THE EVIL RED EMPIRE – CONSUMERISM AND ECONOMIC EXPANSIONISM
THE EVIL RED EMPIRE – CONSUMERISM – ECONOMIC EXPANSIONISM. RED CHINA’S SHIFT FROM COMMUNISM TO CONSUMERISM POSES A GREATER DANGER . COMMUNIST PARTY CHAIRMAN MAO ZEDONG’S DREAM OF PROLETARIAN REVOLUTION IS BURIED.
Consumerism is a theory that claims continual increase in consumption of material goods is sound economically. Red China buried her dreams of Proletarian Revolution to embrace this theory of ‘CONSUMERISM’ as a means to accomplish her goal of Economic Expansionism. People all over the world have recognized dangers posed by practice of Consumerism. What we clearly need is Consumer Protection, not only laws to safeguard interests of the buying public, but also to protect rights of workers, communities, environment, and ecological systems that sustain delicate natural equilibrium. The lives, health, and well-being of both workers and consumers is compromised by hazardous products and planet Earth is facing a major challenge to the very existence of Life. Red China’s Economic Expansionism is not sustainable and her economic collapse is simply inevitable. Red China’s Economic Meltdown is indeed a Blessing to all of us.
The Evil Red Empire. The Evil of Consumerism is far more dangerous than the Evil of Communism.
THE EVIL RED EMPIRE – CONSUMERISM – ECONOMIC EXPANSIONISM. RED CHINA’S ECONOMIC MELTDOWN IS A BLESSING TO ALL OF US.The Evil Red Empire – Consumerism – Economic Expansionism. Red China’s Shift to Consumerism is the Driving Force causing Income Inequality.The Evil Red Empire – Consumerism – Economic Expansionism.Red China is forcing a Culture of Consumption chasing a Mirage of Economic Prosperity.The Evil Red Empire – Consumerism – Economic Expansionism. Self-Indulgence leads to Self-Destruction.The Evil Red Empire – Consumerism – Economic Expansionism Plan is Fundamentally Flawed.
THE US NEWS & WORLD REPORT
IS CHINA COOKING THE BOOKS ON ECONOMIC EXPANSION?
Analysts aren’t terribly confident in the Chinese government’s economic growth data.
THE EVIL RED EMPIRE – CONSUMERISM – ECONOMIC EXPANSIONISM. RED CHINA DRIFTED FROM PROLETARIAN REVOLUTION TO PROMOTING MASS CONSUMERISM TO POWER ITS ECONOMIC ENGINE. RED CHINA’S ECONOMIC DOWNFALL IS A BLESSING TO ALL PEOPLE.
China’s government expects its economy to grow 6.5 percent each year between 2016 and 2020.
By ANDREW SOERGEL Nov. 2, 2015 | 1:10 p.m. EST
One of China’s most senior government officials over the weekend said his country’s economy should expect to see “at least 6.5 percent” gross domestic product growth each year between 2016 and 2020, despite a growing pool of evidence suggesting China is in the midst of a historic economic slowdown.
But whether Chinese GDP numbers actually paint a clear economic picture is another question entirely.
“We propose to achieve the goal of creating a ‘moderately prosperous society’ by 2020, which requires annual economic growth of at least 6.5 percent over the next five years,” Chinese Premier Li Keqiang said Sunday during a speech in Seoul, according to The Associated Press. He said the economy is operating within a “reasonable range” and that the government has “the confidence and ability” to hit its growth target of “about 7 percent” this year.
THE EVIL RED EMPIRE – CONSUMERISM – ECONOMIC EXPANSIONISM. RED CHINA PURSUING A PATH OF SELF-DESTRUCTION.
Rumors had floated around in the days and weeks leading up to Sunday’s announcement that the government would eventually lower its expansion goals for the next several years following a slew of recently underwhelming economic indicators suggesting Asia’s financial giant was beginning to cool. Exports and imports have plummeted in recent months, and the Chinese government announced in October that GDP expanded by only 6.9 percent in the third quarter – which represents the worst three-month period for the Chinese economy since the world was just emerging from the global financial crisis in 2009. But even that 6.9 percent growth – the worst China had posted in more than half a decade – sounded too good to be true. “We don’t have total confidence in the numbers, and we are surprised by the acceleration in services output given the collapse in the equity market,” a team of Bloomberg economists wrote in a research note at the time.
China’s stock market has recently strengthened, thanks in no small part to extraordinary governmental intervention. The heavy-handed Chinese government has thrown out safety net after safety net in an attempt to prevent a hard economic landing. Only a few weeks ago, China slashed its interest rates for the sixth time in less than a year.
