http://www.uyghurnews.com/ World Tibet News - Feed for Uyghur, Uighur, East Turkistan, Tibet News en-us http://www.uyghurnews.com/SiteDesign/etflag.gif http://www.uyghurnews.com/ Holiness Concludes US Visit With Message of Compassion and Peace February 27, 2010 Central Tibetan Administration (CTA) February 25 2010 His Holiness the Dalai Lama participated in two public events on 24 February. In the morning, he gave a public talk to over three thousand Floridians at Florida Atlantic University. In the afternoon His Holiness held a Q&A session with Presidents of seven universities on higher education in our global society. Over five hundred educators were present. His Holiness the Dalai Lama speaks to students, faculty, and guests at Florida Atlantic University in Boca Raton, Fla. , Wednesday, 24 February 2010/AP Photo Florida: His Holiness the Dalai Lama departed the hotel at 9 am for Florida Atlantic University for a public talk entitled 'Compassion as a Pillar of World Peace'.  Upon reaching FAU, His Holiness held several private audiences for half an hour. Then at 10 am, His Holiness moved to the stage to begin his public talk to an audience of s]]> SAT, 27 FEB 2010 00:00:00 EST http://www.uyghurnews.com/tibetan/Read.asp?TibetNews=his-holiness-concludes-us-visit-with-message-of-compassion-and-peace&ItemID=TE-2282010311044833328445 Tibetan exiles mark Centenary of 13th Dalai Lama's exile to India February 27, 2010 Phayul February 25, 2010 Dharamsala, Feb 25 - Tibet's government in exile Thursday organised a grand public function commemorating the centenary of the Thirteenth Dalai Lama's exile to India in February 1910. Thupten Gyatso, better known and revered by Tibetans as the "Great Thirteenth Dalai Lama" of Tibet, was forced to take refuge in British India from 1910 ­ 1912 following the Manchu invasion of Tibet led by General Chao Er-feng. When the Manchu (Qing) Dynasty collapsed in 1911, Tibetans took this opportunity to expel the remnant Manchu forces from Tibet. The Dalai Lama returned to Tibet following three years of exile in India and went on to exercise a political authority not seen since the reign of the great Fifth Dalai Lama. The overthrow of the Manchu forces and return of the Dalai Lama to Lhasa proved historically significant for Tibetans as it marked the full restoration of Tibet?]]> SAT, 27 FEB 2010 00:00:00 EST http://www.uyghurnews.com/tibetan/Read.asp?TibetNews=tibetan-exiles-mark-centenary-of-13th-dalai-lamas-exile-to-india&ItemID=YR-2282010143344833498508 Tibet" February 27, 2010 Central Tibetan Administration (CTA) By BI Yantao February 25 2010 Boxun News Prof. Bi Yantao: Greetings! I am very happy for having this opportunity to ask on issues which are closely followed by the people inside China. When looking at the Tibet issue, I pay special attention to the term "Greater Tibet". I have repeatedly read the text of your statement on 'Greater Tibet' (including the English version ). You said, "Tibet is Tibet. There is no greater or smaller Tibet". However, the fact of the matter is, during the dialogue process between the Envoys of His Holiness the Dalai Lama and Beijing, the issue of one autonomous administration for all the Tibetan people has been raised. Obviously, it seeks to unify Tibetan areas in Sichuan, Yunnan and Qinghai Provinces into the present day Tibet Autonomous Region (TAR). Given the size of administration, it is indeed a 'Greater Tibe]]> SAT, 27 FEB 2010 00:00:00 EST http://www.uyghurnews.com/tibetan/Read.asp?TibetNews=written-interview-with-kalon-tripa-prof-s-rinpoche-on-greater-tibet&ItemID=GT-2282010774944833477229 China Expert's Perspective on Obama-His Holiness the Dalai Lama Meeting February 27, 2010 Central Tibetan Administration (CTA) February 25 2010 Dharamshala - The meeting between US President Barack Obama and His Holiness the Dalai Lama sends a message from the international community that the Tibetan issue is not something to be manipulated by the Chinese government free from the scrutiny of the rest of the world, said Chin Jin, an M.A. graduate of the University of Western Sydney and Chair of the Federation For A Democratic China, Australia. "The Tibetan issue and the sale of arms to Taiwan are what the Chinese government refers to as domestic affairs in which it spares no effort to prevent the international community from meddling. However, the international community does not regard these as merely domestic as claimed by China. These issues as highly controversial in the court of world opinion,"  Jin wrote in an article on On Line Opinion. "A Chinese government ]]> SAT, 27 FEB 2010 00:00:00 EST http://www.uyghurnews.com/tibetan/Read.asp?TibetNews=china-experts-perspective-on-obama-his-holiness-the-dalai-lama-meeting&ItemID=VC-2282010521444833990423 Dalai Lama drama February 27, 2010 Japan Times February 25, 2010 Much to China's displeasure, U.S. President Barack Obama met with the Dalai Lama last week. As anticipated, the Beijing government complained bitterly about the meeting and demanded that Washington take steps to put substance behind the U.S. call for a truly constructive and cooperative relationship with China. But the bluster was more muted than many anticipated and reveals that China may have a nuanced understanding of U.S. politics. If that is so, then there is hope that the United States and China can forge a durable relationship that can survive the inevitable challenges and stabilize, rather than upset, relations in Asia. Then President George H.W. Bush in 1991 became the first sitting U.S. president to meet with the Dalai Lama. Since then, three other presidents have met the spiritual leader on 11 occasions. While U.S. officials recognize the Dalai Lama as the head of a spiritual community ]]> SAT, 27 FEB 2010 00:00:00 EST http://www.uyghurnews.com/tibetan/Read.asp?TibetNews=editorial-playing-down-dalai-lama-drama&ItemID=YW-2282010982244833645788 China's Tibet Policy February 27, 2010 By Frank Ching The Korea Times February 24, 2010 President Barack Obama's meeting with the Dalai Lama provoked fury in Beijing even though the American leader had informed President Hu Jintao when he visited China in November that this would happen. A statement issued by the Chinese Foreign Ministry declared: ``The U.S. act grossly interfered in China's internal affairs, gravely hurt the Chinese people's national sentiments and seriously damaged the Sino-U.S. ties.'' The Chinese reaction was slightly less violent than that to Washington's recent announcement of a $6.4 billion arms sales package to Taiwan. This time, there was no threat of reprisals. Still, the Chinese reaction was totally out of proportion to what had occurred. After all, President Obama had gone out of his way to placate Chinese feelings by not meeting with the Dalai Lama last October when the Tibetan monk was in town. In fact, it was the first time since 1991 that he was not re]]> SAT, 27 FEB 2010 00:00:00 EST http://www.uyghurnews.com/tibetan/Read.asp?TibetNews=chinas-tibet-policy&ItemID=RM-2282010899644833482340 Dalai Lama's Visit to D.C.: A Short Interview with Historian A. Tom Grunfeld February 27, 2010 Jeffrey Wasserstrom, Professor of History, UC Irvine The Huffington Post February 24, 2010 The lead-up to the Dalai Lama's meeting with President Barack Obama at the White House last week received a great deal of attention from the press, and there was also a considerable amount of after-the-fact assessment of the event. In order to place what happened into a broad historical perspective, I put a few questions to A. Tom Grunfeld, who is a past contributor to "China Beat" and the author of The Making of Modern Tibet. Here are the results of our interview via e-mail, and if you live in New York and want to hear him talk about the subject live, he'll be giving a couple of lectures on related issues in early April through a program sponsored by that state's Council for the Humanities. Jeffrey Wasserstrom: What did you think of the media coverage of the Dalai Lama's meeti]]> SAT, 27 FEB 2010 00:00:00 EST http://www.uyghurnews.com/tibetan/Read.asp?TibetNews=interview-the-dalai-lamas-visit-to-dc-a-short-interview-with-historian-a-tom-grunfeld&ItemID=FD-2282010274744833480837 Dalai Lama provokes foreign media to challenge China February 27, 2010 People's Daily Online (People's Republic of China) February 25, 2010 According to a report February 24 by the Global Times, AFP and other news agencies reported a day ago that the Dalai Lama deliberately claimed that he may no longer be "reincarnated" in order to prevent the Chinese government from "designating" a boy with the Dalai Lama's reincarnated soul. The Dalai Lama also expressed strong support for Google, and said that the Chinese government cannot stop western media from popularizing ?democracy? in China. According to a report from AFP, the Dalai Lama said February 22 in an interview with National Public Radio (NPR) that he is willing to terminate the reincarnation institution in order to prevent the Chinese government from announcing the emergence of a new Dalai Lama through finding a boy with his reincarnated soul. He also claimed in regards to the issue of a reincarnated soul boy, t]]> SAT, 27 FEB 2010 00:00:00 EST http://www.uyghurnews.com/tibetan/Read.asp?TibetNews=dalai-lama-provokes-foreign-media-to-challenge-china&ItemID=BU-2282010192744833307768 Tibetans: Americans have serious prejudice against Tibet February 26, 2010 People's Daily Online (People's Republic of China) February 25, 2010 Overseas Tibetans in the U.S. deemed Americans have serious misunderstanding and prejudice against China's Tibet and people there, according to a current report from the U.S. Qiaobao. Some Tibetans living in U.S. said while contacting with local people they found many of them have misunderstanding and prejudice against Tibet and Tibetan people. Dbyangscan Lhamo, sponsor as well as chairman of the Council of China Overseas Tibetan Association said in the inaugural ceremony of the association on Feb. 21 that many of her American friends sympathized with Tibetans because they thought Tibetans were very poor and had been bullied. However, they are wrong since they have prejudice against Tibet. The fact is that Tibetan-inhabited areas are economically backward, but Tibetans have never been bullied. Born in a Tibetan family and married a Ha]]> FRI, 26 FEB 2010 00:00:00 EST http://www.uyghurnews.com/tibetan/Read.asp?TibetNews=overseas-tibetans-americans-have-serious-prejudice-against-tibet&ItemID=KI-2282010567244833315885 China protests Obama meeting with Dalai Lama," (www.thejakartapost.com, Feb. 19). As in all debates, there are at least two sides of the story, and generally the actual truth lies in between. To begin with, the issue of human rights is a universal issue, first and foremost. Concerning Tibet, this territory, for the majority of time, has, over the last 800 years, either ruled over, or has been independent of, or been autonomous from China. Therefore to say that Tibet belongs to, and is an integral part of, China is very much open to debate. For these two reasons, among many, Tibet is not an internal affair, but very much a matter for international dialectic. Communism has always been imperialistic and totally authoritarian in its practice. Democracy and freedom have never been a part of China's, or Russia's, history. It is the opinion of this writer that Ch]]> FRI, 26 FEB 2010 00:00:00 EST http://www.uyghurnews.com/tibetan/Read.asp?TibetNews=letters-shackles-of-authoritarianism&ItemID=PV-2282010399444833485948 Tibetans to Europe smashed February 26, 2010 STAFF WRITER Press Trust of India (PTI) February 25, 2010 New Delhi, Feb. 24 (PTI) With the arrest of a Tibetan based in Moscow, Delhi Police today claimed to have smashed a module allegedly involved in human trafficking by sending Tibetan refugees to Europe via Russia and Hungary. ¨Tshering Namgyal was arrested yesterday from IGI airport following claims by a Tibetan refugee that he paid Rs 2.5 lakh to the agent for going to Moscow. ¨The Tibetan refugee who was trying to board a Moscow- bound flight was stopped at Immigration after scrutiny of his travel documents revealed that his Identity Certificate issued to Tibetan refugees for travel purposes contained forged seal and substituted photograph. ¨During interrogation, police claimed, the passenger said that he had paid Rs 2.5 lakh to the agent to arrange his travel documents and facilitate his departure. The passenger was tutored not to disclose t]]> FRI, 26 FEB 2010 00:00:00 EST http://www.uyghurnews.com/tibetan/Read.asp?TibetNews=gang-involved-in-trafficking-tibetans-to-europe-smashed&ItemID=WB-2282010603044833170709 China, most likely along a contested border in the northeast (the state of Arunachal Pradesh). Thus in the last year, India has sent Su-30s jet fighters to Arunachal Pradesh, along with upgrading air bases there to support their new aircraft. New roads are being built in the area as well. Two mountain infantry divisions are being sent to the area. Most of the new Akash anti-aircraft missile units being formed will go to face China, rather than to the west, to face Pakistan. The new Agni III ballistic missile, with its 3,500 kilometer range, is meant for only one potential target; China. The northeast Indian state of Arunachal Pradesh has long been claimed, by China, as part of Tibet (although when Tibet was an independent nation a century ago, it agreed that Arunachal Pradesh was part of India.) Arunachal Pradesh has a population o]]> FRI, 26 FEB 2010 00:00:00 EST http://www.uyghurnews.com/tibetan/Read.asp?TibetNews=india-dealing-with-chinese-aggression&ItemID=ST-2282010521044833997639 