23 March 2008

China Does Not Talk The Talks

Yesterday China rejected appeals for dialogue with the Dalai Lama in an effort to avoid the resolution of the current situation in Tibet. Before anyone can sit down, or pick up a phone, China plans to eliminate the anti-China forces currently in Tibet. The day after Beijing launched its manhunt for monks, and anyone else blamed for the violence in Tibet, an editorial in the People's Daily, the voice of the Chinese Communist party, said any opposition to Chinese rule in the Himalayan region must be wiped out.
The Dalai Lama, the title China likes to refer to him as: the 'mastermind behind all of the protests', is accused of undermining the August 8-24 Beijing Olympics and gaining Tibet independence from Beijing.
On Friday, leaders in Japan and Poland joined the United States and other countries in an international appeal for restraint and dialogue. The three countries were joined on Saturday by 30 prominent Chinese writers who signed a letter to their government urging talks with the Tibetan spiritual leader. They also called on China to open Tibet up to foreign media and to allow a team of independent UN investigators to carry out a full investigation of "the evidence, the course of the incident and the number of casualties."
Apparently though, China does not seem ready to talk it out.

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