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...meet the minimal standards devised by the international community. "Olympism," as Boutros Boutros-Ghali said when he was head of the U.N., is a "school for democracy." That's one reason the Dalai Lama--head of the Tibetans, who are being oppressed (like Uighurs and Mongolians and millions of Han Chinese freethinkers) by the government in Beijing--consistently says that the world needs China and that this Olympics should go on, ushering the planet's largest nation into a real sense of global brotherhood and peace. In Japan, where I live, and in Seoul, whose Summer Games I covered, long...
...history of a country that thinks in terms of dynasties. What happens afterward is much more important for the 1.3 billion citizens of the People's Republic. China will have to show that it can treat members of its 55 minority groups as fairly and respectfully as it does Han Chinese. It will have to make clear that individual human rights are as important to it as the demands of the collective state. And it will have to prove to a watching world that it is thinking not only of impressive surfaces and statistics but also of the intangibles--freedom...
...More than a third of China?s 56 recognized minority groups live in the area. Many, like the farmer Yu Guifu, are Lisu, a Tibetan-Burmese group with a high percentage of Christians owing to the early 20th century work of British missionary James Fraser. In Nu prefecture the Han people, who are a vast majority nationwide, make up less than 10% of the population...
...while we correctly enforce the right of Jewish refugees to recover European properties from which they were displaced in the mid-20th century? If we do not recognize the equality of Palestinian and Jewish rights, how can we avow the equality of the rights belonging to Tibetans and Han Chinese, Sahrawis and Moroccans, Africans and Americo-Liberians, women and men, blacks and whites, gays and straights...
Tibetans urged Han Chinese, members of the largest ethnic group in China, to recognize them culturally and politically at an event last night that aimed to foster discussion between the two groups in light of continuing violence in Tibet. More than 150 people attended the event—entitled “Working Towards a Better Future: A Cross-Cultural Dialogue between Tibetans and Han Chinese”—which featured two Tibetan and two Chinese panelists. Tibet Poverty Alleviation Fund President Arthur N. Holcombe said that a resolution would only result from dialogue between the two groups...