Negotiations between Dalai Lama, central government revealed
( 2002-02-04 11:23 ) (10 )

A signed article carried in the latest issue of China's Tibet magazine cited plenty of irrefutable facts to expose Dalai Lama's true intention of separating Tibet from China under the cloak of negotiation with the central Chinese government.

Entitled "Fresh comments on negotiation between the 14th Dalai Lama and the Central Government", the article started with late Chinese leader Deng Xiaoping's talks with an AP reporter.

On December 28, 1978, Deng Xiaoping, then vice-chairman of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China (CPC), said when meeting with the AP reporter: "The Dalai Lama may come back, but in his capacity as a Chinese citizen. We have only one demand -- being patriotic -- and we put forward the theory that there is not major difference as to when he becomes patriotic, earlier or later."

Deng's talks clearly demonstrated brotherly affection shown by the Central Chinese Government toward Tibetan compatriots residing overseas and also showed the Central Chinese Government's attitude toward Dalai Lama.

The 14th Dalai Lama sent his private representative back to the motherland on February 28, 1979 for matters concerning the bettering of ties between him and the Central Government.

On March 12, Deng Xiaoping met with the "private representative" and told him: "The fundamental problem lies in the fact that Tibet is part of China. It is the yardstick to judge whether things go right or wrong. Now, the problem is whether Tibet is to start a dialogue with the Central Government in its capacity as a country, or for it to discuss things with the Central Government in its capacity as a part of China. This is a realistic question."

Deng's remarks broke the 20-year-long isolation between Dalai Lama and the Central Chinese Government, said the article.

The article went on to say that the Central Government departments have contacted the private representative of the 14th Dalai Lama and his relatives, with a view to persuading him to come back for talks since 1979.

While almost all of his relatives and other Tibetan compatriots leading an exiled life abroad have returned home for a visit, the 14th Dalai Lama has kept his mouth tightly closed in this regard.

On June 15, 1988, Dalai Lama managed to hold a "press conference" in the corridor of the European Parliament in Strasbourg, during which he released his written speech notoriously known as the "Strasbourg proposals".

According to his written speech, Tibet "has since ancient times been an independent state". To this proposal, the Central Government reacted by saying that "China holds indisputable sovereignty over Tibet, it won't do for Tibet to be independent orsemi-independent, or independent in a disguised way".

On January 28, 1989, when the 10th Panchen Lama passed away, the Buddhist Association of China invited the 14th Dalai Lama to attend the funeral. This should have been a good chance for him to contact religious communities in Tibet, but he refused categorically. He has no intention to contact the religious circles in Tibet, not to mention the Central Government, said the article.

Chinese President Jiang Zemin lectured at Harvard University during his visit to the United States in November 1997. Talking about the Chinese Government policy concerning negotiations with the 14th Dalai Lama, Jiang said: "So long as the 14th Dalai Lama genuinely gives up his stand for independence of Tibet, the door will be open for him to negotiate with the Central Government."

In June 1998 when then U.S. President Bill Clinton was visiting China, President Jiang Zemin reaffirmed the policy at the Sino-American press conference that was attended by reporters from all over the world, according to the article.

It said that painstaking persuasion by the Central Government didn't work on the 14th Dalai Lama and his men. Exploiting the chance offered by the Central Government for them to visit Tibet, his men did their best to sow bad blood among Tibetans. And the 14th Dalai Lama himself delivered a speech to the U.S. House of Representatives on September 21, 1987, bringing out "five-point proposal" for the settlement of the "Tibetan issue".

According to his proposal, Tibet should be a buffer zone for China and India; China might retain a small number of defensive troops in Tibet; and he would negotiate with the Central Government on matters concerning the "future status of Tibet".

Six days later, the government in exile, led by the 14th Dalai Lama, incited a riot in Lhasa, the regional capital of Tibet, which is historically known as the September 27 Riot. In a short span of two years, dozens of riots of the kind were staged in Tibet.

In 1995 when the soul boy of the late 10th Panchen Lama was located and confirmed through the method of drawing lots from the golden urn -- a method adopted since the Qing Dynasty (1644-1911) -- he nominated one boy in India to the disgust of Tibetan religious circles.

It is not hard to find that Dalai Lama's act, which obviously violated religious rituals and historical practices, was designed to seek confrontation against the Central Government and serve his own political purposes, said the article.

The 14th Dalai Lama even went so far as to accuse a statue of Buddhist Guardian of serving the Han. He demanded his followers not worship it. His men were sent out to destroy the statues and even beat people who said not to them.

Seeing his efforts were of no avail in the face of a China thatis developing by leaps and bounds, the 14th Dalai Lama called for the West to exert pressure on China. And this found its way into aspeech delivered in Strasbourg of France on October 24, 2001: "To make the Chinese government change its present Tibet policy, international pressure on China is the only way out".

Out of this theory, he left no stone unturned to win international sympathy. Some in the West said that the 14th DalaiLama had given up his plan for violence, and the Central Government of China should negotiate with him.

However, all facts boil down to one point: The 14th Dalai Lama is reluctant to negotiate with the Central Government because he still stands for "Tibetan Independence". To this end, he kept readjusting his strategy to cope with changing international situation, the article stressed.

Nonetheless, the Central Government still waits the 14th Dalai Lama to give up his independence demand and end his exile life andreturn home, said the article, hoping Dalai Lama would size up the situation, and make his correct decision by returning to the embrace of the motherland.