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India shows the world how to stand firm with China. As President Obama prepares for his trip to Beijing next month, he'd be wise to cast an eye toward New Delhi, where Prime Minister Manmohan Singh is showing the rest of the world how to deal with Beijing when it gets into a bullying mood. At issue is the Dalai Lama's proposed trip next month to visit Tibetan Buddhist believers in Arunachal Pradesh, a province governed by India but claimed by China since the 1962 border war. Chinese spokesperson Ma Zhaoxu said last week the trip "further exposed the anti-China...

It has often been taken for granted that China and India will rise simultaneously and peacefully in the 21st century. But a recent flare-up challenges that view. Thirty-seven years after the two countries fought a border war and 28 years since they opened settlement negotiations, the entire frontier from Kashmir to Burma remains in question. It would be dangerous to ignore this festering sore any longer. The dispute stretches back to the British Raj, when colonial official Sir Henry McMahon drew the boundary between India and Tibet at the Shimla Convention in 1913. China has never recognized the McMahon Line,...

The Dalai Lama, the exiled leader of Tibet, was in Washington last week and President Obama did not meet him. "Big mistake," said my Eritrean taxi driver on the way over to hear the Dalai Lama speak at an awards ceremony at Sidney Harman Hall on Wednesday. What seemed so obvious to my driver was the product of an elaborate rationalization by the Obama administration. Deputy Secretary of State James Steinberg outlined the new policy of "strategic reassurance" in a speech on September 24. The United States, he said, has struck a "core, if tacit, bargain" with China under which...

(NECN: Washington) - The Dalai Lama today is receiving the Lantos Human Rights Prize. The award is in memory of the late Rep. Tom Lantos.Those who advocate for Tibet see the Dalai Lama's White House visits as important messages of support for Tibetans and others struggling for human rights. "We can't replace Tom's voice, but we can help and ensure it is not forgotten...liberty is the right of mankind," said Senator John McCain.

Another first by lord Obama, defender of the tyrants. He has no time or intention to honor a man of God and a champion of freedom. Obama also has no time for a national day of prayer. Obama is too busy courting tyrants and pushing his socialist Obamacare on everyone. Apparantly freedom loving people are a threat to cult Obama and his one world godless government.

Here is video of Robert Gibbs being asked about President Obama delaying his meeting with the Dalai Lama. Gibbs was asked "is he (Obama) worried about irritating Chinese leaders before his visit?" Gibbs answered "there was an agreement to do this later in the year, and that is what's going to happen." Gibbs also said "it's important that the Tibetan people know our relationship with China helps them." He was then asked "what does meeting with the Dalai Lama later have to do with leading a strong relationship with China?" Gibbs struggled a bit to answer that. (Video)

The last time the Dalai Lama visited Washington, President George W. Bush presented the exiled Tibetan leader with the Congressional Gold Medal at a ceremony on Capitol Hill. Now the Dalai Lama cannot even get a private meeting with President Obama. The only winner in this rebuff is communist China.

President Obama would have the time to meet with the worse dictators, but he does not have the time to meet with a very spiritual man and a true person of peace? Is it because he doesn’t look like him, or has a funny name, or maybe because he doesn’t quite fit into the young President’s circle of brutal dictators and tyrants? My guess is … it’s the latter.

Good grief. You begin to wonder if the man has a list of Friendly Leaders I Still Need to Offend. The Washington Post is reporting that the Dalai Lama went to Washington this week – apparently expecting to be received at the White House – only to find that his meeting with the president has been “postponed… until after Obama’s summit with his Chinese counterpart, Hu Jintao, scheduled for next month.” According to the Post, this is the “first time since 1991, the Tibetan spiritual leader will visit Washington this week and not meet with the president.” The snub could...

In an attempt to gain favor with China, the United States pressured Tibetan representatives to postpone a meeting between the Dalai Lama and President Obama until after Obama's summit with his Chinese counterpart, Hu Jintao, scheduled for next month, according to diplomats, government officials and other sources familiar with the talks. For the first time since 1991, the Tibetan spiritual leader will visit Washington this week and not meet with the president. Since 1991, he has been here 10 times. Most times the meetings have been "drop-in" visits at the White House. The last time he was here, in 2007,...

