Google Groups no longer supports new Usenet posts or subscriptions. Historical content remains viewable.
Dismiss
Refrain from statements denigrating Dalai Lama: US to China!
2 views
Skip to first unread message
Peter Terpstra
May 10, 2013, 3:36:58 PM5/10/13
to
Refrain from statements denigrating Dalai Lama: US to China
PTI
ON THE WEB, 10 May 2013
Asking China to refrain from making statements that denigrate the Dalai Lama and Tibet’s unique cultural, linguistic and religious
traditions, the United States has said [that] the Tibetans [should] be permitted to express their grievances freely.
“We have asked the Chinese government to refrain from statements that denigrate the Dalai Lama and Tibet’s unique cultural,
linguistic, and religious traditions,” the state department spokesman, Patrick Ventrell, told reporters at his daily news conference
yesterday.
“Our lines and our policy (on Tibet) have not changed. We continue to call on the Chinese government to permit Tibetans to
express their grievances freely, publicly, peacefully and without fear of retribution,” he said in response to a question.
http://www.tibetsun.com/news/2013/05/10/refrain-from-statements-denigrating-dalai-lama-us-to-china
PTI
ON THE WEB, 10 May 2013
Asking China to refrain from making statements that denigrate the Dalai Lama and Tibet’s unique cultural, linguistic and religious
traditions, the United States has said [that] the Tibetans [should] be permitted to express their grievances freely.
“We have asked the Chinese government to refrain from statements that denigrate the Dalai Lama and Tibet’s unique cultural,
linguistic, and religious traditions,” the state department spokesman, Patrick Ventrell, told reporters at his daily news conference
yesterday.
“Our lines and our policy (on Tibet) have not changed. We continue to call on the Chinese government to permit Tibetans to
express their grievances freely, publicly, peacefully and without fear of retribution,” he said in response to a question.
http://www.tibetsun.com/news/2013/05/10/refrain-from-statements-denigrating-dalai-lama-us-to-china
rst9
May 10, 2013, 4:04:30 PM5/10/13
to
The Dalai Lama is a devious and evil person who only thinks of his own
comfort and power.
comfort and power.
and/or www.mantra.com/jai
May 10, 2013, 4:22:17 PM5/10/13
to
In article <1724098.RLqjVJJBDQ@Dharma>,
Peter Terpstra <peter.terpst...@gmail.com> posted:
The ChiComs had better comply with this instruction.
Jai Maharaj, Jyotishi
Om Shanti
http://groups.google.com/group/alt.fan.jai-maharaj
Peter Terpstra <peter.terpst...@gmail.com> posted:
>
> Refrain from statements denigrating Dalai Lama: US to China
>
> PTI
> On The Web
> Refrain from statements denigrating Dalai Lama: US to China
>
> PTI
Jai Maharaj, Jyotishi
Om Shanti
http://groups.google.com/group/alt.fan.jai-maharaj
lo yeeOn
May 11, 2013, 7:58:45 AM5/11/13
to
Hillary Clinton as former head of the State Department (all year
round) denigrated Syrian president Bashar al Assad saying: "Assad
killed his own people" when in fact she was heading with a bunch of
oil Sheiks the effort of sending mercenaries into Syria to kill the
Syrian people. She was likewise maligning Qaddafi and masterminding
his brutal death. So, what gives?
In article <1724098.RLqjVJJBDQ@Dharma>,
Richardson and the NED-funded Tibetan Houses around the world, as well
as VOA and RFA, etc, to denigrate China everyday, saying such things
as "they were like an uninvited guest who came in with a gun", or
"they are occupying Tibet", or "they are making arbitrary detention of
the Tibetan people" or "they're committing self-immolation to avoid
being tortured or killed in prison" or "they're committing cultural
genocide against the Tibetan people" or anything that suits their
fancy!
But China should put tapes over her lips trying to defend herself?
What kind of fascist mentality is this?
The kind of fascists are running the U.S. State Department these days?
lo yeeOn
>"We have asked the Chinese government to refrain from statements that
>denigrate the Dalai Lama and Tibet's unique cultural, linguistic, and
>religious traditions," the state department spokesman, Patrick
>Ventrell, told reporters at his daily news conference yesterday.
>
>"Our lines and our policy (on Tibet) have not changed. We continue to
>call on the Chinese government to permit Tibetans to express their
>grievances freely, publicly, peacefully and without fear of
>retribution," he said in response to a question.
That's not a good sign! Because the United States were knee deep in
trying to stage an armed rebellion in Tibet with the CIA's help.
By saying that our policy toward Tibet hasn't changed, the U.S. is
admitting that it continues its policy of interference in China's
internal security.
How would we like some foreign country to be sending bombers into our
cities and explode some IEDs at our ball games and marathons, time and
again?
It is crazy foreing policy.
lo yeeOn
1) This article shows how the U.S. has been using the Dalai Lama to
destabilize China or to advance some other foreign policy agenda in
the past 50+ years despite the the monk's and his cohorts' corruption.
http://www.agreatdeception.com/news
The Dalai Lama Cables: An Instrument of US Foreign Policy
April 5, 2011
Using Da Lama to "split" the Buddhist community in various countries,
including Vietnam, Thailand, and Japan.
Dalai Lama History Japan
In the previous release from the Dalai Lama Cables, we revealed that
the US government had considered deploying the Dalai Lama in Vietnam
as a means to split the Buddhist community there and further the US
anti-communist agenda. It is clear from those discussions that the US
viewed the Dalai Lama as an asset, an instrument to be used to further
their foreign policy objectives. Given that he had accepted CIA
funding for himself (to the tune of $180,000 annually) and his
activities (some years well in excess of $1 million annually), it is
quite understandable that they'd want to get their money's worth.
Although the Dalai Lama didn't visit Vietnam, he did visit Thailand
and Japan in 1967 - two countries supposedly directly affected by the
Vietnam war according to the Domino theory.
We trawled through the cables to see what information we could find on
these trips.
A telegram from the US Embassy in Tokyo dated 1 April 1965 describes
an early stage in the planning of the Dalai Lama's trip to Japan.
What is immediately clear from the telegram is that, behind the
scenes, it is the US Secretary of State who is organising this trip.
The Ambassador in Tokyo explains that there are a number of hurdles
involved:
- The `Japanese themselves feel no particular affinity for Tibetans
and Japanese Buddhists regard Tibetan Buddhists as only distantly
related.'
- Although the Government of Japan will not prevent the visit they
are `unlikely to regard such trip with much `enthusiasm'.
- It may be difficult to find significant japanese Buddhist group
which would wish to involve itself sufficiently to sponsor Dalai
visit'.
Essentially it seems no one in Japan particularly wants the Dalai Lama
to come. Even the Buddhist clergy would only be `willing to meet with
upon his request'.
However, the first and most important point of the telegram reads:
`The Dalai Lama's visit to Japan would be advantageous from our point
of view in reminding Japanese of ChiCom attitudes'.
So, because the Dalai Lama's visit serves a US foreign policy interest
the Ambassador thinks `possibly we could stir up some support.'
Nonetheless, the ambassador assumes `if visit takes place US will not
be overtly involved.'
The visit did take place, the US pulled the strings to make it happen.
The US used the Dalai Lama and his teachings as an instrument of US
foreign policy. A pattern that appears to have been repeated again and
again.
There is something overwhelming[ly] sad about the precious teachings
of Lord Buddha being used as a weapon of psychological warfare, a mere
tool in cold war squabbles. By mixing religion and politics, the Dalai
Lama allowed this sad situation to develop. Now is the time to
completely free Buddhism from political pollution.
The Dalai Lama Cables: The US wanted to deploy the Dalai Lama in
Vietnam
March 29, 2011
As is well documented elsewhere on this site, the Dalai Lama was on
the CIA payroll from 1959 until at least 1974. He was provided with
$180,000 per year as part of the US anti-communist propaganda efforts.
What recently declassified documents now reveal is that the US wanted
to deploy the Dalai Lama in Vietnam as part of their anti-communist
propaganda efforts there. On three separate occasions deploying the
Dalai Lama is discussed at the highest level.
On 16 December 1964, General Maxwell D. Taylor suggests steps the
Government of Vietnam might take, the first of these being:
`1. Arrange for the Dalai Lama, his brother, or other Buddhist
leaders from other countries to visit Vietnam to educate Vietnamese
bonzes on the perils of Communism and their civil responsibilities.'
On March 8, 1965, Henry Cabot Lodge - the presidential consultant on
Vietnam - gives 14 recommendations regarding Vietnam to President
Johnson, recommendation number 10 is:
`The Dalai Lama should be brought to Saigon as an object lesson of
the dreadful things Communism does to high ranking Buddhist clergy.'
On 4 April, 1966, Jack Valenti - the president's special assistant -
gave the advice to President Johnson about what might be done about
the desperate situation in Vietnam. Amongst his advice was to:
`Split the Buddhist leadership:
This has possibilities. There is no durable cohesion in the Buddhist
leadership. Can we pit some of the leaders against Tri Quang? Can
we use the Dalai Lama and Buddhists outside Saigon, Hue and Da Nang
to our advantage?'
One of the main reasons for the American involvement in Vietnam was
that successive Presidents subscribed to the "Domino Theory" which
argued that if one country fell to communist forces, then all of the
surrounding countries would follow. It was, and is still, commonly
hypothesized that it applied to Vietnam. Whilst still a U.S.
senator, John F. Kennedy said in a speech to the American Friends of
Vietnam, Burma, Thailand, India, Japan, the Philippines and
obviously Laos and Cambodia are among those whose security would be
threatened if the Red Tide of Communism overflowed into Vietnam.
The Dalai Lama didn't visit Vietnam, but in November 1967 he visited
both Japan and Thailand, two countries affected by the "Domino
Theory". These were his first trips outside of India since leaving
Tibet in 1959, and he didn't make another trip outside of India
until 1972.
We know little about who he met and who he spoke to, what messages
he passed on and for whom. In his autobiography Freedom in Exile, he
says very little about these trips but does mention that they were
at the height of the Vietnam war and that on the way into Thailand
he flew alongside a B-52 bomber.
Could the Dalai Lama have been doing the bidding of his US pay
masters? Or at least finding a way to combine their interests and his
own?
Many people wonder if the Dalai Lama's relationship with the US is the
reason why he refuses to condemn the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan,
that many ordinary people - not considered `the Buddha of Compassion'
- find it easy to disagree with.
The Dalai Lama Cables: A Wolf in Monk's Robes?
March 25, 2011
The Communist Chinese regime regularly refer to the Dalai Lama as "a
wolf in monk's Robes". They claim that he is behind violent protests
in Tibet, that his supposedly compassionate wish to help flood and
earthquake victims in China and Tibet is just a political ploy, that
his travels around the world giving teachings is part of a political
strategy to attack China and that the he uses the monks and
monasteries in Tibet to organize insurgency.
The Dalai Lama, himself, laughs at these claims, and the western media
laugh with him. China is portrayed as almost hysterical in its
demonizing of the Dalai Lama. But is there any truth to what they say?
The brutal suppression of the Tibetans who resist communist rule in
Tibet is well documented, and we absolutely oppose injustice and
oppression anywhere. However, the Dalai Lama is a political leader,
and all political leaders must be held up to scrunity.
As Tibetologist Jens-Uwe Hartmann of the Humboldt-Universitat in
Berlin said:
`The glorification of the Dalai Lama in his capacity as a political
leader will not help the democratization process. A critical debate
on his political statements must be possible and should not be
suppressed by the argument that criticism only serves the Chinese.
We have examined the declassified US State Department documents and we
have found evidence that could support all three of the Chinese
claims:
With respect to organizing protests, the Dalai Lama and his
representatives refer to the protests as `spontaneous'. However, in a
telegram from the New Delhi Embassy dated 30 March 1967, we can see
that the Bureau of the Dalai Lama privately admit that they were
involved in organizing these "spontaneous" protests.
