Puncog explained, of every 10 yuan the local government spent, 9 came from the central government.

Handsome investment in local infrastructure over the decades is now upgrading the local economy and improving people's lives.

We see no harm from better roads, more convenient communications and broader availability of power supplies.

The Tibet ethnic groups' cultural identity will not be compromised by traveling by bus, talking on cell phones, or using electric rice cookers. The people of Tibet deserve the benefits and conveniences of all the modern technology the world has to offer.

We have seen from the rise of China's coastal belt the importance of solid infrastructure for an area's development. Tibet's infrastructure is among the poorest nationwide. So Beijing's investment in Tibet of 77.8 billion yuan ($9.6 billion) in 180 basic construction projects during the 11th Five-Year Plan (2006-10) is of far-reaching significance for the region's future.

Tibet needs a degree of economic development to improve people's lives. But single-minded pursuit of growth may do more harm than good, considering the extremely fragile ecology of the plateau.

We are glad to learn from Qiangba Puncog that local leaders agree with Beijing's concern for environmental preservation.

Blindly chasing GDP growth has resulted in devastating environmental consequences in many areas of our country. The same should not be repeated in Tibet.

It was wise for Tibet to focus on improving living conditions, rather than GDP figures.

Qiangba Puncog told the press that the blue sky and clear water of Tibet remain as clean as ever.

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Dalai Lama urged to abandon stance

09:58, July 30, 2007

(Nyima Cering is a native Tibetan, born and raised in Tibet)

LHASA: The Dalai Lama must take concrete actions to end his advocacy of "Tibetan independence", which is a premise for him to negotiate with the government, a senior official with Tibet Autonomous Region said here Saturday.

The Dalai Lama's pursuit of "Tibet independence" infringes on China's sovereignty, and any negotiations with him shall be pointless if he sticks to his secessionist stance, Nyima Cering, vice-chairman of Tibet Autonomous Region, told a group of 32 foreign journalists representing 19 media organizations.

The Dalai Lama's call for a "high-degree of autonomy for Tibet" and the establishment of a "greater Tibet area" was just a tactical readjustment on his part and did not reflect any substantial change in his stance, said the official.

"If he has really abandoned his pursuit of 'Tibet independence', he would have taken solid actions. But so far we have not seen any such actions," the vice-chairman said.

The channel of communication with the Dalai Lama has been open. Since 1979, 20 personal delegations of the Dalai Lama have visited Tibet or other Tibetan areas, he said.

"The Dalai Lama is not only a religious figure. He is first and foremost a politician. We are against the Dalai Lama and his separatist activities, not his religion," said Nyima Cering.

The majority of Tibetan people support the leadership of the Communist Party of China. However, some people are attempting to overthrow the socialist system with the help of the Dalai Lama and in the name of protecting national interests or religion, he said.

Source: Xinhua

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2004-5-24

China issued Sunday a white paper to acquaint the world with its ethnic policy and the truth about Tibet, and urged the Dalai Lama to "truly relinquish" his stand for "Tibet independence."

"The Central Government's policy as regards the Dalai Lama is consistent and clear. It is hoped that the Dalai Lama will look reality in the face, make a correct judgment of the situation, truly relinquish his stand for 'Tibet independence,' and do something beneficial to the progress of China and the region of Tibet in his remaining years," says the white paper, titled Regional Ethnic Autonomy in Tibet.

The 30-page white paper, released by the Information Office of the State Council, or the cabinet, is the first of its kind to focus on the "regional ethnic autonomy" policy long practiced in China's ethnic minority regions, as well as the substantial benefits this policy has brought to Tibet, which formally became one of China's five province-level autonomous regions in 1965.

"Regional ethnic autonomy means, under the unified leadership of the state, regional autonomy is exercised and organs of self-government are established in areas where various ethnic minorities live in compact communities, so that the people of ethnic minorities are their own masters exercising the right of self-government to administer local affairs and the internal affairs of their own ethnic groups," explains the paper.

With the implementation of the policy of regional ethnic autonomy, the Tibetan people enjoy full political right of autonomy, have full decision-making power in economic and social development, and have the freedom to inherit and develop their traditional culture and to practice their religious belief, says the paper, citing a series of facts and figures.

"Regional ethnic autonomy is the fundamental guarantee for the Tibetan people as masters of their own affairs," the paper concludes.

The issuance of the white paper appears to be a counteroffensive against the international propaganda and lobbying by the Dalai Lama, who alleged that the regional ethnic autonomy in Tibet was "devoid of essential contents" and proposed the exercise of "one country, two systems" and "a high degree of autonomy" in Tibet after the model of Hong Kong and Macao.

The white paper refuted the "attack" and "argument" of the "Dalai clique" as "totally untenable."

"The regional ethnic autonomy in Tibet the Dalai clique attacks is the very regional ethnic autonomy for Tibet which the 14th Dalai supported and whose preparation he was involved in," says the paper, citing the fact that the Dalai Lama was the chairman of the Preparatory Committee for the Tibet Autonomous Region when the committee was established in 1956.

"The Dalai's attack against the regional ethnic autonomy in Tibet runs counter not only to the reality of present-day Tibet but also to the words he once uttered in all seriousness," it adds.

The white paper says that the situation in Tibet is "entirely different from that in Hong Kong and Macao". "...the Central Government has always exercised effective sovereign jurisdiction over the region (of Tibet). So the issue of resuming exercise of sovereignty does not exist (as it had existed in Hong Kong and Macao)," it says. "...the possibility of implementing another social system (in Tibet) does not exist either."

The paper also states that regional ethnic autonomy is a basic political system of China and the establishment of the Tibet Autonomous Region and the scope of its area are based on the provisions of the Chinese Constitution, the laws on regional ethnic autonomy and decided by the conditions past and present.

"Any act aimed at undermining and changing the regional ethnic autonomy in Tibet is in violation of the Constitution and law, and it is unacceptable to the entire Chinese people, including the broad masses of the Tibetan people," the paper stresses.

It goes on to point out that the local government of Tibet headed by the Dalai Lama representing feudal serfdom under theocracy has long since been replaced by the democratic administration established by the Tibetan people themselves.

"The destiny and future of Tibet can no longer be decided by the Dalai Lama and his clique. Rather, it can only be decided by the whole Chinese nation, including the Tibetan people," says the paper. "This is an objective political fact in Tibet that cannot be denied or shaken."

The Dalai Lama fled China in 1959 after a failed armed rebellion aimed at separating Tibet from China. The rebellion was staged by "some people in the upper ruling strata of Tibet" "in order to preserve feudal serfdom," with the support of "imperialist forces," says the white paper.

After leading the Tibetan people to "quickly quell the rebellion," the central government implemented the Democratic Reform which overthrew the feudal serfdom under theocracy, abolished the feudal hierarchic system and emancipated a million serfs and slaves. "The Democratic Reform cleared the way for regional ethnic autonomy in Tibet," says the paper.

