China Reiterates Hardline Stance on Dalai Lama

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The Dalai Lama cleans his glasses during a session on the role of compassion in education during a conference at Stanford University in Palo Alto, California, on October 15, 2010. (Photo: Reuters)

BEIJING — China’s top official for ethnic affairs indicated there will be no softening of the Communist Party’s struggle against the Dalai Lama by the country’s new leadership.

The Dalai Lama has deviated from Tibetan Buddhist tradition and remains intent on splitting Tibet from China, the party’s fourth-ranking official, Yu Zhengsheng, said Tuesday on a visit to a Tibetan area of the western province of Gansu.

Yu said the exiled Tibetan Buddhist leader’s proposal for a “middle way†of meaningful autonomy for all traditionally Tibetan areas is in opposition to China’s constitution and policies on self-governance by ethnic minorities.

“In order to safeguard national unity and the development and stability of Tibetan regions, we must open a clear and profound struggle against the Dalai clique,†Yu said, employing Beijing’s standard term for the Dalai Lama and his followers.

Tibetan Buddhists must draw a clear political line between themselves and the Dalai Lama, oppose all forms of separatism, and actions harmful to the party’s leadership and the socialist system, he said. The speech was reported on the central government’s official website.

China says it has made vast investments to boost the region’s economy and improve the quality of life for the country’s 5.4 million Tibetans. Much of Yu’s speech focused on those measures, while he also pledged to expand the use of Mandarin Chinese alongside Tibetan in education to improve job prospects.

Many Tibetans say those policies have largely benefited Chinese migrants and resent strict limits on Buddhism and Tibetan culture. The region remains highly volatile despite a massive security presence in both the Tibetan Autonomous Region and traditionally Tibetan areas of western China.

Recent years have seen the self-immolation of a reported 119 Tibetans in protest at Chinese rule and repeated clashes at Buddhist monasteries and Tibetan town.

Reports said Chinese paramilitary police fired on Tibetans seeking to commemorate the Dalai Lama’s 78th birthday on Saturday, injuring at least six people.

The Dalai Lama says he wants only meaningful autonomy for Tibet rather than independence. China says Tibet has been part of its territory for centuries, although many Tibetans say they were largely independent prior to the 1950 occupation by communist troops.

Source: Irrawaddy.org

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Is China Really Loosening Its Tibet Policy?

http://thediplomat.com/2013/07/10/is-china-really-loosening-its-tibet-policy/

No, Beijing is not.

Beijing is taking more conciliatory actions toward Buddhists in PRC provinces that abut Tibet, such as Sichuan and some others there. Buddhists in provinces neighboring Tibet have been causing new and more intensive troubles. So the Boyz in Beijing have allowed small things, such as the hanging of a picture of the Dalai Lama in homes for PRC citizens in the provinces neighboring Tibet, lest the PRC Buddhists forget about international borders to join their Buddhist brethren In Tibet in opposing Beijing's colonial imperialism there and its general hostility towards religion, with the eventual purpose of eradicating Buddhism in Tibet and in all of the PRC..

In Tibet, there is a crackdown in which security forces are stationed in villages and towns to "re-educate" Tibetans, spy on them, further oppress and repress them. Tibet is a militarily conquered colony of the CCP-PRC which provides Beijing with source rivers that run into SE Asia which Beijing is damming in order to control fresh water supplies to the Indo-China peninsula, and is resource rich for PRC state owned industry and the like.

Fresh drinking water is scare in the PRC with all the pollution of air, land and rivers, lakes, streams, so there's a double purpose to damming the SE Asia rivers which have their source in the Tibetan plateau.

The CCP needs Tibet and will kill or imprison any number of Tibetans who are anyway being displaced by the Han CCP party cadres being ordered to relocate to Tibet to eventually remake it into a province of the CCP-PRC.

[boomerangutang]

China will go on beating the anti-Dalai Lama giant drum, even though the head of the drum is made of an old plastic tarp and it's looser than Madonna on Qualuudes. China should be glad I'm not the Dalai Lama, as I would organize the Khamsa warriors and go charging in to Lhasa with 3000 head of crazed yaks. Seriously though, the Tibetan Government in Exile should petition the UN to get off its butt and assist in its rightous struggle. Either way, Tibet will revert back to Tibetans, soon after Beijing implodes and gets covered in 25 cm of Gobi desert dust.

Edited July 12, 2013 by boomerangutang