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Wednesday, March 19, 2008
 
CHINESE PREMIER SAYS WILLING TO TALK
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ritish Prime Minister Gordon Brown says he will meet with Dalai Lama when he takes a scheduled trip to London in May. Brown also says:
Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao told British Prime Minister Gordon Brown Wednesday that he is prepared to hold discussions on Tibet with the Dalai Lama, Brown said...

"The premier told me that, subject to two things that the Dalai Lama has already said — that he does not support the total independence of Tibet, and that he renounces violence — that he would be prepared to enter into dialogue with the Dalai Lama," Brown said.

"The most important thing at the moment is to bring an end to the violence, reconciliation, and to see legitimate talks taking place between those people and China," Brown added.
Meanwhile, China state media denounced Dalai Lama as a "wolf in monk's robes."
"The Dalai is a wolf in monk's robes, a devil with a human face but the heart of a beast," Zhang Qingli was quoted in the Tibet Daily as saying at a meeting of the Tibet government.

"We are now engaged in a fierce blood-and-fire battle with the Dalai clique, a life-and-death battle between us and the enemy," Zhang said.
The legendary Chinese democracy activist, Wei Jingsheng ...
("...a recipient of the Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights Award, lives in exile in Washington. He was first arrested in China in 1979 for his activities with the "Democracy Wall" movement and was released in 1993 nine days before the International Olympic Committee voted on Beijing's bid for the 2000 Games. He was arrested in March 1994 for "plotting against the state" and released in 1997.")
... in Washington Post today. China's True Face.

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- posted by Agam @ 8:54 PM 2 comments

2 Comments:

Wei Jingsheng , legendary? When you say that, I can stop reading your article right there.

Would you mind check out research works such as this:

The Snow Lion and the Dragon

http://content.cdlib.org/view?docId=ft2199n7f4&chunk.id=d0e30

"While issues such as cultural survival and population transfer will be discussed, this book does not focus specifically on violations of individual human rights in Tibet, such as abusing prisoners or arresting monks for peaceful political demonstrations. These rights violations exist and are deplorable, but they are not at the heart of the problem. The Tibet Question existed long before there was a People's Republic of China, and it also predates the recent Western interest in universal human rights. In fact, if there were no human rights violations in Tibet and if Tibetans could, for example, practice peaceful political dissent, the Tibet Question would be every bit as contentious as it now is. The Tibet Question is about control of a territory—about who rules it, who lives there, and who decides what goes on there."

By Anonymous Anonymous, at 20 March, 2008 03:39  

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So, stop reading it then. Oh, too late, you've already finished.

I say legendary because he was active for democracy in China long before the Beijing massacre of the movement's young students in 1989. He advocated justice for Tibetans long before the west was paying attention.

I am familiar with Goldstein's book, and I have no problem with the quote you cite.

The "Tibet Question" is certainly about who rules it, and China has always desired to rule. It's a problem of Chinese Empire and colonialism. Now with a communist face.

By Blogger Agam, at 20 March, 2008 09:34  

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