The paper notes that under the reign of the Dalai Lama, "even in the first half of the 20th century, Tibet remained a society ...even darker and more backward than medieval Europe." But after nearly 40 years of practice of regional ethnic autonomy, Tibet has "recorded rapid economic growth and all-round social progress," and the Tibetans have "become the creators and beneficiaries of the material and cultural wealth of Tibetan society."

"Historical facts indicate that the institution of regional ethnic autonomy in Tibet was the natural result of social progress in Tibet, and that it accords with the fundamental interests of the Tibetan people and the inexorable law of development of human society," the paper says.

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Visiting Tibet could become easier

UPDATED: 14:57, June 21, 2007

TheTibet Autonomous Region (TAR) could become easier for foreigners because the local government is considering doing away with the laissez-passer system, a senior Tibet official said yesterday.

"The system may not be stamped out this year, but we are actively mulling its removal and will definitely do away with the practice at a proper time to make the entry of overseas visitors into Tibet more convenient," TAR Chairman Qiangba Puncog said at a press conference in Beijing.

Another project that would attract more overseas visitors is a highway on Mount Qomolangma, known in the West as Mount Everest, Qiangba said. The road to the world's highest peak will be completed before August 2008, in time for the Beijing Olympic Games. The project will turn a 110-km rough road linking Tingri County of Xigaze Prefecture at the foot of the Qomolangma Base Camp into a blacktop highway fenced by undulating guardrails.

Some tourists who visited the Base Camp later complained about the poor and unsafe condition of the road, prompting the TAR authorities to "rebuild" it, Qiangba said. The highway will become the major route for tourists and mountaineers.

Listing the infrastructure projects in the region, Qiangba said environmental protection has always got priority whenever a big scheme has been planned to protect the region's fragile and complicated ecological system.

For instance, vast tracks of land along the landmark Qinghai-Tibet Railway have been effectively protected since it opened in July last year. Measures have been taken to preserve the ecology along the 1,956-km tracks, the first ever to link Tibet with the rest of the country.

A recent field investigation along the route found no evidence of damage to the environment, he said. The landscape and lakes have been well preserved and wildlife migration patterns have not changed.

The central government will invest 77.8 billion yuan ($10.23 billion) on 180 projects and in implementing a range of preferential policies. Qiangba welcomed the central government's help and dismissed allegations that the Tibetan people would lose their culture to the Han way of life.

Of the 2.8 million people in Tibet, 92 percent are of Tibetan ethnic group, 5 percent are Hans and the rest are from other ethnic groups, Qiangba said.

"Their custom and traditional festivals remain unchanged even after millions of tourists have been there the region following the central government's massive investment in the region," said the official.

The TAR is also considering allocating hundreds of millions of yuan for maintenance and renovation of world heritage sites and major cultural relics in the region in the next five years, the official said.

Source: China Daily

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Tibet policies enrich region's development

by: 2007-04-24 10:33:53 China Daily

During an interview with the German magazine Der Spiegel published on March 26, the 14th Dalai Lama attacked the Chinese government as "dividing Tibet by letting other provinces govern parts of Tibet". He also claimed that Tibet was "suffering cultural homicide".

The Dalai Lama named himself "the spokesperson of all 6 million Tibetan people" and peddled his idea of "greater autonomy" in Tibet and the Tibetan habitats in provinces neighboring the Tibet Autonomous Region.

The Dalai Lama is playing with words by adding the modifier "greater" to "autonomy" in an attempt to mislead people. It is actually another word for "Tibet independence" sought by the Dalai Lama over the last decades.

The 14th Dalai Lama fervently pursues separating Tibet from China. Ever since he fled Tibet in 1959, the Dalai Lama has stressed in all his public statements, speeches and talks that Tibet should be an independent state.

To prepare for his secessionist efforts, the Dalai Lama also set up the so-called "Tibetan government in exile" and "people's congress of Tibet" in the early 1960s in Dharamsala, India. A "constitution" was promulgated, and an armed force named "Religion Guards of the Four Rivers and Six Ranges" was built in Mustang, Nepal.

The Dalai clique also set up organizations in many countries to enhance its influence among Tibetans living there, such as "the Tibetan Youth Congress" and "the National Democratic Party of Tibet". All these organizations are still working for "Tibet independence" except the "Religion Guards of the Four Rivers and Six Ranges". They were wiped out by the national army of Nepal in 1974.

In the late 1970s and early 1980s, the world saw dramatic changes. Many countries, including India and the United States, began to have closer ties with China. The Dalai clique received less support from these countries in both financial and political terms. The Dalai Lama was forced to tone down his announcements in that period by declaring that he would give up claiming "Tibetan independence".

The central government actively responded to this declaration. It formulated and practiced the policy of free movement in and out of the country for local and overseas Tibetan people.

However, the Dalai Lama and his followers drew wrong conclusions after some paid several visits to the country, thinking they still had the trust and faith of many local Tibetans.

In the mid-1980s, the Dalai Lama and his followers tried to draw global attention to Tibet.

On September 21, 1987, the Dalai Lama made a speech to the human rights sub-committee of the US House of Representatives, raising a five-point proposal on the status of Tibet.

This proposal was strongly objected to by the Chinese people, including those in the Tibet Autonomous Region. But it was wrongly taken as a signal for a new round of separatist activities by those seeking separatism within the country.

Six days later, on September 27, Lhasa, the capital of the Tibet Autonomous Region, witnessed the start of riots aimed at realizing so-called Tibetan independence. The four riots and dozens of demonstrations in Lhasa in the following two years were reported by Western media and triggered international concern.

Against this backdrop, the Dalai clique became increasingly arrogant in its ambitions. On June 15, 1988, the Dalai Lama delivered a speech in Strasbourg, France, adding new points to his five-point proposal.

As China achieved miraculous economic prosperity as well as political stability in the early 1990s, the Tibet Autonomous Region and the Tibetan habitats in other provinces saw robust progress in nearly all aspects of social life. The Tibetan people's lives improved remarkably.

During this period, the Dalai Lama began to lose support. Internal disputes within his clique were also growing.

By 1994, the Dalai Lama had to stress that he had dropped the pursuit of "Tibetan independence" but started to seek "a greater autonomy of Tibet under the framework of the Chinese Constitution". The "greater autonomy" of Tibet has been peddled by the Dalai Lama in recent years as his major point.

However, people never fail to notice that this concept is only a disguise for his real target of "Tibetan independence" and a strategic concession to gain more advantages on the issue.

Despite the evolution of his slogans as well as the key points, the Dalai Lama has never changed his framework of "negotiation" with the central government.

