Image:huffingtonpost The diplomatic shadow-play that is the US-China human rights dialogue resumes today in Washington and according to the State Department, will feature discussions on: dissidents, religious rights, rule of law and Internet freedom. We can also expect some limited encouragement of China on talks with representatives of the Dalai Lama, although that prospect will [...]
As we await the closing statement from the Sino-Tibetan Conference, which one inside source described as looking like a manifesto of dangerous compromise, the scholarly Chinese participants who were asked by the Dalai Lama for “…your advice and frank opinions on what steps to take in future to solve the Tibetan problem”, will no doubt [...]
Image:smh Tibet’s political and spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama, during his visit to Poland compared (July 28) the plight of Tibetans to the sufferings experienced by Poles during the Warsaw Uprising of 1944, during which Polish insurgents defied the tyranny of Nazi Germany. ‘Since 1956 in many parts of Tibet there is a similar situation. Even the Chinese, communist [...]
Image:phayul According to a report by Voice of Tibet communist Chinese officials in the town of Ganzi (in Kham, East Tibet) have supposedly lifted the prohibition against Tibetans’ possessing and worshiping images of the Dalai Lama. However, the radical change of policy has generated widespread suspicions amongst local Tibetans who question the motivation behind this move. [...]
In a statement issued via the official Tibetan website http://www.tibet.net/en/index.php?tab=1&id=1004&articletype=flash&rmenuid=morenews#TabbedPanels1 His Holiness the Dalai Lama said: “I am deeply saddened and concerned with the worsening situation in East Turkestan (Xinjiang), especially with the tragic loss of lives.” “I earnestly urge the Chinese authorities to exercise restraint in dealing with the situation in a spirit of understanding [...]
With all the annoying predictability of a creaking door communist China through its propaganda machine Xinhua today condemned the decision of the Paris city authorities to award the Dalai Lama honorary citizenship. Waving the same cudgel of intimidation it always uses, China’s Foreign Ministry (more for domestic consumption one imagines) claimed the award presented “a grave [...]
Image:reuters The Dalai Lama, arrived in Paris today, amidst some concern the visit may unsettle recently restored relations between France and communist China. The Tibetan political leader is in France to accept an honorary citizenship of the French capital. He declared that the visit is not political; “Once more I’m very happy to come to France. [...]
Image:imageproxy Tibet’s political leader, called upon the international community to undertake an independent assessment of the situation in his country and pressurize communist China to end the “oppression”. “Please, international community, judge whether there is a problem or not. Go there and investigate.” he told Dutch parliamentarians on Friday June 5 . “In the case the [...]
Image:daylife Ms. Nancy Pelosi will depart shortly for China, returning on May 31, could a less publicized part of her climate and trade mission, involve an attempt to try and revitalize negotiations between the communist Chinese authorities and the exiled Tibetan government? The Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives is close to the exiled [...]
On March 13 Tibet’s Exiled Prime Minister, Samdhong Rinpoche gave a televised interview http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rRJFe-e-txI to Asia News Network that caused outrage and dismay for many Tibetans, when he asserted that Tibet was an internal issue of China. He also claimed that “As far as the Tibet issue is concerned, we have nothing to do with [...]
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