China?s emergence in 1949, including her re-establishment of authority in Tibet, have had national security policy implications for Nepal - and continues to do so. Other regional developments, too, have had their impact, particularly the creation of Bangladesh and the merger with, or annexation of Sikkim, by India in the 1970s. Before that, note must be taken of Nepal?s establishment of diplomatic relations with Pakistan in 1960 ? a decision that was also influenced by geo-strategic considerations, including the imperative of broadening her contacts beyond her immediate periphery. Nepal?s policy of trade diversification, begun with a trade treaty with Pakistan in 1962, can thus be interpreted as an attempt to maximize her security vis-à-vis powerful neighbors. It had come in the wake of initial bilateral contacts i]]> FRI, 26 FEB 2010 00:00:00 EST http://www.uyghurnews.com/tibetan/Read.asp?TibetNews=bangladesh-sikkim-nepals-response&ItemID=JQ-228201067044833319493 Dalai Lama to Students: Don't Be Lazy Like Me February 26, 2010 The Dalai Lama is making the rounds in South Florida By TODD WRIGHT NBC February 23, 2010 Miami (AP) - His Holiness made his way to South Florida on Tuesday with his usual message of peace and love for all mankind and creatures walking the earth. Then, the Dalai Lama told students at Nova Southeastern University to be the opposite of the man most people in the Eastern world revere as the purest being on earth. "Sometimes we Tibetans are lazy. I myself was a very, very lazy student. Don't be like me," the Dalai Lama joked. "You must be a hard worker." Hmm. That's some kind of admission from a man who has attained the highest levels of spiritual enlightenment. But it's always refreshing to know even His Holiness was a slacker during his college years. The Dalai Lama on Education During his two-hour speech in front of a packed gymnasium, the Dalai Lama was quite the comedian while telling stories about hi]]> FRI, 26 FEB 2010 00:00:00 EST http://www.uyghurnews.com/tibetan/Read.asp?TibetNews=dalai-lama-to-students-dont-be-lazy-like-me&ItemID=VO-228201070744833803291 Dalai Lama's message to thousands in Davie: Don't give up February 26, 2010 The Dalai Lama spoke to thousands in Davie, covering a variety of topics including terrorism and war, the economy, Tibet, and his meeting last week with President Barack Obama. By Jaweed Kaleem, jkaleem@miamiherald.com Miami Herald, Florida February 24, 2010 Days after a high-profile meeting with President Barack Obama, the Dalai Lama addressed thousands of fans during a sold-out speech Tuesday at Nova Southeastern University in Davie with a message for struggling and disenchanted Americans: Don't give up. "Sometimes, difficulties are good for us," he said in his first public appearance as part of a two-day speaking tour in South Florida. Repeatedly praising American values and society, the revered Tibetan Buddhist spiritual leader said he has always admired the United States for its "individual freedom, liberty, openness." Sitting cross-legged in a chair onstage in his iconic red and yello]]> FRI, 26 FEB 2010 00:00:00 EST http://www.uyghurnews.com/tibetan/Read.asp?TibetNews=dalai-lamas-message-to-thousands-in-davie-dont-give-up&ItemID=CT-2282010274344833488052 Holiness Begins LA Visit With Special Programme On Care For Orphan Children February 26, 2010 Tibet Custom February 22 2010 His Holiness the Dalai Lama had two main events. In the morning he joined a small group discussion on improving childcare worldwide, particularly care for orphan children. In the afternoon, His Holiness attended a luncheon reception where he received the first Whole Child International Humanitarian Award and participated in a question and session with TV journalist Giselle Fernandez.   His Holiness the Dalai Lama is seen during an interview with the Associated Press during a visit to Southern California, in Beverly Hills, Calif, Saturday, 20 Feb 2010/AP Photo His Holiness started the day at 9 am by holding private audiences in his room at the Hotel Montage with members of the Whole Child International, a charity organisation dedicated to improving orphanage care-giving that is hosting His Holiness in Los Angeles. Then from 9:30-11:30 am, His Holiness par]]> FRI, 26 FEB 2010 00:00:00 EST http://www.uyghurnews.com/tibetan/Read.asp?TibetNews=his-holiness-begins-la-visit-with-special-programme-on-care-for-orphan-children&ItemID=KO-2282010277444833981471 Dalai Lama urges US to keep pushing for liberty and freedom despite economic troubles February 26, 2010 MATT SEDENSKY, Associated Press Writer The Los Angeles Times February 23, 2010 DAVIE, Fla. (AP) - The Dalai Lama says the economic crisis cannot deter the U.S. from championing liberty, freedom and democracy. Fresh off a visit to the White House, the Tibetan spiritual leader addressed about 4,000 people Tuesday at Nova Southeastern University outside Fort Lauderdale, Fla. Exiled for the last half-century, the Dalai Lama also spoke of the value of forgiveness, urging the audience to hate actions, not people. He says he maintains compassion for the Chinese even though he disagrees with their treatment of his people. The Buddhist leader will address more South Florida crowds later Tuesday and on Wednesday. ]]> FRI, 26 FEB 2010 00:00:00 EST http://www.uyghurnews.com/tibetan/Read.asp?TibetNews=dalai-lama-urges-us-to-keep-pushing-for-liberty-and-freedom-despite-economic-troubles&ItemID=HZ-2282010566744833323101 Dalai Lama and UMass students agree Tibet should be free from China February 26, 2010 Sara Crossman Daily Collegian University of Massachusetts February 23, 2010 Although President Barack Obama hosted the Dalai Lama in the Map Room of the White House last Thursday, this meeting does not represent United States support for Tibetan independence. The U.S. officially supports the People?s Republic of China?s self-proclaimed territory, which includes Tibet. This visit was intentionally kept low-key in order to show support for human rights issues, while blatantly trying not to anger China. Relations between China and the U.S. are already strained after the announcement last month of arms sales to Taiwan in excess of six billion dollars. China feels that the U.S. is flouting its authority by dealing directly with its two most internationally contentious areas. Normally U.S.-Chinese relations are pretty good. Considering that China is one of our biggest trading partners, the U.S. usually doe]]> FRI, 26 FEB 2010 00:00:00 EST http://www.uyghurnews.com/tibetan/Read.asp?TibetNews=dalai-lama-and-umass-students-agree-tibet-should-be-free-from-china&ItemID=NM-2282010399044833493163 Tibetan Settlement Conference gets Underway February 26, 2010 Yangsham and Max French The Tibet Post International February 24, 2010 Print Dharamshala: The 6th Biennial Conference of Tibetan Settlement Officers' on Administration began today in Gankyi staff Mess Hall, Dharamsala. It was organised by the Department Home of the Central Tibetan Administration. The Tibetan Prime Minister Samdhong Rinpoche and other ministers of departments of government are attending, along with the heads and coordinators of Tibetan settlements all across India, Nepal and Bhutan. At the conference, Prof. Samdhong Rinpoche began the conference by giving a speech on behalf of his cabinet: "We Tibetan refugees, unlike other political refugees in other countries, have been able to effectively preserve our culture, politics and livelihood. We can attribute this to the integrity of Tibetan settlements." The Prime Minister commended His Holiness the Dalai Lama, and the Indian Prime Minister Jawaharlal ]]> FRI, 26 FEB 2010 00:00:00 EST http://www.uyghurnews.com/tibetan/Read.asp?TibetNews=tibetan-settlement-conference-gets-underway&ItemID=TR-2282010602644833177924 Dalai Lama Twitter Updates Spiritual Followers February 26, 2010 Tibetan spiritual leader, Dalai Lama, has a new Twitter page with more than 82,000 followers Tina Hodges www.newsoxy.com February 24, 2010 Dalai Lama laughed at the idea of communicating on the Twitter social networking service. The Tibetan spiritual leader now has more than 82,000 followers. However, the service could provide him with a powerful communications tool. Twitter is used by hundreds of millions of people as a regular tool. Dalai Lama's page was set up by his office on Monday. There was one post that mentioned he would be in Los Angeles. Six other Tweets since then provide links to interviews, photos and a Webcast. There is even some media content available where he met about 4,000 people at Nova Southeastern University. So far, the Dalai Lama hasn't posted any personal messages. His Holiness And Latest Reincarnation Of Spiritual leaders The Dalai Lama is a lineage of religious officials of the Gelug sect of T]]> FRI, 26 FEB 2010 00:00:00 EST http://www.uyghurnews.com/tibetan/Read.asp?TibetNews=dalai-lama-twitter-updates-spiritual-followers&ItemID=CN-2282010605644833671343 Tibetan Language: Samdhong Rinpoche February 26, 2010 Yangsham & Max French The Tibet Post International February 22, 2010 Dharamshala - Tibetan Language Inheritance society observed the UNESCO International Mother Language Day in Yongling School Hall, Mcleod Ganj yesterday. A panel discussion was also organized on the topic of the preservation of the Tibetan language. Tibetan Prime Minister Pro Samdhong Rinpoche gave a talk on the approaches of preserving Tibetan language, while Karma Monlam, Joint Secretary of the Joint Education Department, spoke of the translation of new vocabulary into Tibetan, and Master Sonam Gyaltsen of the Sarah College for Higher Tibetan Studies described the structure of Tibetan grammar. Over 100 people attended the discussion and were invited to raise questions regarding these topics. Pro Samdhong Rinpoche stressed the importance of a single written language, without diminishing the variety of dialects among differe]]> FRI, 26 FEB 2010 00:00:00 EST http://www.uyghurnews.com/tibetan/Read.asp?TibetNews=learning-is-the-only-way-to-preserve-tibetan-language-samdhong-rinpoche&ItemID=YX-228201089504483312973 Tibetan living in London and am currently writing to express my sincere "Thank you" to you and your Administration for officially meeting His Holiness the Dalai Lama, the Spiritual and Temporal Leader of the six-million Tibetan people, at the White House on 18th February. This much-publicised meeting between the two leaders of the Tibetan and American people sent a very strong signal worldwide, particularly to Beijing and Tibetans inside Tibet, that the core issue of Tibet has not been forgotten even after 60 years of China?s military occupation of Tibet. After nearly 51 years in exile under the leadership of His Holiness the Dalai Lama and the progressive democratic institution of the Tibetan Government-in-exile, the voiceless Tibetans in]]> FRI, 26 FEB 2010 00:00:00 EST http://www.uyghurnews.com/tibetan/Read.asp?TibetNews=a-letter-thank-you-president-obama-a-letter-from-london&ItemID=FK-2282010727244833183035 Tibet still an issue? Beijing has only itself to blame February 26, 2010 China has been unreasonable in its criticism of Obama's meeting with the Dalai Lama Frank Ching The Globe and Mail February 22, 2010  From Tuesday's Globe and Mail Published on Monday, Feb. 22, 2010 7:20PM EST Last updated on Wednesday, Feb. 24, 2010 4:34AM EST Barack Obama's meeting with the Dalai Lama provoked fury in Beijing even though the U.S. President had informed counterpart Hu Jintao that it would happen. "The U.S. act grossly interfered in China's internal affairs, gravely hurt the Chinese people's national sentiments and seriously damaged the Sino-U.S. ties," declared a statement issued late last week by the Chinese Foreign Ministry. The Chinese reaction was slightly less violent than that to Washington's recent announcement of a $6.4-billion (U.S.) arms sales package to Taiwan. This time, there was no threat of reprisals. Still, it was totally out of proportion to what had occurr]]> FRI, 26 FEB 2010 00:00:00 EST http://www.uyghurnews.com/tibetan/Read.asp?TibetNews=why-is-tibet-still-an-issue-beijing-has-only-itself-to-blame&ItemID=LN-2282010359044833161757 Dalai Lama's appearance on "Larry King Live"      * Statement says Dalai Lama is a political figure, not purely religious figure      * It says Tibet has been part of China "from ancient times" What Dalai Lama has said and done in the past decades have fully shown that he is not a pure religious figure, but a political figure in exile who's long engaged in activities to split China and undermine ethnic unity in China under the cover of religion. While claiming that his visits to foreign countries are aimed at spreading religious teachings, he has never stopped defaming the Chinese Government, selling "Tibet independence" proposals and undermining relations between China and other countries. This is well reflected in his remarks during his current vi]]> FRI, 26 FEB 2010 00:00:00 EST http://www.uyghurnews.com/tibetan/Read.asp?TibetNews=statement-of-chinese-embassy-in-the-us-on-dalais-visit&ItemID=BV-2282010105544833674951 Dalai Lama's intention of meeting with Obama? February 26, 2010 People's Daily (People's Republic of China) February 24, 2010 Long has the Dalai Lama been dealing with the central government under the banner of peace. Early this February, 15 months after the Dalai Lama's announcement of suspension of talks, the Dalai Lama's private envoys Lodi Gyari and Kelsang Gyaltsen visited Beijing and started a new round of negotiation with the central government. This