BARACK Obama made history last year when he became the first African-American to be elected president of the United States. Next month, he will make history again, of a different sort. He will become the first president not to meet the Dalai Lama when the Tibetan leader visits Washington. Ever since April 1991, when then president George H.W. Bush met the Nobel laureate, he has been received by the American president, regardless of party... However, China has been sending signals to warn Obama not to meet the Dalai Lama next month. And last week, Obama sent a delegation...to Dharamsala in...

Valerie Jarrett, a senior adviser and assistant to US President Barack Obama [ Images ], accompanied by Maria Otero, the Undersecretary for Democracy and Global Affairs in the US State Department, visited Dharamshala [ Images ] on September 14, and met the Dalai Lama [ Images ] and Samdhong Rinpoche, the prime minister of the Tibetan-government-in-exile. The Dalai Lama is to visit the US next month in response to long-pending invitations from US non-governmental organisations supporting the Tibetan cause. During the course of his stay, he had also planned to visit Washington, DC and his supporters in the US were...

The Chinese are upset, once more, with the Indian establishment. This time it's because the Dalai Lama is planning to visit Tawang, in Arunachal Pradesh, and New Delhi is unlikely to stop him from doing so. China, which lays claim on Arunachal Pradesh, wants India to prevent the exiled Tibetan leader from entering the state. Just last year, the Dalai Lama had to cancel his visit to the same area as the Indian administration denied him permission, reportedly under pressure from China. But this time, New Delhi is standing firm. China has gone back on the guiding principles the two...

Flashpoint in the Himalayas A little-known Tibetan Buddhist enclave is at the center of an increasingly tense dispute between China and India By Edward Wong NY TIMES NEWS SERVICE, TAWANG, INDIA Sunday, Sep 06, 2009, Page 13 This is perhaps the most militarized Buddhist enclave in the world. Perched above 3,000m in the icy reaches of the eastern Himalayas, the town of Tawang is not only home to one of Tibetan BuddhismÂ’s most sacred monasteries, but also the site of a massive Indian military buildup. Convoys of army trucks haul howitzers along rutted mountain roads. Soldiers drill in muddy fields....

Taiwan readies for Dalai Lama visit as China fumes By Ralph Jennings TAIPEI (Reuters) - Taiwan's president has not ruled out a chance meeting with the Dalai Lama when the Tibetan spiritual leader visits next week, officials said on Friday, a move that would sour the island's recent closer ties with China. Beijing brands the India-based Dalai Lama as a separatist and has lashed out at Taiwan's opposition, which invited the Dalai Lama subject to President Ma Ying-jeou's approval. China's reaction is also seen as a blow to Ma, elected in 2008 pledged to improve relations with Beijing, but only...

NEW DELHI: Beijing is not going to be amused but the Obama administration has approached Tibetan spiritual leader Dalai Lama for a meeting with the US president when the Buddhist monk visits America between September-end and mid-October. Highly placed government sources told TOI that the US administration has contacted Dalai Lama's office for a meeting between the two leaders in what appears to be a considered decision, given China's intense resentment of any official contact with the Dalai Lama whom it reviles as a ``splittist''. China's anger has only increased after the violent protests ahead of last year's Beijing Olympics...

You see the Chinese flag has five stars. Each of the five stars represents an ethnic group that is supposed to compose the Chinese nation. These five stars represent the Han Chinese, the Turks of Xinjiang, Tibetans, Manchurians, and Mongolians. The ideology is so that just like you have Chinese-Americans in the United States, you have a Chinese nation of multiple ethnic groups, including Koreans. But, they don't get a star (But, of course, the crucial difference would be that Chinese-Americans willingly migrated to the United States whereas those five groups outside of Manchurians, who for all practical purposes no...