He has insisted that Tibet had been an independent state in both historic and cultural terms instead of part of China; that the central government should withdraw all military forces and facilities out of Tibet; that Tibet should keep diplomatic ties with other states and international organizations; that the Tibetan settlement areas in the provinces of Sichuan, Yunnan, Qinghai and Gansu should be integrated into Tibet, that the Dalai Lama should be in charge of this "greater Tibet", and that the non-Tibetan ethnic groups should be cleared out of this area.

If the central government of a state cannot have military forces on its territory or allow its local government to have diplomatic ties with other nations, it actually has no sovereignty over this territory. Therefore, the so-called "greater autonomy" demanded by the Dalai Lama is an attempt to change the legal position of Tibet and deny the sovereignty of the central government over the region.

The "greater autonomy" of Tibet is actually a slogan of the Dalai Lama and his followers to win the sympathy of the global community and the support of the Tibetan people as well as to put pressure on the central government. At the same time, the clique has never stopped its separatist activities.

As a country with 55 ethnic minorities, China has adopted a policy of regional autonomy for ethnic minorities in areas where these minorities live in compact communities.

Under the unified leadership of the central government, organs of self-government have been established for the exercise of autonomy. The implementation of this policy is critical to enhancing the relationship of equality, unity and mutual assistance among different ethnic groups, to upholding national unification, and to accelerating the development of places where regional autonomy is practiced.

The Tibet Autonomous Region was established on September 1, 1965. Since then, Tibetans, under the leadership of the central government, have actively participated in the administration of national and local affairs, fully exercising the right of autonomy guaranteed by the Constitution and other laws.

The Tibetans have real autonomy, which they enjoy much more than what "greater autonomy" could offer.

With the founding of the autonomous region, the Tibetans have exercised their right to vote and stand for election as provided by the Constitution. They participate in the election of deputies to national and local people's congresses.

Tibetan and other ethnic minority deputies account for more than 80 percent of the total number of deputies to the people's congresses at regional and prefecture levels. Tibetan and other ethnic minority people account for 87.5 percent of the chairperson and vice-chairperson positions of the Standing Committee of the People's Congress of the Tibet Autonomous Region and 69.23 percent of the total members of the committee. They make up 57 percent of the governor and vice-governor positions of the region, 89.4 percent of the members of the local People's Political Consultative Conference and 90.42 percent of the standing committee.

Over the past 40 years, the Tibet Autonomous Region has exercised full economic autonomy. The region has drawn up 10 five-year plans for local economic and social development, arranging development projects on its own.

Farmers and herders in Tibet are exempt from all fees and taxes. In addition, farmers and herders enjoy free medical care and their children receive free food and board in schools.

In August 2005, a special document was issued by the central government to accelerate the economic and social development in Tibet by granting a series of favourable policies to the autonomous region.

As a result, the Tibet Autonomous Region saw a GDP of 29.03 billion Yuan ($3.72 billion) in 2006, up 13.2 percent from the previous year.

The Tibetan language has been widely learned and used. People of Tibetan ethnicity account for more than 95 percent of the total population in the region. The Tibetan language and the national common language are used simultaneously at all important meetings. All documents of the governments at all levels in the region appear in both languages.

The central government respects and protects the freedom of religious belief of Tibetans and other ethnic minorities. They are free to follow their traditional lifestyle and carry out social activities. They are also free to pray and make pilgrimages.

The central government and the regional government have earmarked a large sum of money to renovate monasteries and palaces of religious value as well as historic value.

Tibet has also seen huge progress in education in the last decades. The region brought 95.9 percent of the children of school age into classrooms by 2006. It has four universities and colleges.

The status of women in Tibet in political, economic and cultural spheres as well as in families has been fundamentally improved.

The Tibet Autonomous Region has also done significant work in protecting the environment. A number of projects have been carried out under the sponsorship of both the central government and local government.

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Dalai Lama's ethnic fight will harm Tibet

UPDATED: 17:22, April 26, 2007

The 14th Dalai Lama made clear his real thoughts on Tibet in his recent interview with the Der Spiegel. He told the German magazine, "The fight over Tibet is between different ethnic groups, and it will carry on no matter I live or die."

When the Dalai Lama describes the issue as "a fight between different ethnic groups", isn't he talking about a fight between the Tibetans and the Hans? If the issue is positioned in this manner, what does it mean for Tibet?

We have seen a lot of sad cases of ethnic conflict after the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) was dissolved at the end of 1991.

Before that, the USSR managed to keep a stable relationship among different ethnic communities. But after the 15 republics became independent, the conflicts between different ethnic groups were on the rise for all kinds of reasons.

Russians were the largest ethnic group in the former USSR, but they became an ethnic minority in many of the independent states. Along with the dramatic change in the demographic majorities, the ethnic Russians saw an increase in conflicts with other ethnic groups.

The most dramatic political conflict occurred between the Russian Federation and Ukraine over the Black Sea Fleet. One of the most important fleets in Russia, the Black Sea Fleet was based in the Crimean port of Sevastopol. But the port became part of Ukraine after 1991.

The two countries undertook extensive negotiations before reaching a bilateral agreement in 1997. Russia was allowed to use the base in Sevastopol until 2017 by paying Ukraine a large annual fee. The two countries have yet to reach a final agreement.

This is only one of the less tragic events following the collapse of the USSR. Other events had far more personal impact on the ethnic groups living on former Soviet soil.

Tibet is certainly different from the former USSR, but ethnic conflicts would be no less tragic.

The Dalai Lama declared that he had dropped the pursuit of "Tibetan independence" and turned to seek a "greater autonomy" for Tibet. But in fact, his blueprint for so-called Tibet autonomy would only trigger conflicts among different ethnic groups.

After the development of the last decades, people from different ethnic groups have formed a harmonious community in Tibet and its neighboring provinces.

According to the Dalai Lama's plan, the Tibet under "greater autonomy" would definitely witness a rise in the supporters of "Tibetan independence". They would try to instigate populism among the Tibetans and treat people of other ethnic groups, especially the Hans, as trespassers. It is also possible that extremist movements would start to drive other ethnic groups out of Tibet.

Such a situation would be devastating to Tibet as well as to Tibetans.

The Dalai Lama has resorted to a convenient tool to set off Tibetan populism: democracy. He made this point in the interview with Der Spiegel.

Admittedly, democracy is a commonly accepted value of all people. However, it is often manipulated to serve the targets of certain individuals. We cannot afford to ignore such behavior.

One of the essentials of democracy lies in governance by the people. Pitifully, democracy is often wrongly reduced to "elections".

In the complexity of real life, elections can be manipulated to the benefit of certain individuals or groups. An issue devised by demagogues could be put to a referendum.

The election process could easily turn into an occasion where the populist movement is triggered, nurtured and escalated. Numerous examples can be seen in Taiwan.

