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Chinese scholar visits Dharamshala

By Lobsang Wangyal | Tibet Sun

Chinese author Wang Lixiong speaking in Dharamshala, India, on 23 June 2009. He is on a two-month tour of Dharamshala for research and to get first-hand knowledge of the life of Tibetans in exile.Tibet Sun/Lobsang Wangyal/India

A renowned Chinese author from Beijing, currently on a visit to Dharamshala, said the Chinese government has no interest in resolving the Tibetan issue.

Speaking on the deadlock in the dialogue between the envoys of the Dalai Lama and the Chinese government, writer Wang Lixiong said that the Chinese government is not sincere and has no willingness to enter into a dialogue to resolve the Tibetan issue.

The eight rounds of talks that have taken place since 2002 were exercise to eyewash the international community.

Wang, who is better known in Tibetan circles as an author and husband of famously outspoken Tibetan writer and journalist Tsering Woeser, arrived in Dharamshala for a two-month visit organised by the Association of Tibetan Writers.

“China thinks that with the death of the Dalai Lama, the exile Tibetans will disintegrate because of the internal differences based on provinces and between the religious sects,” he said.

Chinese authorities think that different ogranisations will confront each other for supremacy and international support groups will withdraw support for Tibet in the absence of the Dalai Lama, he said.

Wang believes that the Tibetan leader should work towards development of modern Tibetan democratic system. He called for more democracy in the exile Tibetan society. He nonetheless said it is important for Tibetans to understand why the Dalai Lama is pursuing the middle-way policy.

Wang said he wanted to keep the visit low profile. During his meeting with the Tibetan leader, the Dalai Lama told him that his goal is to promote inter-religious harmony and world peace, Wang said.

“I wanted to keep the visit a low-profile affair but now it has become public,” he said through a translator during an informal discussion with Tibetans. “Since there is nothing to hide, and things are all transparent, I have no problems going public.”

Wang is an independent scholar, studying how the Tibetan issue could be resolved in a mutually beneficial way.

He had co-authored books on Tibet along with his wife and is often written articles on the Tibetan in both the Chinese and the international media. He is considered as one of the most insightful Chinese intellectuals writing on the Tibetan issue today.

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