“We continue to expect China to pull out all the stops to kick-start its economy in the coming weeks and months,” Burt White, chief investment officer at LPL Financial, wrote in a research note last week. “The [People’s Bank of China] interest rate cuts, along with selected fiscal and legislative actions in China, should further help to calm fears of a hard landing.”
THE EVIL RED EMPIRE – CONSUMERISM – ECONOMIC EXPANSIONISM. RED CHINA AND RUSSIA ARE PLOTTING TO UNDERMINE STRENGTH OF US CURRENCY.
Are China and Russia Trying to Undermine the U.S. Dollar?But some analysts have speculated that the Chinese government’s intervention could extend to the country’s economic news releases as well. A recent Wall Street Journal survey of 64 select economists found that 96 percent of respondents think China’s GDP estimates don’t “accurately reflect the state of the Chinese economy.” They likely “overstate GDP by about 2 to 3 percentage points,” said one respondent.
“A government wielding such a heavy hand in markets is surely influencing/manipulating official statistics.” said another.
Ironically, China’s own premier has previously said he’s far from confident in the country’s GDP estimates, calling them “man-made” and unreliable, according to a leaked document from 2007 obtained by WikiLeaks. He said government data releases, especially the GDP numbers, should be used “for reference only.”
“Quite frankly, we don’t believe them at all. It’s not only that they come in suspiciously close to the target, which is pre-set. They’re produced remarkably quickly and rarely revised,” Danny Gabay, director at Fathom Financial Consulting, said last month in a radio interview with the BBC.
THE EVIL RED EMPIRE – CONSUMERISM – ECONOMIC EXPANSIONISM. THE PRACTICE OF CONSUMERISM HAS NO MAGICAL POWER TO SAVE MAN.
Gabay said he recalculated economic growth “based on Premier Li’s advice, which is that the GDP data are untrustworthy and we should use alternative measures to gauge the level of activity in China like electricity use, credit growth and other domestic indicators.” He said the actual growth number is “closer to 3 percent. Not 7.3 percent.”
But even if the 6.5 percent growth target between now and 2020 seems a little optimistic, it’s a clear recognition from the Chinese government that economic expansion now is not what it once was. China enjoyed double-digit annual growth between 2003 and 2007, and 2014’s 7.4 percent jump was still significantly higher than the global average, even though it was China’s worst year in more than two and a half decades.
For comparison’s sake, the U.S. economy hasn’t grown by 7.4 percent or more in a single year since 1951. And double-digit annual growth hasn’t been seen in America since 1943.
Part of the problem is that once an economy gets to a certain size, it’s just harder to keep up the momentum, which is likely at least partially responsible for China’s gradual slowdown. It would be unreasonable to expect the Chinese economy to plug along at a double-digit pace, just as it would be unreasonable to expect the U.S. economy to suddenly grow by 10 or 12 percent for a prolonged period of time.
But China’s government is able to influence market activity in a way America’s is not, which could artificially prolong China’s still respectable levels of economic growth beyond what would happen naturally. Most expect to continue to see relatively positive GDP numbers out of China for some time, even if such releases could be filled with a little bit of hot air.
“As an economy closely linked to international markets, China cannot stay immune to the lackluster performance of the global economy,” Chinese President Xi Jinping told Reuters in an interview last month. “We do have concerns about the Chinese economy, and we are working hard to address them.”
Andrew Soergel is an Economy Reporter at U.S. News.
TIBET CONSCIOUSNESS – TIBET PROBLEM ON THE BACK BURNER
TIBET CONSCIOUSNESS – TIBET PROBLEM ON THE BACK BURNER. TIBET PROBLEM WILL NOT GO AWAY AND TIBET CAN NEVER BE FORGOTTEN. THERE IS NO BALANCE OF POWER IN SOUTHEAST ASIA WITH RED CHINA’S MILITARY DOMINATION THREATENING PEACE AND STABILITY OF WORLD.
The Problem of Balance of Power in Southeast Asia became apparent with founding of People’s Republic of China on October 01, 1949. Red China’s Communist Party Chairman Mao Zedong wasted no time to declare his ambitious ‘Expansionist’ Policy. United States along with India gave due importance to this Tibet Problem and initiated action to respond to Red China’s Military and Economic Expansionism.
