Be kind whenever possible…It is always possible - Dalai Lama
It comes across to me as a case of the pot calling the kettle black with the recent news that China is not happy with the decision by the USA to award the Dalai Lama the Congressional Gold Medal.
Beijing has long argued that he is seeking to destroy China’s sovereignty by pushing for independence for Tibet and he has had to live in India since 1959 after a failed uprising against Chinese rule.
However I wonder how China can complain about one country’s treatment of a person, whether it is in positive or negative manner, when compared to their record on human rights.
Is it possible that the Chinese government is looking for something that’s not there? Are they looking at this decision by President Bush as a hostile act when it should be considered as an award for a person that has tried to bring about peace and goodwill to the world?
When you consider that Mother Teresa, Nelson Mandela Tony Blair, Winston Churchill and Pope John Paul II have received this award, does it not start to put into perspective why the Dalai Lama is to be given it also?
The move of the United States is a blatant interference in China’s internal affairs.
Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Liu Jianchao.
US politicians regularly accuse Beijing of turning a blind eye to rights abuses in Burma and Sudan in its pursuit of energy and business deals and it seems that whenever the Dalai Lama meets with any leader (German Chancellor Angela Merkel, Austrian Chancellor Alfred Gusenbauer and Australian Prime Minister John Howard) that Beijing decides to kick up a fuss.
How long will it be before all of this “outrage” becomes a wall of noise and that it will become a case of the boy who cried wolf? The world has too many problems to solve at once and yes it is true that the American government flex their muscles to other countries when they should look to put their own house in order.
The Chinese government can be accused of the same thing.
Thursday, October 18th, 2007 and is filed under Thoughts & Questions, Views on News.
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Valerie Nell Says:
Is there anything China DOES like?
To this day, I cannot get the image out of my mind of the young man, peacefully protesting in support of Democratic change in China, literally being squashed, inch by terrible inch, under the tracks of a tank in Tiananmen Square.
I clearly remember seeing a visual of the aftermath of all that squashing: bloody mush, and shoes. Just that.
China, I will pray for thy soul.
October 19th, 2007 at 11:26 pm