China's Ire
Isn't China always being challenged, isn't she always the victim of misunderstandings and false accusations about human rights violations? It's just all so unfair. Unconscionable. And they're the first to moan, rant and rage about it all, threatening dire consequences. Right. And now they're at it again, those Western powers so lacking in compassion and empathy for the pride and honour of the Chinese people.Or so official China declares. They're livid. Bad enough there are so many international interferences with respect to Taiwan. It's an internal affair, shove off world. China is indivisible and proud of it. And greater China includes Tibet. It's a historical fact, going well beyond the 1950s invasion. And, let there be no doubt about it, the spiritual head of Tibet is a terrorist. He conspires with his supporters to split the country deliberately fomenting secession.
Tibetan political demands for autonomy are, quite simply seditious in nature and not to be countenanced. In which spirit, the majority Tibetan presence in the geography has been handily watered down with an influx of Chinese over the decades, so what are they talking about...Tibet is Chinese, indisputably. As a consequence of which it is abundantly clear that the Dalai Lama is a base terrorist seeking to wreak harm on China.
Whoa! President G.W. Bush officially meeting with the Dalai Lama, giving credence to his position as a world spiritual leader, a staunch advocate for world peace, and (gulp) the rightful leader of Tibet. Who wants only accommodation with the rightful aspirations of his people, not to foment revolution which will only continue to harm his people. A "middle way" is what he espouses; Tibetan Buddhists given autonomy and religious freedom, albeit under Chinese rule.
Too divisive to contemplate, too reminiscent of their former state of independence. Give them an inch and they'll demand a ruler, and there is no appetite in China to entertain such a ludicrous scheme of self-actualization for Tibet. Instead, China darkly warns the U.S. "this action will seriously damage" China-U.S. relations. And the U.S. should "stop interfering in the internal affairs of China".
The head of Tibet's Communist party, Zhang Quingli is "furious" with the U.S. for presenting "a man who basely splits his motherland and doesn't even love Tibet", with the Congressional Medal of Honour, effectively indicating support for the Dalai Lama's political agenda. "If the Dalai Lama can receive such an award, there must be no justice or good people in the world", according to an irate Mr. Zhang.
Indeed, indeed. Because China makes it a point to continually state she will not "interfere" in the internal affairs of other countries, she makes common cause with countries such as Burma, Sudan and North Korea, let alone Iran. Most of which are handy sources of much-needed energy for the economy-hungry giant. Which, ipso facto, translates as China representing a fount of juridical wisdom and goodness.
Canada is next on the list for indignant denouncement as a gross interferer of China's sovereign internal affairs, since Prime Minister Stephen Harper will be meeting with the Dalai Lama yet again later this month in Canada. Conferring, according to China (quite accurately, in fact) official legitimacy to Tibet's campaign for greater autonomy. Britain and Germany have also been denounced and snubbed for the same reason.
China has reason not to think too highly of the Nobel Awards Committee for awarding the humbly humanitarian Dalai Lama the Noble Peace Prize; an instance where the award has been earned and deserved.
Labels: Justice, Political Realities, World News
posted by Pieface @ Wednesday, October 17, 2007
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