movement by the Dalai clique seemed to reveal the Dalai Lama's wish of settling his future through peaceful talk. However, before long, the Dalai Lama ignored the serious warning from the Chinese government and insisted in meeting U.S. President Obama, knowing that this meeting will further aggravate the relationship between him and the central government. What is the Dalai Lama's intention of making this movement challenging China's core interest shortly after the start of new negotiations? Noticed by all observers, th]]> FRI, 26 FEB 2010 00:00:00 EST http://www.uyghurnews.com/tibetan/Read.asp?TibetNews=what-is-the-dalai-lamas-intention-of-meeting-with-obama&ItemID=XG-228201039484483316580 China State Chairman Hu Jintao met and signed a cross-strait peace agreement, both would certainly be nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize. However, developments related to last week's meeting in Washington D.C. between two Nobel Peace Prize laureates, namely Tibet spiritual leader Dalai Lama and United States President Barack Hussein Obama, indicate that Ma would not dare to sit as an equal with Hu, even if the PRC authorities genuinely wanted to sign a peace pact with Taiwan. Firstly, since taking office in May 2000, Ma himself has rejected several requests by the Dalai Lama to visit Taiwan and initially turned a deaf ear to the Tibetan Buddhist leader's desire to hold a prayer meeting for the victims of Typhoon Morakot last August. The second factor was the hysterically overblown angry reaction in B]]> FRI, 26 FEB 2010 00:00:00 EST http://www.uyghurnews.com/tibetan/Read.asp?TibetNews=what-taiwan-can-learn-from-obama-dalai-meeting&ItemID=DT-2282010227144833186643 China communists get new anti-corruption ethics code February 26, 2010 By Quentin Sommerville BBC News, Beijing February 24, 2010 In China, the Communist Party has issued a new 52-point ethics code, in an attempt to control growing corruption among officials. The code bans members from property speculation, money-making deals, and lavish expenditure. The last set of rules was issued 13 years ago. Corruption has become an increasingly hot topic among the public - graft often tops the list of issues of most concern for ordinary Chinese citizens. Lavish lives Party officials should work hard to serve the people and avoid accepting gifts or using their influence to benefit family members, according to the new ethics code. The guide bans lavish weddings and funerals, and overseas tours. Officials should also stay out of profit-making deals, the code says. But few do. Some of the most senior party officials in China have been on the take - property speculation has been particularly popular.]]> FRI, 26 FEB 2010 00:00:00 EST http://www.uyghurnews.com/tibetan/Read.asp?TibetNews=china-communists-get-new-anti-corruption-ethics-code&ItemID=DL-2282010687244833851628 China tightens internet controls February 26, 2010 China has the world's biggest online population: more than 380m users BBC February 23, 2010 18:52] China has tightened controls on internet use, requiring anyone who wants to set up a website to meet regulators and produce ID documents. The technology ministry said the measures were designed to tackle online pornography, but internet activists see it as increased government censorship. A number of websites are now being registered overseas in an attempt to avoid controls. China has the world's biggest online population: more than 380m users. The Ministry of Industry and Information Technology on Tuesday lifted a freeze introduced in December on registration for new individual websites. Extensive censorship But the technology ministry said would-be website operators would now have to submit identity cards and photos of themselves, as well as meeting regulators before their sites could be registered. The freeze had been imposed by the s]]> FRI, 26 FEB 2010 00:00:00 EST http://www.uyghurnews.com/tibetan/Read.asp?TibetNews=china-tightens-internet-controls&ItemID=ST-2282010433844833364823 China to restart Tibet-Nepal bus service February 26, 2010 Phayul February 24, 2010 Dharamsala, Feb 24 - China is all set to resume suspended bus services between Lhasa, capital of the Chinese-occupied Tibet, and Kathmandu in Nepal. If all goes as planned, the suspended bus service between Kathmandu and Lhasa is likely to resume within few days, according to a Nepalese media report. The report said the decision to resume the direct bus service was taken during a two-day meeting between officials of the Nepal Tourism Board and Tibet Tourism Administration few months ago. Nepal's tourism officials had started work on the direct bus service in order to insert a new momentum to the upcoming Nepal Tourism Year 2011, the report said. The trans-Himalayan bus service, which commenced on May 1, 2005, was suspended in 2006 after a political fallout over issuance of visas to Tibet and due to transportation permit hassles. In the past, deadlines have been set for resumption of services but were n]]> FRI, 26 FEB 2010 00:00:00 EST http://www.uyghurnews.com/tibetan/Read.asp?TibetNews=china-to-restart-tibet-nepal-bus-service&ItemID=WO-228201089454483320188 Tibetan Review February 23, 2010) For the purposes of controlling cross-border crimes and possible anti-china activities in the Tibet border areas, Nepal had rushed 19 additional Armed Police Force (APF) personnel to Mustang district, reported MyRepublica .com (Nepal) Feb 22. They brought to 46 the number of APF personnel for the border security post set up at Lomanthang, Chandika APF Battalion commander Mr Madan Singh Khadka had said. The report said Lomanthang, Chhoser, Charang, Surkhang, Ghami and Chhuncha areas in Mustang district shared border with Tibet, suggesting that posts may be set up in all these areas. Nepal?s home minister Bhim Bahadur Rawal recently returned from a six-day visit to China with promises of financial and other kinds of help from the latter to prevent Tibetan cross border movements and to control alleged anti-China activities by Tibetans in the country. ]]> FRI, 26 FEB 2010 00:00:00 EST http://www.uyghurnews.com/tibetan/Read.asp?TibetNews=nepal-rushes-additional-troops-for-tibet-border-duty&ItemID=VP-2282010983344833170475 Tibetan Culture in New York February 26, 2010 Central Tibetan Administration February 2, 2010 Dharamshala: Tibet House US will once again bring together an amazing, original line-up of contemporary artists during its 20th Annual Benefit Concert to promote Tibetan culture at Carnegie Hall on Friday, 26 February. There will be sterling performances by stars such as Bajah + the Dry Eye Crew, Gogol Bordello, Philip Glass, Tenzin Kunsel, Iggy Pop, Patti Smith, Regina Spektor & Pierce Turner. Tibet House US Vice President Philip Glass acts as the artistic director of the annual show and is instrumental in putting together the line-up. All money raised through ticket sales go to benefit Tibet House's projects in the US. "In order to preserve Tibetan culture, one of our key aims is to introduce it to people," Tibet House US president Dr Robert Thurman told The Huffington Post. "Because when people see it, and see their art, and see th]]> FRI, 26 FEB 2010 00:00:00 EST http://www.uyghurnews.com/tibetan/Read.asp?TibetNews=musical-stars-to-perform-at-concert-for-tibetan-culture-in-new-york&ItemID=CU-2282010187144833855235 Tibet in History this Week February 26, 2010 Tibetan Review February 24, 2010 Feb 20, 1998: The 100-member Grand Conseil, the legislative body of Geneva State, unanimously adopted a resolution entitled, "Un geste de reconnaissance pour le Tibet (An Act of Recognition to Tibet)", calling on the Federal Swiss authorities to accord diplomatic status to the Tibetan exile government. Feb 22, 2006: The 5th round of talks since 2002 between Envoys of the Dalai Lama and Chinese government was held in Guilin City, China, during which the latter appreciated the Dalai Lama's position of not seeking Tibetan independence but a solution within the framework of the Constitution of the People's Republic of China, or so the envoys said. However, in an interview carried by the Chinese media Dec 8, 2009, Executive Vice-Minister Mr Zhu Weiqun of the Central United Front Work Department of the Communist Party of China', who led the Chinese dialogue team, denied having made any such admission. Th]]> FRI, 26 FEB 2010 00:00:00 EST http://www.uyghurnews.com/tibetan/Read.asp?TibetNews=tibet-in-history-this-week&ItemID=QC-2282010933544833368431 Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama February 24, 2010 The Office of Tibet, London (UK) February 23, 2010 Mr Thubten Samdup, Representative of His Holiness the Dalai Lama through the kind arrangement of Norman Baker MP, Vice-Chair of the All Party Parliamentary Group for Tibet Invites you to a special event at 4pm on Tuesday 23rd February 2010 to celebrate the 70th Anniversary of the Enthronement of His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama Family members & relatives of the British delegation present at the Enthronement Ceremony in Lhasa, capital of Tibet, 23rd February 1940 will join us for this special event. Programme: * Opening Address by Norman Baker MP * Address by Mr Thubten Samdup * Presentation on the Enthronement & the British delegation at the ceremonies * Short film of the Enthronement & the British delegation in Lhasa * A brief address by Mr Dick Gould (the son of Sir Basil Gould who headed the British delegation at the ceremonies) V]]> WED, 24 FEB 2010 00:00:00 EST http://www.uyghurnews.com/tibetan/Read.asp?TibetNews=70th-anniversary-of-the-enthronement-of-his-holiness-the-14th-dalai-lama&ItemID=ON-2282010222944833710059 Dalai Lama - the Search February 24, 2010 An article's extract BBC h2g2 October 14,  2001 The Dalai Lama is the spiritual leader of the Tibetan people. He was also the head of the government of Tibet, until the Chinese invasion and occupation forced Him and some 80,000 Tibetans into exile in 1959. The present Dalai Lama is the 14th in the lineage, all of whom are considered to be the embodiment of Chenrezig (Sanskrit - Avalokiteshvara), the Bodhisattva1 of Compassion. The Dalai Lama is often referred to as a 'living Buddha' or as Tibet's 'god-king'. His Holiness maintains that these terms are meaningless. He is well known for his humility, and has often said,      I am a simple Buddhist monk...      no more, nor less. Dalai is a Mongol word which means 'ocean', and Lama is the Tibetan title of a teacher, especially a spiritual teacher. Together, the title Dalai Lama is translated as 'Ocean of Wisdom'. In Tibet, the Dalai Lama is known simpl]]> WED, 24 FEB 2010 00:00:00 EST http://www.uyghurnews.com/tibetan/Read.asp?TibetNews=dalai-lama-the-search&ItemID=NN-2282010311744833860346 Dalai Lama could have been mistaken as another California roadside attraction Sunday. The spiritual leader of Tibetan Buddhism, after all, looked the superstar part with all the superstar trappings: He flew into Los Angeles on billionaire Ron Burkle's private jet, stepped on to the venue stage in flowing robes in cardinal-and-gold USC Trojan colors, and used a mixture of charming self-deprecating humor and folksy Mark Twain-like wit, to dazzle some 5,000 at the Gibson Amphitheatre. At times, amid the throng of admirers hanging on to his every word inside the cavernous amphitheater, the silence was enough to hear a pin drop, as the Dalai Lama sat in yoga style on an stuffed chair and proclaimed: "The future of humanity ultimately depends on the public," he said in halting Engl]]> WED, 24 FEB 2010 00:00:00 EST http://www.uyghurnews.com/tibetan/Read.asp?TibetNews=universal-star&ItemID=BD-2282010686844833858843 Dalai Lama: China denies problem in Tibet February 24, 2010 CNN February 23, 2010 See short clip of the interview on CNN website China is "denying there is a problem" between its government and Tibet, the Dalai Lama says. In his first interview since his recent controversial meeting with President Obama, the spiritual leader of Tibet told CNN's "Larry King Live" that China claims Tibetans are "very happy ... much, much, much better than previous Tibet." However, he noted that his Tibetan government-in-exile has received information indicating "suppression ... or restrictions" culturally and religiously of the Tibetan people. China rejects Tibetan claims of independence or greater autonomy and claims sovereignty over the area. But the Dalai Lama, who lives in exile in India, told King that Tibetans "are not seeking independence." "That's why we are called middle way," he said. "We complain [about] the presence of policy i]]> WED, 24 FEB 2010 00:00:00 EST http://www.uyghurnews.com/tibetan/Read.asp?TibetNews=dalai-lama-china-denies-problem-in-tibet&ItemID=PL-2282010433344833372038 Tibet" is one of the all-time classics, maintaining its hold (adhesively-speaking) amidst the recent onrush of "Save Darfur? and "Obama ?08" stickers. Of course the man who is actually fighting to "Free Tibet," the Dalai Lama, was subjected to one of the most shameful humiliations in U.S. diplomatic history last weekend when the administration of Barack Obama (his new neighbor on liberal car bumpers) had him escorted out of the White House servant?s entrance. "Taken out with the trash," in case you missed the point. http://fitsnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/dalai-lama-trash.jpg The Dalai Lama has been meeting with U.S. Presidents since 1991, and while most administrations have downplayed his visit in an effort not to offend China, this is the first time w]]> WED, 24 FEB 2010 00:00:00 EST