With the Dalai Lama persisting in his secessionist activities in foreign trips, the Chinese media has published commentaries and stories to expose his lies.
Since late May, the Dalai Lama has met politicians in Europe and spoke at a hearing held in the British House of Commons to examine China's record on human rights. He, once again, accused the Chinese government of a "crackdown" after the March 14 riot in Lhasa, and of continuing "cultural genocide".
The Dalai Lama told Britain, a former invader of Tibet 100 years ago, that Britain and Tibet have a long and great historical relationship. He also appealed for more support and attention on Tibet from the British.
In fact, the British Army invaded Tibet twice, once in 1888 and anther time in 1903, and occupied Lhasa in 1904.
The Guangming Daily in Beijing issued a commentary on this, questioning the Dalai Lama about his claims to "represent the Tibetan people". Both the Han and the Tibetan people had suffered foreign invasions. Now that China is finally free from that and is standing proudly in the family of nations, why is the Dalai Lama talking that way?
"He may be oblivious of his origins, but he is shameless in trying to become important with foreign backup," wrote the commentary.
Guangming Daily also said that the Dalai Lama has always been used international support as a card he can play against the Chinese government in his pursuit of Tibetan independence.
With his mind-soothing "no Tibet independence" claim, the DalaiLama's recent lobbying isn't persuasive enough, given his constant use of words like "high degree of autonomy", "Greater Tibet" as well as his frequently putting Tibet on equal terms with China, according to the commentary.
Recently, he has also been emphasizing "cultural autonomy" which, according to him, inevitably includes the Tibetans living in neighboring provinces, but he couldn't explain exactly what that would mean, wrote the Guangming Daily.
About the Dalai Lama's so-called "evidence" at a hearing on China's human rights record held in the British Parliament, China's People's Daily commented: In the old theocratic Tibet with feudal serfdom, the masses of serfs ruled by the Dalai Lama were deprived of basic living rights, let alone human rights.
In recent years, the many foreigners who have been to Tibet saw the drastic changes that have taken place there - some highly praised the human rights condition on the plateau, wrote the People's Daily, noting it is an amusing irony that the "human-rights-guarding" British Parliament allowed the Dalai Lama to speak on China's human rights.
DALAI LAMA DISPLAY OF "HARMONY" REDUCED TO STATE OF DISORDER
The Beijing-based International Herald Leader has reported a Dalai Lama press conference in the western German city of Bochum, saying that his typical smile faded when a question was raised by a Chinese reporter on his self-contradictory words and deeds.
The reporter asked if his claim of "no Tibet independence" is in conflict with his sending his private representative Lodi Gyarito negotiations with the Central Government, as he is founder of the Tibetan Youth Congress who advocates violence as a means to bring about "Tibetan independence".
The question embarrassed the Dalai Lama who, as a result, only kind of whispered an answer, meaning "You can go ask him about this." He then drifted to the history of TYC and how some TYC members ended up holding posts in his "government-in-exile", explaining that people's thoughts are prone to change.
After the Dalai Lama ended the press conference in haste, Wu Liming, the reporter who raised the question, was surrounded by other journalists asking about on Lodi Gyari.
According to the next day's German news magazine Stern, when Wu Liming raised the question, the Dalai Lama's face sank for the first time. The Chinese reporter in Germany reduced this display of "harmony and friendship" into a state of disorder for a few minutes, wrote the Stern.
Source: Xinhua
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