Marking the 20th birthday of His Serenity the 11th Panchen Lama in a solemn ceremony, Tibetans in Dharamshala yesterday offered prayers for his long life, while they remember the legacy of his predecessor in the preservation and promotion of Tibet's cultural heritage and his indomitable courage to speak out against the Chinese leaders for the wellbeing of Tibetans. Gedhun Choekyi Nyima and his parents disappeared a day after His Holiness the Dalai Lama recognised him as the 11th Panchen Lama on 14 May 1995. Despite repeated appeals, no international agency or human rights organisation has been granted access to the...

Lost Horizon by: Daniel Allen, April 01, 2009 Despite sustained opposition from China, the Dalai Lama remains one of the world’s most respected and influential spiritual leaders. The borders of Tibet, over which the Dalai Lama claims leadership, are poorly defined, and constitute a potential conflict area for China, India and the U.S. On March 26th, the American Enterprise Institute (AEI) gathered a distinguished set of panelists to discuss the strategic importance of Tibet, and why the U.S. must be involved in the peaceful resolution of the Tibet-China relationship. One of the featured speakers was Mr. Lodi Gyari, Special Envoy...

IT’S official: “Tibet has moved from darkness to light, poverty to affluence, dictatorship to democracy and seclusion to opening up.” So proclaims the notice at an exhibition in Beijing marking the 50th anniversary of Tibet’s “democratic reforms”. To celebrate, officials in Tibet have designated March 28th Serf Liberation Day. Lest anyone not share the mood of rejoicing, security will be tightened, dissidents kept behind bars and foreigners firmly steered away from the region. With grim determination the authorities are trying to manufacture joy. Floral displays bedeck parts of Lhasa. The official media are filled with stories of happy Tibetans. In...

Reporting from Sacramento -- The California Legislature rarely balks at bloviating en masse during its frequent and normally routine passage of resolutions to honor the dead, herald the past or celebrate the most innocuous of achievements. But on Monday, the subject of the Dalai Lama was apparently too hot to handle. Assembly Democrats balked at a resolution to honor Tibet's spiritual leader and mark the 50th anniversary of his people's revolt against Chinese rule, and referred it to a committee. In response, minority Republicans accused them of buckling under to China's communist government. The resolution's author, Assemblyman Sam Blakeslee (R-San...

Bomb lobbed at police station in China's west By Audra Ang, Associated Press Writer 2 hrs 10 mins ago BEIJING – A bomb blast in an unoccupied police station in a Tibetan area in western China has added to tensions during a sensitive month marking the anniversaries of violent anti-government uprisings and the Dalai Lama's exile to India. The explosion shattered windows at the newly built station in Bogexi, a town in the predominantly Tibetan Ganzi prefecture, police official Liu Xiaojun said Tuesday. The building was not yet occupied at the time of the blast early Monday and an investigation...

WASHINGTON (AFP) — Chinese anger over US stands on Tibet and naval rights loomed Wednesday over high-level US-China meetings aimed at tackling the global financial crisis and growing tensions with North Korea. Following her visit to Beijing last month, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton was to begin talks at 12:30 pm with Chinese Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi who was also due to meet later with Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner. But the State Department played down the risk to ties from a new US-Chinese row over human rights in Tibet and a standoff between a US Navy surveillance ship and Chinese...

China on Tuesday described critical comments from Tibet's spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama, as “lies” and insisted the Himalayan region had enjoyed profound democratic reforms under Chinese rule. “I will not respond to the Dalai Lama's lies,” foreign ministry spokesman Ma Zhaoxu told reporters. However, he launched a broad defence of China's 58-year rule of Tibet, after the Dalai Lama Tuesday said Chinese authorities had brought "hell on earth" to Tibetans. “The Dalai Lama clique is confusing right and wrong. They are spreading rumours. The democratic reforms (under Chinese rule) are the widest and most profound reforms in Tibetan history,”...

DHARMSALA, India — Chinese rule in Tibet has created a "hell on earth" that has caused the deaths of hundreds of thousands of Tibetans, the Dalai Lama said Tuesday in a speech to mark the 50th anniversary of the failed uprising that sent him into exile. Speaking to thousands of supporters, the Tibetan spiritual leader said Chinese martial law, and hard-line policies such as the Cultural Revolution, had devastated the Himalayan region. "These thrust Tibetans into such depths of suffering and hardship that they literally experienced hell on earth," he said in this Indian hill town, where he and the...