With respect to exploiting natural disasters - such as floods and
earthquakes - for political gain, a telegram from the US Embassy in
Calcutta, dated 8 January 1955, describes a "Tibetan Flood Relief
Commitee" set up by the Tibetans in exile. The telegram makes it clear
that the benefits of supporting the relief effort are to win a
propaganda coup over the Chinese communists and to support the
resistence fighters positions. Furthermore, the telegram explicitly
reveals that the "tibetan exiles conceived TFRC principally as a
psychological tactic against Chinese communists"
With respect to using teaching visits as a political strategy against
China, a United States Government Office Memorandum dated 21 February
1952 contains fascinating information. The context of the memo is a
discussion of how best to respond to the Dalai Lama's request for US
assistance against the Chinese Communists. The Dalai Lama's request
was brought by his brother Taktse Rimpche. In the memo a discussion
between various interested parties, including the CIA, is referenced.
The CIA went on to formulate and fund a strategy of anti-communist
propaganda with the Dalai Lama that included sponsoring him
personally, and well as establishing Tibet Houses on his behalf in
various locations and encouraging him to teach widely. In the
discussion mentioned in this memo, they describe organizing a teaching
tour by distinguished Buddhist leaders as:
"a major step towards utilizing certain elements of the Buddhist
world in one aspect of psychological warfare".
With respect to using the monks and monasteries in Tibet to organise
insurgency, a telegram from the US Embassy in Calcutta to the
Secretary of State in Washington, dated 11 September 1952, reveals:
"Gyalo and Shakabpa with Dalai Lama's knowledge seriously
considering forming secret organisation to infiltrate Tibet from
India, and possibly Nepal, using Tibetan Monasteries as centers
for anti-communist resistance; propaganda first, weapons later."
We know from other documents that this plan was put into effect.
Of course these declassified documents are now revealing old facts,
but also they reveal a modus operandi. In A Great Deception we traced
the various events surrounding the violent uprising in Tibet before
the Beijing Olympics in 2008 back to the Dalai Lama and his key
representatives.
The Dalai Lama Cables: Follow the Money
February 28, 2011
In the aftermath of the Chinese invasion of Tibet, the Dalai Lama and
the Tibetan refugees were inundated with aid in the form of money,
food, clothing, blankets, medicines, land, accommodation, livestock
and so forth.
Many international charities, such as The Red Cross, CARE, Catholic
Relief Services, The National Christian Council, the American Friends
Service Committee, the American Emergency Committee for Tibetan
Refugees and others, gave extensively.
Many national governments, such as the UK, France, Canada, New
Zealand, the US and especially India gave generously to the Tibetan
cause.
In the over fifty years since the Chinese invasion, the plight of the
Tibetans rarely leaves media attention for long. It has become without
doubt one of the most successful on-going fund-raising campaigns ever,
drawing millions and millions of dollars in donations, merchandise and
event-tickets each year.
Where has all the money gone? What has it been used for? When
Australian journalist Michael Backman tried to discover the answer to
these fundamental questions he found:
"Details of the government-in-exile's funding today are far from
clear."
"It is not clear" how donations enter its budgeting. These are
likely to run to many millions annually, but the Dalai Lama's
Department of Finance provided no explicit acknowledgment of them or
of their "sources".
Certainly, there are plenty of rumours among expatriate Tibetans of
endemic corruption and misuse of monies collected in the name of the
Dalai Lama.
In part one of this series of articles we quoted from Tashi Tsering's
autobiography, before helping Gyalo Thondup transport the Dalai Lama's
treasure from Sikkim to Calcutta, whilst back in Lhasa before the
Chinese invasion, he had worked in the treasury of the Tibetan
government. He recounted his experiences there (p63 of the
autobiography):
"I was still disillusioned and angry about what I had seen going on
in the treasury office in Lhasa. The ordinary people sent their
taxes and tribute in the form of money and goods, and both monk and
lay officials just took what they wanted. There were ledgers filled
with accounts of tea bricks, butter, cloth, gold, and silver. I saw
the records that showed that the more powerful monks, especially
those from aristocratic families and the Dalai Lama's household,
"borrowed" any of these things they wished and never returned
them. There was no overall record, no auditing. The officials and
their friends and family could come in and take anything they
fancied. I saw them doing so with my own eyes."
Tashi Tsering was offered a position in the newly formed
Tibetan-Government-in-Exile, but turned it down:
"I felt that going to work for the exiled aristocrats and monks
would have meant going to work to restore the same old system."
Could this be the answer to Michael Backman's questions? Could this be
where the money went? In his pursuit of answers, Backman, uncovered
some more inconvenient truths:
"Like many Asian politicians, the Dalai Lama has been remarkably
nepotistic, appointing members of his family to many positions of
prominence. In recent years, three of the six members of the Kashag,
or cabinet, the highest executive branch of the Tibetan
government-in-exile, have been close relatives of the Dalai Lama."
"An older brother served as chairman of the Kashag and as the
minister of security. He also headed the CIA-backed Tibetan contra
movement in the 1960s."
"A sister-in-law served as head of the government-in-exile's
planning council and its Department of Health."
"A younger sister served as health and education minister and her
husband served as head of the government-in-exile's Department of
Information and International Relations."
"Their daughter was made a member of the Tibetan parliament in
exile. A younger brother has served as a senior member of the private
office of the Dalai Lama and his wife has served as education
minister."
"The second wife of a brother-in-law serves as the representative of
the Tibetan government-in-exile for northern Europe and head of
international relations for the government-in-exile. All these
positions give the Dalai Lama's family access to millions of dollars
collected on behalf of the government-in-exile."
* See Also: Part 1 | Part 2 (below)
The Dalai Lama Cables: Follow the Money - Part 2
February 22, 2011
In part one, we showed how despite having tens of millions of dollars
worth of gold stored in banks in Calcutta, the Dalai Lama successfully
pleaded poverty to the United States government and secured a tax-free
hand out of $180,000 per annum from 1959 onwards.
By the 60s, however, some in the US administration were questioning
the wisdom of these payments to the Dalai Lama, and the on-going
financial support of the Tibetan refugees.
One illustration of this is the response to a letter from the Dalai
Lama to the US President in late 1966, where the Dalai Lama mentions
his plan to resettle with 400 Tibetans in the United States... with
the apparent assumption that the US government will foot the $425,000
bill for this.
The response is straight-forward: "No USG funds are available."
Subsequent cables reveal an interesting development. In 1969, the
Dalai Lama's personal representative Lodi Gyari lets the Americans
know that the Dalai Lama has been negotiating with the Soviets [at
that time the sworn enemy of the United States] for financial
assistance.
"Lodi concluded by stating that the Dalai Lama and he would much
prefer to take American financial assistance and he hoped I would
give the matter close attention, for they had to get help from
somewhere."
An exquisite hustle by anyone's standards.
Furthermore, in his report to the State Department, the US Ambassador
noted, with some alarm, how during a recent public lecture:
"The Dalai Lama emphasized that he did not oppose communism, or for
that matter any isms in particular. He declared that an independent
Tibet could have a communist government or any other form supported
by the majority of the people. What Tibetans opposed was foreign
domination. In the current context, these remarks would appear to
have been primarily directed towards Moscow."
Imagine the horror back in Washington at the prospect of their trump
card in the global propaganda war against communism switching sides -
swapping the CIA for the KGB, and happily inviting communist rule in
Tibet.
Needless to say, funding for the Dalai Lama was granted, and his CIA
support renewed at the next review in 1971, and again in the following
years. The US congress continues to financially support the Dalai
Lama, and the CIA subsidy has been replaced by National Endowment for
Democracy funding. As Professor Sautman reports:
The United States is at least the second-largest donor, after
India, to the TGIE, providing $2 million in "humanitarian aid"
annually and may be the largest donor.109 Since 2004 it has given
the exiles $4 million annually and provided $5.25 million for
"Tibetan community assistance" in 2008.110 The U.S. National
Endowment for Democracy (NED) supplies additional funds.111 The
group's founding president, Allen Weinstein, has said, "A lot of
what [the NED does] today was done covertly 25 years ago by the
CIA. 112
Notes:
109. M. Kripalani, "World Watches India's Response to Tibet", Business
Week (India), March 21, 2008. Most TGIE income is from Western state
grants. In 2006-7, grants totaled US$17.5 million. "Rinpoche Defies
China as Tibet's Prime Minister Based in India", Bloomberg, April 30,
2008. See also Roemer, Tibetan Government-in-Exile, 118-23 on the
dependence of the TGIE and Tibetan exiles in India (three-fourths of
whom do not work) on external financial support. The TGIE has said its
annual budget is $700,000, leaving substantial funds for
internationalization activities; Velloor, In "Tibetan Exiles Keep the
Fight Alive."
110. Thomas Lam, "U.S.-Funded Assistance Programs in China",
Congressional Research Service RS22663 (January 28, 2008). An official
Chinese news source has reported that the US Congress appropriated
US$2.4 million for Tibetan exile organizations in 2009, up by 25
percent over 2008. Almost 89 percent of the TGIE's 2005 revenues
derived from foreign aid and it has annually spent 30-40 percent of
its funds on projects related to the Tibet Question and representation
abroad. Yi Duo, "Dalai Lama bianshen `yao qian shu' Liancai zhi shu
bei meiti baoguang ("The Dalai Lama has been changed into one `shaking
the money tree': techniques of accumulating wealth by unfair means
exposed by media), Huangqiu Shibao [Global Times], June 19, 2009.
The Dalai Lama Cables: Follow the Money - Part 1
February 13, 2011
Recently declassified US State Department cables reveal the workings
of the Dalai Lama and his inner circle.
Throughout the 1950s the Dalai Lama negotiated with the US government
for military and financial assistance. In the State Department United
States Policy Concerning the Legal Status of Tibet - 1942-1956', a
summary of the US government's response is given:
"The United States was prepared to provide light arms, but it was
not prepared to pay the expenses of the Dalai Lama and his retinue
if they sought asylum abroad, because it assumed that the Dalai Lama
had enough treasure to pay his own expenses."
When the Dalai Lama finally did flee Tibet in early 1959, he sent his
brother, Gyalo Thondup, to ask for financial and military
assistance. Gyalo Thondup let it be known that:
"The Dalai Lama did not bring out any treasures from Tibet and
consequently was very hard up financially."
The declassified documents show that the Dalai Lama received a
personal subsidy from the US government - a covert payment arranged by
the CIA - of 180,000 US Dollars per year from 1959 through till at
least 1974. To put this in a modern context 180,000 dollars in the
1950s would be worth nearly 1.5 million today, and 180,000 dollars in
the seventies would be worth nearly 800,000 today. Considering the US
intended not to support the Dalai Lama financially that's a pretty
generous subsidy to have squeezed out of them.
An alternative version of the "no treasure brought from Tibet" story
can be found in The Struggle for Modern Tibet: The Autobiography of
Tashi Tsering on pages 57-58:
"During the 1950s, though the Dalai Lama himself was in Tibet, the
gold and silver remained in one of the storehouses of the maharaja
of Sikkim. The Chinese had asked for its return but had not made an
issue of it at the time. Following the Lhasa Uprising and the flight
of the Dalai Lama, they claimed that the money was not the Dalai
Lama's personal fortune but belonged to the country - which they now
considered to belong to them. At that point the Tibetan leaders
decided it was time to secure their treasure more permanently and
farther away from the border; and because of my association with
Gyalola [Gyalo Thondup, the Dalai Lama's brother], I found myself
involved. It was quite an "operation".
The gold and silver were in the form of coins and ingots. When I
became involved, the gold and silver were being hand-loaded onto
trucks in Gangtok, the capital of Sikkim, and driven south to
Siliguri, the location of the nearest airstrip. At the airport the
literally millions of dollars' worth of gold were loaded onto Dakota
cargo planes and flown to Calcutta.
When this precious cargo reached Calcutta, the gold was immediately
put into the banks. But for a while the silver was stored in a
single room on the third floor of a trusted Tibetan merchant's
house. It was my responsibility to stand guard over it, and for
nearly a month I stood sentinel in a silent room full of coins and
odd pieces of silver."
It is estimated that the Dalai Lama had nearly 5 tons of solid gold at
his disposal in India. For a man with tens of millions of dollars in
the bank to successfully plead poverty to the United States government
is quite a feat.