http://www.uyghurnews.com/tibetan/Read.asp?TibetNews=take-out-the-dalai-and-the-trash&ItemID=GJ-228201087374483310299 Tibetan films as I would have liked here. There was the problem of time, length and the fact that much of what is produced in Tibet is not available to us in exile. Even the works of exile filmmakers are not always accessible because of lack of information and distribution. Comments by readers on films I might have missed would be appreciated. Apologies for not posting this on "tsepa sum" as I promised. I was in New York for Losar and left the adapter cord for my Mac behind. TIBETAN FILMMAKERS  From their first encounter with the modern world Tibetans appear to have taken to such inventions as photography with relative insouciance - considering Tibet?s reputation ]]> WED, 24 FEB 2010 00:00:00 EST http://www.uyghurnews.com/tibetan/Read.asp?TibetNews=the-happy-light-bioscope-theatre-other-stories-part-2-jamyang-norbu&ItemID=YR-228201049044833807832 Tibet's Struggle for Freedom" on March 1, 2010 February 24, 2010 by mail WTNN February 23, 2010 Acclaimed filmmakers, Ritu Sarin and Tenzing Sonam announce the Bangalore premiere of "The Sun Behind the Clouds: Tibet?s Struggle for Freedom" in an event jointed hosted by Friends of Tibet and Think Tibet. Winner of the Silver Conch Award at the 11th Mumbai International Film Festival, "The Sun Behind the Clouds" will be screened at the Centre for Film and Drama, 5th floor, 71 Sona Towers, Millers Road, Bangalore on Monday, March 01, 2010 at 6pm. The documentary will be presented by Tenzin Tsundue, Tibetan poet-activist. Entry is free. In The Sun Behind the Clouds, Sarin and Sonam take a uniquely Tibetan perspective on the trials and tribulations of the Dalai Lama and his people as they continue their struggle for freedom in the face of determined suppression by one of the world?s biggest and m]]> WED, 24 FEB 2010 00:00:00 EST http://www.uyghurnews.com/tibetan/Read.asp?TibetNews=bangalore-premiere-of-the-sun-behind-the-clouds-the-sun-behind-the-clouds-tibets-struggle-for-freedom-on-march-1-2010&ItemID=GW-2282010252644833492594 China, in his usual vitriolic press conference, had the audacity to state that "the so-called 'Tibet government-in-exile' is utterly illegal. It can neither represent Tibet nor the Tibetan people." (Xinhua, 1, Feb. 2010) We have to prove this statement wrong. Fortunately, there is an upcoming opportunity. Every vote cast in the next Kalon Tripa election will directly challenge Zhu Weiqun and the Chinese government and demonstrate that the Tibetan government in exile is not only legitimate but moving towards a consolidated democracy. On the other hand, every vote not cast by Tibetans will indirectly affirm Zhu Weiqun?s assertion. So the choice is very clear. As former President George W. Bush said, ?Are you with us or with them?? Let us send a resounding message to the Chinese government, the world, and Ti]]> WED, 24 FEB 2010 00:00:00 EST http://www.uyghurnews.com/tibetan/Read.asp?TibetNews=kalon-tripa-election-reform&ItemID=UD-2282010427144833299749 China calls on US to 'undo damage done' by Dalai meet February 24, 2010 By Susan Stumme AFP February 23, 2010 BEIJING - China on Tuesday demandended the United States "undo the damage done" by a meeting between President Barack Obama and the Dalai Lama, while lashing out anew over US arms sales to Taiwan. The latest angry barrage indicated tensions had not abated between Beijing and Washington - an unwelcome sign for negotiators working on the thorny North Korea and Iran nuclear dossiers, who need the world powers to cooperate. The meeting last week in the White House Map Room between the Dalai Lama, Tibet's exiled spiritual leader, and the US president - who voiced support for Tibetan rights - had already prompted Beijing to summon the US ambassador. "China demands that the US side seriously regard China's position and take credible measures to undo the damage done," foreign ministry spokesman Qin Gang told reporters. He also urged Washington to "take concret]]> WED, 24 FEB 2010 00:00:00 EST http://www.uyghurnews.com/tibetan/Read.asp?TibetNews=china-calls-on-us-to-undo-damage-done-by-dalai-meet&ItemID=YX-2282010887944833955113 China's Tibet Pique February 24, 2010 The Wall Street Journal February 23, 2010 Beijing's anger is likely to backfire. Much ado has been made about President Obama's chat with the Dalai Lama last week and the response from Beijing. "The U.S. act grossly interfered in China's internal affairs . . . and seriously damaged the Sino-U.S. ties," said a Chinese government spokesman, but the barrage reveals more about China than it does about U.S. policy toward Tibet. Beijing believes it can browbeat other nations into ignoring its human-rights violations in Tibet, regularly retaliating after European leaders meet with the Dalai Lama. It has cancelled a 2008 trade summit because of a planned meeting with Nicolas Sarkozy and turned away U.S. warships from Hong Kong after the Dalai Lama received the Congressional gold medal. The fist-shaking has yielded short-term benefits for Beijing. Mr. Obama postponed his meeting with the Tibetan leader until after his November trip to Ch]]> WED, 24 FEB 2010 00:00:00 EST http://www.uyghurnews.com/tibetan/Read.asp?TibetNews=opinion-chinas-tibet-pique&ItemID=XB-2282010548744833811440 China prevents Nepal from attending celebrations at Tibetan monastery February 24, 2010 by Sudeshna Sarkar www.littleabout.com February 23, 2010 Kathmandu, Feb. 23 - Though China failed to prevent US President Barack Obama from meeting exiled Tibetan leader the Dalai Lama, it has succeeded in stopping top Nepalese officials from attending the birth centenary celebrations of a revered Tibetan monk. Nepal's President Ram Baran Yadav, Foreign Minister Sujata Koirala, who is also the deputy prime minister, and Culture Minister Minendra Rijal have received invitations to attend the birth centenary celebrations of the monk at a Tibetan monastery in Kathmandu. However, the officials have distanced themselves from the Tibetan monastery under pressure from China. The Tibetan monastery is celebrating the birth centenary celebrations of Dilgo Khyentse, born in 1910 in Tibet, one of the best known luminaries of Tibetan Buddhism and a leader of the Nyingma sect, one of the oldest major schools of ]]> WED, 24 FEB 2010 00:00:00 EST http://www.uyghurnews.com/tibetan/Read.asp?TibetNews=china-prevents-nepal-from-attending-celebrations-at-tibetan-monastery&ItemID=LN-2282010351944833103898 Tibetan Women February 24, 2010 by Tsering Dolkar Where Tibetans Write February 20, 2010 For a while now, I have thought about creating a blog focusing on Tibetan women?s issues. In general, women?s rights are important because of the patriarchal nature of societies, uneven power structure and male domination that have led to negative depiction of women in theological doctrines and in the secondary value placed on women?s roles and duties. Very briefly, these influences get translated into discriminatory attitudes and practices against women in their daily lives. However much we would like to believe, men and women are not equal. It is an admirable slogan but even in western societies; the land of suffragist movements, it is not the case and certainly not so in Tibetan society. In a journey that began as an innocent child to the experiences of a woman, I found many contradictory  beliefs about women. To me women?s rights are symbolic of other movements? i.e. struggle for Fr]]> WED, 24 FEB 2010 00:00:00 EST http://www.uyghurnews.com/tibetan/Read.asp?TibetNews=blog-tibetan-women&ItemID=BV-228201098444833617092 Tibetans Write February 20, 2010 It has been two decades since I left my homeland Tibet. It?s been two decades I haven?t seen my parents. It?s been two decades I haven?t seen my fellow Tibetans from my hometown, loss and sadness written all over their faces. Now, Losar is round the corner. I too gave a thought to the Tibetan New Year. I haven?t made any preparations. I don?t need to make any preparations. This is because so far I have celebrated all my Losars at TCV, my alma mater. My school is my home. And that is where I celebrate my Losar. Reflecting on Losar last night, my mind was able to recover some memories of past incidents. These incidents are related not just to me. They are relevant to all of my friends. It occurred in the winter of 1999: I was not able to go for winter break, so I had to remain in school. We had twenty-two students in our room. Twelve of them left for their holidays. The res]]> WED, 24 FEB 2010 00:00:00 EST http://www.uyghurnews.com/tibetan/Read.asp?TibetNews=essay-six-stars-crooked-neck-a-losar-diary&ItemID=XG-2282010387744833958721 Tibetans Write February 17, 2010 "Songs from a Distance" Bhuchung D. Sonam (Author) ISBN : 819041744-4 Publisher : Tibet Writes Price: Rs 65 During a visit to Dharamsala sometime in 2002, I saw a flier of Bhuchung D. Sonam?s book of poems, Dandelions in Tibet, in Gangchen Kyishong, on the bulletin board opposite the staff mess. I was intrigued. For someone who had also begun, rather hesitantly, the research for a novel, any work of imagination by a fellow Tibetan was a source of immense interest. Later, it was Tenzin Tsundue, the activist-poet, who told me that Sonam was working on an anthology of Tibetan poetry. I was thrilled. I met with Sonam, in classic style, at a ramshackle Dharamsala teashop. So when his Muses of Exile: An Anthology of Tibetan Poetry came out in 2005, I was pleasantly surprised. It was the most comprehensive collection of Tibetan poems I have ever seen. It included writings f]]> WED, 24 FEB 2010 00:00:00 EST http://www.uyghurnews.com/tibetan/Read.asp?TibetNews=review-a-pale-view-of-the-himalayas&ItemID=WH-2282010476544833109009 Dalai Lama (Tenzin Gyatso) was enthroned at age four in Lhasa, Tibet. ]]> TUE, 23 FEB 2010 00:00:00 EST http://www.uyghurnews.com/tibetan/Read.asp?TibetNews=today-in-history&ItemID=DM-2282010680144833793769 Dalai Lama February 23, 2010 By Phurbu Thinley Phayul February 22, 2010 Dharamsala, Feb 22 - Exiled Tibetan leader His Holiness the Dalai Lama says "censorship" in China is the source of Tibet's problems with China's Communist rulers. Speaking to the Reuters news agency on a visit to Beverly Hills in California, the Dalai Lama said the Chinese people have no opportunity to understand the position of Tibetans due to restriction placed on the free flow of information by the Chinese government. "Censorship ... is the source of the problem," the Dalai Lama said in the interview on Saturday. "The Chinese people have no opportunity to know our issue," His Holiness added. The Tibetan leader said this has enabled Chinese authorities to portray him as a demon and a terrorist. "Do I look like a demon?" the winner of the 1989 Nobel Peace Prize joked, holding his fingers beside his head to make devil hor]]> TUE, 23 FEB 2010 00:00:00 EST http://www.uyghurnews.com/tibetan/Read.asp?TibetNews=chinese-censorship-source-of-problem-for-tibet-issue-dalai-lama&ItemID=YE-2282010598144833620700 China: Dalai Lama February 23, 2010 By Lisa Baertlein, Reuters The Vancouver Sun (Canada) February 22, 2010 The Dalai Lama, the exiled spiritual leader of Tibet, said the United States and other countries could help his campaign for a free Tibet by promoting an open society in China. "Censorship ... is the source of the problem," the Dalai Lama said Saturday in Beverly Hills. The Dalai Lama fled Tibet in 1959 after a failed uprising against Chinese rule. He now lives in exile in India and advocates "meaningful autonomy" for Tibet within China. "The Chinese people have no opportunity to know our issue," said the Buddhist monk, who Beijing has branded as a dangerous separatist for demanding Tibetan self-determination. "Once China becomes an open society - freedom of speech, freedom of press, freedom of information - all this unnecessary fear and doubt will reduce," he said. "That's the real answer for this p]]> TUE, 23 FEB 2010 00:00:00 EST http://www.uyghurnews.com/tibetan/Read.asp?TibetNews=google-will-pave-way-to-freedom-in-china-dalai-lama&ItemID=VP-2282010887544833962329 China, Affirms His Holiness the Dalai Lama February 23, 2010 Central TIbetan Administration (CTA) February 22, 2010 Larry King during an interview with His Holiness the Dalai Lama Los Angeles: In an exclusive interview with CNN's Larry King on Sunday, His Holiness the Dalai Lama underscored that his "Middle Way Approach for seeking a mutually beneficial solution to the issue of Tibet within the framework of the People's Republic of China is in the best interests of China". His Holiness started his second day in Los Angeles with a forty-five minute interview with Larry King on popular talk show - Larry King Live. King started off by asking about His Holiness' meeting with President Obama and asked what His Holiness wanted from Obama. His Holiness answered that he stated his three main commitments: promotion of human values, promotion of religious harmony and the Tibetan issue. His Holiness said he had "requested President Obama]]> TUE, 23 FEB 2010 00:00:00 EST http://www.uyghurnews.com/tibetan/Read.asp?TibetNews=middle-way-approach-is-in-best-interests-of-china-affirms-his-holiness-the-dalai-lama&ItemID=UP-2282010976344833112617 Dalai Lama: Committed To Promoting Human Value February 23, 2010 National Public Radio (NPR) February 22, 2010 Listen to be Story: <http://www.npr.org/templates/player/mediaPlayer.html?action=1&t=1&islist=false&id=123896290&m=123960864> Whenever the Dalai Lama, the spiritual leader of Tibetan Buddhism, comes to the West, his trips are fraught with political implications. That's because China, which claims Tibet as part of its territory, is particularly sensitive to Western leaders greeting the Dalai Lama as a "political" leader. When he met last week with President Obama, the White House was careful to describe it as a meeting with a "religious" leader. But that didn't stop China from lashing out at a man they've called a "wolf in monk's robes" - and warning of possible negative consequences, suggesting that a spring meeting with Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao might be cancelled. Part of what exiled Tibetans are asking for is what the Da]]> TUE, 23 FEB 2010 00:00:00 EST http://www.uyghurnews.com/tibetan/Read.asp?TibetNews=dalai-lama-committed-to-promoting-human-value&ItemID=IF-2282010351444833111114 Dalai Lama last fall before going to Beijing, that non-meeting became shorthand for his administration?s overly solicitous approach to China?s sensitive spots?generating both praise and criticism. With the U.S.