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...acknowledging the plight of Tibetans. India has dozens of insurgencies, but its democratic politics have largely accommodated such dissent. China thoroughly crushed Tibet, squelched its culture and ultimately forced the country's spiritual leader into a sad exile. As the Olympics draw near, they continue to demonize the Dalai Lama even after he has decried the violence in Lhasa. Despite all the bloodshed, he has been supportive of Beijing hosting the Games. The Chinese point fingers and accuse the outside world of trying to ruin their coming-out party, but, instead of making effigies of Jack Cafferty and intimidating dissidents...
...Dalai Lama's stated aim is for Beijing to grant some kind of limited autonomy to Tibet. But achieving that aim - which would allow the 73-year-old to return home after nearly 50 years in exile - will take a tectonic shift in positions on both sides. One consistent condition made by negotiators for the Dalai Lama's Dharamsala-based government in exile, for example, has been that the new autonomous region would include so-called "greater" Tibet, that is, all the traditionally ethnic-Tibetan areas now parts of the provinces of Sichuan, Yunnan, Gansu and Qinghai. In total, that...
...what's really happening in the talks between Beijing and the Dalai Lama's representatives in the city of Shenzhen...
Monday yielded one clear clue when Chinese media carried stories on the meeting the previous day between representatives of the Dalai Lama and envoys from Beijing. Although the talks have been going on since 2002, this was the first time the Chinese public had heard about them, a sign for many analysts that Beijing was softening its previously hardline stance regarding the exiled Tibetan spiritual leader. It was also noted that President Hu Jintao had said he expected "positive results" from the talks, another first. Other analyses dwelled on the language used in the official media reports, some of which...
...that's not even taking into account the impediments stopping progress on the Chinese side. First there is the problem of rhetoric: the more Beijing vilifies the Dalai Lama personally ("jackal in monk's robes" for example, or a man with a "human face but the heart of a beast"), the harder it will be to do an about-face and convince the Chinese people that he's actually somebody China can do business with...