TIBET ON THE BACK BURNER
TIBET CONSCIOUSNESS – TIBET PROBLEM ON THE BACK BURNER. NIXON-KISSINGER GET CREDIT FOR PLACING TIBET ON THE BACK BURNER. ENOUGH IS ENOUGH. THE TIME FOR ACTION IS NOW.
US 37th President, Richard M Nixon placed Tibet Problem on the Back Burner in pursuit of his sinful desire to befriend Mao Zedong and Zhou En-Lai totally ignoring their Crimes against Humanity. Tibet’s time in History has arrived. Tibet Problem can no longer remain on the Back Burner. The time for action is NOW.
TIBET CONSCIOUSNESS – TIBET PROBLEM ON THE BACK BURNER. IN 1971, INDIA REFUSED TO KEEP PROBLEM OF BANGLADESH ON THE BACK BURNER. INDIA TOOK UNILATERAL, DECISIVE ACTION TO RESOLVE HUMANITARIAN CRISIS IN BANGLADESH.
During 1971, Nixon-Kissinger placed the problem of Genocide in East Pakistan on the Back Burner. India refused to go along with Nixon-Kissinger and insisted that the humanitarian crisis in East Pakistan deserves a very high priority. India acted alone, and decisively resolved Bangladesh Crisis.
TIBET CONSCIOUSNESS – TIBET PROBLEM ON THE BACK BURNER. ON NOVEMBER 03, 1971, INDIAN PRIME MINISTER MRS. INDIRA GANDHI MET WITH US PRESIDENT RICHARD NIXON IN THE WHITE HOUSE. INDIA REFUSED TO KEEP BANGLADESH HUMANITARIAN CRISIS ON THE BACK BURNER AND TOOK SWIFT, DECISIVE ACTION TO INITIATE LIBERATION OF BANGLADESH USING MILITARY ACTION.
Nixon-Kissinger did not ‘NORMALIZE’ US-CHINA relations. Without Power Equilibrium in Southeast Asia, US cannot hope for normal relations with Red China.
The Spirits of Special Frontier ForceThe Spirits of Special Frontier Force, Ann Arbor, MI. At Special Frontier Force, I host ‘The Living Tibetan Spirits’…
TIBET CONSCIOUSNESS – TIBET PROBLEM ON THE BACK BURNER. INDIA AND UNITED STATES CANNOT AFFORD TO IGNORE RED CHINA’S MILITARY DOMINATION OF TIBET.
NIXON-KISSINGER – TIBET – ON THE BACK BURNER
TIBET CONSCIOUSNESS – TIBET PROBLEM ON THE BACK BURNER. IN 1971, NIXON-KISSINGER IGNORED HUMANITARIAN CRISIS IN EAST PAKISTAN LEAVING IT ON THE BACK BURNER.
NIXON-KISSINGER – TIBET – ON THE BACK BURNER. Archer Kent Blood, the US Consul General at Dacca, East Pakistan sent this “Blood Telegram” to question the US Foreign Policy that utterly failed to denounce the atrocities, the massacre of innocent, unarmed civilians, mostly Hindu minority community living in East Pakistan during 1971 by the military rulers of Pakistan. He sent this telegram as his moral duty to uphold the humanitarian principles.
TIBET CONSCIOUSNESS – TIBET PROBLEM ON THE BACK BURNER. DURING 1971-72, NIXON-KISSINGER PLACED TIBET PROBLEM ON THE BACK BURNER. THE PROBLEM IS TOO IMPORTANT AND THEY DID NOT BURY IT. THEY LEFT IT SIMMERING.
NIXON-KIISINGER – TIBET – ON THE BACK BURNER. Richard Milhous Nixon, 37th President of the United States(1969-1974), and Dr Alfred Henry Kissinger, the National Security Adviser(1969-1975) deserve to be known as Whole Villains for not responding to the problem of genocide in East Pakistan( now known as Bangladesh) during 1971. Their actions are evil, unprincipled, and make mockery of the US Constitution.
The word ‘Villain’ describes a wicked or unprincipled character in a novel, play, etc., who opposes the protagonist or hero. Villain is someone or something regarded as the cause of a problem, difficulty, injustice, or great crime. It speaks about the evil nature of a person, very bad, disagreeable, or objectionable and such a person is often characterized as a ‘scoundrel’.
