Truth about Dialogue with Dalai Lama- People's Daily Online

Truth about Dialogue with Dalai Lama

08:21, February 10, 2010

By Deng Haijian

China's State Council Information Office held a news conference February 2, inviting Zhu Weiqun and Si Ta, executive vice-ministers of the United Front Work Department of the CPC Central Committee, and Nyima Tsering, vice-chairman of the Standing Committee of the People's Congress of the Tibet Autonomous Region, to introduce the recent talks with private representatives of the Dalai Lama and answer questions.

Zhu said that he hoped the Dalai Lama would change his stance and make the right choices in the remaining years of his life.

On the same day, the While House said that U.S. President Barack Obama insists on meeting with the Dalai Lama during the latter's visit, despite China's opposition.

During this period, the Dalai Lama sent his private representatives to meet with the Chinese government while actively seeking the opportunity to meet with the U.S. president as well, asserting his political ambitions on the China-U.S. relationship. On the one side, the Chinese government has shown its consistent patience and sincerity in the 9 talks that central departments had held with the Dalai Lama's private representatives. They did not close the door even after the Dalai Lama's side publicly announced the termination of the talks with the Chinese government at a special meeting on Tibet's future in November 2008, but rather, has been patient to wait for their revision of stance.

On the other side, the Dalai Lama's side has always been double-faced. For instance, Lodi Gyari, one of Dalai’s representatives, put forth a "Memorandum on Genuine Autonomy for the Tibetan People" during a recent talk, deliberately using obscure words and words from both China's Constitution and the Law on Regional Autonomy for China's Minority Nationalities to defend their propositions such as "Greater Tibet" and "high degree of autonomy."

The essence of that stance is still to seek the semi-independence or independence in a disguised way.

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