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American declared of independence in 1776 July 4, two-hundred years of history, now become to the world leader of power.
American, “often used to refer solely to the United States of America, the term has far richer ...  Read more | Submit comments

不善表达的我很少对人讲出内心真实的东西 不是不愿意讲 是讲出来美人会懂 同龄人中找不到知己不知是我的可悲还是社会人真的变了 或许我退化了吧 总是以为自己可以做好

一切 可以让自己开心的生活 可以让身边的人都幸福 其实这事我的错误 曾经我一再逃避 一再的任性 可能真是老了吧 长一碎就懂的就多点吧 人们每天都在大谈人生 见识 生活

其实有的时候觉得可笑 到底懂了多少就在那里谈 其实我本也是 这就是为何我一般不愿意讲话的原因
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I HAD little interest in Tibet before the outbreak of violence in Lhasa on March 14 and my feelings towards the Dalai Lama and his community of Tibetan exiles in India’s Dharamsala were largely neutral. The Tibetans I met during a trip to China’s Jiuzhaigou seemed well-off and friendly enough.

On March 14, hell broke loose in Lhasa and the pictures of peaceful, studious monks in your article, Test of Faith (StarTwo, April 15), cannot erase the images of Tibetan lamas joining hooligans on a destructive, murderous rampage through Lhasa. Shockingly, lamas in other parts too engaged in similar acts of violence. Many feel these monks have betrayed not only their vows but also the trust of believers who look to them for spiritual solace.

Throughout the March riots, reports in the western media were overwhelmingly in favour of the exiles and the rogue monks. Selectively cropped or mis-labelled pictures were fed to the worldwide audience together with images of beaten and bloodied Tibetans (in Nepal) similar to those in the April 15 article. Strangely, no mention was made of the brutality of the Lhasa rioters or the sufferings of their Han and Muslim Hui victims.
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I am writing in response to a column titled "The Olympics should be used to voice political concerns" (CT, April 10).
This column was narrow-minded and full of misleading information by making highly biased claims without giving any serious facts.

For example, it accused China as a state with "ongoing state-sponsored cultural assimilation and religious oppression to Tibetans." This is far from the truth. China is a multi-national state with 56 ethnic groups, including Tibetans.

Tibet is known to the Chinese as the XiZang Autonomous Region, which is a province of China. Although 92.8 percent of the population in the Tibet Province is of Tibetan decent, it only accounts for less than half of all Tibetans in China. More than half of the Tibetan population lives in neighboring provinces and all throughout China. In addition, the Tibetan population increased from 1.2 million under the Dalai Lama to almost three million by 2007.   Read more | Submit comments

By Antonio C. Abaya

In my article, “Free Tibet…later” of April 7, 2008, I expressed my reservations that the Tibet brouhaha was being deliberately manipulated by a public relations outfit in New York or London or Paris, with the sole purpose of embarrassing the Chinese on their coming-out party that is this summer’s Beijing Olympic Games.

And the reason for my misgivings is the curious fact that right next to Tibet is the Autonomous Region of Xinjiang, populated by Muslim Uyghurs who have been struggling for independence from the Han Chinese as long as the Tibetans have. These people have even exploded several bombs to express their anger and frustration, but no one pays any attention to them.

Why not? Obviously because they have no high-powered PR firm coordinating their moves, no Richard Gere or Mia Farrow to give their struggle a Hollywood cachet that would appeal to Western liberals.
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Dalai Lama has begun roaming around the world as some Westerns whip up their anti-China wave in recent days. This is also the case in 2007, when a new round of the "China threat theory" re-emerged, he made a rush tour of Germany, Canada and the United States.

Although the Dalai Lama insists that his trips had "had nothing to do with politics", each of his trips, however, has been "timed so accurately" that people doubt his allegation of "having nothing to do with politics." The Global and Mail (newspaper) of Canada even reports that Dalai's meetings with (foreign leaders) are precisely set in an extremely sensitive moment.
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