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Chinese Officials meet with Dalai Lama’s envoys
Sunday, May 4th, 2008
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Officials meet with Dalai Lama’s envoys
SHENZHEN — Chinese central government officials and the private representatives of the 14th Dalai Lama agreed to hold another round of contact and consultation at an appropriate time when they met on Sunday.
Mia Farrow warned against Olympic torch protest
Thursday, May 1st, 2008
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Mia Farrow warned against Olympic torch protest | World news | guardian.co.uk
Mia Farrow, one of the Chinese government’s most outspoken critics, was allowed to enter Hong Kong after a brief interview with immigration officers today - despite the banning of other campaigners ahead of tomorrow’s Olympic torch relay.
China offers to meet Dalai Lama aides
Friday, April 25th, 2008
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TheStar.com | World | China offers to meet Dalai Lama aides
THE ASSOCIATED PRESSBEIJING–Chinese state media say the government will meet with a private representative of the Dalai Lama soon.
Xinhua News Agency said today it has learned of the development “from official sources.”
An official was quoted as saying there had been requests repeatedly made by “the Dalai side for resuming talks.”
China has been under international pressure to open a dialogue with the Dalai Lama since anti-government riots in Tibet in mid-March.
Official Chinese line on Tibet
Friday, April 11th, 2008
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Whatever you think of the problems of the Chinese occupation of Tibet the below story is a close to the official Chinese line about the conflict. The article is from China Daily which in a;; things political it sings the party line. Incidently, their (Chinese government) handling of the public relations aspects of this problem is increasingly sophisticated and effective. When they find the proper mix of fact and fancy like the Bush folks did for several years, they will have it down.
Theocracy has lost its root in Tibet -experts
A modern administrative system featuring regional autonomy and proper public services, is thriving in Tibet, said Tibetologists who denied any possibility of the region returning to theocracy with the Dalai Lama as its head.Theocracy has lost its root in Tibet as people have learned from the past, Professor Lhagpa Phuntshogs, China Tibetology Research Center (CTRC) general director, told Xinhua Friday.
“Tibet had been under the theocratic rule and feudal serfdom for centuries until the 1950s,” he said, adding theocracy in Tibet was not unique from the system that used to dominate Europe and was abandoned since the Renaissance in the 15th century.
China blasts Dalai Lama as Olympic torch arrives
Monday, March 31st, 2008
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The Chinese seem to be pushing the envelope as far as demonizing this peaceful man. If they open the floodgates and let their general population migrate and idustrialize Tibet, it is all over for the Indigenous fols of the region.
China blasts Dalai Lama as Olympic torch arrives
BEIJING (Reuters) - China has stepped up attacks on the Dalai Lama, blasting him for abusing religion, stirring protests in Tibet and preparing for independence as the Olympic flame arrived in Beijing on Monday under tight security.The scorn aimed at Tibet’s exiled spiritual leader indicated Beijing was digging in its heels in the face of mounting pressure from abroad to engage in dialogue with the Nobel Peace Prize winner. That pressure follows more than two weeks of protests and suppression in Tibetan-populated areas of China.
Chinese security forces seal off Tibet capital
Sunday, March 30th, 2008
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Full story here: Chinese security forces seal off Tibet capital
BEIJING (Reuters) - Chinese security forces sealed off parts of Lhasa on Saturday and Tibet’s government-in-exile said it was investigating reports of fresh protests, weeks after the city was shaken by an anti-government riot.The reports coincided with a visit by a group of diplomats, who were led on a closely guarded tour of the city that has been at the heart of unrest throughout China’s ethnic Tibetan regions just months before the opening of the Beijing Olympics.
BBC NEWS | Asia-Pacific | Foreign diplomats on Tibet visit
Saturday, March 29th, 2008
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BBC NEWS | Asia-Pacific | Foreign diplomats on Tibet visit
Foreign diplomats are in Tibet on a fact-finding visit approved by China, following criticism of Beijing’s crackdown on Tibetan protests.
The UK and the US are among the 15 nations invited on the one-day trip to Tibet’s capital Lhasa - the first since anti-China riots began two weeks ago.
Fake Blood? Protest as entertainment?
Monday, March 24th, 2008
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AP PHOTO/YANNIS PETRIDIS
Mar. 24, 2008 Protesters disrupted the Beijing Olympics flame-lighting ceremony in Ancient Olympia on Monday and a Tibetan woman covered in fake blood briefly blocked the path of the torchbearer.
International spotlight on Tibet
Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
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More on the sad situation in Tibet:
China issued a “most wanted” list Friday of 21 rioters shown in grainy photos waving knives and fighting during last week’s violence over Chinese rule in Tibet. Thousands of troops continued to push into western China to contain unrest.
China reports 19 dead in Tibet riots
Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
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TheStar.com | World | China says 19 dead in Tibet riots
ReutersKANGDING–hina said 19 people died in riots in the Tibetan capital last week and official media warned against the unrest spreading to the northwest region of Xinjiang, where Uighur Muslims bridle under Chinese control.
Eighteen were burnt or hacked to death in the Lhasa violence, Xinhua news agency said. It has repeatedly quoted officials as saying separatists backed by the exiled Tibetan spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama, engineered the protests.
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