-China relationship hitting the skids in recent months, yesterday?s meeting between President Obama and the Dalai Lama became symbolic of the current tensions in the U.S.-China relationship and a focal point for speculation about whether the Obama administration is taking a tougher line on China. Unfortunately, the White House tried to be too cute with the meeting - playing "hide the Dalai Lama" with the media and otherwise attempting to downplay the significance of the meeting, none of which blunted China?s outrage. With these results, it is little wonder that the Obama administration?s China policy is increasingly viewed as both]]> TUE, 23 FEB 2010 00:00:00 EST http://www.uyghurnews.com/tibetan/Read.asp?TibetNews=obama-lama-meeting-mishandled&ItemID=XN-228201097944833624308 Dalai Lama?s Visit Angers the Chinese February 23, 2010 Shelley Hawks on Tibet, and how Avatar fits in BY SUSAN SELIGSON BU Today (Boston University, MA) February 22, 2010 China scholar Shelley Hawks, a CGS assistant professor of social science, in Lhasa, Tibet, in 2007. In the face of thunderous disapproval from the Chinese government, President Barack Obama met with the Dalai Lama, the exiled spiritual leader of Tibet, for an hour on February 18. Although the conversation was condemned in China Daily as ?instigating a potentially destructive downward spiral in relations,? the world?s largest and third-largest economies remain joined at the hip, with $366 billion in mutual trade and $755 billion in Chinese-held U.S. Treasury bills. China?s holdings of U.S. Treasuries reportedly have increased more than tenfold over the last decade. The two Nobel Peace laureates met in the White House Map Room, not the Oval Office. The setting was a signal to the Chinese government ]]> TUE, 23 FEB 2010 00:00:00 EST http://www.uyghurnews.com/tibetan/Read.asp?TibetNews=interview-why-the-dalai-lamas-visit-angers-the-chinese&ItemID=OK-2282010643844833946161 Tibetans continue: Lhasa prisoners disappear February 23, 2010 AsiaNews (Italy) February 22, 2010 Hundreds of people, including Buddhist monks and nuns, gathered for a peaceful sit-in. The aim is to know what happened to the more than 7 thousand protesters arrested in March 2008. The police charge them without giving answers. Little hope after the meeting between Obama and the Dalai Lama. Dharamsala (AsiaNews/RFA) - In a rare sign of protest, hundreds of Tibetans demonstrated peacefully against China on the day of the Lunar New Year. The demonstrators asked the Chinese government to release their compatriots, who were arrested during protests that erupted in Tibet in March 2008. The police charged and removed the protesters, arresting three people. Meanwhile, after the expected meeting with U.S. President Barack Obama, the Dalai Lama said he was "comfortable" about the low profile reception at the White House: "After 60 years of exile, I am used to this. The ]]> TUE, 23 FEB 2010 00:00:00 EST http://www.uyghurnews.com/tibetan/Read.asp?TibetNews=arrests-of-tibetans-continue-lhasa-prisoners-disappear&ItemID=TX-2282010476144833116225 Tibetans February 23, 2010 By Phurbu Thinley Phayul February 22, 2010 18:44] Dharamsala, Feb 22 - Four Tibetan nationals, including three women, were arrested Saturday from Nepal's Dolakha district after escaping Chinese-occupied Tibet, according to a Nepalese media report on Sunday. The four Tibetans did not possess travel documents and could be deported back to Tibet, according to Nepalnews online, which quoted police as saying. A Nepali national was also held on suspicion of helping them to cross the Tibetan border, police said adding all five persons have been handed over to the immigration department in Kathmandu. However, the police did not disclose the name of the Tibetans arrested from Dolakha district, 90 kilometres northeast of Kathmandu, the report said. According to Dolakha DSP Dhiraj Pratap Singh Tibetans walk for four-five days through the jungles to reach Dolakha. "They usually get ill by the time t]]> TUE, 23 FEB 2010 00:00:00 EST http://www.uyghurnews.com/tibetan/Read.asp?TibetNews=nepal-deploys-additional-armed-force-on-tibet-border-arrests-four-tibetans&ItemID=HN-2282010851144833114721 Tibetans in Tibet protest detentions February 23, 2010 Monks and nuns in Tibet protest over detainees unaccounted for after nearly two years. Radio Free Asia (RFA) February 22, 2010 HONG KONG - Hundreds of Tibetans staged a rare public protest in the southwestern Chinese province of Sichuan during the lunar new year holiday, known as Losar, according to sources in the region. Hundreds of monks and nuns from Gede and Se monasteries, and the Mani nunnery, staged a sit-in in Ngaba township [in Chinese, Aba] on Feb. 14. "Yes, [the Tibetans held a sit-in]," said one Ngaba resident. "The Tibetans have all left. Gone home." A second resident, asked if armed police were dispatched to the scene, replied, "Yes, yes, lots of them." Dekyi Dolma, a nun whose hometown is in Ngaba but who currently lives in the northern Indian town of Dharamsala, said as many as eight or nine monasteries and nunneries were involved in the protest. "They staged the sit-in because th]]> TUE, 23 FEB 2010 00:00:00 EST http://www.uyghurnews.com/tibetan/Read.asp?TibetNews=tibetans-in-tibet-protest-detentions&ItemID=PJ-2282010854244833608140 Tibetans February 23, 2010 By Phurbu Thinley Phayul February 22, 2010 Dharamsala, Feb 22 - Four Tibetan nationals, including three women, were arrested Saturday from Nepal's Dolakha district after escaping Chinese-occupied Tibet, according to a Nepalese media report on Sunday. The four Tibetans did not possess travel documents and could be deported back to Tibet, according to Nepalnews online, which quoted police as saying. A Nepali national was also held on suspicion of helping them to cross the Tibetan border, police said adding all five persons have been handed over to the immigration department in Kathmandu. However, the police did not disclose the name of the Tibetans arrested from Dolakha district, 90 kilometres northeast of Kathmandu, the report said. According to Dolakha DSP Dhiraj Pratap Singh Tibetans walk for four-five days through the jungles to reach Dolakha. "They usually get ill by the time they rea]]> TUE, 23 FEB 2010 00:00:00 EST http://www.uyghurnews.com/tibetan/Read.asp?TibetNews=nepal-deploys-additional-armed-force-on-tibet-border-arrests-four-tibetans&ItemID=TE-2282010315144833263505 China's Tibet Tactics February 23, 2010 Verbal attacks underline Beijing's insecurities, not its strength. The Wall Street Journal (WSJ) February 22, 2010 Much ado has been made about President Obama's chat with the Dalai Lama last week and the predictable response from Beijing. "The U.S. act grossly interfered in China's internal affairs, gravely hurt the Chinese people's national sentiments and seriously damaged the Sino-U.S. ties," said a government spokesman with the usual understatement. But the verbal barrage reveals more about China than it does about U.S. policy toward Tibet. Beijing believes it can browbeat other nations into ignoring its human-rights violations in Tibet. In 2008, China canceled a trade summit with the European Union because of a planned meeting between the Dalai Lama and Nicolas Sarkozy. In 2007, shortly after the Dalai Lama received the Congressional gold medal, U.S. warships were turned away from Hong Kong. Similar petty retaliations hav]]> TUE, 23 FEB 2010 00:00:00 EST http://www.uyghurnews.com/tibetan/Read.asp?TibetNews=opinion-chinas-tibet-tactics&ItemID=YR-2282010147444833433568 Dalai Lama: Image vs. Reality February 23, 2010 Rebecca Novick The Huffington Post February 22, 2010 08:40 AM After snubbing him during his Washington DC visit last October, President Obama finally met with the Dalai Lama on February 18th this year. Predictably, China's leaders warned of damage to Sino-US relations if the administration went ahead with the meeting (while making the rather bizarre claim that by doing so the U.S. side would be violating international rules). But even though the meeting was held in the face of China's objections, the details were a delicately choreographed display of tiptoe diplomacy-no public appearance with the president, the ultra low-key backdrop of the White House map room, and only one official photographer allowed. The photograph that was released to the press, with the President appearing as if he's lecturing the spiritual leader sets a very different tone to the photo of the two men in smiling camaraderie taken when Obama was a mer]]> TUE, 23 FEB 2010 00:00:00 EST http://www.uyghurnews.com/tibetan/Read.asp?TibetNews=obama-and-the-dalai-lama-image-vs-reality&ItemID=GW-2282010351044833118329 Dalai Lama February 23, 2010 By NICHOLAS KRISTOF The New York Times February 20, 2010 China-U.S. relations are on a downhill slide this year, and so it?s inevitable that critics will ask whether it was really necessary for President Obama to meet the Dalai Lama at the White House. It?s a fair question, and the answer is: Yes, it was necessary. But I think it?s also important for the Obama administration to explain clearly to the Chinese people why it did so. The Dalai Lama is reviled by many ordinary Chinese, perhaps more so by the public than by the Chinese government, although this in part reflects propaganda critical of the Dalai Lama. The most important thing that needs to be conveyed is that it?s in China?s own interests that the world, China included, engage the Dalai Lama. China is making a catastrophically bad bet that after His Holiness dies, the Tibetan problem will be easier to solve. In fact, the reverse is true. The one thing most Tibetans agree on is their ]]> TUE, 23 FEB 2010 00:00:00 EST http://www.uyghurnews.com/tibetan/Read.asp?TibetNews=obama-and-the-dalai-lama&ItemID=OR-2282010354144833611748 Tibetan Review February 22, 2010 While the Chinese government policy against him had hardened, there was growing understanding of and support for his middle-way position among China?s intellectual community, the Los Angeles Times online Feb 20 cited the Dalai Lama as saying in an interview Feb 20 in Los Angeles. "The number of Chinese intellectuals and writers [coming] out, they openly support our middle way approach and [are] very critical of their own government policy," the report quoted him as saying, speaking in English. He has said their sympathy had grown especially after the 2008 protests across the Tibetan Plateau which prompted a swift, violent response from Chinese authorities. Since then, he has said, he has met many Chinese who say they were unaware of the Tibetan issue until the demonstrations. Now, he has added, they find his call for a self-governing Tibet that remains a part of]]> TUE, 23 FEB 2010 00:00:00 EST http://www.uyghurnews.com/tibetan/Read.asp?TibetNews=chinese-govt-more-hardline-intellectuals-more-understanding&ItemID=LC-2282010643444833953377 Tibetans in Tibet February 23, 2010 By Tsering Passang (By e-mail) February 21, 2010 London - Tibetans in the UK remember their brethrens in Tibet on the eve of the biggest Tibetan festival of the year. Last year, the Tibetan Community in Britain cancelled the Losar (Tibetan New Year) celebration and instead organised a special prayer meeting in response to the calls of "no celebration of Losar" from Tibet. This year, '2137 of the Iron Tiger ' fell on 14th February  and in London over  300 Tibetans and their British supporters gathered in a north London venue to celebrate their most important festival of the year on 13th February. Following the announcement from the Tibetan Government in Exile this year to 'not hold any celebratory events during Losar' the Tibetan Community in Britain had to re-schedule their Losar programme at the last minute and consequently organised a low key gathering to allow Tibetans and their supporters t]]> TUE, 23 FEB 2010 00:00:00 EST http://www.uyghurnews.com/tibetan/Read.asp?TibetNews=london-losar-gathering-in-memory-of-tibetans-in-tibet&ItemID=KF-2282010304244833809704 Dalai Lama doesn't fault Obama for low-key meeting February 22, 2010 By Associated Press February 20, 2010 BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. (AP) - The Dalai Lama says he doesn?t fault President Obama for his low-key reception in Washington because he recognizes that the president must juggle ties to the Tibetan spiritual leader with concerns about angering China. The Dalai Lama told The Associated Press he understands that Obama must be practical in exercising his commitment to human rights worldwide. "No disappointment. The last six decades my heart hardened. I do not consider important