Admittedly, the Dalai Lama had left the bulk of his fortune back in
Lhasa - for example, in the west chapel of the Potala Palace there is
a tomb with nearly 5 tons of solid gold encasing it, there's no need
to mention the thousands of other golden statues, tombs and works of
art.
This rather clever con trick wasn't the only time the Dalai Lama
rolled the US over, as we'll see in part 2 (coming soon).
The Dalai Lama Wikileaks - Curious Statistics
February 5th, 2011
The recent release of US State Department cables by whistle-blowing
website Wikileaks.org has revealed some curious statistics in relation
to the Tibetans in exile.
Clearly, Tibet and the Dalai Lama are at the centre of a propaganda
war between the United States and Communist China. In virtually all
western media, the Tibetans are portrayed like the Ewoks from Star
Wars - as cute, cuddly, harmless and deeply spiritual - while the
Chinese are demonized - sinophobic charicatures like Ming the
Merciless from Flash Gordon spring to Mind. This media distortion has
been carefully orchestrated with the US's vested interests in mind. A
closer analysis of the Wikileaks cables reveals statistics that
challenge this popular myth.
In one cable it reveals that far from being pacifists, most of the
Tibetans serve in the military. The cables states:
"Most Tibetan men in northeastern India join the SFF [Special
Frontier Force]. In Gangtok, [...] the majority of men work for the
SFF; and in Ravangla, 90% of the Tibetan families have at least one
family member serving."
That so many Tibetans serve in the military may come as a shock to
some readers, and they may perhaps think this must be a recent
development, quite unusual for the Tibetans. Such a view would only
demonstrate how deeply effective the Dalai Lama's efforts to rewrite
Tibetan history have been. In his illuminating article "Vegetarian
between Meals: The Dalai Lama, War, and Violence", Professor Barry
Sautman presents facts that are in stark contrast with the picture the
Dalai Lama likes to paint. Professor Sautman provides references for
every statement he makes, his sources are listed below.
The Dalai Lama has said "the people of Tibet are, by their nature,
honest, gentle and kind," that "Tibetan culture is a compassionate and
non-violent culture" under the kings and Dalai Lamas . . . and "peace
and happiness prevailed in Tibet". 20 He has also stated that "Tibetan
culture [is] based on peaceful relations," 21 and that "before 1950,
Tibet was completely a land of peace." 22
Tibetans, including monks, have however long borne arms against
outsiders and each other in wars between rulers or Buddhist sects.31
The "Great Fifth" Dalai Lama ferociously annihilated enemies and their
families. 32 Tibetan armies warred in Ladakh in 1679-84 and in Bhutan
many times in the eighteenth century, against Zunghar Mongols in 1720,
Nepal from 1788 to 1792 and 1854 to 1858, Ladakh in 1842, and Britain
in 1904.33 From the late eighteenth century, the ancient regime had a
standing army,34 and in the early twentieth century, the "Great 13th"
had a ministry of war oversee his British-trained army. He advised
Tibetans that, "where [peaceful means] are not appropriate, [they
should] not hesitate to resort to more forceful means."35 The present
Dalai Lama has noted that the Thirteenth did "raise an army, train it
as best as possible. Just between us, this isn't strictly practicing
nonviolence." During World War I, the Thirteenth offered his British
patrons one thousand troops,37 and in 1920 he dispatched his army to
help the murderously racist Russian baron Roman von Ungern-Sternberg
assault Mongolia's capital.38
In Eastern Tibet, in the first half of the twentieth century, Lhasa's
army fought Tibetans led by eastern chieftains and both fought
non-Tibetan warlord armies. People from Kham fought around 400-500
major battles both against the Chinese and the Lhasa government,
between 1911 and 1935. These armed guerrilla forces increasingly
occupied the central Tibetan military. The fighting intensified after
the death of the Thirteenth Dalai Lama in 1933 and the eastern
Tibetans, moreover, sought a separate state, independent from any Han
and central Tibetan control. 40 Violent conflicts occurred in Tibet
right up to around the old regime's fall. 41 Some 10 to 15 percent of
monks at three large Lhasa monasteries were fighting monks (dobdob)
who had access to guns; more generally "lamas had their own courts and
prisons, and often organized their own militias and possessed
thousands of guns and horses." 42 In a 1947 civil war, thousands of
monks fought with artillery and guns and as many as three hundred
died. 43
To illustrate just how militarized the Tibetan people were, Professor
Sautman provides us with a statistical comparison to the present
United States military:
In 1950 the Tibetan army had twelve thousand troops for a region
of 1.2 million people.44 The United States, with 761 bases abroad,
has only half that proportion of its people under arms.45
The carefully crafted image of the Dalai Lama as a benign spiritual
leader, and of Tibet as a Shangri-la, is a weapon in the CIA's
propaganda war. The Dalai Lama has knowingly colluded with the
myth-building about himself and Tibet. A more realistic assessment of
the present Dalai Lama, and the Dalai Lamas through history can be
found in "A Great Deception".
Professor Sautman's sources:
. . .
The Dalai Lama Cables: No Noble Peace - Epilogue
February 1st, 2011
In this series of articles we comprehensively refuted the Dalai Lama's
qualification for being awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. (please see
previous articles below)
Throughout the articles please bear in mind the words of Egil Aarvik
when presenting the Dalai Lama with the 1989 Nobel Peace Prize:
This year's Nobel Peace Prize has been awarded "first and foremost
for his consistent resistance to the use of violence in his people's
struggle to regain their liberty.
"This is by no means the first community of exiles in the world,
but it is assuredly the first and only one that has not set up any
militant liberation movement."
Please also bear in mind that the Dalai Lama is a fully ordained
Buddhist monk with vows to forsake killing and any actions of harming
others.
Over the course of the previous articles in this series we showed how
the Dalai Lama personally requested the CIA involvement in Tibet - an
involvement that led to thousands of deaths on both sides.
Now we can contrast the evidence found in the US State Department
documents with the Dalai Lama's own words:
Some quotes from his Nobel Peace Prize acceptance speech:
"The prize reaffirms our conviction that with truth, courage and
determination as our weapons, Tibet will be liberated."
"Because violence can only breed more violence and suffering, our
struggle must remain nonviolent."
And some from the Nobel Lecture he gave thereafter:
"I speak to inform you of the sad situation in my country today and
of the aspirations of my people, because in our struggle for
freedom, truth is the only weapon we possess."
"Despite the fact that we have not drawn attention to our plight by
means of violence, we have not been forgotten."
He has always, and continues to this day, to distance himself from the
CIA activities in Tibet. He blames his brothers, claims they acted
without his knowledge, claims he wasn't informed, and so on and so
forth.
In his autobiography "Freedom in Exile" he says:
"The other sad episode concerned the guerillas, trained and equipped
by the CIA, who continued their struggle to regain Tibetan freedom
by violent means. On more than one occasion, I tried to discover
detailed information about these operations from Gyalo Thondup and
others, but I have never heard the full story ...
"Although I admired the determination of the guerillas, I had never
been in favour of their activities."
How hollow all these words sound now, in the light of the truths
revealed.
The Dalai Lama Cables: No Noble Peace - Part 5
January 29th, 2011
In this series of articles we will comprehensively refute the Dalai
Lama's qualification for being awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.
Throughout the articles please bear in mind the words of Egil Aarvik
when presenting the Dalai Lama with the 1989 Nobel Peace Prize:
"This year's Nobel Peace Prize has been awarded ... first and
foremost for his consistent resistance to the use of violence in his
people's struggle to regain their liberty.
"This is by no means the first community of exiles in the world, but
it is assuredly the first and only one that has not set up any
militant liberation movement."
Please also bear in mind that the Dalai Lama is a fully ordained
Buddhist monk with vows to forsake killing and any actions of harming
others.
As illustrated in the previous article in this series, the Dalai Lama
called in the deal he had made with the US Government for military and
financial support for a war against the Chinese Communists over Tibet.
Here we give some details as to the measure of the support that was
afforded. This previously top secret document is now publicly
available. We urge everyone interested in the Dalai Lama and Tibet to
read it.
This shows that the US government was true to its words and for the
best part of two decades provided millions of dollars each year to
fund the Dalai Lama's war. Included in this was an annual personal
subsidy of $180,000 to the Dalai Lama. We also note that the CIA was
behind the development of "Tibet Houses" around the world - a subject
we will return to later.
In conclusion to this series of articles, we have comprehensively
refuted the claim that the Dalai Lama is a man of peace. Egil Aarvik's
praise of him for "his consistent resistance to the use of violence in
his people's struggle to regain their liberty" could not be any more
hollow.
2) In the aftermath of the Chinese invasion of Tibet, the Dalai Lama
and the Tibetan refugees were inundated with aid in the form of money,
food, clothing, blankets, medicines, land, accommodation, livestock
and so forth.
Many international charities, such as The Red Cross, CARE, Catholic
Relief Services, The National Christian Council, the American Friends
Service Committee, the American Emergency Committee for Tibetan
Refugees and others, gave extensively.
Many national governments, such as the UK, France, Canada, New
Zealand, the US and especially India gave generously to the Tibetan
cause.
In the over fifty years since the Chinese invasion, the plight of the
Tibetans rarely leaves media attention for long. It has become without
doubt one of the most successful on-going fund-raising campaigns ever,
drawing millions and millions of dollars in donations, merchandise and
event-tickets each year.
Where has all the money gone? What has it been used for? When
Australian journalist Michael Backman tried to discover the answer to
these fundamental questions he found:
"Details of the government-in-exile's funding today are far from
clear."
"It is not clear" how donations enter its budgeting. These are
likely to run to many millions annually, but the Dalai Lama's
Department of Finance provided no explicit acknowledgment of them or
of their "sources".
Certainly, there are plenty of rumours among expatriate Tibetans of
endemic corruption and misuse of monies collected in the name of the
Dalai Lama.
In part one of this series of articles we quoted from Tashi Tsering's
autobiography, before helping Gyalo Thondup transport the Dalai Lama's
treasure from Sikkim to Calcutta, whilst back in Lhasa before the
Chinese invasion, he had worked in the treasury of the Tibetan
government. He recounted his experiences there (p63 of the
autobiography):
"I was still disillusioned and angry about what I had seen going on
in the treasury office in Lhasa. The ordinary people sent their
taxes and tribute in the form of money and goods, and both monk and
lay officials just took what they wanted. There were ledgers filled
with accounts of tea bricks, butter, cloth, gold, and silver. I saw
the records that showed that the more powerful monks, especially
those from aristocratic families and the Dalai Lama's household,
"borrowed" any of these things they wished and never returned
them. There was no overall record, no auditing. The officials and
their friends and family could come in and take anything they
fancied. I saw them doing so with my own eyes."
Tashi Tsering was offered a position in the newly formed
Tibetan-Government-in-Exile, but turned it down:
"I felt that going to work for the exiled aristocrats and monks
would have meant going to work to restore the same old system."
Could this be the answer to Michael Backman's questions? Could this be
where the money went? In his pursuit of answers, Backman, uncovered
some more inconvenient truths:
"Like many Asian politicians, the Dalai Lama has been remarkably
nepotistic, appointing members of his family to many positions of
prominence. In recent years, three of the six members of the Kashag,
or cabinet, the highest executive branch of the Tibetan
government-in-exile, have been close relatives of the Dalai Lama."
"An older brother served as chairman of the Kashag and as the
minister of security. He also headed the CIA-backed Tibetan contra
movement in the 1960s."
"A sister-in-law served as head of the government-in-exile's
planning council and its Department of Health."
"A younger sister served as health and education minister and her
husband served as head of the government-in-exile's Department of
Information and International Relations."
"Their daughter was made a member of the Tibetan parliament in
exile. A younger brother has served as a senior member of the private
office of the Dalai Lama and his wife has served as education
minister."
"The second wife of a brother-in-law serves as the representative of
the Tibetan government-in-exile for northern Europe and head of
international relations for the government-in-exile. All these
positions give the Dalai Lama's family access to millions of dollars
collected on behalf of the government-in-exile."
In part one, we showed how despite having tens of millions of dollars
worth of gold stored in banks in Calcutta, the Dalai Lama successfully
pleaded poverty to the United States government and secured a tax-free
hand out of $180,000 per annum from 1959 onwards.