When the Dalai Lama is trying his best to peddle his idea of "greater autonomy" in Tibet and "democracy", his followers or the people who have been hoodwinked by his proposals will probably claim that "Tibet only belongs to the Tibetans." Such slogan may also gain support from the Tibetans who are contaminated with the populist sentiment.

This is how populism works: It helps politicians arouse public sentiment to benefit the politicians, but these benefits are most probably not in the public interest.

It is easy to see that if the Tibet issue is positioned as "a fight between different ethnic groups" and if the Dalai Lama's roadmap for the future of Tibet is succesful, it would be a demoralizing situation.

When the Dalai Lama resorted to "democracy" as a tool to sell his ideas, he was only distorting the concept.

It would be devastating to Tibet and people living on the snow land to instigate ethnic conflicts there, as the Dalai Lama has done.

Source: China Daily; By Ren Xiao, a professor at the School of International Relations and Public Affairs, Fudan University

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Ethnic Regional Autonomy System and its practice in Tibet Autonomous Region

by:ChangWeiMin 2005-03-09 14:51:14

1. The Ethnic Regional Autonomy System Is the Basic Policy and Political System for the Solution of China's Nationality Problems

China is a united multi-ethnic country with 55 minorities besides the Han nationality. All nationalities have made glorious contributions to expanding boundaries and creating cultures in the history of China.

Since the founding of the People's Republic of China, the Central People's Government has attached great importance to the nationality problems and kept upholding the policy of equality, unity, mutual assistance, co-development and co-prosperity among all nationalities and regarding it as the basic principle of handling nationality problems and relations among nationalities. Adopting the policy of ethnic regional autonomy in the area of minorities is the certain result of Chinese history and the economic and social development in late times. Firstly all nationalities have been lived together in a unitary country and created a united country, history and culture, with contact and mutual assistance never interrupted. Their societies, economies and cultures have integrated over the long history and inseparability has been formed among them. Secondly from the economic point of view, the minority areas have vast land and rich resources but relatively backward economic and cultural development. On the contrary, areas of Han nationality have better economy but inadequate resources. Only with both the two areas integrated and helping each other can the whole country be developed and all nationalities be prosperous. Thirdly respecting the characteristics of different nationalities and securing their rights request an appropriate system, which is the ethnic regional autonomy system with Chinese characteristics.

Up till now, China has set up 155 autonomous local areas, including 5 autonomous regions (including Tibet Autonomous Region), 30 autonomous prefectures(including 10 Tibetan autonomy prefecture in Sichuan province, Qinghai Province, Gansu Province and Yunnan Province), 120 autonomous counties. The population of minorities amounts to 108 million, which accounts for 98% of the total population. Among them Tibet Autonomous Region has a population of 2.44 million with 96.3% of them are Tibetans.

2. The Basic Meanings of Ethnic Regional Autonomy System

The ethnic regional autonomy means practicing regional autonomy, setting up autonomous organs and exercising autonomous power. The autonomous organs are People's Congress, People's Government. Local Ethnic Autonomous Organizations are the direct local authority and administrative organs of the country.

To be specific, the basic meanings of China's Ethnic Regional Autonomy Policy have two sides. On the one hand, it means setting up organs of self-government and giving minorities the autonomy to handle local and internal affairs based on the principle of equality among nationalities and under the leadership of Central People's Government. On the other hand, ethnic regional autonomous regions, like other administrative regions in China, are inseparable parts of China. The autonomous jurisdiction of ethnic autonomous regions is local self-government power given by the Central People's Government to handle the internal affairs of ethnic regions. Being a part of the China's complete authority system, it's under the control of Central People's Government, just like all levels of autonomous organs exercising this authority and the other local government.

3. Autonomous Rights Enjoyed By the Ethnic Autonomous Region

According to the Constitution of the People's Republic of China and the Law of the People's Republic of China Governing Regional National Autonomy, people's congresses in the areas of national autonomy have the right to formulate regulations on the exercise of autonomy or specific regulations in accordance with the political, economic and cultural characteristics of the local nationalities, besides the authority shared by all organs at the same level. It mainly includes Right to enact regulations on the exercise of autonomy and separate regulations in light of local political, economic and cultural characteristics.

Right to implement laws and policies set by Central People's Government in accordance with local practices.

Autonomous right to administer local finance and right to manage local economic construction.

Right to protect, explore and utilize local natural resources in accordance with laws set by Central People's Government.

Right to administer local projects of education, science, culture, sanitation, sports, and protecting national cultural relics, as well as developing national cultures.

Right to freely use and develop national spoken and written languages.

The chairman or vice chairman of the standing committee of the autonomous regions, the chairman of an autonomous region, head of an autonomous prefecture or an autonomous county should be citizens of the ethnic groups.

Rights illustrated above are important reflections of minorities exercising autonomous power on the country's and local matters.

4. The Practice of Ethnic Regional Autonomy System in China's Tibet Autonomous Region

The old Tibet was under the despotic feudal serf system marked by combination of government and religion and the dictatorship of lamas and nobles, which seriously handicapped the development of social productive forces and social progress, keeping Tibet in a state of extreme backwardness and obturation for a long time. Although they accounted for less than 5 percent of Tibet's population, they owned all of Tibet's farmland, pastures, forests, mountains and rivers as well as most livestock. On the contrary, the serfs engaged in hard labor year in and year out and yet had no guaranteed food or clothing. They had no basic human rights and certainly no political rights as well.

The central people's government and the local government of Tibet signed in 1951 the 17-Article Agreement on measures for the peaceful liberation of Tibet, which brought hope to the Tibetan people in their struggle for equal personal and political rights. The 3rd article stipulates, in accordance with the nationality policy in the Common Document of Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (acting as constitutions in a short period of time after the founding of PRC), Tibetan citizens have the rights of exercising the power of ethnic regional autonomy.

In April 1956, the Preparatory Committee for the Tibet Autonomous Region was set up in accordance with the Central People's Government's decision, with Dalai as the directive commissary and Penchen Erdeny as the 1st deputy directive commissary. Being a consultative organ with regime power, its basic tasks are, organize the democratic reform and create necessary conditions for the establishment of ethnic regional autonomy system.

In 1959, armed rebellion occurred in Tibet and Dalai fled China. The State Council issued an ordination in March 28th to dissolve the Tibetan local government and empower the Preparatory Committee for Autonomous Region to exercise its authority instead. In several years later, democratic reforms had taken place in Tibet, and feudal serfdom was abolished. Citizens of the Tibet Autonomous Region voted to establish political organs at all level, which showed that the conditions for setting up Tibet Autonomous Region was mature.

The Tibet Autonomous Region was formally founded in 1965, representing the realization of ethnic regional autonomous rights of the Tibetan people. The Tibetan people stepped into the equal, united and prosperous road of socialism as all the other nationalities in China.

