The Future of Tibet and China
With the Beijing Olympics only months away Tibetans world-wide are hoping to mobilize new support for their call for an end to what they say is China’s illegal occupation of their homeland. Their cause has been greatly boosted ever since Tibet became the site of the eruption of the biggest anti-China protests in 20 years.
A week of protests in Tibet turned violent as Chinese security forces clashed with hundreds of Buddhist monks and other ethnic Tibetans. Information was hard to verify. Nearly all foreigners were barred entry and Tibetans have no freedom. Is the current crisis a territorial dispute, an ethnic clash, or something else? What is the possible future of Tibet?
Guest: Karmar Zurkhang, Former Member, Tibetan Government-in-Exile Dharmasala, India
Segment 2: The Olympics: A Golden Opportunity for Advancing a Good Cause?
Many Chinese people have endorsed the choice of Beijing as a venue for the Olympic Games, happy to show off the progress China has made over the last 30 years. Most also have taken pride in the opportunity to see their country embraced as an important member of the world community by an expected flood of foreign visitors.
In that light, even those who yearn for political change often have been reluctant to question the government’s legitimacy as host of the Olympics. On the other hand, many international organizations have been critical of the fact that the Chinese government has not carried out the pledges it made in 2001 in order to secure the Olympic Games, including improving human rights and loosening restrictions on press freedom.
They argue that the Chinese government has violated promises it made to secure the Olympic Games by jailing dissidents, pushing poor people from their homes to build stadiums and keeping censorship in place.
Guest: Keith Ware, Spokesperson, Human Rights Torch Relay, Washington, DC
Kai Chen, Author, â..One In A Billionâ.
May 7th, 2008
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The Future of Tibet and China
May 7th, 2008
USA bleeding over Tibet is as sincere as a whore’s kiss, but not as useful. USA governments since 1800’s have seen China only as a market for addictive products. USA corporations still lead the world in promoting harmful drug use and open markets, firearms use and rebellion, and violent pornography and no censorship.
USA has no respect for the rights of humans it labels as ‘aliens’, or for their cultures. USA culture can be expressed as ‘he who has the biggest gun calls the shots’. USSR was wasted by USA because USSR could make a bigger gun. Now China can make a bigger gun.
Observers outside China can clearly see thru petty USA media propaganda presented nightly as News on locally operated, USA controlled TV channels. One glance at what USA DOES and DOESN’T do in Asia is worth all the bandwidth USA media saturates. The politics and humanitarian issues of Tibet are irrelevant to USA agenda. Important to its quest for world dominance of economies and culture,USA has long wanted to pose a threat to China by having troups on its border.
Afghanistan provides a meagre 19 kilometer border with China. Tibet has a much more viable border.
Douglas Carter
Australia
DOUGLAS CARTER