Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
Less than a month after tensions rose between India and China over the latter's territorial claims in the Indian state of Jammu and Kashmir, India has announced it will bar foreign media from a trip by the 14th Dalai Lama, the de jure head of state of Tibet, to a monastery in the Indian state of Arunachal Pradesh, territory of which is claimed by — you guessed it — China.
The Dalai Lama had fled Tibet when Chinese forces invaded, occupied, and later annexed the country, and he had passed through Arunachal Pradesh along the way to Dharamsala, where he currently resides. Specifically, he had fled via the monastery he is planning now to visit.
The city in which that monastery is situated, Tawang, is claimed by China. Andrew E. Mathis
It is apparently not enough for the Chinese government to invade and annex another country and exile its leader. Instead, apparently it must also lie about the situation in Tibet today, as well as try to prevent the Tibetan leader from coming anywhere near Chinese territory.
The question to ask, perhaps, is why this man, who is a pacifist, scares the Chinese government so much. Perhaps it's because he is a living, breathing example of one of the most brutal military occupations currently taking place — far more brutal than the Israeli occupation of the Palestinian Territories and far more costly in terms of lives lost.
And why does India kowtow to Chinese pressures over the Dalai Lama? Because China has never shrunk from using force, whether it has been against India over territory, against Tibet or Xinjiang, or against its own population when it gets out of line (e.g., Tiananmen Square).
China is the 800-pound gorilla of Asia, which sits anywhere it wants. Until its unreasonable demands are not caved in to, it will remain that way.
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And US/European customers are enriching CHina's commis by buying Chinese products. I have stopped buying Chinese. You should too!
You are empowering commi arrogance by buying Chinses products!
Maximizing profit is capitalism. If you don’t like it, move to Cuba.
read the history.....tibet was part of china!!!british draw a misguided map that result to today middle east conflict and china - india.
China has no place for human rights. It is rich outside but poor inside, a hollow country.
@be fair:
You mean the concocted history written by genocider Mao and his maniac gangs.
India wedded to stupid Gandhian philosophy is a soft touch. Even Pakistan,consisting of only three and a half states has been bullying India consisting of 28 states since its inception. Kashmir provides a vivid example, because Congress is afraid of its own shadow.
Vietnam (a tiny country; but with a leader like Ho Chi Minh) bloodiesd China and forced it out of its northern territory. Why has India miserably failed again & again against China (1956, 1959 & 1962)? Because of its stupid Gandhian philosopy. With it we lose focus. You kill or choose not to kill and be killed in the fight. It does not require a genius to work it out.
Not allowing foreign media to cover Dalai Lama is a sad commentary on the state of affairs in India. Fie on Gandhian followers!
Tibet is never part of china . We had own passport, we have own money "currency", postel stamp, own language, own culture , own relugiouse, ... Nothing connect with china ... Yaaa some food names came from china .
I will do anything for my country . Chinese are lucky that our leader is Dali lama . If my leaders are like a Muslim friends then I will join any group to fight for " do and die for my country (Tibet) . But my religious and Dali lama alwasys suggest that be cooool .
But one day that coooool become hooooot ...
So don't talk about Dali lama . Becaus of him u guys are alive .
You see last year what happend.
This is nothing .
I surfed my way through this page by accident while reading the news online...
OMD - who's this joker? Andrew E. Mathis?
Learn some history about Tibet before you express your opinion. Tibet has been part of China for hundreds of years.
At various times from the 1640s until 1950s, a government nominally headed by the Dalai Lamas, a line of spiritual leaders, ruled a large portion of the Tibetan region. During most of this period, the Tibetan administration was subordinate to the Chinese empire of the Qing Dynasty.
In 1913 the 13th Dalai Lama expelled Qing's representatives and troops from Tibet. While the expulsion was seen as an assertion of Tibetan autonomy, Tibet's proclaimed independence was not accepted by the government of China, nor did Tibet receive foreign diplomatic recognition.
Andrew E. Mathis:
US invaded and annexed the Kingdom of Hawaii and overthrew its Queen. Why don't you examine that?
Oh, you are smart enough to know what happened in Tibet in 1950. But do you also know that something else happened in 1950 in the US colony Puerto Rico? Have you heard about Jayuya Uprising and Utuado massacre - US bloody crackdown of Puerto Rico uprising, which were much more brutal than the Chinese communists? How about examining that?
Another typical ignorant hypocrite.
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