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...China is serious then it is good, but if it wants to show the world that "we are talking" then there is no use in meeting. TENZIN TAKLA, Dalai Lama spokesman, after the Chinese government reversed course and announced that it would meet an envoy of the Tibetan spiritual leader...
...desire to humiliate China and interfere with Beijing's hosting of the 2008 Games. (Although the relay in London was similarly dogged by protests, the British have not been subject to such specific hostility.) The Paris city council poured oil on the flames by making the Dalai Lama an honorary citizen...
...subject? Or the French President, who tends to express himself on the matter with all the clarity of a sphinx? The diversity of voices characteristic of a true democracy is difficult to grasp for a nondemocratic culture. The Socialist Mayor of Paris, Bertrand Delanoë, made the Dalai Lama and Hu Jia, a prominent Chinese dissident, honorary citizens of his city at the very moment French official envoys were in China to make nice. Though the mayor's move was designed to embarrass the French President as much as to express support for human rights, Chinese leaders spontaneously read...
...impression that France has, in fact, already chosen commercial interests over human rights. This is a choice most countries tend to make. Stalin famously quipped, "The Pope? How many divisions has he got?" To plagiarize his formula today, one would say: "The Dalai Lama - how many contracts?" The Chinese, however, should not be too quick to celebrate their victory over hypocritical and mercantile democracies. The soft power of China - its ability to lead by example because people seek to emulate its success - has been seriously bruised in the last few weeks. And the Chinese leadership knows that their country needs...
...directly elect half of their 60 legislators, but Beijing retains the power to appoint the territory's chief executive. Lee has doggedly lobbied for greater electoral freedom for Hong Kong citizens. "Martin is for Hong Kong what Aung San Suu Kyi is for Burma, and what the Dalai Lama is for Tibet," says Carl Gershman, President of the National Endowment for Democracy, the Washington D.C. pro-democracy organization that awarded Lee its Democracy Award in 1997. "He's the strong voice, the person who's been there such a long time and hasn't compromised his fundamental principles...