By the 60s, however, some in the US administration were questioning
the wisdom of these payments to the Dalai Lama, and the on-going
financial support of the Tibetan refugees.
One illustration of this is the response to a letter from the Dalai
Lama to the US President in late 1966, where the Dalai Lama mentions
his plan to resettle with 400 Tibetans in the United States... with
the apparent assumption that the US government will foot the $425,000
bill for this.
For details see
http://www.agreatdeception.com/news
-----
Some indirect confirmation from the NYT 14/April/2013:
By EDWARD WONG
Published: April 13, 2013
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/14/world/asia/china-makes-inroads-in-nepal-stemming-tibetan-presence.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0
. . .
The earliest Tibetan refugees arrived in Nepal in 1959, when the Dalai
Lama fled Tibet, and they settled in refugee camps, of which there are
still 13. A Tibetan enclave sprang up around Boudhanath. Some Tibetans
became rich by making carpets and handicrafts, and prominent Tibetan
monasteries amassed wealth and purchased prime real estate in the
Katmandu Valley.
>
>
>http://www.tibetsun.com/news/2013/05/10/refrain-from-statements-denigrating-dalai-lama-us-to-china
round) denigrated Syrian president Bashar al Assad saying: "Assad
killed his own people" when in fact she was heading with a bunch of
oil Sheiks the effort of sending mercenaries into Syria to kill the
Syrian people. She was likewise maligning Qaddafi and masterminding
his brutal death. So, what gives?
In article <1724098.RLqjVJJBDQ@Dharma>,
Peter Terpstra <peter.t...@gmail.com> wrote:
>Refrain from statements denigrating Dalai Lama: US to China
>
> PTI
>
>ON THE WEB, 10 May 2013
>
>Asking China to refrain from making statements that denigrate the
>Dalai Lama and Tibet's unique cultural, linguistic and religious
>traditions, the United States has said [that] the Tibetans [should]
>be permitted to express their grievances freely.
So, it is ok for Da Lama and his TGIE cohorts, and the likes of Sophie
>Refrain from statements denigrating Dalai Lama: US to China
>
> PTI
>
>ON THE WEB, 10 May 2013
>
>Asking China to refrain from making statements that denigrate the
>Dalai Lama and Tibet's unique cultural, linguistic and religious
>traditions, the United States has said [that] the Tibetans [should]
>be permitted to express their grievances freely.
Richardson and the NED-funded Tibetan Houses around the world, as well
as VOA and RFA, etc, to denigrate China everyday, saying such things
as "they were like an uninvited guest who came in with a gun", or
"they are occupying Tibet", or "they are making arbitrary detention of
the Tibetan people" or "they're committing self-immolation to avoid
being tortured or killed in prison" or "they're committing cultural
genocide against the Tibetan people" or anything that suits their
fancy!
But China should put tapes over her lips trying to defend herself?
What kind of fascist mentality is this?
The kind of fascists are running the U.S. State Department these days?
lo yeeOn
>"We have asked the Chinese government to refrain from statements that
>denigrate the Dalai Lama and Tibet's unique cultural, linguistic, and
>religious traditions," the state department spokesman, Patrick
>Ventrell, told reporters at his daily news conference yesterday.
>
>"Our lines and our policy (on Tibet) have not changed. We continue to
>call on the Chinese government to permit Tibetans to express their
>grievances freely, publicly, peacefully and without fear of
>retribution," he said in response to a question.
trying to stage an armed rebellion in Tibet with the CIA's help.
By saying that our policy toward Tibet hasn't changed, the U.S. is
admitting that it continues its policy of interference in China's
internal security.
How would we like some foreign country to be sending bombers into our
cities and explode some IEDs at our ball games and marathons, time and
again?
It is crazy foreing policy.
lo yeeOn
1) This article shows how the U.S. has been using the Dalai Lama to
destabilize China or to advance some other foreign policy agenda in
the past 50+ years despite the the monk's and his cohorts' corruption.
http://www.agreatdeception.com/news
The Dalai Lama Cables: An Instrument of US Foreign Policy
April 5, 2011
Using Da Lama to "split" the Buddhist community in various countries,
including Vietnam, Thailand, and Japan.
Dalai Lama History Japan
In the previous release from the Dalai Lama Cables, we revealed that
the US government had considered deploying the Dalai Lama in Vietnam
as a means to split the Buddhist community there and further the US
anti-communist agenda. It is clear from those discussions that the US
viewed the Dalai Lama as an asset, an instrument to be used to further
their foreign policy objectives. Given that he had accepted CIA
funding for himself (to the tune of $180,000 annually) and his
activities (some years well in excess of $1 million annually), it is
quite understandable that they'd want to get their money's worth.
Although the Dalai Lama didn't visit Vietnam, he did visit Thailand
and Japan in 1967 - two countries supposedly directly affected by the
Vietnam war according to the Domino theory.
We trawled through the cables to see what information we could find on
these trips.
A telegram from the US Embassy in Tokyo dated 1 April 1965 describes
an early stage in the planning of the Dalai Lama's trip to Japan.
What is immediately clear from the telegram is that, behind the
scenes, it is the US Secretary of State who is organising this trip.
The Ambassador in Tokyo explains that there are a number of hurdles
involved:
- The `Japanese themselves feel no particular affinity for Tibetans
and Japanese Buddhists regard Tibetan Buddhists as only distantly
related.'
- Although the Government of Japan will not prevent the visit they
are `unlikely to regard such trip with much `enthusiasm'.
- It may be difficult to find significant japanese Buddhist group
which would wish to involve itself sufficiently to sponsor Dalai
visit'.
Essentially it seems no one in Japan particularly wants the Dalai Lama
to come. Even the Buddhist clergy would only be `willing to meet with
upon his request'.
However, the first and most important point of the telegram reads:
`The Dalai Lama's visit to Japan would be advantageous from our point
of view in reminding Japanese of ChiCom attitudes'.
So, because the Dalai Lama's visit serves a US foreign policy interest
the Ambassador thinks `possibly we could stir up some support.'
Nonetheless, the ambassador assumes `if visit takes place US will not
be overtly involved.'
The visit did take place, the US pulled the strings to make it happen.
The US used the Dalai Lama and his teachings as an instrument of US
foreign policy. A pattern that appears to have been repeated again and
again.
There is something overwhelming[ly] sad about the precious teachings
of Lord Buddha being used as a weapon of psychological warfare, a mere
tool in cold war squabbles. By mixing religion and politics, the Dalai
Lama allowed this sad situation to develop. Now is the time to
completely free Buddhism from political pollution.
The Dalai Lama Cables: The US wanted to deploy the Dalai Lama in
Vietnam
March 29, 2011
As is well documented elsewhere on this site, the Dalai Lama was on
the CIA payroll from 1959 until at least 1974. He was provided with
$180,000 per year as part of the US anti-communist propaganda efforts.
What recently declassified documents now reveal is that the US wanted
to deploy the Dalai Lama in Vietnam as part of their anti-communist
propaganda efforts there. On three separate occasions deploying the
Dalai Lama is discussed at the highest level.
On 16 December 1964, General Maxwell D. Taylor suggests steps the
Government of Vietnam might take, the first of these being:
`1. Arrange for the Dalai Lama, his brother, or other Buddhist
leaders from other countries to visit Vietnam to educate Vietnamese
bonzes on the perils of Communism and their civil responsibilities.'
On March 8, 1965, Henry Cabot Lodge - the presidential consultant on
Vietnam - gives 14 recommendations regarding Vietnam to President
Johnson, recommendation number 10 is:
`The Dalai Lama should be brought to Saigon as an object lesson of
the dreadful things Communism does to high ranking Buddhist clergy.'
On 4 April, 1966, Jack Valenti - the president's special assistant -
gave the advice to President Johnson about what might be done about
the desperate situation in Vietnam. Amongst his advice was to:
`Split the Buddhist leadership:
This has possibilities. There is no durable cohesion in the Buddhist
leadership. Can we pit some of the leaders against Tri Quang? Can
we use the Dalai Lama and Buddhists outside Saigon, Hue and Da Nang
to our advantage?'
One of the main reasons for the American involvement in Vietnam was
that successive Presidents subscribed to the "Domino Theory" which
argued that if one country fell to communist forces, then all of the
surrounding countries would follow. It was, and is still, commonly
hypothesized that it applied to Vietnam. Whilst still a U.S.
senator, John F. Kennedy said in a speech to the American Friends of
Vietnam, Burma, Thailand, India, Japan, the Philippines and
obviously Laos and Cambodia are among those whose security would be
threatened if the Red Tide of Communism overflowed into Vietnam.
The Dalai Lama didn't visit Vietnam, but in November 1967 he visited
both Japan and Thailand, two countries affected by the "Domino
Theory". These were his first trips outside of India since leaving
Tibet in 1959, and he didn't make another trip outside of India
until 1972.
We know little about who he met and who he spoke to, what messages
he passed on and for whom. In his autobiography Freedom in Exile, he
says very little about these trips but does mention that they were
at the height of the Vietnam war and that on the way into Thailand
he flew alongside a B-52 bomber.
Could the Dalai Lama have been doing the bidding of his US pay
masters? Or at least finding a way to combine their interests and his
own?
Many people wonder if the Dalai Lama's relationship with the US is the
reason why he refuses to condemn the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan,
that many ordinary people - not considered `the Buddha of Compassion'
- find it easy to disagree with.
The Dalai Lama Cables: A Wolf in Monk's Robes?
March 25, 2011
The Communist Chinese regime regularly refer to the Dalai Lama as "a
wolf in monk's Robes". They claim that he is behind violent protests
in Tibet, that his supposedly compassionate wish to help flood and
earthquake victims in China and Tibet is just a political ploy, that
his travels around the world giving teachings is part of a political
strategy to attack China and that the he uses the monks and
monasteries in Tibet to organize insurgency.
The Dalai Lama, himself, laughs at these claims, and the western media
laugh with him. China is portrayed as almost hysterical in its
demonizing of the Dalai Lama. But is there any truth to what they say?
The brutal suppression of the Tibetans who resist communist rule in
Tibet is well documented, and we absolutely oppose injustice and
oppression anywhere. However, the Dalai Lama is a political leader,
and all political leaders must be held up to scrunity.
As Tibetologist Jens-Uwe Hartmann of the Humboldt-Universitat in
Berlin said:
`The glorification of the Dalai Lama in his capacity as a political
leader will not help the democratization process. A critical debate
on his political statements must be possible and should not be
suppressed by the argument that criticism only serves the Chinese.
We have examined the declassified US State Department documents and we
have found evidence that could support all three of the Chinese
claims:
With respect to organizing protests, the Dalai Lama and his
representatives refer to the protests as `spontaneous'. However, in a
telegram from the New Delhi Embassy dated 30 March 1967, we can see
that the Bureau of the Dalai Lama privately admit that they were
involved in organizing these "spontaneous" protests.
With respect to exploiting natural disasters - such as floods and
earthquakes - for political gain, a telegram from the US Embassy in
Calcutta, dated 8 January 1955, describes a "Tibetan Flood Relief
Commitee" set up by the Tibetans in exile. The telegram makes it clear
that the benefits of supporting the relief effort are to win a
propaganda coup over the Chinese communists and to support the
resistence fighters positions. Furthermore, the telegram explicitly
reveals that the "tibetan exiles conceived TFRC principally as a
psychological tactic against Chinese communists"
With respect to using teaching visits as a political strategy against
China, a United States Government Office Memorandum dated 21 February
1952 contains fascinating information. The context of the memo is a
discussion of how best to respond to the Dalai Lama's request for US
assistance against the Chinese Communists. The Dalai Lama's request
was brought by his brother Taktse Rimpche. In the memo a discussion
between various interested parties, including the CIA, is referenced.
The CIA went on to formulate and fund a strategy of anti-communist
propaganda with the Dalai Lama that included sponsoring him
personally, and well as establishing Tibet Houses on his behalf in
various locations and encouraging him to teach widely. In the
discussion mentioned in this memo, they describe organizing a teaching
tour by distinguished Buddhist leaders as:
"a major step towards utilizing certain elements of the Buddhist
world in one aspect of psychological warfare".
