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Please think of these matters on March 10, Tibetan Uprising Day which is something like July 4 is for Americans.
There are many cities in the United States with Tibetan-organized marches. I will certainly be joining the one in Santa Fe, New Mexico, and I hope you will find one to join as well, to express your feelings of solidarity with Tibetans all over the world.
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In a Reuters article with reporting by Ryan Woo, published Saturday in response to Secretary Tillerson's written replies to Senate Foreign Affairs:
The" United States must stop using the Dalai Lama to create trouble for China," Zhu Weiqun, senior Chinese official in charge of Tibet affairs, told a prominent hardliner state-run newspaper. He is head of the ethnic and religious affairs committee advisory to China's parliament.
This will bring no improvements to the U.S. but will damage China-U.S. relations instead, the Global Times tabloid reported Friday, renowned for its inflammatory editorials. This paper is published by the Communist Party's primary newspaper.
China continually maintains that His Holiness, the Dalai Lama, who fled into exile in India after a failed uprising against Chinese rule in 1959, is a "violent separatist and splitist." However, The Dalai Lama has always speaking from a deep precepts of non-violence, and maintains that he is only striving to establish genuine autonomy for Tibet.
Recently appointed Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said "Yes" when asked if he would commit to receiving and meeting the Dalai Lama in an answer to written questions from the Senate s Foreign Relations Committee.
Tillerson confirmed that he would continue to encourage dialogue between Beijing and representatives of the Tibetan government-in-exile and the Dalai Lama, India-based news service thetibetpost.com reported on Thursday.
However, China responded with its usual deranged bluster by Zhu telling the Global Times that "it is impossible for the Chinese government to have a dialogue with the illegal group that is aiming to split China," and that Tillerson's remarks show he is a "complete amateur" on Tibet-related questions. In other words, a more "professional" response would be to side with the big guy with all of the money (China), and to dismiss and dispatch the morally correct and long suffering Dalai Lama as spiritual head of the Tibetan people who have suffered even longer and more painfully than their leader: this is what China means by not being a "complete amateur."
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