China hopeful for positive talks with Dalai Lama reps

NF Reporter · 05-04-2008, 01:04 AM

AP - Chinese President Hu Jintao said he hoped for a positive outcome from talks between representatives of the Dalai Lama and officials beginning Sunday, the first meeting between the two sides since violent anti-government protests erupted in Tibet.

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waltky · 07-14-2008, 11:09 PM

China bullyin' Tibet - again...

Chinese soldiers seal off Tibetan Buddhist monasteries in Lhasa
July 14,`08 : Chinese soldiers have reportedly placed over 1,000 Tibetan Buddhist monks under armed guard in monasteries around Lhasa, four months after anti-Chinese riots left the area in a state of devastation.

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According to The Times, troops of the People's Liberation Army (PLA) have sealed off Drepung, the largest monastery in Tibet. Nobody is being allowed to go in or out. Photography is banned and passers-by are being shooed away. A camp of olive-green tents and two rings of roadblocks surround this sanctuary of meditation. Local people say the monks pay the army for food to be sent to them.

Drepung was singled out for punishment and "re-education" because Chinese security forces identified many of its monks on video recordings of the protests against Beijing's policies in Tibet. The Nechung monastery, about a mile south, was also sealed off. Tibetans said its monks were known for their fidelity to the Dalai Lama, whom Beijing identifies as a renegade.

Some monasteries, however, have complied with Chinese officials and installed party-controlled committees, allowing them to pursue their Buddhist studies in troubled silence. The Sera monastery in north Lhasa is an example of toeing Beijing's line. Its 500 monks did not join the protests and have collaborated in the formation of an "administrative committee" to supervise them.

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waltky · 08-23-2008, 11:35 PM

Let my people go...

US Ambassador to China: Release US protesters
24 Aug.`08 - The U.S. Ambassador to China is pressing Chinese officials to immediately release eight Americans who were detained for holding pro-Tibet protests during the Olympics.

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Ambassador Clark T. Randt Jr. says in a statement Sunday that Beijing should demonstrate respect for human rights and free speech

He says U.S. officials are "disappointed that China has not used the occasion of the Olympics to demonstrate greater tolerance and openness." Randt says consular officials had met with eight Americans who were detained last week by Chinese authorities.

Chinese authorities say the Americans will be released after 10 days detention. The U.S. statement says the detainees have not claimed any maltreatment at the hands of Chinese officials.

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waltky · 08-25-2008, 02:47 AM

Only two left...

China releases eight U.S. Olympics protesters
25 Aug.`08 - U.S. Ambassador to China had criticized Beijing for holding the Americans; Chinese law allows police to hold foreign nationals in jail for up to two weeks; Americans were put on a China Air flight to Los Angeles about 1300 GMT Sunday

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Eight Americans arrested for planning or staging protests in Beijing were deported to the United States on Sunday, a U.S. Embassy spokesman said. The U.S. Ambassador to China, Clark T. Randt Jr., had criticized the Chinese government for holding the Americans for several days. He said it was the first time he knew of that a foreign national was detained for more than a few hours after being detained for protesting during the Olympic Games, which ended Sunday.

Six American members of the group "Free Tibet Reporters" and two Americans who unfurled a "Free Tibet" banner were put on a China Air flight to Los Angeles about 9 p.m. Sunday (1300 GMT), said Nick Snyder, a spokesman for the U.S. Embassy in Beijing. Chinese law allows police to hold foreign nationals in jail for up to two weeks before pressing formal charges, but most other foreign protesters that China detained were held for only a few hours before authorities deported them.

The six members of "Free Tibet Reporters" were held for about four days, the embassy said, while the other two Americans were detained for about three days. "We urge China to take positive steps to address international and domestic concerns about its record on human rights and religious freedom," Snyder said.

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waltky · 07-21-2009, 04:44 AM

Obama pokin' his finger in China's eye...

Obama may meet Dalai Lama as Beijing seethes
19 July 2009, 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.

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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 and sees the Dalai Lama as the rallying point for Tibetan separatists. Perhaps anticipating that Obama may want to meet the Dalai Lama, China had on April 23 officially ``warned'' the US president against meeting the supreme spiritual leader of Tibetan Buddhists.

The Dalai Lama is scheduled to visit Los Angeles in the last week of September after which he will fly to Vancouver to attend a peace conference. He will fly back to US in October where he has official engagements in Washington DC between October 8 and October 11 which is when the meeting could work out. "I don't think the exact date and time has been finalized and the two sides are still working it out. If it works out, they should meet during his stay in Washington DC,'' said sources.

It does remain to be seen whether Obama meets him "privately'' like his predecessor George Bush or officially in the Oval Office. Bush had met the Tibetan spiritual leader in 2007 at his White House residence, apparently as a figleaf of sorts to calm a livid China. As part of its intense campaign this year to isolate the Buddhist leader, China has made several representations to the US government urging Washington to prevent the Dalai Lama from carrying out "separatist activities'' on its territory.

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Ddave · 07-23-2009, 11:26 AM

Hu Jintao was once the CCP overseer in Tibet. I belive it was back in the 80's.

He got attitude sickness and had to go home. Or that was the propaganda machine working.

He actually got bumped up the CCP ladder.

Don't trust him..

Hu Jintao's appointment as the new General Secretary
of the CCP was no surprise. Though the media reported
that little was known about Mr Hu's past, at least one
part of his life is well documented: The period
between 1988 and 1992 when the "core leader of the
Forth Generation" was Tibet's party secretary. A
closer look at the way Mr Hu used his post in Tibet as
a stepping stone to reach the top, is indeed
fascinating.
~Claude Arpi

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