DHARMSALA, India – Chinese rule in Tibet has created a "hell on earth" that has caused the deaths of hundreds of thousands of Tibetans, the Dalai Lama said Tuesday in a speech to mark the 50th anniversary of the failed uprising that sent him into exile.

Police will take away more than 100 monks for political re-education today on the eve of the 50th anniversary of the Tibetan uprising that led to the flight of the Dalai Lama. The rounding up of 109 monks from Lutsang monastery in Qinghai province, western China, is one of a series of extraordinary security measures being implemented to prevent restive Tibetans from commemorating the anniversary with protests against Chinese rule. About a quarter of China’s territory, an area the size of Western Europe, has been closed off to foreigners. Thousands of troops and paramilitary police have been deployed in Tibetan-populated...

Official: Police vehicles hit by "minor explosions" in China's Qinghai www.chinaview.cn 2009-03-09 13:44:08 Print Special Report: Focus on Tibet XINING, March 9 (Xinhua) -- Authorities in northwest China's Qinghai Province reported that two police vehicles in a timber farm were hit by minor explosions shortly after 2 a.m. Monday following clashes between forest police and local residents. "The emergency lights and roofs of a police car and a fire engine were destroyed by unsophisticated homemade explosives," said Lin Yasong, party chief of Golog Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture of southern Qinghai Province. There were no fatalities in the incident, the authorities said....

Dalai Lama marks 50 years of Chinese oppression (video)The Dalai Lama has been in exile for 50 years now. Meanwhile, the people of Tibet have lived under the yoke of Chinese oppression. There was hope President Barack Obama would put pressure on the Chinese to improve human rights in Tibet. However, statements by Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, during her recent Far East visit, indicate the Obama Administration is willing to throw Chinese human rights under the bus in favor of Chinese economic cooperation. Video here.

Police on guard in Tibetan areas in China, phone lines cut: watchdog Matthew Lee (c) 2009 Kyodo News HONG KONG, March 2 -- As many as 2,000 police officers are on guard in a Tibetan region in central China's Sichuan Province while telephone communications have been cut since last month, a human rights watchdog said Monday. The paramilitary police have been stationing in Aba and Ruoergai counties where Tibetans reside and government officials have been monitoring monasteries in the area on a 24-hour basis, the Information Center for Human Rights and Democracy said. The Hong Kong-based watchdog said mobile phone...

A Tibetan monk is reported to have been shot by Chinese police after setting himself on fire in a one-man protest.Pro-Tibet activists in London and Hong Kong reported that the monk, called Tabe and said to be in his twenties, walked out of Kirti monastery, an important seat of worship in a majority Tibetan area of Sichuan province, at around 1pm. He was carrying a hand-drawn Tibetan flag carrying a picture of the Dalai Lama. He is said to have walked down the main street into nearby Aba town, dousing himself with petrol, finally immolating himself in front of numerous...

As nationalistic passions burn over the fate of looted Chinese artworks auctioned in Paris this week, Beijing is attempting to keep the focus on past humiliations by Western powers and away from delicate issues like human rights and China's handling of Tibet. The twisted tale of two animal heads, cast in bronze, that once adorned the Qing Dynasty pleasure gardens in Beijing and disappeared, allegedly in pillaging by the British and French armies in 1860, took another turn last week when their current owner suggested he would return them if Beijing agreed to free Tibet. "I would be very happy...

