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BEIJING, March 23 (Xinhua) -- The "genuine autonomy
for the Tibetan people" advocated by the Dalai Lama is another term for "Tibet
independence," said a signed commentary published in Monday's Global Times, a
major Chinese newspaper.
The commentary, published under the byline Lin Feng,
said the "genuine autonomy" in the "Memorandum on Genuine Autonomy for the
Tibetan People" published in November 2008 ran counter to the Chinese
Constitution and related laws.
But the Dalai Lama recently reiterated that the
"Memorandum" was in line with the Constitution and laws on autonomy, according
to Lin, who added that various terms such as "high-level autonomy", "real
autonomy" and "meaningful autonomy", all with similar meaning, were used by the
monk.
However, the Dalai Lama had always said he did not
support "Tibet independence," according to the commentary.
It said the monk made clear in the "five-point peace
plan" in 1987, the "seven point new suggestions" in 1988 and the "memorandum" in
2008 that "high-level" autonomy should be achieved by way of "one country, two
systems," with the central government in charge of Tibet's defense and
diplomatic issues and the local government entitled to administration of
education, the economy, the environment and religious issues.
Lin said the Dalai Lama also proposed to set up
separate, independent executive, legislative and judicial organs in Tibet.
"Such a 'country' with separate executive,
legislative and judicial powers would be the Dalai Lama's ideal 'high-level
autonomy'," Lin said, adding: "The pretext of his autonomy is to negate history
that Tibet is an inseparable part of China.
"The Dalai Lama still claims that any country's
territory, including that of China, cannot be exactly same as throughout
history," it said, adding the monk was preparing for "Tibet independence" under
the guise of "high-level autonomy."
The Dalai Lama had demanded that Chinese troops and
military facilities be withdrawn from Tibet and that the central governmental
low Tibet to set up "overseas organs" to handle Tibet's contacts with foreign
countries, it said.
Lin said it was common sense that troops and
diplomatic organs were symbols of a government and national sovereignty.
"The 'Greater Tibet' with 'high-level autonomy' which
has been dreamed about by the Dalai Lama is actually without the Chinese
military presence and diplomatic control of the central government. Then how can
China exercise its 'indisputable' sovereignty over Tibet?"
The Dalai Lama had continued to distribute the
"Memorandum" in the international arena over the past few months, pressuring the
Chinese government to take action, it said, adding that Chinese officials had
already responded to it by saying that the "Memorandum" still preached "Tibet
independence" but with different phrasing such as "Constitution" and "national
regional autonomy."
Lin said China would not allow
any step back toward "Tibet independence" as such "wishful thinking" ran against
the Chinese Constitution and ethnic autonomy laws and infringed on the national
interest.
Dalai Lama's "Greater Tibet" neither
historical fact nor fits in reality: experts
BEIJING, March 14 (Xinhua) -- As the 14th Dalai Lama again
talked about bringing all Tibetans under "a single autonomous administration" in
his March 10 speech, Tibetologists here questioned the legitimacy and
feasibility of his plan.
"Greater Tibet", long advocated by the Dalai Lama and his
followers, was not a historical fact nor fitted in the reality, said Prof. An
Caidan with the China Tibetology Research Center.
Living Buddha: Dalai Lama's so-called
"middle way" unacceptable
TORONTO, March 20 (Xinhua) -- The Dalai Lama's so-called "middle way", which has
the idea of "Greater Tibet" as one of its key contents, is not acceptable to the
Chinese government, a living Buddha said here Friday.
"The so-called 'middle way' rhetoric of the Dalai Lama
sounds very attractive, but in fact it is problematic," Shingtsa Tenzinchodrak,
a living Buddha told a press conference.
Chinese political advisors: Dalai Lama not harmony promoter but
trouble maker
BEIJING, March 11 (Xinhua) -- Chinese political advisors
from the religious circle Wednesday dismissed the Dalai Lama's so-called
commitment to promote inter-religious harmony, saying he should not use religion
as a tool for his separatist activities.
"The Dalai Lama has not served the religious harmony but
instead repeatedly makes troubles," said Liu Bainian, vice chairman of the
Chinese Catholic Patriotic Association.
Living Buddha: Tibetan culture well
preserved
WASHINGTON, March 17
(Xinhua) -- The unique culture of the Tibetan people is well preserved in China
and the claims that the Tibetan culture is nearing extinction are simply not
true, a living Buddha of Tibetan Buddhism said here Tuesday.
"In old Tibet, 95 percent of Tibetans were illiterate. Now
the illiteracy rate has dropped significantly, as almost all school-age children
in Tibet have access to education with subsidies from the government," Shingtsa
Tenzinchodrak, a living Buddha of the Kagyu sect, told a press conference.
What a hell of Dalai Lama's crisis
management?
BEIJING, March 10 (Xinhua) -- Enjoying celebrity like a
Hollywood star, the Dalai Lama can by no means be too patient for only one day
to the negligence of world media which are occupied by economic concerns since
the global financial crisis.
His time to shine comes in March, an eventful month in
Tibetan history. The aura around him captured limelight again when on Tuesday
he, with his supernatural power as a divine monk, turned a happy land into "hell
on earth."
Dalai Lama's utter distortion of Tibet
history
BEIJING, March 10
(Xinhua) -- On March 10, 1959, the Dalai Lama and his supporters started an
armed rebellion in a desperate attempt to preserve Tibet's feudal serfdom and
split the region from China.
On Tuesday, exactly 50 years later, the Dalai Lama claimed
that Tibetans have been living in "hell on earth," as if the Tibet under the
former feudal serfdom ruled by him were a heaven.