With respect to using the monks and monasteries in Tibet to organise
insurgency, a telegram from the US Embassy in Calcutta to the
Secretary of State in Washington, dated 11 September 1952, reveals:
"Gyalo and Shakabpa with Dalai Lama's knowledge seriously
considering forming secret organisation to infiltrate Tibet from
India, and possibly Nepal, using Tibetan Monasteries as centers
for anti-communist resistance; propaganda first, weapons later."
We know from other documents that this plan was put into effect.
Of course these declassified documents are now revealing old facts,
but also they reveal a modus operandi. In A Great Deception we traced
the various events surrounding the violent uprising in Tibet before
the Beijing Olympics in 2008 back to the Dalai Lama and his key
representatives.
The Dalai Lama Cables: Follow the Money
February 28, 2011
In the aftermath of the Chinese invasion of Tibet, the Dalai Lama and
the Tibetan refugees were inundated with aid in the form of money,
food, clothing, blankets, medicines, land, accommodation, livestock
and so forth.
Many international charities, such as The Red Cross, CARE, Catholic
Relief Services, The National Christian Council, the American Friends
Service Committee, the American Emergency Committee for Tibetan
Refugees and others, gave extensively.
Many national governments, such as the UK, France, Canada, New
Zealand, the US and especially India gave generously to the Tibetan
cause.
In the over fifty years since the Chinese invasion, the plight of the
Tibetans rarely leaves media attention for long. It has become without
doubt one of the most successful on-going fund-raising campaigns ever,
drawing millions and millions of dollars in donations, merchandise and
event-tickets each year.
Where has all the money gone? What has it been used for? When
Australian journalist Michael Backman tried to discover the answer to
these fundamental questions he found:
"Details of the government-in-exile's funding today are far from
clear."
"It is not clear" how donations enter its budgeting. These are
likely to run to many millions annually, but the Dalai Lama's
Department of Finance provided no explicit acknowledgment of them or
of their "sources".
Certainly, there are plenty of rumours among expatriate Tibetans of
endemic corruption and misuse of monies collected in the name of the
Dalai Lama.
In part one of this series of articles we quoted from Tashi Tsering's
autobiography, before helping Gyalo Thondup transport the Dalai Lama's
treasure from Sikkim to Calcutta, whilst back in Lhasa before the
Chinese invasion, he had worked in the treasury of the Tibetan
government. He recounted his experiences there (p63 of the
autobiography):
"I was still disillusioned and angry about what I had seen going on
in the treasury office in Lhasa. The ordinary people sent their
taxes and tribute in the form of money and goods, and both monk and
lay officials just took what they wanted. There were ledgers filled
with accounts of tea bricks, butter, cloth, gold, and silver. I saw
the records that showed that the more powerful monks, especially
those from aristocratic families and the Dalai Lama's household,
"borrowed" any of these things they wished and never returned
them. There was no overall record, no auditing. The officials and
their friends and family could come in and take anything they
fancied. I saw them doing so with my own eyes."
Tashi Tsering was offered a position in the newly formed
Tibetan-Government-in-Exile, but turned it down:
"I felt that going to work for the exiled aristocrats and monks
would have meant going to work to restore the same old system."
Could this be the answer to Michael Backman's questions? Could this be
where the money went? In his pursuit of answers, Backman, uncovered
some more inconvenient truths:
"Like many Asian politicians, the Dalai Lama has been remarkably
nepotistic, appointing members of his family to many positions of
prominence. In recent years, three of the six members of the Kashag,
or cabinet, the highest executive branch of the Tibetan
government-in-exile, have been close relatives of the Dalai Lama."
"An older brother served as chairman of the Kashag and as the
minister of security. He also headed the CIA-backed Tibetan contra
movement in the 1960s."
"A sister-in-law served as head of the government-in-exile's
planning council and its Department of Health."
"A younger sister served as health and education minister and her
husband served as head of the government-in-exile's Department of
Information and International Relations."
"Their daughter was made a member of the Tibetan parliament in
exile. A younger brother has served as a senior member of the private
office of the Dalai Lama and his wife has served as education
minister."
"The second wife of a brother-in-law serves as the representative of
the Tibetan government-in-exile for northern Europe and head of
international relations for the government-in-exile. All these
positions give the Dalai Lama's family access to millions of dollars
collected on behalf of the government-in-exile."
* See Also: Part 1 | Part 2 (below)
The Dalai Lama Cables: Follow the Money - Part 2
February 22, 2011
In part one, we showed how despite having tens of millions of dollars
worth of gold stored in banks in Calcutta, the Dalai Lama successfully
pleaded poverty to the United States government and secured a tax-free
hand out of $180,000 per annum from 1959 onwards.
By the 60s, however, some in the US administration were questioning
the wisdom of these payments to the Dalai Lama, and the on-going
financial support of the Tibetan refugees.
One illustration of this is the response to a letter from the Dalai
Lama to the US President in late 1966, where the Dalai Lama mentions
his plan to resettle with 400 Tibetans in the United States... with
the apparent assumption that the US government will foot the $425,000
bill for this.
The response is straight-forward: "No USG funds are available."
Subsequent cables reveal an interesting development. In 1969, the
Dalai Lama's personal representative Lodi Gyari lets the Americans
know that the Dalai Lama has been negotiating with the Soviets [at
that time the sworn enemy of the United States] for financial
assistance.
"Lodi concluded by stating that the Dalai Lama and he would much
prefer to take American financial assistance and he hoped I would
give the matter close attention, for they had to get help from
somewhere."
An exquisite hustle by anyone's standards.
Furthermore, in his report to the State Department, the US Ambassador
noted, with some alarm, how during a recent public lecture:
"The Dalai Lama emphasized that he did not oppose communism, or for
that matter any isms in particular. He declared that an independent
Tibet could have a communist government or any other form supported
by the majority of the people. What Tibetans opposed was foreign
domination. In the current context, these remarks would appear to
have been primarily directed towards Moscow."
Imagine the horror back in Washington at the prospect of their trump
card in the global propaganda war against communism switching sides -
swapping the CIA for the KGB, and happily inviting communist rule in
Tibet.
Needless to say, funding for the Dalai Lama was granted, and his CIA
support renewed at the next review in 1971, and again in the following
years. The US congress continues to financially support the Dalai
Lama, and the CIA subsidy has been replaced by National Endowment for
Democracy funding. As Professor Sautman reports:
The United States is at least the second-largest donor, after
India, to the TGIE, providing $2 million in "humanitarian aid"
annually and may be the largest donor.109 Since 2004 it has given
the exiles $4 million annually and provided $5.25 million for
"Tibetan community assistance" in 2008.110 The U.S. National
Endowment for Democracy (NED) supplies additional funds.111 The
group's founding president, Allen Weinstein, has said, "A lot of
what [the NED does] today was done covertly 25 years ago by the
CIA. 112
Notes:
109. M. Kripalani, "World Watches India's Response to Tibet", Business
Week (India), March 21, 2008. Most TGIE income is from Western state
grants. In 2006-7, grants totaled US$17.5 million. "Rinpoche Defies
China as Tibet's Prime Minister Based in India", Bloomberg, April 30,
2008. See also Roemer, Tibetan Government-in-Exile, 118-23 on the
dependence of the TGIE and Tibetan exiles in India (three-fourths of
whom do not work) on external financial support. The TGIE has said its
annual budget is $700,000, leaving substantial funds for
internationalization activities; Velloor, In "Tibetan Exiles Keep the
Fight Alive."
110. Thomas Lam, "U.S.-Funded Assistance Programs in China",
Congressional Research Service RS22663 (January 28, 2008). An official
Chinese news source has reported that the US Congress appropriated
US$2.4 million for Tibetan exile organizations in 2009, up by 25
percent over 2008. Almost 89 percent of the TGIE's 2005 revenues
derived from foreign aid and it has annually spent 30-40 percent of
its funds on projects related to the Tibet Question and representation
abroad. Yi Duo, "Dalai Lama bianshen `yao qian shu' Liancai zhi shu
bei meiti baoguang ("The Dalai Lama has been changed into one `shaking
the money tree': techniques of accumulating wealth by unfair means
exposed by media), Huangqiu Shibao [Global Times], June 19, 2009.
The Dalai Lama Cables: Follow the Money - Part 1
February 13, 2011
Recently declassified US State Department cables reveal the workings
of the Dalai Lama and his inner circle.
Throughout the 1950s the Dalai Lama negotiated with the US government
for military and financial assistance. In the State Department United
States Policy Concerning the Legal Status of Tibet - 1942-1956', a
summary of the US government's response is given:
"The United States was prepared to provide light arms, but it was
not prepared to pay the expenses of the Dalai Lama and his retinue
if they sought asylum abroad, because it assumed that the Dalai Lama
had enough treasure to pay his own expenses."
When the Dalai Lama finally did flee Tibet in early 1959, he sent his
brother, Gyalo Thondup, to ask for financial and military
assistance. Gyalo Thondup let it be known that:
"The Dalai Lama did not bring out any treasures from Tibet and
consequently was very hard up financially."
The declassified documents show that the Dalai Lama received a
personal subsidy from the US government - a covert payment arranged by
the CIA - of 180,000 US Dollars per year from 1959 through till at
least 1974. To put this in a modern context 180,000 dollars in the
1950s would be worth nearly 1.5 million today, and 180,000 dollars in
the seventies would be worth nearly 800,000 today. Considering the US
intended not to support the Dalai Lama financially that's a pretty
generous subsidy to have squeezed out of them.
An alternative version of the "no treasure brought from Tibet" story
can be found in The Struggle for Modern Tibet: The Autobiography of
Tashi Tsering on pages 57-58:
"During the 1950s, though the Dalai Lama himself was in Tibet, the
gold and silver remained in one of the storehouses of the maharaja
of Sikkim. The Chinese had asked for its return but had not made an
issue of it at the time. Following the Lhasa Uprising and the flight
of the Dalai Lama, they claimed that the money was not the Dalai
Lama's personal fortune but belonged to the country - which they now
considered to belong to them. At that point the Tibetan leaders
decided it was time to secure their treasure more permanently and
farther away from the border; and because of my association with
Gyalola [Gyalo Thondup, the Dalai Lama's brother], I found myself
involved. It was quite an "operation".
The gold and silver were in the form of coins and ingots. When I
became involved, the gold and silver were being hand-loaded onto
trucks in Gangtok, the capital of Sikkim, and driven south to
Siliguri, the location of the nearest airstrip. At the airport the
literally millions of dollars' worth of gold were loaded onto Dakota
cargo planes and flown to Calcutta.
When this precious cargo reached Calcutta, the gold was immediately
put into the banks. But for a while the silver was stored in a
single room on the third floor of a trusted Tibetan merchant's
house. It was my responsibility to stand guard over it, and for
nearly a month I stood sentinel in a silent room full of coins and
odd pieces of silver."
It is estimated that the Dalai Lama had nearly 5 tons of solid gold at
his disposal in India. For a man with tens of millions of dollars in
the bank to successfully plead poverty to the United States government
is quite a feat.
Admittedly, the Dalai Lama had left the bulk of his fortune back in
Lhasa - for example, in the west chapel of the Potala Palace there is
a tomb with nearly 5 tons of solid gold encasing it, there's no need
to mention the thousands of other golden statues, tombs and works of
art.
This rather clever con trick wasn't the only time the Dalai Lama
rolled the US over, as we'll see in part 2 (coming soon).
The Dalai Lama Wikileaks - Curious Statistics
February 5th, 2011
The recent release of US State Department cables by whistle-blowing
website Wikileaks.org has revealed some curious statistics in relation
to the Tibetans in exile.
Clearly, Tibet and the Dalai Lama are at the centre of a propaganda
war between the United States and Communist China. In virtually all
western media, the Tibetans are portrayed like the Ewoks from Star
Wars - as cute, cuddly, harmless and deeply spiritual - while the
Chinese are demonized - sinophobic charicatures like Ming the
Merciless from Flash Gordon spring to Mind. This media distortion has
been carefully orchestrated with the US's vested interests in mind. A
closer analysis of the Wikileaks cables reveals statistics that
challenge this popular myth.
