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Chinese officials are denying reports that they have imprisoned Gedhun Choekyi Nyima, the 6-year-old boy selected by the Dalai Lama as the new Panchen Lama, the second-highest religious leader in Tibet. In an effort to lend legitimacy to its 45-year rule of Tibet, China has unearthed an obscure 1792 agreement they say gives the government, rather than the Dalai Lama, the right to choose the Panchen Lama. Wednesday, the government chose Gynincain Norbu, born six years ago when the 10th Panchen Lama died, as the "legitimate" 11th incarnation of the Panchen Lama. With the Dalai Lama...
...mood was decidedly less chummy when Clinton met for two hours at New York's Lincoln Center with China's President Jiang Zemin. The two nations remained intractable on the many issues that divide them-human rights, Taiwan, Tibet, nuclear nonproliferation-though each side politely called the talks ''positive...
...President Bill Clinton put it--to improving relations with China, which many think have reached their lowest depths since 1979, when the two countries first exchanged ambassadors. Relations never fully recovered from the 1989 Tiananmen crackdown, and have been battered by tussles over human rights, weapons sales, nuclear proliferation, Tibet, copyright violations and China's failed bid to join the World Trade Organization, which the U.S. opposed. On May 22 came a seismic jolt: the Clinton Administration gave permission to Taiwan President Lee Teng-hui to visit his American alma mater, Cornell University. China was stunned. The U.S. does...
...think he will be a valuable addition to the department," Skjaervo said of van der Kuijp, an expert in the language and culture of Tibet...
...Tibet has played a central role in the development of Eastern Indian, Chinese and Buddhist thought and culture," van der Kuijp said...