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...strongest message was sent by Lobsang Sangay, a Tibetan activist and Ph.D. student at the Harvard Law School who expressed his frustration with the exclusion of Tibet from discussions on China...
Lobsang described the situation as a "taboo" on Tibet and urged the University to focus more attention on the Tibetan people...
...appeal to Harvard University and the Fairbank Center [for East Asian Studies] to facilitate forums [on Tibet]," he said...
...Jiang heard loud and clear that Tibet is a serious issue," he said...
China can't get no respect. The world's most populous country, the up-and-coming superpower, the economic behemoth--none of that cuts much ice in American minds preoccupied with Tiananmen Square, Tibet and Taiwan, not to mention the Communist Party. That's precisely why China's President Jiang Zemin is so eager to come here. He may have consolidated power internally, but he desperately wants to affirm his nation's legitimacy abroad. So Jiang's aim during his eight-day state visit, the first since China's bloody suppression of the democracy movement in 1989, is nothing less...