In one cable it reveals that far from being pacifists, most of the
Tibetans serve in the military. The cables states:
"Most Tibetan men in northeastern India join the SFF [Special
Frontier Force]. In Gangtok, [...] the majority of men work for the
SFF; and in Ravangla, 90% of the Tibetan families have at least one
family member serving."
That so many Tibetans serve in the military may come as a shock to
some readers, and they may perhaps think this must be a recent
development, quite unusual for the Tibetans. Such a view would only
demonstrate how deeply effective the Dalai Lama's efforts to rewrite
Tibetan history have been. In his illuminating article "Vegetarian
between Meals: The Dalai Lama, War, and Violence", Professor Barry
Sautman presents facts that are in stark contrast with the picture the
Dalai Lama likes to paint. Professor Sautman provides references for
every statement he makes, his sources are listed below.
The Dalai Lama has said "the people of Tibet are, by their nature,
honest, gentle and kind," that "Tibetan culture is a compassionate and
non-violent culture" under the kings and Dalai Lamas . . . and "peace
and happiness prevailed in Tibet". 20 He has also stated that "Tibetan
culture [is] based on peaceful relations," 21 and that "before 1950,
Tibet was completely a land of peace." 22
Tibetans, including monks, have however long borne arms against
outsiders and each other in wars between rulers or Buddhist sects.31
The "Great Fifth" Dalai Lama ferociously annihilated enemies and their
families. 32 Tibetan armies warred in Ladakh in 1679-84 and in Bhutan
many times in the eighteenth century, against Zunghar Mongols in 1720,
Nepal from 1788 to 1792 and 1854 to 1858, Ladakh in 1842, and Britain
in 1904.33 From the late eighteenth century, the ancient regime had a
standing army,34 and in the early twentieth century, the "Great 13th"
had a ministry of war oversee his British-trained army. He advised
Tibetans that, "where [peaceful means] are not appropriate, [they
should] not hesitate to resort to more forceful means."35 The present
Dalai Lama has noted that the Thirteenth did "raise an army, train it
as best as possible. Just between us, this isn't strictly practicing
nonviolence." During World War I, the Thirteenth offered his British
patrons one thousand troops,37 and in 1920 he dispatched his army to
help the murderously racist Russian baron Roman von Ungern-Sternberg
assault Mongolia's capital.38
In Eastern Tibet, in the first half of the twentieth century, Lhasa's
army fought Tibetans led by eastern chieftains and both fought
non-Tibetan warlord armies. People from Kham fought around 400-500
major battles both against the Chinese and the Lhasa government,
between 1911 and 1935. These armed guerrilla forces increasingly
occupied the central Tibetan military. The fighting intensified after
the death of the Thirteenth Dalai Lama in 1933 and the eastern
Tibetans, moreover, sought a separate state, independent from any Han
and central Tibetan control. 40 Violent conflicts occurred in Tibet
right up to around the old regime's fall. 41 Some 10 to 15 percent of
monks at three large Lhasa monasteries were fighting monks (dobdob)
who had access to guns; more generally "lamas had their own courts and
prisons, and often organized their own militias and possessed
thousands of guns and horses." 42 In a 1947 civil war, thousands of
monks fought with artillery and guns and as many as three hundred
died. 43
To illustrate just how militarized the Tibetan people were, Professor
Sautman provides us with a statistical comparison to the present
United States military:
In 1950 the Tibetan army had twelve thousand troops for a region
of 1.2 million people.44 The United States, with 761 bases abroad,
has only half that proportion of its people under arms.45
The carefully crafted image of the Dalai Lama as a benign spiritual
leader, and of Tibet as a Shangri-la, is a weapon in the CIA's
propaganda war. The Dalai Lama has knowingly colluded with the
myth-building about himself and Tibet. A more realistic assessment of
the present Dalai Lama, and the Dalai Lamas through history can be
found in "A Great Deception".
Professor Sautman's sources:
. . .
The Dalai Lama Cables: No Noble Peace - Epilogue
February 1st, 2011
In this series of articles we comprehensively refuted the Dalai Lama's
qualification for being awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. (please see
previous articles below)
Throughout the articles please bear in mind the words of Egil Aarvik
when presenting the Dalai Lama with the 1989 Nobel Peace Prize:
This year's Nobel Peace Prize has been awarded "first and foremost
for his consistent resistance to the use of violence in his people's
struggle to regain their liberty.
"This is by no means the first community of exiles in the world,
but it is assuredly the first and only one that has not set up any
militant liberation movement."
Please also bear in mind that the Dalai Lama is a fully ordained
Buddhist monk with vows to forsake killing and any actions of harming
others.
Over the course of the previous articles in this series we showed how
the Dalai Lama personally requested the CIA involvement in Tibet - an
involvement that led to thousands of deaths on both sides.
Now we can contrast the evidence found in the US State Department
documents with the Dalai Lama's own words:
Some quotes from his Nobel Peace Prize acceptance speech:
"The prize reaffirms our conviction that with truth, courage and
determination as our weapons, Tibet will be liberated."
"Because violence can only breed more violence and suffering, our
struggle must remain nonviolent."
And some from the Nobel Lecture he gave thereafter:
"I speak to inform you of the sad situation in my country today and
of the aspirations of my people, because in our struggle for
freedom, truth is the only weapon we possess."
"Despite the fact that we have not drawn attention to our plight by
means of violence, we have not been forgotten."
He has always, and continues to this day, to distance himself from the
CIA activities in Tibet. He blames his brothers, claims they acted
without his knowledge, claims he wasn't informed, and so on and so
forth.
In his autobiography "Freedom in Exile" he says:
"The other sad episode concerned the guerillas, trained and equipped
by the CIA, who continued their struggle to regain Tibetan freedom
by violent means. On more than one occasion, I tried to discover
detailed information about these operations from Gyalo Thondup and
others, but I have never heard the full story ...
"Although I admired the determination of the guerillas, I had never
been in favour of their activities."
How hollow all these words sound now, in the light of the truths
revealed.
The Dalai Lama Cables: No Noble Peace - Part 5
January 29th, 2011
In this series of articles we will comprehensively refute the Dalai
Lama's qualification for being awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.
Throughout the articles please bear in mind the words of Egil Aarvik
when presenting the Dalai Lama with the 1989 Nobel Peace Prize:
"This year's Nobel Peace Prize has been awarded ... first and
foremost for his consistent resistance to the use of violence in his
people's struggle to regain their liberty.
"This is by no means the first community of exiles in the world, but
it is assuredly the first and only one that has not set up any
militant liberation movement."
Please also bear in mind that the Dalai Lama is a fully ordained
Buddhist monk with vows to forsake killing and any actions of harming
others.
As illustrated in the previous article in this series, the Dalai Lama
called in the deal he had made with the US Government for military and
financial support for a war against the Chinese Communists over Tibet.
Here we give some details as to the measure of the support that was
afforded. This previously top secret document is now publicly
available. We urge everyone interested in the Dalai Lama and Tibet to
read it.
This shows that the US government was true to its words and for the
best part of two decades provided millions of dollars each year to
fund the Dalai Lama's war. Included in this was an annual personal
subsidy of $180,000 to the Dalai Lama. We also note that the CIA was
behind the development of "Tibet Houses" around the world - a subject
we will return to later.
In conclusion to this series of articles, we have comprehensively
refuted the claim that the Dalai Lama is a man of peace. Egil Aarvik's
praise of him for "his consistent resistance to the use of violence in
his people's struggle to regain their liberty" could not be any more
hollow.
2) In the aftermath of the Chinese invasion of Tibet, the Dalai Lama
and the Tibetan refugees were inundated with aid in the form of money,
food, clothing, blankets, medicines, land, accommodation, livestock
and so forth.
Many international charities, such as The Red Cross, CARE, Catholic
Relief Services, The National Christian Council, the American Friends
Service Committee, the American Emergency Committee for Tibetan
Refugees and others, gave extensively.
Many national governments, such as the UK, France, Canada, New
Zealand, the US and especially India gave generously to the Tibetan
cause.
In the over fifty years since the Chinese invasion, the plight of the
Tibetans rarely leaves media attention for long. It has become without
doubt one of the most successful on-going fund-raising campaigns ever,
drawing millions and millions of dollars in donations, merchandise and
event-tickets each year.
Where has all the money gone? What has it been used for? When
Australian journalist Michael Backman tried to discover the answer to
these fundamental questions he found:
"Details of the government-in-exile's funding today are far from
clear."
"It is not clear" how donations enter its budgeting. These are
likely to run to many millions annually, but the Dalai Lama's
Department of Finance provided no explicit acknowledgment of them or
of their "sources".
Certainly, there are plenty of rumours among expatriate Tibetans of
endemic corruption and misuse of monies collected in the name of the
Dalai Lama.
In part one of this series of articles we quoted from Tashi Tsering's
autobiography, before helping Gyalo Thondup transport the Dalai Lama's
treasure from Sikkim to Calcutta, whilst back in Lhasa before the
Chinese invasion, he had worked in the treasury of the Tibetan
government. He recounted his experiences there (p63 of the
autobiography):
"I was still disillusioned and angry about what I had seen going on
in the treasury office in Lhasa. The ordinary people sent their
taxes and tribute in the form of money and goods, and both monk and
lay officials just took what they wanted. There were ledgers filled
with accounts of tea bricks, butter, cloth, gold, and silver. I saw
the records that showed that the more powerful monks, especially
those from aristocratic families and the Dalai Lama's household,
"borrowed" any of these things they wished and never returned
them. There was no overall record, no auditing. The officials and
their friends and family could come in and take anything they
fancied. I saw them doing so with my own eyes."
Tashi Tsering was offered a position in the newly formed
Tibetan-Government-in-Exile, but turned it down:
"I felt that going to work for the exiled aristocrats and monks
would have meant going to work to restore the same old system."
Could this be the answer to Michael Backman's questions? Could this be
where the money went? In his pursuit of answers, Backman, uncovered
some more inconvenient truths:
"Like many Asian politicians, the Dalai Lama has been remarkably
nepotistic, appointing members of his family to many positions of
prominence. In recent years, three of the six members of the Kashag,
or cabinet, the highest executive branch of the Tibetan
government-in-exile, have been close relatives of the Dalai Lama."
"An older brother served as chairman of the Kashag and as the
minister of security. He also headed the CIA-backed Tibetan contra
movement in the 1960s."
"A sister-in-law served as head of the government-in-exile's
planning council and its Department of Health."
"A younger sister served as health and education minister and her
husband served as head of the government-in-exile's Department of
Information and International Relations."
"Their daughter was made a member of the Tibetan parliament in
exile. A younger brother has served as a senior member of the private
office of the Dalai Lama and his wife has served as education
minister."
"The second wife of a brother-in-law serves as the representative of
the Tibetan government-in-exile for northern Europe and head of
international relations for the government-in-exile. All these
positions give the Dalai Lama's family access to millions of dollars
collected on behalf of the government-in-exile."
In part one, we showed how despite having tens of millions of dollars
worth of gold stored in banks in Calcutta, the Dalai Lama successfully
pleaded poverty to the United States government and secured a tax-free
hand out of $180,000 per annum from 1959 onwards.
By the 60s, however, some in the US administration were questioning
the wisdom of these payments to the Dalai Lama, and the on-going
financial support of the Tibetan refugees.
One illustration of this is the response to a letter from the Dalai
Lama to the US President in late 1966, where the Dalai Lama mentions
his plan to resettle with 400 Tibetans in the United States... with
the apparent assumption that the US government will foot the $425,000
bill for this.
For details see
http://www.agreatdeception.com/news
-----
Some indirect confirmation from the NYT 14/April/2013:
By EDWARD WONG
Published: April 13, 2013
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/14/world/asia/china-makes-inroads-in-nepal-stemming-tibetan-presence.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0
. . .
The earliest Tibetan refugees arrived in Nepal in 1959, when the Dalai
Lama fled Tibet, and they settled in refugee camps, of which there are
still 13. A Tibetan enclave sprang up around Boudhanath. Some Tibetans
became rich by making carpets and handicrafts, and prominent Tibetan
monasteries amassed wealth and purchased prime real estate in the
Katmandu Valley.