Over the past thirty years, the Tibetan people have been working hard together and have brought world-shaking political and economic changes to Tibet. Here are some examples.

Legislation----The People's Congress of the Tibet Autonomous Region has since 1965 formulated more than 120 local rules and decrees which covers areas of regime construction, social and economic development, marriage, culture, education, sanitation, languages, jurisdictions, and protection of forests, grasslands, wild animals and natural resources. The formulation and implementation of these local rules and regulations have furnished an important legal guarantee to the realization of democratic rights for the Tibetan people and to the development of local social, economic and cultural undertakings.

These local rules and regulations have apparent characteristics of the Tibetan local ethnic regional autonomy. For instance, regarding the regime construction, it's clearly stipulated that Tibetans and people of other minorities must account for over 80% in the People's Congress of the autonomous regions. Currently, Tibetan and other minority representatives in the autonomous region, city, county, village account for 82.18%, 81.96%, 90% and 99% respectively.

Team of minority cadres----Training, choosing and appointing minority cadres is an important part of implementing ethnic regional autonomy. In order to help Tibetan citizens to better exercise their rights of managing and national and local affairs, the Central People's Government have attached great importance to training cadres of Tibetan nationality. Currently, there are 49,752 cadres of Tibetan and other minority nationalities, which accounts for 73.88% of all cadres. All the main leading posts in the people's congresses, governments, and people's political consultative conferences at various levels are filled by Tibetans and other minority nationalities. Tibetan women were in the lowest echelon of society in old Tibet. Today, many of them take posts in the autonomous governments at all levels and some of them even hold leading posts.

In order to develop Tibetan economy and improve the cause of Tibetan science and culture, the Central People's Government has attached great importance to the training of Tibetan cadres with technical expertise. Currently, there are about 20 thousand cadres of this kind in the region. These cadres, including scholars, researchers, architectures, engineers, agriculturists, doctors, authors, journalists, artists, etc, take important roles in all kinds of fields in Tibet.

The Tibetan language----the spoken and written Tibetan language is widely used throughout the whole Tibetan Autonomous Region. The Autonomous Government of Tibet promulgated and implemented Some Provisions of the Tibet Autonomous Region of the Study, Use and Development of the Spoken and Written Tibetan Language (Draft) and the Rules for the Implementation of Some Provisions of the Tibet Autonomous Region on the Study, Use and Development of the Spoken and Written Tibetan Language (Draft) in 1987 and 1988, respectively, explicitly stipulated the principle of using both Tibetan and Han Chinese languages should be used in the Tibetan Autonomous Region with precedence given to the Tibetan language. Now both the two languages are used for all work units' official seals, certificates, forms, stationery, hotels, cinemas, theaters and gymnasiums, street and road signs, and traffic signs. Tibetan languages are used in all big conferences attended by the public and the Tibetan language is the main course in all schools.

On August 2nd to 4th, 2000, the Tibetan Autonomous Region held Conference of Work on Regional Tibetan Language, making a summary to the work on regional Tibetan language I recent years and arranging the work on Tibetan languages in the next period of time. In August 2000, the Information Office of the State Council of the People's Republic of China release a report on the Study, Using and Development of Tibetan Language.

According to the news on April 20th, 1997 from the Xinhua News Agency, the Tibetan language has reached standardization and the promotion as an Internet communication tool. In the Conference of International Standard Examination of Multi-coding held in 1996, Chinese pattern of encoded Tibetan Language was formally recognized and currently being used as the international standard by Microsoft Corp. U.S.A.

Protection of cultural relics----Since 1980, the People's Government of Tibetan Autonomous Region have conducted archeological work extensively on the more than 20 cultural sited under state-level or region-level protection and ancient buildings and places of interests. Recent years, China has invested more than 50 million yuan, as well as human resources and materials to repair the Potala Palace. The maintenance project of Ganden Monastery costing 2.5 million was finished in September 1997. Ever since then, another 56 cultural relics have been listed as the autonomous-level unit under protection, and 5 ones including Sakye Monastery are under state-level protection. Besides, the Tibet Autonomous Region Museum, one of 62 projects conducted by the Central People's Government to aid Tibet was established in 1997.

Protection of zoology and environment----Statistics shows that Tibet has about 7.17 million-hectare woodland, 64 hundred categories of highland plants, more than 10 hundred kinds of medical plants and 2.3 hundred kinds of wild animals, among which 141 kinds are under state-level or autonomous-level protection.

While vigorously developing Tibetan economy, the people's government attaches great importance to environmental protection in Tibet. Conscientiously carrying out the state's basic policy on environmental protection, the Tibet Autonomous Region perseveres in its basic state strategy of synchronized planning and undertaking of economic, urban, rural and environmental construction and have published and implemented a series of laws and regulations, such as the Regulations for the Protection of Forests in the Tibet Autonomous Region, the Provisional Regulations of the Tibet Autonomous Region on Administration of Grasslands, and so on. In the field of wildlife protection alone, there are more than 20 documents on related regulations and systems. The autonomous government has set up the Everest Mountain Environmental Protection District, protection districts of wild animals, etc, and established the Environmental Protection Committee of the Tibet Autonomous Region, which is in charge of such undertakings in the whole region. According to the monitoring station, environmental conditions are good in Tibet. Generally speaking, there is no pollution of the atmosphere or water. The industrial and other pollution is very slight. No accident of environmental pollution has ever occurred.

Currently, the Tibetan Autonomous Region is seizing the historical chance of China's developing the west region to set programs for a faster pace of the social and economic development.

Decades of practices of regional autonomy for ethnic minorities, especially in the Tibetan Autonomous Region, are proved to be a political system in conformity with China's national conditions. It has enhanced the cohesion among all nationalities in China and secured the unity of the country and nationalities, as well as facilitated the prosperity and development of the ethnic regions. Being a fundamental state policy, it will exist for a long time and will keep developing and being better and better.

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Tibet-An Inseparable part of China

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From the 7th to the 10th century

In the Tang Dynasty: Close Relations between Tibet and Central China

The friendly relations between the Tibetan nationality and the Han nationality of the main areas of China can be traced to ancient times, as is proved by archaeological findings and historical documents in Tibetan and Chinese. In the seventh century the Tibetan King Songtsen Gampo unified the tribes on the Qinghai-Tibet plateau and established the Tubo Dynasty. King Songtsen Gampo married Princess Wencheng of the Tang Dynasty in 641, after which the Tang emperor conferred on him the titles of "Imperial Son-in-Law Governor", "West Sea Prince", and "Treasured Prince."

- Marriage relations between the Tang dynasty and the Tubo rulers

- Eight conferences between Tang and Tubo to pledge peaceful relations.

