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The Dalai Lama has clearly indicated that he wants to negotiate meaningful autonomy, not independence, for Tibet. Yet the hawks in Beijing refuse to deal with him; they believe China can solve its Dalai Lama problem by letting the current one die in exile. However, history proves no power has...
Harvard's professor emeritus Ezra F. Vogel - who has enjoyed good relations with many of China's leaders, past and present - chaired several sessions during the Tibet conference. Beijing might want to consider Vogel's opinion regarding the 15th Dalai Lama: "If the Dalai Lama passes away without agreement with...
Today's sporadic Sino-Tibetan dialogue continues not because China wants to use it to reach some accommodation with the Dalai Lama, but because China does not want to be blamed for ending it. Yet Beijing needs to engage the Dalai Lama because only he has the legitimacy among Tibetans...
But then, part-way through my summer abroad in Beijing, I found myself expounding upon “unalienable rights” to one of my Chinese teachers. I remember being surprised at having to explain to her what seemed to me to be such a basic concept?...
While some foreign countries’ citizens enjoy a level of freedom similar to that in the United States, many are not so well-off. France and Spain are also, according to Freedom House, “free” countries, but Morocco is only “partly free?...