>
>
>http://www.tibetsun.com/news/2013/05/10/refrain-from-statements-denigrating-dalai-lama-us-to-china
Satish
May 11, 2013, 11:39:48 AM5/11/13
to
On May 10, 1:04 pm, rst9 <rst9w...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> The Dalai Lama is a devious and evil person who only thinks of his own
> comfort and power.
The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is a devious and evil organization
> The Dalai Lama is a devious and evil person who only thinks of his own
> comfort and power.
that only thinks of its own comfort and power. It has purposefully
tightened its colonial grip on Tibet and East Turkestan and, moreover,
has initiated territorial claims upon two dozen neighbors.
http://img16.imageshack.us/img16/3928/chineseman.gif
rst0/9, you are all for imperialism propagated by the CCP dictatorship
in Beijing..
What harm have the victims of CCPimperialist agenda done to you?
Obviously you are completely bereft of facts of logic - that is why
you could do no better than post an outburst on the CCP dictatorship
to reply to criticism of CCP's imperialist agenda.
And now you are saying that countries like Japan, Korea, Taiwan, the
Philippines, Brunei, Malaysia, India, Indonesia, Australia, New
Zealand etc. deserve to be badgered and bludgeoned by the Beijing
regime's imperialist agenda because you do not approve of USA's
policy?
Yes, your maturity indeed belies your age.
Beijing's lust for raw materials has fueled its colonial agenda. In
this, it is behaving exactly as the Tojo regime had during the WW II
era.
The Pacific nations are all aware that imperialist China has come to
believe like rst0 that "Today, it's all about military power, the only
thing counts."
In 1979, the CCP dictatorship under Deng Xiaoping's helmsmanship
caused the death of nearly 150,000 human soldiers just to "teach
Vietnam a lesson". It is another matter that a significant proportion
of the dead were Chinese soldiers. But that mattered very little to
lull the blood-lust of the CCP dictatorship in Beijing.
In fact, China's small neighbors thank USA for the fact that China
hasn't dared since 1979 to launch a bloody invasion to teach any of
its small neighbors a lesson.
As far as the Pacific nations are concerned, it is the USA that is
providing a shield against the blood lust of the CCP dictatorship.
As far as the Pacific countries (Japan, Korea, Taiwan, the
Philippines, Vietnam, Brunei, Malaysia, Indonesia, Australia, New
Zealand etc.) are concerned, it is the CCP dictatorship in Beijing
that is the greatest menace to world peace. They have seen with
concern how the CCP dictatorship had laid claims to islands on the
offshore of other countries (and much farther from coast of Mainland
China) solely for the purpose of being able to claim the entire waters
of seas like the South China Sea as PRC's territorial waters and to
exploit its natural resources.
Repeated appeals to PRC for international arbitration in accordance
with international laws and treaties on seas are falling on the deaf
ears of the CCP dictatorship in Beijing.
The Munich agreement gave in to Nazi regime's demand for Sudetenland.
But this only whetted the Nazi regime's addiction to aggrandizement.
The Nazi regime went on to lay claims on Austria and then to Poland
and then to Russia and France and then to the whole world.
The Beijing bandit regime's imperialist agenda is expanding
exponentially. Now it is disputing Japan's sovereignty over Okinawa on
the basis of Okinawa's tributary relationship with China some 500
years ago. The CCP dictatorship in Beijing is becoming as much a
menace to world peace as the Tojo regime and the Hitler regime were in
their days:
*******************
http://english.pravda.ru/world/asia/17-07-2012/121658-china_territorial_claims-0/
China has territorial claims to nearly 20 countries
17.07.2012
Chinese leader Mao Zedong not only built a strong country but also
outlined a global goal: "We must conquer the globe where we will
create a powerful state." Today, China has territorial claims to all
its neighbors. Naturally, the U.S. is dreaming of becoming a mediator
in resolving disputes in the region. But it seems that Beijing
absolutely does not care about their opinion.
Burma, Laos, Northern India, Vietnam, Nepal, Bhutan, Thailand,
Malaysia, Singapore, the Ryukyu Islands, 300 islands of the South
China, East China and Yellow Seas, as well as Kyrgyzstan, Mongolia,
Taiwan, South Kazakhstan, the Afghan province of Bahdashan,
Transbaikalia and the Far East to South Okhotsk - here is the complete
list of areas that, according to Zedong, were lost due to the fall of
the Qing empire. All of these countries and regions combined exceed
the territory of modern China. Not all complaints are voiced by the
Government of China in the international arena, but within the country
the imperialist ambitions have not been lost, but rather, are actively
promoted.
The PRC authorities talk out loud only about the areas that, at least
theoretically, can be taken away from Japan and Korea. Tokyo is
regularly frustrated not only because of the travel of the Russian
leaders to the Kuril Islands, but also about the Chinese ships freely
entering the disputed Senkaku Islands waters. Beijing believes that
the Islands are called Diaoyu, and they belonged to China, but the
malicious Japanese tricked the U.S. into giving them to Japan because
after World War II the uninhabited archipelago was in the US
jurisdiction.
Significant reserves of natural gas were found on the islands. For the
growing industry of China and stagnant Japan it is more than a serious
argument in favor of the struggle for the archipelago, no matter what
it is called. Not to mention the fish that is found there in large
quantities. To date, the only agreement the parties have reached in
the negotiations is on the joint development of oil fields. In
addition, if the Japanese behave more or less decently, the Chinese
are regularly caught for illegal fishing in the area.
Any territorial dispute, but rather, its resolution, is a serious
precedent. If China's claim in respect of at least one territory from
the list of the "lost" is satisfied, the Chinese machine would be
unstoppable. Despite the fact that the Chinese are very pleased to
partner with Russia and have always supported Russia in the UN
Security Council, in person, on the sidelines, its diplomats
supposedly jokingly hint to their Russian colleagues: you must
understand that soon you will have to share the Far East? China has
more than a billion people, while Russia's vast territory barely has
150 million.
These dangerous trends - demographic, and as a result, geopolitical -
must sound scary to the Russian government, but so far it seems that
it is happy with the fact that Beijing makes territorial claims only
to Seoul and Tokyo. In 2005 Russia had already given China a bounty in
the form of 337 square kilometers of land in the area of Big Island
(upper Argun River in the Chita region) and two sites in the vicinity
of the islands Tarabarov and Big Ussuri near the confluence of the
Amur and Ussuri.
However, none of the leaders of the military departments of ASEAN that
includes all debating countries agree to recognize, for example, the
fact that Diaoyu belongs to Japan. Instead, the defense ministers of
Vietnam, Indonesia, Australia, Thailand and Singapore urged the
Japanese authorities to proceed with caution and within the framework
of the international law. These countries certainly do not need a
resolution to the dispute because in that case their territory will be
separated from China only by perseverance of the latter.
They are silent about the "Iodo island" (the Chinese version is
Suenchzhao. - Ed) in the East China Sea. The sneaky Chinese took the
principle of dividing the Arctic as an example and now claim that the
underwater ridge of this tiny piece of land is under close control of
the Chinese. Since the Iodo is closer to Korea, in 2003 the Koreans
built an uninhabitable marine research station there. From the
standpoint of the international law, this rock in general should not
be the subject of a debate.
In any case, the controversy continues, Japan and South Korea remain
to be supported by their all-time ally - the United States. For the
US, the unification of Southeast Asian Nations is a chance to save
their own economy, because in that case the World Trade Center will
move there, where currently there are no transnational corporations in
the amount sufficient for the U.S.
The success of the White House in the region does not depend on the
strength that America loves to show any chance it has, but rather,
diplomacy, as the countries of ASEAN and Asia-Pacific region do not
trust each other or anyone outside the regional boundaries. However,
Washington is trusted here because of the support of Seoul and Tokyo.
However, China has already pushed Japan out of the ranks of the
largest economies in the world, and the structure of the region is no
longer formed on spatial basis.
Therefore, territorial claims of China, and not Russia, India or, for
example, Australia are so important for Washington. Beijing is the
only capital of the world, ready to use force in the struggle for the
sake of expansion. During the last ten years, while America was
blowing up its financial bubble, China has not only developed the
industry, but also equipped its area of interest with military
equipment. China has placed 38 new diesel and nuclear submarines in
the region, purchased four destroyers of class "Modern" from Russia
and built another dozen on its own, and has launched a network of
ground-based ballistic missiles to destroy naval targets.
Only one other country has done this before - the Soviet Union during
the "Cold War". It is no wonder that the Americans are very concerned
with the regular quarrels between China and its major allies.
Construction of a naval base on Hainan Island does not add confidence
to the U.S. The proximity to the Malacca Strait poses a threat to the
smooth supply of Washington's main allies in the region - Japan, South
Korea and Taiwan - this is the way the US sees the situation. The
American senators have already decided that such behavior is a threat
to Beijing's regional peace and stability, economic development and
even "food security". The international community is well aware what
usually follows such wording.
Ilona Raskolnikova
Pravda.Ru
*******************
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2011/oct/26/inside-china-436801701/?page=all#pagebreak
Threat against ‘little countries’
By Miles Yu
mmil...@gmail.com
China’s official communist newspaper, the Global Times, published a
chilling editorial warning several “little countries” that are
disputing China’s maritime claims in the South China Sea, notably the
Philippines and Vietnam, to “get ready to hear the sound of gunfire.”
Headlined “China Cannot Resort Only to Negotiations Over Maritime
Conflicts, We Must Kill One to Deter One Hundred If Necessary,” the
editorial published Tuesday asked, in a tone of condescension, where
these “little neighboring countries” got the nerve to challenge China.
It called such challenges an “opportunistic strategic offensive
launched by little countries against a big country.”
The newspaper further threatened that the game these countries play
against China would not be easy to win because “China possesses the
force to end such game anytime.”
The report said any fear of a naval war is unnecessary because the
Chinese public had been psychologically getting used to such a naval
conflagration in recent years.
According to the newspaper, the root cause of China’s trouble with
these “little countries” is the United States. “At present various
disputants behave with imperial swagger [against China],” the
commentary said, “as if with the support from the United States, they
all had the force and capabilities to subjugate China.”
The newspaper used the phrase “bodies of waters in East Asia” to
include areas other than the South China Sea where China has
territorial disputes — a clear reference to South Korea and Japan.
Since April 2010, China began deliberately sending regular fishing
fleets accompanied by official government escort ships to disputed
areas of the Spratly’s Island, Senkaku islands, the Korean littoral
area and other murky waters.
These China fishing and escort ships routinely clash with other
nations’ naval patrol ships, including incidents with the Philippine
navy, the South Korean navy and the Japanese coastal patrol vessels
just within the past week, dramatically escalating tensions with
several “little countries.”
Underground Great Wall
The U.S. government this week announced that it had dismantled and
destroyed the last and the largest Cold War-era nuclear weapon, the
B53 gravity bomb, in Amarillo, Texas.
Meanwhile, China is increasing its stockpile of nuclear weapons under
the rubric of a mammoth project called the Underground Great Wall that
includes a 3,000-mile-long subterranean tunnel system used to store
and operate the many thousands of China’s nuclear-carrying missiles.
The system is under the direct supervision of China’s strategic
missile forces known as the Second Artillery Corps.
First reported by the Chinese state television in March 2008 and
confirmed by the Chinese military a year later, the Underground Great
Wall runs several hundred feet below the ground, said James Holmes of
the U.S. Naval War College.
Mr. Holmes wrote in the Japanese-based electronic journal the Diplomat
in August that “the very scale of the underground network opens up new
vistas for Chinese nuclear strategy.”
On Tuesday, the Wall Street Journal quoted former Pentagon nuclear
weapons specialist Philip Karber as fundamentally challenging the
West’s conventional assumption about the size of China’s nuclear
stockpile, officially estimated to include several hundred warheads.