political gestures. I don?t care. The important is meet face-to-face," said the Dalai Lama, who was sometimes assisted by a translator. "With President Clinton, the first meeting was a ?drop-in,?" he said. "People asked me the same question (then). I don?t care." The Dalai Lama made the remarks while in Los Angeles to support Whole Child International, an organization that advocates]]> MON, 22 FEB 2010 00:00:00 EST http://www.uyghurnews.com/tibetan/Read.asp?TibetNews=dalai-lama-doesnt-fault-obama-for-low-key-meeting&ItemID=XS-2282010107444833102162 Tibetan Review February 21, 2010 The number of protests and those sentenced for being involved in them across the Tibetan Plateau in 2008 and thereafter may have been far more than what has been reported so far. In the Tehor area of Karze (Chinese: Ganzi) Prefecture of Sichuan Province alone, there were more than 240 peaceful protests and over 140 were sentenced between Mar 10?08  and Jun 11?09, according to a new report released Feb 19 by the Tehor Welfare Association in Dharamsala. The report says more than 3,000 Tibetans took part in these demonstrations and that evidences show 25 Tibetans having been brutally killed by Chinese troops in their crackdowns. "An uncountable number of Tibetans were arrested arbitrarily, while hundreds were maimed and thousands severely beaten," the exile Tibetan government?s Tibet.net Feb 19 quoted the report, written in Tibetan, as saying. In his foreword to the ]]> MON, 22 FEB 2010 00:00:00 EST http://www.uyghurnews.com/tibetan/Read.asp?TibetNews=over-240-protests-140-sentencings-in-tehor-for-protests&ItemID=MA-2282010853844833615356 Dalai Lama launches L.A. visit February 22, 2010 Tibet's exiled leader is traveling and speaking in support of Whole Child International, including a public address scheduled for Sunday at Gibson Amphitheatre. Mitchell Landsberg, mitchell.landsberg@latimes.com Los Angeles Times February 20, 2010 After pressing the case for Tibetan autonomy with President Obama in Washington, the Dalai Lama said Saturday that he is encouraged by what he sees as rising support for the Tibetan cause among Chinese intellectuals, although he said the Chinese government remains "hardened" against him. The spiritual leader of Tibetan Buddhism arrived in Los Angeles on Friday and planned to spend the weekend here in support of Whole Child International, a nonprofit organization that works on behalf of orphaned and abandoned children. In an interview with The Times, he acknowledged that there had been no progress in the latest round of talks with China over his call for greater autonomy in Tibet. Sti]]> MON, 22 FEB 2010 00:00:00 EST http://www.uyghurnews.com/tibetan/Read.asp?TibetNews=dalai-lama-launches-la-visit&ItemID=KK-2282010143244833956984 Holiness Begins LA Visit With Special Programme On Care For Orphan Children February 22, 2010 Report filed by Tenzin Dickyi, Office of Tibet, New York Central Tibetan Administration (CTA) February 19, 2010 His Holiness the Dalai Lama had two main events. In the morning he joined a small group discussion on improving childcare worldwide, particularly care for orphan children. In the afternoon, His Holiness attended a luncheon reception where he received the first Whole Child International Humanitarian Award and participated in a question and session with TV journalist Giselle Fernandez. His Holiness started the day at 9 am by holding private audiences in his room at the Hotel Montage with members of the Whole Child International, a charity organisation dedicated to improving orphanage care-giving that is hosting His Holiness in Los Angeles. Then from 9:30-11:30 am, His Holiness participated in a small discussion held in the hotel titled "Compassion in Action: Cultivating the I]]> MON, 22 FEB 2010 00:00:00 EST http://www.uyghurnews.com/tibetan/Read.asp?TibetNews=his-holiness-begins-la-visit-with-special-programme-on-care-for-orphan-children&ItemID=PX-2282010975444833127048 Tibetan plateau including Tibetan areas incorporated into Chinese provinces. This spontaneous outpouring of decades of deep-seated resentment and anger among Tibetans exacerbated by increasing alienation and exclusion caught the authorities unawares. Strikingly, the largest number of protests was registered in Sichuan province where a majority of Kham and Amdo Tibetans live outside Tibet Autonomous Region (TAR) - of the 1,542 Tibetans who are still detained, 820 are from this province. Decades of Chinese policy of pumping billions of dollars in state subsidies and investments along with repression of Tibetan people has failed to buy the party-state legitimacy in Tibet. ]]> MON, 22 FEB 2010 00:00:00 EST http://www.uyghurnews.com/tibetan/Read.asp?TibetNews=stabilizing-tibet-with-chinese-characteristics&ItemID=PQ-2282010435644833792033 Buddhists diverse February 22, 2010 Dalai Lama may get the most attention, but South Florida already has many Buddhist groups James D. Davis South Florida Sun-Sentinel February 20, 2010 The Dalai Lama, who will speak at local colleges Tuesday and Wednesday, may be the world's best-known Buddhist. But South Florida is already fertile soil for various forms of the religion. There's a Vietnamese temple in Davie. A temple in Tamarac built by Taiwanese Buddhists. Centers for Zen and Tibetan Buddhism in Broward, Palm Beach and Miami-Dade counties. One of the biggest pieces of religious real estate in South Florida is the 126-acre Florida Nature Culture Center in Weston, owned by Soka Gakkai International, drawn from Japanese Buddhism. The Buddhist leader - whose speeches at Nova Southeastern and Florida Atlantic universities are sold out - has helped catalyze the region's spiritual development, Mai Nguyen believes. "It used to be that not enough people were on a spiritu]]> MON, 22 FEB 2010 00:00:00 EST http://www.uyghurnews.com/tibetan/Read.asp?TibetNews=south-floridas-buddhists-diverse&ItemID=LJ-2282010353644833618964 Holiness Receives US' Top Accolade For Promoting Democratic Values February 22, 2010 Report filed by Mr Bhuchung K. Tsering of ICT Central Tibetan Administration (CTA) February 19, 2010 The National Endowment for Democracy presented His Holiness the Dalai Lama with the Democracy Service Medal in recognition of the Tibetan temporal and spiritual leader's commitment to advancing the principles of democracy and human dignity. His Holiness the Dalai Lama in his remarks talked about the history of the struggles of the Tibetan people in the past 50 years. (Click here to watch the award ceremony) Washington, DC: His Holiness the Dalai Lama visited the Library of Congress this morning for his final programme in Washington, DC during this visit.  His Holiness was received at the Library by Librarian Dr. James Billington, Carl Gershman, the president of National Endowment for Democracy (NED), and NED Board Vice Chair Judy Shelton. His Holiness then viewed some exhibits of the Library?s]]> MON, 22 FEB 2010 00:00:00 EST http://www.uyghurnews.com/tibetan/Read.asp?TibetNews=his-holiness-receives-us-top-accolade-for-promoting-democratic-values&ItemID=PE-2282010814444833274329 Tibet/China issue: Dalai Lama February 22, 2010 Reuters February 20, 2010 The Dalai Lama, the exiled spiritual leader of Tibet, said the United States and other countries could help his campaign for a free Tibet by promoting an open society in China. "Censorship ... is the source of the problem," the Dalai Lama said in an interview with Reuters on Saturday in Beverly Hills. The Dalai Lama fled Tibet in 1959 after a failed uprising against Chinese rule. He now lives in exile in India and advocates "meaningful autonomy" for Tibet within China. "The Chinese people have no opportunity to know our issue," said the Buddhist monk, who Beijing has branded as a dangerous separatist for demanding Tibetan self-determination. "Once China becomes an open society - freedom of speech, freedom of press, freedom of information - all this unnecessary fear and doubt will reduce," he said. "That's the real answer for this problem. "]]> MON, 22 FEB 2010 00:00:00 EST http://www.uyghurnews.com/tibetan/Read.asp?TibetNews=censorship-at-heart-of-tibetchina-issue-dalai-lama&ItemID=HT-2282010731744833110880 China: Dalai February 22, 2010 ZeeNews February 21, 2010, Los Angles (PTI) - Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama says China remains "very hardened" towards him and fellow Tibetans though he is encouraged by the growing support for the Tibetan cause among Chinese intellectuals. Two days after his historic meeting with US President Barack Obama at the White House, the Dalai Lama said there has been no progress in the latest round of talks with China on the vexed Tibet issue and over his call for greater autonomy. "No progress...... Always the Chinese authorities [are] very hardened. Not only [against] Tibetans, but also... toward their own people," the exiled Tibetan spiritual leader told the Los Angeles Times when asked if he saw any progress on the Tibet issue. The last round of negotiations between his envoys and officials of the Chinese government were held last month but reported no progress. China told representat]]> MON, 22 FEB 2010 00:00:00 EST http://www.uyghurnews.com/tibetan/Read.asp?TibetNews=encouraged-by-backing-from-intellectuals-in-china-dalai&ItemID=UJ-2282010106944833109377 China has repeatedly accused the US of "arrogance." Now some Americans have taken to asserting the same about China. There is a difference, however. Chinese allegations are publicly orchestrated via spokesmen for the government, the Chinese Communist Party, the People?s Liberation Army and government-controlled press and television news. Withering Chinese criticism has been aimed at US President Barack Obama?s meeting last week with the Dalai Lama, the Tibetan spiritual leader, at the White House. American suggestions that the Chinese have become arrogant come from "China hands" who specialize in the study of China and they are assessments made privately so as not to arouse more Chinese ire. In public, allegations of Chinese arrogance come from conservatives who profess to see a Chinese threat to the US. These transpacif]]> MON, 22 FEB 2010 00:00:00 EST http://www.uyghurnews.com/tibetan/Read.asp?TibetNews=beijings-arrogance-has-us-on-defensive&ItemID=QC-228201024944833936307 Dalai Lama February 22, 2010 By Li Hongmei ChinaView (People's Republic of China) February 21, 2010 BEIJING, Feb. 21 - The exiled 14th Dalai Lama got so intoxicated and disoriented on an international occasion November 22, 2009, that he even publicly stated he was the "son of India", in that he "has fed on Indian food" since fleeing China half a century ago, thus positioning "His Holiness" as an object of the worldwide ridicule. On the surface, the Dalai Lama still keeps the common sense that he shouldn't bite the hand that is feeding him. But perhaps, it is the plausible reason to explain why he could turn to bite the hand that has fed him. He again stressed his position as the "son of India" at the turn of the year, further elaborating on his rhetoric by saying that physically he is Tibetan, but spiritually he is already an Indian. To fend off further taunts and jibes, Lodi Gyari, the "private representative&]]> MON, 22 FEB 2010 00:00:00 EST http://www.uyghurnews.com/tibetan/Read.asp?TibetNews=obama-might-further-disorient-dalai-lama&ItemID=HZ-2282010570844833258161 human rights, and against all forms of injustice are well known,? the statement said. One of the causes George Sahib - as he is known by his admirers - fought for is the Tibetan cause. For the past 50 years, he has been a faithful friend of the Dalai Lama. In one of the last interviews h]]> MON, 22 FEB 2010 00:00:00 EST http://www.uyghurnews.com/tibetan/Read.asp?TibetNews=we-will-neither-forget-nor-forgive-for-a-100-years&ItemID=MM-2282010403044833428224 China's Crises in Tibet and Xinjiang February 22, 2010 Beijing believes investment is the way out By Ji Da New Epoch Weekly February 19, 2010 While those in charge of propaganda work to intoxicate the country with the image of a "harmonious society" at the behest of party leader Hu Jintao, frequent uprisings in China?s western ethnic provinces of Tibet and Xinjiang have, to the embarrassment of officials, laid bare the lie. In fact, the intensifying social conflicts in the west have pushed China?s teetering stability to the limit. Official Chinese media reported that a Tibetan protest on March 14, 2008 resulted in 13 deaths and an economic loss of 200 million yuan (US$29 million). Over the following nine months, numerous other protests broke out in Tibet and surrounding areas. Neighboring Xinjiang Province experienced street protests on an even larger scale in the capital city of Urumqi on July 5, 2009. Beijing reported a death toll of 175, but overseas Uyghur groups claimed]]> MON, 22 FEB 2010 00:00:00 EST http://www.uyghurnews.com/tibetan/Read.asp?TibetNews=chinas-crises-in-tibet-and-xinjiang&ItemID=BD-2282010778144833426720 China's Crackdown in Tibet February 22, 2010 Kalon Tripa Prof Samdhong Rinpoche (C) releases a book on peaceful protests in Tehor in Tibet's Kham Province, at a function in Dharamsala, India, on 19 Feb 2010 Central Tibetan Administration (CTA) February 19, 2010 Dharamshala - A Tibetan organisation has meticulously compiled and published a book detailing comprehensive account of events backed with credible evidences of Tibetan people's peaceful demonstrations against five decades of wrong policies of the Chinese government in Tibet in 2008. It clearly details the deaths of hundreds of Tibetans, arrests and torture of thousands following the