- Exchanges of emissaries between Tang and Tubo

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In the 13th century

In the Yuan Dynasty Tibet Became an administrative Region of China

In the thirteenth century Temujin (Genghis Khan), who succeeded in subjugating other independent tribes and local forces, founded the Mongol Khanate. In 1247 Sakya Pandita, the chief of the Sakya Buddhist sect in Tibet, and his nephew Phagpa, conferred with the Mongol Prince Godan, grandson of Genghis khan, at Liangzhou (in present-day Gansu province) on problems concerning Tibet giving its allegiance to the MongolKhanate. On his accession to the throne in 1260, Kublai Khan granted Phagpa the title of "Imperial Tutor" as well as a jade seal symbolizing the politico-religious power over Tibet, with which Phagpa was entrusted. This initiated the combination of temporal and spiritual authority in the Tibetan local regime. In 1271 Kublai Khan named his state the Yuan dynasty. In 1279 he unified China's entire territory. It was then that Tibet became an administrative region under the direct jurisdiction of the central government of China.

- Tibetan pledged allegiance to the Yuan dynasty

- The Yuan dynasty conducted a census and set up poststage stations in Tibet

- The Yuan dynasty established administrative organs and appointed officials in Tibet

http://zt.tibet.cn/english/zt/041225_xzsh/1-2.htm

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From the 14th to the 17th century

The Ming Imperial Court's Administration of Tibet

In the Ming Dynasty the policy towards Tibet mainly continued that of the previous Yuan Dynasty. The governorship for U-Tsang and a Marshal's Headquarters were created. The system of official posts in Tibet ranking from commanders, commissioners to wan hu, qian hu, and bai hu was improved. Officials in Tibet were appointed by the central government. In carrying out a pacificatory policy, the Ming Dynasty granted various new offices and titles of honor to officials and dignitaries in the Tibetan areas. Thus the title of "Prince of Dharma" was granted to Khon Drakpa of the Sakya sect, "Prince of Great Treasure" to Karma Lama of the Kagyupa sect, "Prince of the Western Deities and Grand Imperial Tutor" and later "The Great Compassionate Prince of the Dharma" to Shakya Yeshe of the Gelugpa (Yellow-Hat) sect. Among many other titles of honor were those of "Initiation State Tutor", "Promotion Prince of Virtue", "Guardian Prince of the Doctrine", "Propagation Prince of the Doctrine".

- The Ming dynasty carried on the institutions set up by the Yuan in Tibet and adjusted administrative apparatus for the Tibetan areas

- The Central government of the Ming dynasty held judicial power

- Carrying out a pacificatory policy, the Ming dynasty granted various new office and titles of honor to officials and dignitaries as well as the influential religious leader in Tibetan areas. The tribute-paying system encouraged trade

http://zt.tibet.cn/english/zt/041225_xzsh/1-3.htm

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From the 17th to the 20th century

The Qing Imperial Court Improving the Administration of Tibet

Under the succeeding Qing dynasty, the central government of China further strengthened its administration of Tibet. In 1652 the fifth Dalai Lama paid his respects in Beijing to the emperor, who, in the following year, granted him the title of "Buddha of Great Compassion in the West, Leader of the Buddhist Faith Beneath the Sky, Holder of the Vajra, the Dalai Lama" and a certificate on sheets of gold inscribed and a gold seal of authority. In 1713 the 5th Panchen Lama was granted the title of "Panchen Erdeni" as well as gold. From that time on, the Qing central government officially recognized the political and religious status and powers of the Dalai and Panchen Lamas.

- The Qing dynasty conferred title of honor on the Dalai and the Panchen

- The institution of "drawing lots from the golden urn" prescribed by the Qing dynasty in 1793 for the confirmation of reincarnation of the Dalai Lama

- The Qing court instituted the office of Grand Minister Residents of Tibet

- The Tibetan local government (Kashag) was established by the order of the Qing emperor of China

- The Qing government prescribed a local standing army system in Tibet

- Silver coins were minted in Tibet under tpervision of the Qing central government

- Imperial Ordinance for the More Effective Governing of Tibet

http://zt.tibet.cn/english/zt/041225_xzsh/1-4.htm

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From 1912 to 1949

The Nationalist Government Safeguards China's Sovereignty over Tibet

In 1912, after the founding of the Republic of China, the central government termed itself a republic of five nationalities -Han, Manchu, Mongolian, Hui, and Tibetan - with a unified territory, The Provisional Constitution of the Republic of China stipulated:" The territories of the Republic of China include twenty-two provinces as well as Inner and Outer Mongolia, Tibet, and Qinghai. "In 1912, the restoration of the title of the 13th Dalai Lama "The Loyally Submissive Vicegerent, Great, Good, Self-Existent Buddha of West Heaven" was decreed by the president of the Republic of China.

- The republic of five nationalities founded in 1911, expressing the unity of the territory of China

- Restoration of the title of honor to the Dalai Lama

- Tibetan delegates attending China's National Congress and being elected as members of the National Congress.

- The Nationalist Government issued the following decree:" Lhoma Dondrup shall be enthroned as the Fourteenth Dalai Lama without the confirmation formalities."

http://zt.tibet.cn/english/zt/041225_xzsh/1-5.htm

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1951

Peaceful Liberation of Tibet

On May 23, 1951, delegates with full powers of the Local Government of Tibet and delegates with full powers of the Central People's Government signed "The Agreement on Measures for the Peaceful Liberation of Tibet." The Fourteenth Dalai Lama and the Tenth Panchen Erdeni cabled the central authorities to express their support of the Agreement.

- The Agreement of the Central People's Government and the Local Government of Tibet on Measures for the peaceful Liberation of Tibet (Abridged).

http://zt.tibet.cn/english/zt/041225_xzsh/1-6.htm

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From peaceful liberation to founding of Tibet Autonomous Region

by: 2005-09-02 09:30:31

The central government of China adopted the principle of peaceful liberation of Tibet in light of historic and actual situation in the region after the founding of People's Republic of China in 1949.

In May 1951: representatives of the central and local governments signed the Agreement of the Central People's Government and the Tibetan Local Government on Measures for Peaceful Liberation of Tibet, widely known as the 17 Pacts.

In 1954: Dalai Lama and Panchen Lama went to Beijing to attend the first session of the National People's Congress (NPC), at which Dalai was elected vice chairman of the NPC standing committee, while Panchen was elected a member of the NPC standing committee.

Chairman Mao with Dalai Lama and Panchen Lama

In 1956: The preparatory committee for the Tibet Autonomous Region was set up and Dalai served as head of the committee.

Dalai Lama and Panchen Lama casting their ballots

In March 1959: Some officials of the former Tibet local government Kasha and some members in the upper class launched an armed rebellion, which attempted to safeguard the feudal serf system, split the country and oppose democratic reforms in Tibet. Acting on the order of the central government, the Chinese People's Liberation Army stationed in Tibet put it down.

