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美国网站谈达赖 The Dalai Lama and Tibet

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SONGPEI888 发表于 2010-2-1 00:34:17 | 显示全部楼层 |阅读模式
The Dalai Lama and Tibet

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The Dalai Lama sends envoys to China once again, as our correspondent returns to Tibet
Jan 25th 2010 | LHASA |

APCHINESE officials appear ready to resume talks with representatives of the Dalai Lama after a 15 month lapse, but in the Tibetan capital, Lhasa, the authorities remain on guard. Few expect the talks to make much progress, nor tensions in Tibet to subside.

As the Dalai Lama’s envoys headed to China for what are expected to be the first discussions between the two sides since November 2008, small groups of helmeted riot police, some of them carrying rifles, remained deployed near important temples in the centre of Lhasa. Your correspondent, who is on a rare authorised trip to Tibet by a foreign journalist, saw hundreds of worshipers walking and prostrating themselves in ritual circuits around the Jokhang Temple, Tibet’s holiest shrine, as the police watched impassively. Security was conspicuous but appeared far less intense than in the aftermath of the Tibetan rioting that erupted in Lhasa in March 2008.

The Dalai Lama’s representatives are highly unlikely to witness such scenes. Their talks in the next few days are expected to take place far from volatile Tibet. It is not clear why China has agreed to further discussions. After the 2008 riots, which triggered anti-Chinese protests across the Tibetan plateau, China—under considerable foreign pressure–agreed to resume dialogue which had been sputtering on and off with no apparent progress since 2002. Three more rounds were held, but at the last one in November 2008 the Chinese side was infuriated by a detailed proposal submitted by the Dalai Lama’s officials for achieving “genuine autonomy” for Tibet and neighbouring Tibetan-inhabited areas.

Chinese officials denounced the proposal as a disguised bid for the region’s independence. In it the Dalai Lama called for all of China’s Tibetan-inhabited regions to be unified under one administration. This would involve taking large chunks from neighbouring provinces. The Dalai Lama denies that he wants independence and insists his aim is merely to achieve greater cultural and religious freedom for Tibetans.

America may be a factor. China is worried about the possibility that Barack Obama will soon meet the Dalai Lama in Washington, DC, for the first time since he became president. Mr Obama avoided such a meeting when the Dalai Lama visited the American capital last October, apparently to avoid angering the Chinese as he prepared for a summit in Beijing the following month. By resuming talks now, China might hope that an appearance of progress will help persuade Mr Obama to keep any meeting with the Dalai Lama low key.

American presidents in the past have been careful to do so. But George Bush broke from tradition in October 2007 when he presented the Dalai Lama with a congressional gold medal in a high profile ceremony. That event was greeted with glee by some Tibetans. China does not want a conspicuous display of American solidarity with the Dalai Lama that could encourage anti-Beijing sentiment in Tibet. The authorities’ nervousness is evident in tighter controls over visits by foreign tourists since the 2008 rioting. A Western tourist in Lhasa says he has been closely chaperoned by an (unwanted) official guide throughout his nearly week-long stay.

Twice this month senior Chinese leaders met to discuss Tibet policy. At the last conclave, which finished on January 20th, President Hu Jintao called for more efforts to improve the living standards of Tibetans. The per capita incomes of Tibet’s rural population should be raised to the national average by 2020, he said. But he also said that Tibet faced “special contradictions” with what the state run news agency Xinhua called “separatist forces led by the Dalai clique”. The chances of compromise are remote.
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