Mr. Karber said gauging the size of China’s nuclear arsenal is
difficult, but the Wall Street Journal article urged an immediate
reconsideration of the underestimated arsenal because “the alternative
is for China, steeped in a 2,500 year military tradition of
concealment, deception and surprise, to announce — at a time and in a
manner of its choosing — its supremacy in a field that we have
foolishly abandoned to our dreams.”
Anti-terrorism law proposed
China announced Monday that it would enact a sweeping law to combat
what the communist state would define as “terrorists” or “terrorist
acts.” These acts include creating public disorder and social panic,
causing public property damage and threatening government agencies.
The law would target international organizations and all others that
abet and finance such “terrorists” and “terrorist acts.”
Human rights activists and thousands of netizens immediately reacted
with anger and protest. Li Tiantian, a Shanghai-based human rights
lawyer, was quoted by overseas Chinese news media as saying: “This law
aims to protect the power structure of the state, to guarantee the
security, stability and power of the government. It is the same as
calling all actions jeopardizing the regime’s rule terrorism,
deserving suppression.”
*************
http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/asia_pacific/influential-chinese-commentators-dispute-japans-claim-to-okinawa/2012/07/23/gJQAQPka4W_story.html
Washington Post
Monday, July 23, 2012
Japan’s claim to Okinawa disputed by influential Chinese commentators
By Kathrin Hille and Mure Dickie, Updated: Monday, July 23, 9:29 AM
BEIJING — For many observers, rising friction between China and Japan
over a group of remote and uninhabited islands in the East China Sea
is worrying enough.
But if some influential Chinese nationalist commentators have their
way, the spat over the Japanese-controlled Senkaku islands — which
Beijing calls the Diaoyu — could widen into a dispute over a much more
important archipelago.
The CCP-dictatorship in Beijing is getting intoxicated with its
imperialist agenda. It is now seriously thinking of disputing Japanese
Okinawa on the specious plea that Okinawa had a tributary relationship
with Okinawa half a millennium ago.
The Beijing bandit regime is behaving the way the Hitler regime had.
Munich didn't appease Hitler. From claims on Sudetenland and Austria,
it was an easy step to claims on Poland and France and then on Russia
and then on the whole world.
In a fiery editorial this month, the Global Times newspaper urged
Beijing to consider challenging Japan’s control over its southern
prefecture of Okinawa, an island chain with a population of 1.4
million people that bristles with U.S. military bases.
“China should not be afraid of engaging with Japan in a mutual
undermining of territorial integrity,” the Communist Party-run paper
declared.
Maj. Gen. Jin Yinan, head of the strategy research institute at
China’s National Defense University, went even further. He told state-
run radio that limiting discussion to the Diaoyu was “too narrow,”
saying Beijing should question ownership of the whole Ryukyu
archipelago, which by some definitions extends beyond Okinawa.
While the Chinese government has offered no endorsement of such
radical views, their open espousal by senior commentators is likely to
be deeply unsettling both to Japan and other neighboring nations.
“Challenging Japan’s sovereignty over the Ryukyus would indeed be a
break from the past,” says Taylor Fravel, a Chinese security expert at
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, who contends that Beijing has
tended to limit its territorial claims for the sake of clearly defined
borders.
Chinese questioning of Japanese sovereignty over Okinawa is based on
the prefecture’s roots in an independent state known as the Ryukyu
Kingdom that won control of the archipelago in the 15th century.
Ryukyu kings paid formal tribute to Chinese emperors, a practice
allowing lucrative trade that continued even after the kingdom was
conquered by a Japanese feudal domain in 1609. Okinawa only officially
became part of Japan in 1879.
For some in China, this history is enough to render illegitimate
Japanese rule over a strategically important archipelago seen as the
biggest impediment to the expansion of Chinese naval power in the
Pacific.
Tang Chunfeng, a former official at the Chinese Embassy in Tokyo, is
one of those campaigning for China to rethink its acceptance of
Japanese rule over Okinawa, saying past restraint has “done a lot of
harm.”
“When I was in Japan, I didn’t even know that the Ryukyus were once
ours,” says Tang, now a Japan specialist at a Commerce Ministry think
tank.
But such arguments could be diplomatically incendiary.
“Once you start arguing that a tributary relationship at some point in
history is the basis for a sovereignty claim in the 20th century, you
start worrying a lot of people,” says June Teufel Dreyer, a China and
Japan specialist at the University of Miami. “Many, many countries had
tributary relationships with China.”
Some Chinese hawks stop short of saying Okinawa should be Chinese,
suggesting it is enough to promote the idea that the archipelago
should be independent from Japan. Such a gambit, they say, would make
clear to Tokyo the cost of denying Chinese claims to the Diaoyu/
Senkaku.
But Zhou Yongsheng, a professor at China Foreign Affairs University,
warns against such tactics.
“Using the Ryukyu sovereignty issue to resolve the Diaoyu dispute
would destroy the basis of China-Japan relations,” Zhou says. “If this
was considered, it would basically be the prelude to military action.”
Nor can Beijing expect much enthusiasm for independence among
Okinawans. While many in the prefecture are unhappy with Japanese
government policies — and with the presence of U.S. troops —
separatist sentiment is muted. A pro-independence candidate who ran
for governor in 2006 received only 6,220 votes.
Chinese questioning of Japan’s sovereignty over Okinawa would also
invite comparisons with Beijing’s policy of suppressing pro-
independence movements among its much more restive Tibetan, Mongolian
and Uighur populations.
Yasukatsu Matsushima, a professor at Ryukoku University in Kyoto, is a
strong advocate of Okinawan independence who believes Tokyo’s rule
over the islands is illegal, but he notes that at least in Japan such
views can be openly expressed.
It would be “strange” if China supported self-determination for
Okinawans but continued to deny it to its own minorities, Matsushima
says.
“We have to consider the background” to any Chinese support for
independence, he says. “We can’t allow Ryukyu independence to be used
as a tool.”
****************
9-5-2012
http://globalnation.inquirer.net/36093/china-is-testing-filipinos-determination-to-defend-against-intrusion
China is testing Filipinos’ determination to defend against intrusion
By Ted Laguatan
The Chinese dragon’s hunger for black gold relates to its continuous
growth as an economic powerhouse. China imports seventy percent of its
oil needs – supplied mostly by Russia. Fearing the prospect of
disruption of oil supplies and being hostage to the demands of
supplier countries, China is recklessly embarking on grabbing the rich
oil resources of the Philippines and it’s neighboring countries.
To justify its intrusion into the territories of neighboring
countries, the dragon has engaged in spinning a fictitious tale on why
it supposedly owns everything in the area. The fairy tale goes this
way: “About 2000 years ago, an ancient Han Dynasty map showed the
limits of Chinese territorywhich included us owning all of the
territory in the South China Sea (also known as West Philippine Sea).
Therefore, all of these areas are ours. Never mind that they were
designated by the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea as
belonging to other countries.”
Does China actually have a Han Dynasty map indicating ownership of
everything in the South China Sea in this area? So far, it has not
shown this map to the public. It may be that some kind of ancient map
exists. There are hundreds of old maps. Do any of these say China owns
territory belonging to the Philippines and other countries?
While the Chinese have been coming to the Philippines since ancient
times as traders selling their stuff or as pirates like Limahong
robbing and pillaging the locals – there is no historical proof that
the Philippines was ever a colony of China or that China ruled the
Philippines or even some parts of it.
Even if we assume that such a map exists indicating a claim by some
dreaming Chinese officials that it owned Philippine territories, was
that then actual or legal ownership? Not so if in fact no such
ownership ever happened except maybe in the imagination of some
ancient Han dynasty megalomaniacs.
To illustrate the absurdity of China’s claim: Let’s say Italy found an
ancient map that shows that the Roman Empire owned most of Europe and
some parts of Africa and Asia, can the Italian government now claim
these countries and territories belong to them? Governments and
national territorial lines keep changing. That’s a reality every
nation has to live with.
The Chinese position is so ridiculous that I doubt that even the
Chinese government seriously believes that they have a legitimate
claim which can properly be defended in the United Nations
International Tribunal on the Law of the Sea (ITLOS).
China’s refusal to bring her claim to ITLOS by itself indicates an
admission of the absurdity of her position. Any fool can see that the
Chinese government is just using a convenient fairy tale to justify
her intrusion into neighbors’ territories in an attempt to grab their
oil and other resources.
Recently, Chinese fishing boats and research vessels have been
intruding deep into Philippine territory and into waters known as
Scarborough Shoals which are just off Zambales.
Pursuant to the United Nations Law of the Sea, a country owns all of
that territory within 200 miles from it’s baseline. The Scarborough
Shoals are just about 125 miles off the coast of Zambales.
The Philippines issued a diplomatic protest to China but instead of
respecting the Philippine position – the Chinese sent more fishing
boats into the area including armed patrol boats – together with a
response from China’s Deputy Foreign Minister Fu Ying that the
Scarborough Shoals are theirs and that it is the Philippines intruding
into Chinese territory. Adding the insult to the injury is like
saying: “So? What can you do to me if I slap you in the face?”
What does this aggressive Chinese position mean?
Here’s my take on this: It means that China is testing the
Philippines’ resolve and reaction to Chinese intrusion – as well as
observing American response to the situation. China is not worried
about the Philippines’ military capability. It practically has none
compared to China’s mighty naval armada and air force. But the
American military is no paper tiger. If America gets involved, China
will likely reconsider its options.
The United States has a legitimate interest in preventing China from
using bully tactics to take over the energy and marine resources of
the countries in the area. It can enter into partnerships with the
Philippines and other countries in the area for its own energy needs.
Political stability and peace in the region are also preserved with
the United States using its military might in maintaining the balance
of power and keeping the sea lanes open.
Last year, on June 11, 2011, the US Senate passed a resolution
condemning China’s increasing use of force against smaller countries
in the area and affirmed the US’ willingness to use its military might
against Chinese aggression.
For diplomatic and other reasons, the US has to announce that it
cannot take sides in the conflict between the Philippines and China.
However, American policy makers are aware that U.S. interests compel
its continued alliance and goodwill with countries in the region.
Standing by doing nothing while China gobbles up the resources of
neighboring countries sets a bad precedent and encourages China to be
bolder in carrying on more bullying military adventurisms.
It is unfortunate that the Chinese government is resorting to these
gorilla tactics to rob smaller nations of their valuable energy and
marine resources. While the global community should rightfully be
happy for the people of China who went through so much suffering
before the present prosperity – China should not pursue continuous
economic well-being at the expense of weaker nations.
What should Filipinos do against the onslaught of China’s threat and
use of military might?
It would not be prudent to confront China militarily. That would be
like David confronting Goliath without his slingshot or like a poodle
confronting a tiger. But there are other ways to fight.
Everyone knows that China’s intrusion into Philippine territory is
motivated by its thirst for oil. Any decent human being knows that it
is immoral to steal property that belongs to another especially when
the use of force is involved. It is immoral when individuals do it. It
is likewise immoral when nations do it.
What the Philippines needs to do is seek the support of other nations
and press the United Nations to seek a resolution of this trespassing
and stealing of resources issue. Alone, the Philippines is weak. But
together with other nations in condemning China’s immoral attempts at
territorial grab, the Philippines can be strong.
The world must be made aware of China’s immoral adventurism and of
her attempt to steal the patrimony of other nations through threats or
actual use of its military might. The Philippines must wage a
relentless campaign with the global community in condemning China’s
disrespect of other nations’ property rights. China must also realize
that it gains more respect and friends by respecting other nations.
In line with this important objective of defending Philippine
territory and resources, the US Pinoys for Good Governance (USP4GG)
and supporters have organized a worldwide protest against Chinese
intrusion into Philippine waters. On May 11, 2012, at 11:30 A.M.,
protest demonstrations will be held in front of different Chinese
Embassies and Consulates around the world.
Now is the time for all good Filipinos to show genuine concern for the
Philippines. Preserving the country’s energy and marine resources can
mean a brighter future for millions of Filipinos.
***********
rst9
May 11, 2013, 11:49:29 AM5/11/13
to
Satish, why must you lie and post lies on soc.culture.china?
You don't know what it means to be a man, and understand less of being
a human.
You are an animal.
You don't know what it means to be a man, and understand less of being
a human.
You are an animal.
0 new messages