BEIJING (AFP) – China has closed Tibet to foreign tourists ahead of next month's highly sensitive 50th anniversary of a failed uprising against Chinese rule, tour agencies and other industry people told AFP Tuesday. The ban comes amid deep tensions in the Himalayan region, with a reported increase in security forces and a call by the Dalai Lama for a boycott of Tibetan New Year celebrations on Wednesday, in protest against Chinese rule. "Authorities asked tour agents to stop organising foreigners coming to Tibet for tour trips until April 1," an employee at a government-run travel agency in Lhasa, who...

he U.N. Human Rights Council has just rejected allegations that China suppressed dissent, restricted free speech and repressed minorities in Tibet and Xinjiang. In fact, China won praise from some of the world’s most oppressive regimes — including Sudan, Cuba, Iran, Burma, Egypt and Zimbabwe. “There is no censorship in China,” a Chinese representative insisted. Then he added that Chinese citizens are free to worship and to follow whatever religion they choose....

China issues call to crush Tibetan 'separatists' by Dan Martin 1 hr 22 mins ago BEIJING (AFP) – China has ordered government and security forces in Tibet to crush any signs of support for the Dalai Lama, state media said Thursday, as the tense 50th anniversary of an anti-Chinese uprising nears. A conference of Tibetan leaders ordered authorities to "mobilise and fully deploy" to maintain stability, the Tibet Daily said, in a possible indication China fears unrest ahead of the March 10 anniversary. "The meeting called on the party, government, military, police and public in all areas... to firmly crush...

Situation "very tense", unrest possible in Tibet: Dalai Lama AFP[Wednesday, February 11, 2009 23:00] BADEN BADEN, Germany - The Dalai Lama warned Wednesday of a fresh uprising in Tibet in the "very tense" run-up to the 50th anniversary of the failed rebellion against Chinese rule that prompted his flight into exile. "Today there is too much anger... The situation is very tense," said the 73-year-old Tibetan Buddhist spiritual leader during a visit to the German spa town of Baden Baden. "At any moment there can be an outburst of violence," he told a group of journalists. "This is my worry...

Fresh unrest in Tibet can not be ruled out nearly a year after riots in the capital Lhasa, because exiled spiritual leader the Dalai Lama is determined to foment trouble, regional officials said on Tuesday. Cao Bianjiang, deputy mayor of the Himalayan city, said he was focused on fostering growth that would ensure stability, but exiled Tibetans were scared this would make them irrelevant. "There are some people who do not want to see the peaceful development of Lhasa's economy," Cao said, after criticising the Dalai Lama and his supporters. "So it cannot be entirely avoided that some people continue...

As the anniversary of violent protests approaches China steps up security in the Tibetan capital Lhasa.The rights group, International Campaign for Tibet, says officials are investigating thousands of people and detaining dozens. Security has been tight in Lhasa since riots erupted in the city on 14 March last year against Chinese rule, and then spread to neighbouring Tibetan-inhabited provinces. China is also marking the the 20th anniversary of the death of the second-most senior figure in Tibetan Buddhism by lauding him as an enemy of separatism. Chinese officials are championing the Panchen Lama as a model patriot, set against the...

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Tibetans in New Kardze Protests 2009-01-09 Tibetan residents of China's Sichuan province protest Chinese rule even as authorities target opposition. KATHMANDU—Small, sporadic protests against Chinese rule in Tibetan areas of China’s Sichuan province persist despite a widespread crackdown on dissent in the wake of massive anti-China unrest less than a year ago, according to sources in the region. “On Jan. 5, a Tibetan man protested in front of police headquarters in downtown Kardze [in Chinese, Ganzi] at around 12 p.m.,” said a local Tibetan woman, who asked not to be named. “He shouted slogans calling for the independence of Tibet...

Chinese authorities have arrested 59 people in Tibet accused of spreading rumors and inciting sentiment against the state and public safety, state-run media reported. Xin Yuanming, deputy director of the Lhasa City Public Security Bureau, announced the arrests Tuesday, saying police had uncovered 48 cases of planning and instigating violence against authorities in Tibet, Xinhua news agency reported Thursday. The Public Security Bureau deployed a group of 108 police officers to "crack down on the spreading of rumors," Xinhua said. It was not clear when the arrests took place. The special police unit also works to crack down on illegal...