In September 1965: The Tibet Autonomous Region was founded.

http://en.tibet.cn/history/pel/t20050902_52763.htm

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The Feudal Serf System in Tibet Before 1959

A Society Based on a Regime that Combined the Political and Religious Powers, and Divided People into Three Strata and Nine Grades

Tibet before 1959 had a society of feudal serfdom. Along with the general characteristics of feudal serfdom, there were many remnants of slavery. This social system was more cruel and reactionary than serfdom in Europe in the Middle Ages. The serf-owners' economic interests were protected by a political system that combined political and religious powers, ruling over the Tibetan people spiritually as well as politically. The local government of Tibet (in Tibetan, Kashag, and meaning "the institute that issues orders") was composed of powerful and influential monks and aristocrats. It upheld a series of social, political and legal institutions that rigidly stratified society. The Thirteen Laws and The Sixteen Laws divided the Tibetan people into three strata in nine grades according to their family background and social status.

- The Organization of the Tibetan Regime

- Rigidly Stratified Tibetan Society

- The Social Strata Stipulated in Tibetan Local Codes

- The Structure of Tibetan Society

http://zt.tibet.cn/english/zt/041225_xzsh/2-1.htm

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The Feudal Lords' Ownership of Means of Production

The monasteries, officialdom and the aristocrats owned all the arable land and pastures as well as overwhelming majority of livestock. These means of production were granted to them by the Dalai Lama. They had the right to govern and inherit the land.

- The Feudal Lords' Ownership of Means of Production

http://zt.tibet.cn/english/zt/041225_xzsh/2-2.htm

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The Serfs' Economic Burden

Taxes and levies in Tibetan areas included land rent, stock rent, corvee and taxes.

The main form of land rent was forced labor. In addition, there was a mixed form of land rent, which was paid in kind, forced labor and cash.

The manorial lords generally kept 70 percent of their land under their own management and rented out the rest to their serfs as thralkang land. The serf tenants of the thralkang land also had to till the land managed by the manorial lord, using their own farm animals and tools. The entire harvest on land managed by the manorial lords belonged to them alone.

The serfs had to do corvee for manorial lords and local government and pay taxes in kind and cash. Corvee duties were allotted by the local government.

There were two kinds of stock rent: paid in animal products to the manorial lords according to the original number of livestock rented from them, or in products according to the actual number of livestock.

Other taxes included land tax, corvee tax, and countless others.

- Convee

- Usury

http://zt.tibet.cn/english/zt/041225_xzsh/2-4.htm

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The Oppression of the Serfs by Manorial Lords

In Tibet under the serfdom, not only did the local regime at various levels, set up judicial institutions, but the big monasteries, manorial lords and tribal chieftains could also judge cases and had their own private prisons.

If the serfs stood up against the manorial lords, violated the law or could not pay rent or taxes in time, the lords would punish them according to the Thirteen Laws or other laws. They used such inhuman tortures as gouging out the eyes, cutting off the feet or hands, pushing the condemned person down from cliff, drowning, beheading, etc

- The Oppression of the Serfs by Manorial Lords

http://zt.tibet.cn/english/zt/041225_xzsh/2-5.htm

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The Serfs' Miserable life

The wealth of the society was highly concentrated in Tibet before 1959. More than 80 percent was possessed by the manorial lords and less than 20 percent belonged to the serfs, who accounted for 95 percent of the population. The masses of serfs lived in extreme poverty.

- The Serfs' Miserable life

http://zt.tibet.cn/english/zt/041225_xzsh/2-6.htm

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Some statistics about serfdom in Tibet

Many statistics and data show that in Tibet before 1959, production stagnated, the population of the Tibetan nationality diminished, epidemic diseases prevailed, the people lived in misery and society as a whole developed very slowly. The facts cited above give a broad outlines.

- Some statistics about serfdom in Tibet

http://zt.tibet.cn/english/zt/041225_xzsh/2-7.htm

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Conclusion

Over a long period of historical development, the Tibetan nationality has created a brilliant culture and made outstanding contributions to the formation and development of China as a multinational unified country.

The feudal serf system of Tibet seriously hindered the progressive development of the Tibetan society. In 1959 under the leadership of the Communist Party of China, through the efforts of the Tibetan people serfdom was abolished and Tibet embarked on the socialist road. Over the past thirty and more years, Tibet has seen drastic changes, Population and production have grown, society has become stable, living standards have been rapidly raised, and education and science and technology are prospering.

http://zt.tibet.cn/english/zt/041225_xzsh/index.html

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Tibetans live with democracy for half century

by: 2005-03-10 11:14:08

Gyai'ra Losang Dainzin, a Tibetan with no political affiliation, was recently elected as a vice-chairman of the Tibet Autonomous Region.

His father Lhalu Cewangdoje, a hereditary aristocrat in Old Tibet, had been appointed by the Dalai Lama to be one of the four principal ministers in the then Tibetan local government.

"There was no election of any kind in Old Tibet," Lhalu Cewangdoje said.

Though the term "democracy" originated in ancient Greece some 2,000 years ago, it was not introduced to Tibet until 1959, when a democratic reform was launched in the region.

Since the Tibet Autonomous Region was established in 1965, the systems of Tibet Regional People's Congress and Tibet Regional Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference also came into being.

Later, terms related to democracy, such as single-candidate election, scrutineer, autonomy and human rights, gradually appeared in Tibet.

Consequently, more and more Tibetans have become familiar with these political terms.

"I have turned from an ordinary citizen into a senior official with the emergence of such political terms. I have learned something new in the process of getting in touch with each new term," Gyai'ra Losang Dainzin said.

Qabai Cedain Puncog, a noted Tibetan linguist, said "each new word appears on the basis of social realities. They can't be concocted out of nothing".

The Tibetan language excluded these political terms in the past because democracy and election did not exist in the feudal serf society, Qabai Cedain Puncog added.

In the past, the linguist said, Tibetans were classified into three classes with nine levels. Slaves, who made up 95 percent of the region's total population, had no right to profiting from their production, let alone rights of electing and being elected.

Even for the remaining 5 percent of Tibetans, many of whom were noble lords and Buddhist monks in the upper strata, few were endowed with democracy of any kind, he added.

All the officials of Kasha, or the former Tibetan local government, were appointed by the Dalai Lama. The most wide-ranging meeting held in Old Tibet was attended only by the Dalai with his four principal ministers and heads of three leading lamaseries, he said.

Nowadays, Tibet has more than 70,000 officials, all of whom took up their posts through elections. Citizens of all ethnic groups aged 18 and above in Tibet have rights of electing and being elected, according to the Law Committee of the Tibet Regional People's Congress.