Chinese government's brutal clampdown throughout Tibet in general, and in the Tehor region in particular. Based on factual accounts told by different sources in Tibet to the Central Tibetan Administration, the Tibetan Solidarity Committee, and news reports of world media, the book contains lucid description of ]]> MON, 22 FEB 2010 00:00:00 EST http://www.uyghurnews.com/tibetan/Read.asp?TibetNews=new-book-details-peaceful-protests-and-chinas-crackdown-in-tibet&ItemID=JX-2282010781244833920139 Tibetan principals involved in the dialogue process and the actual negotiations. It is also enriched by the author`s own extensive research on a subject much commented but little researched on. The Negotiations that Never Were will form the basis of future Sino-Tibetan negotiations literature because the book's enduring contribution to this literature is the blow-by-blow accounts it gives of all the contacts and discussions between Dharamsala and Beijing. www.sify.com The Negotiations that Never Were will form the basis of future Sino-Tibetan negotiations literature because the book's enduring contribution to this literature is the blow-by-blow accounts it gives of all the contacts and discussions between Dharamsala and Beijing. In reviewing this book one marvels at the fact that these negotiations took ]]> MON, 22 FEB 2010 00:00:00 EST http://www.uyghurnews.com/tibetan/Read.asp?TibetNews=book-review-dharamsala-and-beijing-the-negotiations-that-never-were&ItemID=GI-228201070644833261769 Dalai Lama awarded in US despite China anger February 21, 2010 By Shaun Tandon AFP February 20, 2010 WASHINGTON - The Dalai Lama was bestowed Friday with a US award for his commitment to democracy, the latest honour for the Tibetan spiritual leader despite China's angry protests over his White House welcome. One day after President Barack Obama met the exiled monk at the White House in defiance of Chinese warnings, the National Endowment for Democracy gave the Dalai Lama a medallion before a standing-room-only crowd at the Library of Congress. The Endowment, which is funded by the US Congress, hailed the Dalai Lama for supporting a democratic government in exile and his willingness to even abolish his centuries-old spiritual position if Tibetans so choose. "By demonstrating moral courage and self-assurance in the face of brute force and abusive insults, he has given hope against hope not just to his own people but also to oppressed people everywhere," Endowment president Car]]> SUN, 21 FEB 2010 00:00:00 EST http://www.uyghurnews.com/tibetan/Read.asp?TibetNews=dalai-lama-awarded-in-us-despite-china-anger&ItemID=SG-228201074344833745567 Dalai Lama meeting will not change anything for Tibet February 21, 2010 By Claude Arpi www.Rediff.com (India) February 20, 2010 When a friend asked me what I thought of the long-awaited meeting between the Dalai Lama and United States President Barack Obama, I immediately replied, "It is good for Obama's karma." And when the friend asked, "What about the Tibetans," I just sighed. Most of the media covering the 'historic' event emphasised the courage of the US president, who dared to 'defy' Chinese anger (and diktats) to meet the Tibetan leader. 'Ignoring strong objections by China, United States President Barack Obama met exiled Tibetan spiritual leader Dalai Lama,' the media reported. Well, the fact is that meeting the 1989 Nobel Peace Prize Laureate is the least the new Nobel Peace Prize winner could do. He could not once again ignore the Tibetan leader after his recent attempts to 'engage' many rogue States and individuals. Obama did finally meet the Dalai]]> SUN, 21 FEB 2010 00:00:00 EST http://www.uyghurnews.com/tibetan/Read.asp?TibetNews=obama-dalai-lama-meeting-will-not-change-anything-for-tibet&ItemID=YL-2282010277944833430328 Tibetans celebrate Dalai Lama meeting with President Obama despite crackdown February 21, 2010 ICT report February 19, 2010 In a second day of celebration, on February 18, Tibetans defied intense security by chanting prayers and setting off fireworks in the Amdo area of Tibet, where the Dalai Lama was born, marking his meeting with President Obama that day. In the Ngaba (Chinese: Aba) area of Sichuan province (within the Tibetan area of Amdo), monks and laypeople gathered to pray for the long life of the Dalai Lama and make offerings, according to Tibetan exile sources with contacts in the area. The sources said that the atmosphere was celebratory, compared to the commemoration of the first day of Tibetan New Year (Losar) on Sunday, February 14, when security in the area was stepped up after Tibetans prayed for those killed in demonstrations across Tibet beginning in March 2008. (http://savetibet.org/media-center/ict-news-reports/tension-across-tibet-tibetans-mark-new-year-prayers-dea]]> SUN, 21 FEB 2010 00:00:00 EST http://www.uyghurnews.com/tibetan/Read.asp?TibetNews=tibetans-celebrate-dalai-lama-meeting-with-president-obama-despite-crackdown&ItemID=HG-2282010281044833923747 China Says Relationship with Washington "Seriously Undermined" Following Meeting Between President Barack Obama and Dalai Lama February 21, 2010 China Says Relationship with Washington "Seriously Undermined" Following Meeting Between President Barack Obama and Dalai Lama TransWorld News (TWN) February 18, 2010 Atlanta, Ga. - China has said their relationship with Washington has been "seriously undermined" after U.S. President Barack Obama met with Tibet?s spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama, on Thursday. While the Dalai Lama is the spiritual leader of Tibet he was forced into exile in 1959 following a failed uprising against China. The Chinese government has considered the Dalai Lama a separatist and has urged foreign leaders to avoid meetings with him. The White House insisted the meeting between Obama and the Dalai Lama was a private matter and not political yet in a ministry statement China noted ?The behavior of the US side seriously interferes in China's internal]]> SUN, 21 FEB 2010 00:00:00 EST http://www.uyghurnews.com/tibetan/Read.asp?TibetNews=china-says-relationship-with-washington-seriously-undermined-following-meeting-between-president-barack-obama-and-dalai-lama&ItemID=LB-2282010741844833579112 China summons US Ambassador over Dalai Lama's Washington visit February 21, 2010 By Jane Macartney in Beijing From Times Online (UK) February 19, 2010 China?s first order of business this morning was to issue a protest against President Obama?s meeting with the Dalai Lama, demanding Washington take steps to improve ties strained by the encounter. How Beijing calibrated that response has been widely anticipated as a signal of whether its anger at Washington?s show of respect to a man China accuses of fomenting unrest in Tibet will further damage already strained relations. The language used by Foreign Ministry spokesman Ma Zhaoxu was relatively restrained, stopping short of warning of further harm to relations and reflecting Beijing?s desire to limit the impact while such serious issues as U.S. arms sales to Taiwan remain on the table. Mr Ma said China expressed "strong dissatisfaction and resolute opposition" to the meeting. He said: "The Chinese side demands that the U]]> SUN, 21 FEB 2010 00:00:00 EST http://www.uyghurnews.com/tibetan/Read.asp?TibetNews=china-summons-us-ambassador-over-dalai-lamas-washington-visit&ItemID=KE-2282010402644833435439 Dalai Lama no room but doom February 21, 2010 Editor: Mu Xuequan English.news.cn (People's Republic of China) February 19, 2010 BEIJING, Feb. 20 (Xinhua) - In his five decades of exile, the Dalai Lama has never stopped plotting to seek "Tibet independence" through allying with foreign forces to internationalize the so-called "Tibet issue" and press the Chinese government. In recent years, he tried desperately to make international appearances, begging for visits to foreign countries and meeting with state leaders. On Thursday, U.S. President Barack Obama met with the Dalai Lama despite stern warnings from China. After the meeting, the Dalai Lama claimed that he had the responsibility to speak for the six million Tibetans. However, he must have forgotten that the fate of Tibet never relies on him and a few foreigners but has always been decided by all the Chinese people, including all ethnic minorities in the region. "TIBET ISSUE" A P]]> SUN, 21 FEB 2010 00:00:00 EST http://www.uyghurnews.com/tibetan/Read.asp?TibetNews=foreign-backing-gives-dalai-lama-no-room-but-doom&ItemID=RH-228201034344833414161 Dalai Lama meeting? February 21, 2010 Editor: Mu Xuequan English.news.cn (People's Republic of China) February 19, 2010 BEIJING, Feb.19 (Xinhua) - Despite China's firm and repeated opposition, U.S. President Barack Obama met with the Dalai Lama in Washington on Thursday. Obama pledged to build "a positive, cooperative and comprehensive U.S.-China relationship for the 21st century" during his high-profile China visit last November, but his pledge has failed to hold water merely three months later. International observers hold that, through the meeting, Obama wants to achieve his multiple political goals at home and abroad, while the Dalai Lama pursues his illusion to split China in the guise of religion. Then what's the real motive for Thursday's meeting between the two? TIBET CARD - WASHINGTON'S UNCHANGED POLICY TOWARD CHINA In 1991, then U.S. President George H. W. Bush became the first U.S. president that met the Dalai Lama. There had been 11 meetings b]]> SUN, 21 FEB 2010 00:00:00 EST http://www.uyghurnews.com/tibetan/Read.asp?TibetNews=whats-behind-obama-dalai-lama-meeting&ItemID=NZ-2282010952244833241092 Tibet February 21, 2010 Roy Fitzgerald The Huffington Post February 18, 2010 The Dalai Lama has led a non-violent campaign of resistance to Chinese occupation of Tibet since 1959. Tibet is not free. Therefore this campaign has not worked. This is the sad truth. I'd love to believe that tyranny can always be overcome by peaceful protest: Non-violent resistance did help India to gain independence from Britain, but the British were leaving anyway. Try staging peaceful protests against panzer divisions, or the Chinese government. The sad reality is that all the historical evidence suggests that violent insurrection has a much better track record of achieving freedom: American independence was achieved through violent insurrection, likewise in Ireland, Haiti and many others countries. Tibet's capital, Lhasa, is now majority Han Chinese. Beijing has for years actively settled the area with ethnic Chinese. A new rail link direct from Beijing makes settlement easier]]> SUN, 21 FEB 2010 00:00:00 EST http://www.uyghurnews.com/tibetan/Read.asp?TibetNews=the-west-must-stand-up-for-tibet&ItemID=KK-2282010241644833582720 China and saying the West should stand up for Tibetans. Within an hour of the piece going online, my normally reliable laptop began to play up: programs seized, and weird error massages kept coming up. Microsoft Word went crazy. My computer then stopped functioning completely for the first time in the three years I've had it. A friend, an IT security consultant, said this could have been a due to hacking or cyber attacks. Now, in my case, I'm sure it's just a coincidence. I'd actually be quite flattered if the Chinese authorities took such an interest in my scribblings. But cyber-attacks emanating from China are a very real phenomenon for journalists, especially in the run up sensitive events like the yesterday's meeting between President Obama and the Dalai Lama. In fact, it is now almost routine for China to launch cyber attacks on ]]> SUN, 21 FEB 2010 00:00:00 EST http://www.uyghurnews.com/tibetan/Read.asp?TibetNews=the-chinese-are-in-my-laptop&ItemID=JK-2282010330444833733007 China February 21, 2010 What are they afraid of? The economy is booming and politics stable. Yet China?s leaders seem edgy The Economist February 18, 2010 "THE forces pulling China toward integration and openness are more powerful today than ever before," said President Bill Clinton in 1999. China then, though battered by the Asian financial crisis, was busy dismantling state-owned enterprises and pushing for admission to the World Trade Organisation. Today, however, those forces look much weaker. A spate of recent events, from the heavy jail sentences passed on human-rights activists to an undiplomatic obduracy at the climate-change negotiations in Copenhagen last December, invite questions about the thinking of China?s leaders. Has their view of the outside world and dissent at home changed? Or were the forces detected by Mr Clinton and so many others after all not pulling so hard in the direction they were expecting? The early years of what C]]> SUN, 21 FEB 2010 00:00:00 EST http://www.uyghurnews.com/tibetan/Read.asp?TibetNews=the-politics-of-repression-in-china&ItemID=WA-2282010705544833731504 Tibet February 21, 2010 by Williams Cole The Brooklyn Rail February 18, 2010 The Dalai Lama?s visit to the White House in mid-February has brought the plight of Tibet back into the news. Yet even when that story does resurface, there is rarely much insightful explanation.  That?s what is great about young filmmakers like Veronica Jerry Mukhia, who is of Nepalese heritage and currently living in NYC.  