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Black days for the Dålai Låma

Here are two perspectives on recent events in Tîbet:

Black days for the Dålai Låma
On the China Matters blog:

Amidst the horrific violence of the last few days, somebody’s been working overtime to marginalize the Dålai Låma and undercut him as the leader of the worldwide Tîbetan movement.

Not just the Chinese.

This long post looks at the increasing militancy of the exile movement the Tîbetan Youth Congress and its president Tséwang Rîgzin, and how this will effect the situation in the Himalayan former kingdom. There's another informative post on the same blog called Tibetan Intifada that examines why the world may come to regard "direct action in Tibet as a Buddhist intifada led by confrontational hotheads, with monasteries and nunneries filling the role of extremist madrassahs". The blog is on Blogspot, which is blocked in China.


China and India: Oh to be different
An opinion piece by The Hindu's Beijing correspondent Pallavi Aiyar contrasting China's economic achievements with her native India's political achievements.

Update: There is another blog post displaying alternative views on the subject, with plenty of links and sources at Moon of Alabama. Excerpt:

The current protests by Tibetian exiles and in Tibet are at least partly financed with U.S. government money and have similarities with the color revolutions. Unlike those they are likely to fail. The Indian government stopped the exile-march and the Chinese will make sure that any protest in Tibet will be supresses.

Found via a comment on Peking Duck.

There are currently 8 Comments for Black days for the Dålai Låma.

Comments on Black days for the Dålai Låma

If you find both of these articles through Peking Duck, at least give Richard some credit.

Dpark:

While Peking Duck is on my daily reading list, you may notice that his posts were published about an hour after this one.

In fact, I found one of the articles because I know the author, and the other because this man has a superb Google Reader shared items feed.

I did however just add an update with a link found thanks to Peking Duck, whose posts I looked at after your complaint. .

But which time zone are you in?

Kidding, didn't notice the time, I take my comment back. Good find, both articles are excellent.

叛乱者,杀无赦。

"China and India: Oh to be different"是我这几年读过的最好笑的文章了,亏那个作者还洋洋洒洒写了那么一大套,印度要是真那么不在乎的话,干嘛不干脆让克什米尔独立? 阿萨姆邦三天两头闹分裂,搞爆炸,那么麻烦,何不也割出去? ~( ̄▽ ̄)~*

印度和中国的唯一区别就是:印度没有那么多西方媒体在里面搅混水,没有那么多"人权战士"搞小动作!! ╭∩╮(︶╭╮︶)╭∩╮

> 叛乱者,杀无赦。

人家杀你也这么说呢。

> 叛乱者,杀无赦。

>>>人家杀你也这么说呢。


没有人杀我!

Tibetan people have lived in peace and prosperity for scores of years, as a part of China PRC.

The brutal killing under the name of "protest" in Tibet is hideous.

Any political goal achieved in this form would never last, if achieved at all.

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