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What is the Dalai Lama's intention of meeting with Obama?

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Long has the Dalai Lama been dealing with the central government under the banner of peace.

Early this February, 15 months after the Dalai Lama’s announcement of suspension of talks, the Dalai Lama’s private envoys Lodi Gyari and Kelsang Gyaltsen visited Beijing and started a new round of negotiation with the central government. This movement by the Dalai clique seemed to reveal the Dalai Lama’s wish of settling his future through peaceful talk.

However, before long, the Dalai Lama ignored the serious warning from the Chinese government and insisted in meeting US President Obama, knowing that this meeting will further aggravate the relationship between him and the central government.

What is the Dalai Lama’s intention of making this movement challenging China’s core interest shortly after the start of new negotiations?

Noticed by all observers, the Dalai Lama’s persistence in meeting Obama reveals that he needs to be met by foreign political leaders to prove his existence.

German ethnologists Ingo Nentwig, who has conducted his research in Tibet many times, believed that the Dalai Lama’s political claim was doubted in the international community and many more people learned more about certain relevant issues. The Dalai Lama had to strive in international activities to change this status quo. It is a great opportunity for him to recommend himself to meet Obama on 18 February.

The Dalai Lama visited US twice in 2009 and was not met by Obama. Obama’s refusal to meet the Dalai Lama last October made his clique very depressed.

Due to a frayed temper, Samdhong, the so-called chief minister of Dalai clique, made this statement; “Many nations are carrying out an appeasement policy and even US is following a certain kind of appeasement policy.” In various occasions, Samdhong claimed that “US and other western countries are pleasing China as its economy grows stronger.”

However, after hearing Obama’s acceptance of a meeting with the Dalai Lama on 18 February, Dalai clique changed its tune immediately.

On 16 February, Tenzin Taklha, the Dalai Lama’s Spokesman, stated that “The meeting of President Obama with the Dalai Lama reveals that the international community is highly concerned about the Tibet issue. It also sends a strong signal to China that it is time to solve this problem.”

Tenzin Taklha’s statement revealed another wishful dream of the Dalai clique to exert pressure on Chinese government by internationalising the Tibet issue with the support of foreign forces and ultimately reach Tibetan independence.

Kelsang Gyaltsen, the Dalai Lama’s private envoy, stated even more plainly on this when being interviewed by Deutsche Welle. He said that “I believe that international organisations do play constructive role on this issue to help Tibet and the central government find a solution which can be accepted by both sides… if international community could help Tibet find a plan to solve the Tibet issue and guarantee Tibetan people autonomy through dialogue with the Chinese government, which is in the greatest interest of the Chinese government… “What Kelsang Gyaltsen talks about finding a plan to solve the Tibet issue and guarantee Tibetan people autonomy is just in accordance with the Dalai Lama’s trick of High Autonomy.

On the very day Obama met the Dalai Lama, the so-called government-in-exile of Dalai clique threw out Seven Notes on the Memorandum on Genuine Autonomy for the Tibetan People, which was what the Dalai Lama’s private envoy tried to sell to the central government half a month ago. Its content was nothing other than wrapping Great Tibet Region and High Autonomy with certain words in the Chinese Constitution and Law on Regional National Autonomy and its true intention was still reaching for half-independence and covert-independence of Tibet. Dalai clique’s true face of committing separation under the disguise of peaceful talk was once again revealed.

Dalai clique claimed in the Seven Notes that “As is stated in the Suggestions, His Holiness the Dalai Lama has never tried to question or challenge CPC’s ruling status.” However, on 19 February, the day after the release of the Notes, when receiving a medal from The National Endowment for Democracy (NED), a notorious organisation supporting ‘Colour Revolutions’ to overturn governments of other nations, the Dalai Lama said to the press that “Sometimes, I would say it is time for CPC takes its honourable retirement” and that China’s leaders will lose their temper hearing such statement. As a matter of fact, it is not the first time the Dalai Lama made such statement. In May and August 2009, the Dalai Lama talked about CPC’s retirement on several occasions.

Does this answer the Dalai Lama’ saying of “has never questioned and challenged CPC’s ruling status.”? The performance of the Dalai Lama and his clique only help the kind people to see more clearly their true intention.

The Dalai Lama’s meeting with Obama is nothing more than a farce. A significant fact he can never change is that Tibet issue is China’s internal affair and a powerful China has become a significant force in the world political structure. As to US, the Dalai Lama counts for little and is only a tool for restraining China.

That is why Obama refused to meet with the Dalai Lama in October 2009 when he didn’t wish to and met with the Dalai Lama this February when he needed to.

The observers also noticed that US officials announced Obama’s plan to meet with the Dalai Lama with a high poise but gave a low profile to the meeting.

Not only was there no TV broadcast, but the meeting was also in the Map Room instead of the Oval Office which makes more political sense. Only one picture of the two was officially released and the declaration released later also played the old tune.

It is no surprise that Guo Yiming, commentator on Phoenix TV, said that this meeting was nothing new. Compared with his meeting with ex-president Bush, which was held more officially, Obama’s meeting with the Dalai Lama was only a trick to show the president’s uncompromising attitude to the conservatives, through which he can win more votes.

The Dalai Lama’s tricks did cause some trouble to the Chinese government. However, his wishful dream of challenging China’s core interest and reaching Tibet independence through the help of US will all be in vain. The only possible end for the Dalai Lama is to lift a rock but drop it on his own toe.

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