Her film Rangzen! (Independence) is an original and insightful introduction to the issue of Tibetan independence. Meanwhile, her work Reflections is a more meditative piece, complementing the historical analysis of Rangzen! with a philosophical assessment of the nature of storytelling. What?s important to note about Rangzen! is that, rather than launch a simplistic diatribe against China, Mukhia introduces the history through Jamyang Norbu, a passionate Tibetan author/activist in the exile community, and Tom Gunfield, a dispassionate author and historian with expertise i]]> SUN, 21 FEB 2010 00:00:00 EST http://www.uyghurnews.com/tibetan/Read.asp?TibetNews=viewing-tibet&ItemID=LI-2282010452044833244699 Dalai Lama is in the U.S. visiting the White House, Tibetan Buddhism gets stepped on by CNN. by John Kusumi (centrist liberal) www.nolanhart.com February 19, 2010 It's Thursday, February 18, 2010, and U.S. President Barack Obama is hosting a meeting at the White House with Tibet's Dalai Lama. Meanwhile, America's media of pawns, shills, and propagandistic sock puppets is completely dropping the ball in its coverage of this meeting. Suppose that Russia kidnapped the Pope and offered a replacement, to be a pretender to the papacy? -The world, in its outrage, would ascribe no legitimacy to the pretend Pope. We know how Popes are selected (by a conclave of Cardinals), and that method is not by the fiat of Russian leaders. Indeed, in the above example, the world would express shock, outrage, and demand that the situation be returned to the status quo ante. For about a decade now, America's news media has been keeping the U.S. public ]]> SUN, 21 FEB 2010 00:00:00 EST http://www.uyghurnews.com/tibetan/Read.asp?TibetNews=media-cnn-commits-sacrilege&ItemID=JP-2282010274944833563882 China's Lama show at Buddhist forum February 21, 2010 The Telegraph (India) April 12, 2006 Hangzhou (China), April 12 (Reuters) - China?s atheist communist rulers used the opportunity of the World Buddhist Forum to introduce the 11th Panchen Lama to the world stage today, but fellow delegates shunned him. Beijing anointed Gyaltsen Norbu as Tibet?s second-most important religious figure in 1995, rejecting spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama?s nominee, who has disappeared and is believed to be under house arrest. However, many Tibetans and westerners dismiss China?s choice as a sham. Gyaltsen Norbu sat alongside Buddhist leaders attending the World Buddhist Forum during an audience with Jia Qinglin, ranked fourth in the Communist Party hierarchy, at a hotel in the scenic city of Hangzhou in China's east coast. The visiting dignitaries had filed into a room and were introduced to Jia and other Communist leaders, but no one walked over to shake hands with Gyaltsen Norbu who sat quietly and a]]> SUN, 21 FEB 2010 00:00:00 EST http://www.uyghurnews.com/tibetan/Read.asp?TibetNews=chinas-lama-show-at-buddhist-forum&ItemID=IR-2282010935644833420209 Dalai Lama: less hoopla, please February 21, 2010 President Obama met with the Dalai Lama Thursday. But instead of in the Oval Office, the meeting took place in the Map Room - perhaps signaling a slight downgrading of the US relationship with the exiled Tibetan spiritual leader. By Peter Grier, Staff writer Christian Science Monitor February 18, 2010 Washington - The most important aspect of President Obama?s Thursday meeting with the Dalai Lama may be this: It took place in the Map Room. The Map Room is perfectly fine. It?s got some lovely Chippendale furniture, plus the last World War II situation map prepared for President Roosevelt. US chief executives often use it as an auxiliary parlor. But it is not the Oval Office. By talking with the Dalai Lama in this side chamber, Obama may be downgrading the US relationship with the Tibetan spiritual leader. Just a bit. After all, in 2007 President Bush met the Dalai Lama in public in the Capitol Rotunda, and]]> SUN, 21 FEB 2010 00:00:00 EST http://www.uyghurnews.com/tibetan/Read.asp?TibetNews=president-obama-meets-with-the-dalai-lama-less-hoopla-please&ItemID=OX-2282010139344833104970 Tibetans and Chinese: What's the Problem?" as part of the Hemmeter History lecture series on Thursday, Feb. 25 at 7 p.m. Nathan is an expert on Chinese politics, foreign policy and the issue of human rights. He is chair of the steering committee of the Center for the Study of human rights and chair of the Morningside Institutional Review Board (IRB) at Columbia University. Off campus, he is co-chair of the board, human rights in China, a member of the board of Freedom House, and a member of the Advisory Committee of human rights Watch, Asia, which he chaired from 1995-2000. A prolific author, Nathan's articles have appeared in World Politics, the China Quarterly, Journal of Democracy, the New Republic, the New York Review of Books, the London Review o]]> SUN, 21 FEB 2010 00:00:00 EST http://www.uyghurnews.com/tibetan/Read.asp?TibetNews=events-mka-has-lecture-on-tibet&ItemID=KP-228201057344833931900 Tibet House Us Announces Complete Benefit Concert Lineup February 21, 2010 www.Anti-Music.com February 19, 2010 Tibet House US is proud to announce the complete line up of the 20th Annual Benefit Concert at Carnegie Hall. This year's esteemed line up, guided by artistic director Philip Glass, includes Iggy Pop, Patti Smith with Jesse Smith, Regina Spektor, Gogol Bordello, Pierce Turner, Bajah + The Dry Eye Crew and Tenzin Kunsel. The concert will take place on Friday, February 26th and tickets are still available via the Carnegie Hall Box Office. For twenty years at the famed Carnegie Hall venue in NYC, the annual benefit concert has assembled some of the biggest names in music and offers audiences a mix of unprecedented musical collaborations and solo offerings. Past unforgettable concerts have featured such talents as David Bowie, Paul Simon, Sheryl Crow, Moby, Sigur Ros, Bright Eyes, R.E.M., The National, Natalie Merchant, Rufus Wainwright, Vampire Weekend, Emmylou Harris, ]]> SUN, 21 FEB 2010 00:00:00 EST http://www.uyghurnews.com/tibetan/Read.asp?TibetNews=events-tibet-house-us-announces-complete-benefit-concert-lineup&ItemID=IX-2282010774644833567490 Dalai Lama February 21, 2010 ICT Press Release February 18, 2010 Today?s meetings of His Holiness the Dalai Lama with President Barack Obama, in the late morning, and with Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, in the early afternoon, underscore that Tibet remains a serious issue of global importance. "Today's meeting is a clear demonstration of President Obama's support for His Holiness the Dalai Lama's efforts to resolve the Tibet issue as well as of his personal respect for him,? said Lodi Gyari, the Special Envoy of His Holiness the Dalai Lama and chief negotiator with the Chinese government. The White House has said that it expects the meeting between President Obama and the Dalai Lama to be "engaging and constructive," reflecting the recognition that there are serious and substantive issues on the table for Tibet, China, and the U.S.-Chinese relationship. "The United States has a long and active record on Tibet with]]> SUN, 21 FEB 2010 00:00:00 EST http://www.uyghurnews.com/tibetan/Read.asp?TibetNews=the-serious-agenda-for-president-obama-and-the-dalai-lama&ItemID=NL-2282010606944833737552 Dalai Lama February 21, 2010 The Washington Post (blog) February 18, 2010 Statement from the Press Secretary on the President' s meeting Thursday with His Holiness the XIV Dalai Lama: "The President met this morning at the White House with His Holiness the XIV Dalai Lama. The President stated his strong support for the preservation of Tibet's unique religious, cultural and linguistic identity and the protection of human rights for Tibetans in the People's Republic of China. The President commended the Dalai Lama's "Middle Way" approach, his commitment to nonviolence and his pursuit of dialogue with the Chinese government. The President stressed that he has consistently encouraged both sides to engage in direct dialogue to resolve differences and was pleased to hear about the recent resumption of talks. The President and the Dalai Lama agreed on the importance of a positive and cooperative relationship between the United States and China." ]]> SUN, 21 FEB 2010 00:00:00 EST http://www.uyghurnews.com/tibetan/Read.asp?TibetNews=obama-meets-with-dalai-lama&ItemID=TQ-2282010810544833422314 Dalai Lama says he's pleased with Obama talks February 21, 2010 By FOSTER KLUG The Associated Press (AP) February 18, 2010 WASHINGTON - President Barack Obama has concluded over an hour of private talks with the visiting Dalai Lama at the White House, and the exiled Tibetan spiritual leader declared himself "very happy." The Dalai Lama told reporters on the White House driveway that he spoke to Obama about the promotion of human value, religious harmony and the concerns of the Tibetan people. He said Obama was "supportive. He also urged a greater leadership role for women in the public life of nations. Obama's largely symbolic meeting with the Dalai Lama was kept low-key in deference to Chinese anger. Beijing considers the Buddhist monk a separatist, and Obama wanted to void angering China at a time when its cooperation was needed on nuclear standoffs, climate change and other priorities. THIS IS A BREAKING NEWS UPDATE. Check back soon for further information. AP's earl]]> SUN, 21 FEB 2010 00:00:00 EST http://www.uyghurnews.com/tibetan/Read.asp?TibetNews=dalai-lama-says-hes-pleased-with-obama-talks&ItemID=CL-2282010813644833915732 China condemns Obama meeting with Dalai Lama February 21, 2010 Reuters February 18, 2010 BEIJING, Feb. 19 (Reuters) - China condemned U.S. President Barack Obama's meeting with the Dalai Lama, saying it was "strongly dissatisfied" and expected Washington to take steps to put bilateral relations back on a healthy course. Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Ma Zhaoxu said in a statement issued early on Friday that the meeting between Obama and the exiled Tibetan leader shunned by Beijing "violated the U.S. government's repeated acceptance that Tibet is a part of China and it does not support Tibetan independence". "China expresses its strong dissatisfaction and resolute opposition to this (meeting)," Ma said in the comments issued by the official Xinhua news agency. China reviles the Dalai Lama, who wants self-rule for his homeland, as a separatist. (Reporting by Chris Buckley; Editing by Michael Roddy) ]]> SUN, 21 FEB 2010 00:00:00 EST http://www.uyghurnews.com/tibetan/Read.asp?TibetNews=china-condemns-obama-meeting-with-dalai-lama&ItemID=ZV-2282010103044833257362 Dalai Lama chides "childish" China policy on Tibet February 21, 2010 The Washington Times February 19, 2010 WASHINGTON (AP) - After his meeting with President Barack Obama, the Dalai Lama is chiding China for its "childish" and "limited" approach to Tibetan efforts for greater rights within China. The Dalai Lama told reporters Thursday that he expected a negative, scolding Chinese reaction to his meeting with Obama. China considers the exiled monk a separatist. But he says he is not frustrated that there has been so little progress on Tibetans' demands for greater autonomy. He says that Tibetans will never give up on their cause, even if progress comes after his lifetime. The spiritual leader of Tibet's Buddhists was greeted at his hotel by a large crowd of supporters who wept, prostrated themselves and chanted "Thank you, Obama" and "Long live the Dalai Lama." ]]> SUN, 21 FEB 2010 00:00:00 EST http://www.uyghurnews.com/tibetan/Read.asp?TibetNews=after-meeting-obama-dalai-lama-chides-childish-china-policy-on-tibet&ItemID=FJ-2282010935144833427425 China summons US Ambassador over Dalai Lama's Washington visit February 21, 2010 By Jane Macartney in Beijing Times Online (UK) February 19, 2010 London - China?s first order of business this morning was to issue a protest against President Obama?s meeting with the Dalai Lama, demanding Washington take steps to improve ties strained by the encounter. How Beijing calibrated that response has been widely anticipated as a signal of whether its anger at Washington?s show of respect to a man China accuses of fomenting unrest in Tibet will further damage already strained relations. The language used by Foreign Ministry spokesman Ma Zhaoxu was relatively restrained, stopping short of warning of further harm to relations and reflecting Beijing?s desire to limit the impact while such serious issues as U.S. arms sales to Taiwan remain on the table. Mr Ma said China expressed "strong dissatisfaction and resolute opposition" to the meeting. He said: "The Chinese side demands that t]]> SUN, 21 FEB 2010 00:00:00 EST http://www.uyghurnews.com/tibetan/Read.asp?TibetNews=china-summons-us-ambassador-over-dalai-lamas-washington-visit&ItemID=SY-2282010310344833425921 China summons U.S. ambassador over Dalai Lama meeting February 21, 2010 CNN February 19, 2010 STORY HIGHLIGHTS China expresses its "strong dissatisfaction" over Dalai Lama meeting to U.S. ambassador Dalai Lama met with U.S. President Barack Obama a day earlier at the White House China appealed for U.S. to "stop conniving and supporting anti-China separatist forces" Beijing regards the Dalai Lama as a separatist who wishes to sever Tibet from China Beijing, China (CNN) - China summoned the U.S. ambassador on Friday to express its "strong dissatisfaction" over the Dalai Lama's meeting with U.S. President Barack Obama a day earlier. China didn't disclose what was discussed during the session with Ambassador Jon Huntsman at the Foreign Ministry. But Beijing had warned that a meeting between the president and the exiled Tibetan spiritual leader would damage its ties with Washington. "The Chinese side expresses strong dissatisfaction and resolute oppositio]]> SUN, 21 FEB 2010 00:00:00 EST http://www.uyghurnews.com/tibetan/Read.asp?TibetNews=china-summons-us-ambassador-over-dalai-lama-meeting&ItemID=IF-2282010484844833233077