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  • US urges China to talk to Dalai Lama as concern grows over Tibet

    03/17/2008 10:49:20 AM PDT · by DBCJR · 11 replies · 261+ views
    AFP ^ | 3/17/08 4 hours ago
    MOSCO (AFP) — US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice on Monday called on China to open talks with the Dalai Lama amid mounting international unease over China's crackdown on protests in Tibet. The Netherlands summoned the Chinese ambassador to express concern and the European Union also said it was troubled, but Russia insisted the Tibet crisis was an "internal matter" for China. Rice renewed a US appeal for China to show restraint in Tibet saying there was now a "terrible situation". "We have really urged the Chinese over several years to find a way to talk with the Dalai Lama,...