BEIJING: Chinese consumers have begun to boycott France made goods and keep away from Carrefour, the French supermarket chain to express their anger against the meeting between French president Nicolas Sarkozy and the Dalai Lama. Sarkozy, who also holds the rotating chair at the European Union, went ahead with his planned meeting with the Tibetan leader despite repeated requests from the Chinese government not to do so. The Chinese government has said that any meeting between a world leader and the Tibetan leader amounts to interfering in China's domestic affairs as the Dalai Lama is involved in separatist activities. This...

As French president Nicolas Sarkozy prepares to meet the Dalai Lama on Saturday, it appears that many here in China are not willing to learn from the mistakes of the past. This week, my university campus is buzzing with talk of once again boycotting Carrefour in response to this highly controversial meeting that has already drawn strong condemnation from Beijing. Considering the embarrassment that the Carrefour boycott brought upon China in April, I can hardly believe that people are seriously talking about doing it again...

A senior Chinese official has welcomed the UK's decision to recognise Beijing's direct rule over Tibet. Zhu Weiqun, who is leading talks with Tibetan exiles, told the BBC the move had brought the UK "in line with the universal position in today's world". But Mr Zhu would not say whether it might be linked with Prime Minister Gordon Brown's efforts to bring China into a new world economic order. Beijing says Tibet has been part of the Chinese nation since the 13th Century. Many Tibetans disagree, pointing out that the Himalayan region was an independent kingdom for many centuries, and...

November 17, 2008 Tibetans debate call for full independence from China Samdhong Rinpoche (centre), Prime Minister of the Tibetan government-in-exile based in northern India, after attending a special meeting in Dharamsala Jeremy Page, South Asia Correspondent Exiled Tibetan leaders began an unprecedented week-long conference today to discuss whether to stick to the Dalai Lama's non-violent quest for autonomy within China or re-launch a drive for outright independence. More than 600 Tibetans from around the world are attending the meeting in Dharamsala, the north Indian hill station where the Dalai Lama set up his government-in-exile after fleeing Tibet in 1959. The...

Tibetan exiles rethink struggle against Chinese rule by Ben Sheppard DHARAMSHALA, India (AFP) – Leading Tibetan exiles kicked off a week-long meeting in northern India Monday that could usher in a more radical approach to their long struggle against Chinese rule in Tibet. The Dalai Lama, Tibet's spiritual leader, called the gathering after admitting that his attempts to secure greater autonomy for the region through negotiation with the Chinese government had failed. Before the talks began, he had urged the 500 participants to consider all aspects of policy regarding China -- ensuring that the thorny issue of whether to push...

The Dalai Lama said on Monday talks with China about autonomy for Tibet had so far been a "failure" and he plans to remain silent ahead of a special meeting of Tibetan exiles later this month to discuss its future. Concern has grown about the diminishing likelihood of a meaningful settlement between China and the Tibetan exiles, even as the Dalai Lama's envoys hold fence-mending talks this week in China. "Things (are) not going well ... I have to accept failure," the 73-year-old exiled Tibetan leader told a news conference in Tokyo, where he is visiting to give spiritual talks....

Chinese rule is handing down a "death sentence" to Tibetans, the Dalai Lama said Sunday, ahead of a meeting to decide Tibet's future approach to Beijing. The region's exiled leader is on a week-long visit to Japan for talks on spirituality, just as a new round of talks between his envoys and Chinese officials was set to begin, and days after he said he had lost hope of any productive dialogue with Beijing. "Tibetans are being handed down a death sentence. This ancient nation, with an ancient cultural heritage is dying," he told a group of reporters. "Today, the situation...

Crucial meet will hear voices for Tibet's independence By Jaideep Sarin, Dharamsala, Oct 30 : Over 500 top Tibetan leaders from India, Nepal, Europe, the US and other nations will assemble here Nov 17-22 to deliberate on whether to seek complete 'independence' for Tibet instead of 'autonomy' under Chinese rule. The is the biggest meeting ever of the exiled Tibetan leadership to be held at their headquarters in exile at Mcleodganj, near here. The six-day special meeting has been called by the Tibetan parliament-in-exile at the behest of Buddhist spiritual leader the Dalai Lama. Over 15 MPs in the 43-member...