"Villagers in Tibet began direct election of village committee heads last year, which indicates that the political and democratic system in the region is steadily improving," said Zha Si, an official with the Tibet Regional Civil Affairs Department. "Democracy is spreading to every corner of Tibet," he said.

http://en.tibet.cn/history/der/t20050310_15558.htm

Before 1951 Peaceful Liberation

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After 1951 Peaceful Liberation

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Tibet Against Foreign Invasion

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Primary School on Roof-of-the-World

http://pic.people.com.cn/GB/31655/6543727.html

This unique Primary School is located on Roof-of-the-World, 5573 meters above sea-level.

The Government of China is committed to provide a free-of-charge and compulsory education for every Tibetan child.

The Central Government of China invested a huge sum of money to re-build this school from ruins in 1986, so that the children of the nomads can receive an education.

This school covers an area of 8400 square meters and the building provides a useful area of 1221 square meters. The children are too far away from their nomadic families and are all staying in this boarding school for the entire school term.

Every morning the whole school will be singing the China national anthem.

The windows of this school are installed with double layers(rarely seen in China) due to winter fourty below temperature.

This school uses the latest technology, i.e. teaching Fine Art with computerized CD equipment.

The six teachers in this school and some of their students.

There are 141 students and all stay in this boarding school. It is too far from their nomadic camps. Students will learn how to take care of their bedding.

The school principal (also a teacher) is teaching his student how to read/write Tibetan.

The school principal's wife decided to move to such high altitude location, just to help out cooking tasks at the school.

Teaching Biology and practice it with a micropscope.

Students using computer aided equipments and internet access receive long distance educational training.

The cracks on a young face of every student review the hardship of the sun at high-altitude and lack of oxygen. It takes a very dedicated teaching staff to remain working long term in this special school.

The students automatically line up for their meals during lunch hours. This is a very well organized school.

Older students are serving rice (the main dish) to the students.

A study of the food being served, it reviews that students receive a very well-balanced diet.

After lunch being served, students are having fun at the school play ground.

During the Dalai Lama era there was no school or university, a child had to join one of the Monasteries to receive an education and that was the reason why many Tibetan mothers were forced by their own clans to give up their love ones to the Monasteries. Today, no Tibetan mother has to make such a decision.

The truth is that during the Dalai Lama era most Tibetan women were second class citizens and very seldom had any chance of an education. Today, all Tibetan children, both boys and girls, have equal chances of a free-of-charge and compulsory education. Tibetan women today provide a major and essential workforce in the government of Tibet Autonomous Region.

Without Lhamo Toinzhub(14th Dalai Lama), Tibet is better off today!

In 1951 Lhamo Toinzhub signed widely known as 'the 17 Pacts'

to run Tibet for Chairman Mao until he sneaked out in 1959.

For almost 9 years Lhamo Toinzhub had worked for Chairman Mao.

Tibet Today still fighting her Biggest Enemy...

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How A Ground-breaking Book Unveiled History as It Was

http://www.china-hiking.com/tibet/invasion.htm

In 1959 conned by then Ambassador in India(Henderson) at his own free will,

Lhamo Toinzhub left Tibet and thus had given up his right to run Tibet.

As an early version of Iranian Czar or Filipino Marcos, he was tricked to leave Tibet.

Since 1959 for 49 years Tibet Autonomous Region has been run by capable

native Tibetans, most of whom were a SERF during Dalai Lama era.

These Tibetan leaders should be the only people who can make decisions

for the future of Tibet Autonomous Region, NOT Lhamo Toinzhub.

He has neither Tibetans' Trust nor experience to run Democratic and Modern Tibet.

Tibetans do not want someone both a Political and Religious leader to head Tibet.

Why do nations want to have Tibet returned to a SERF system under Dalai Lama?

It is because they want to control Tibet with a puppet like Dalai Lama.

This will lead Tibet into neither Democratic nor 'Freedom of Choice'.

Our World is enough to have only one Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini !

USA Professor asked: Want Another Taliban?

Lhamo Toinzhub has to realize Tibet today is a well established society,

and stop allow himself being used as a puppy by nations against China.

It is sincerely hope before his approaching death Lhamo Toinzhub

(14th Dalai Lama) will give up his so called 'Tibet Independence'

and for once in entire life doing something good for people of Tibet.

The only way to avoid ending up in history like Iranian Czar or Filipino Marcos!

http://pic.people.com.cn/GB/31655/6543727.html

What to negotiate with Dalai Lama?

2008-07-01 16:41:00

Theocracy was abolished in Tibet. This is the reason why Dalai left Lhasa in 1959(click here), and it is also the result of his absence.

Tibet is an autonomous region, so the Tibetan autonomous government is the only legal government to represent Tibet, not that government-in-exile.

http://eng.tibet.cn/news/today/200807/t20080701_410293.htm

What to talk with Dalai Lama?

2008-07-01 16:39:00

Tibet has achieved a lot in the past 50-odd years, but Tibet's success and progress has nothing to do with the Dalai Lama. He by no means can represent Tibet or the Tibetan people now. So, China's central government is not going to discuss with Dalai Lama the current situation of Tibet, position of Tibet, future of Tibet, or the destiny of the Tibetan people, but only the future and destiny of Dalai Lama himself.

http://eng.tibet.cn/news/today/200807/t20080701_410290.htm

Last opportunity for Dalai Lama

2008-07-01 16:41:00

Of course, it remained to be seen whether Dalai Lama still has any power and influence to muster, without the support of some political forces in the West.

http://eng.tibet.cn/news/today/200807/t20080701_410291.htm

Chinese central government officials meet with Dalai Lama's private representatives

www.chinaview.cn 2008-07-03 15:37:37

In Tibet, the adherence to the CPC leadership, the socialist system and the regional autonomy of ethnic minorities will not be altered, he said.

The central government will apply its policies in Tibet, support the region's economic and social development and work to improve living standards of people in Tibet as it did before.

Du also briefed them about the Wenchuan earthquake on May 12 and the relief work.

Zhu Weiqun and Sitar, two deputy heads of the department, also met with the Dalai Lama's representatives and exchanged ideas on detailed issues.

If the Dalai Lama makes positive moves, the next round of contact may be held before the end of this year, according to the officials of the department.

The Dalai Lama's representatives also expressed their ideas on several relevant issues and said they would report the results to the Dalai Lama.

During their stay in Beijing, the two toured the Olympic stadiums and talked with some Tibetologists.

http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2008-07/03/content_8483444.htm

What kind of olive branch from the Dalai Lama?

2008-08-21 11:23:00

Before analyzing the Dalai Lama's new ideas, I would like to share two points which puzzle me most.

http://eng.tibet.cn/news/today/200808/t20080821_421558.htm

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Tibet's March Toward Modernization

White Paper on Tibetan Culture

White Paper on Ecological Improvement and Environmental Protection in Tibet

Tibet's Compulsory and Free-of-Charge Education

White Paper: Regional Ethnic Autonomy in Tibet

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