I am pleased to share Ashok Malik’s review of the book “The Blood Telegram – India’s Secret War in East Pakistan” authored by Gary J. Bass. The book reveals Archer Kent Blood, the chief US diplomat in Dacca as the hero or protagonist who had suffered on account of the actions of President Nixon and Dr. Kissinger, the National Security Adviser during 1971 . The real character and nature of President Nixon and Kissinger as ‘Villains’ can be easily discerned by reading this historical story titled “The Blood Telegram.” The book talks of the courage and uprightness of Archer Blood who was a first-hand witness to the genocide in East Pakistan, oppression of Bengali speaking Pakistanis, the mass murder and elimination of Hindu minorities and the humanitarian crisis that spilled into a massive refugee problem in India. Mr. Blood meticulously reported the massacres, the bloodshed in East Pakistan and had urged the US administration to take action to stop the military dictator of West Pakistan. Mr. Blood suffered greatly for his efforts and devotion to work. He was ignored, singled out and victimized by Dr. Kissinger. Mr. Blood’s career in the US State Department was utterly ruined and destroyed. This book is the story of what Mr. Blood did and how he suffered for being true to his conscience and his calling. It must be noted that the men and women who make up the State Department or work for the Central Intelligence Agency(CIA) are often conscientious, well-meaning folks, schooled in the simplicity and goodness of small-town, middle class life in the heart of America. They are moral people, keen to use their country’s power to make the world a better place. Such conscientious people who belonged to the Central Intelligence Agency(CIA) had rendered their service at a military organization in India known as Special Frontier Force or Establishment No. 22. Both the US President Richard M. Nixon, and Dr. Henry Kissinger, the National Security Adviser must be recognized as “WholeVillains” for their actions were motivated by an unprincipled desire to befriend Communist China without any concern for its involvement in killing its own people during the “Great Leap Forward” program of 1957-58, and during the infamous “Cultural Revolution” of 1966-69. The story reveals how Nixon and Kissinger were blinded by hate for India and Indians. They had visualized Pakistan as an essential ally and gateway to Communist China and had totally ignored the problem of human suffering in the Land that took a very painful birth as Bangladesh after India’s victory in a military battle during November-December 1971.
NIXON-KISSINGER – TIBET – ON THE BACK BURNER. Gary J. Bass, Professor of Politics & International Affairs at Princeton University is the author of the book titled “The Blood Telegram.” He described the heroic role of Archer Kent Blood, the US Consul General in Dacca(Dhaka), East Pakistan during 1971.
NIXON-KISSINGER – TIBET – ON THE BACK BURNER. Archer Kent Blood(March 20, 1923 to September 03, 2004) was the US Consul General, the Chief US Diplomat in Dacca, East Pakistan during 1971.
NIXON-KISSINGER – TIBET – ON THE BACK BURNER. Massacre in East Pakistan during 1971 is fully revealed in this book. This Genocide must not be forgotten and the Villains must be exposed.
NIXON-KISSINGER – TIBET – ON THE BACK BURNER. The role of General Yahya Khan, the military ruler of Pakistan, and US President Nixon in the brutal killings of unarmed civilians in East Pakistan during 1971 is now fully revealed. This is their photo image dated October 24, 1970. In this relationship, the US has totally disregarded the value of Democracy and showed no concern for Human Dignity and ignored its traditional role of defending Human Rights.
NIXON-KISSINGER – TIBET – ON THE BACK BURNER. Mockery of the US Constitution. Dr. Henry Kissinger is the Arch Villain in this story and he is seen in this photo meeting the leader of another country while responsibility of conducting diplomacy belonged to the US State Department. Kissinger flew to China from Pakistan and had used Pakistan as a gateway to Communist China. Both of these Villains are responsible for the millions of people who died in East Pakistan during 1971. Kissinger had misused and abused his position as the National Security Adviser. In clear violation of the US Constitution, he had usurped power of the Secretary of State to conduct secretive, diplomatic negotiations with foreign leaders.
During 1971, I had served in a military organization called Establishment No. 22, or Special Frontier Force which in reality represents a military alliance/pact between India, Tibet, and the United States to contain the military threat posed by Communist China’s illegal occupation of Tibet. It must be noted that Nixon had served as Vice President for two terms 1953-1956, and 1957-1960, during the presidency of Dwight David Eisenhower. President Eisenhower and his Secretary of State John Foster Dulles continued President Truman’s policy of containing Communism. In Southeast Asia, Eisenhower supported and had employed the Central Intelligence Agency(CIA) to organize the Tibetan Resistance Movement since 1957-58. Later, President John F. Kennedy took the initiative to formulate the military alliance with India and Tibet that created the Special Frontier Force during 1962. The Central Intelligence Agency(CIA) has represented the US as our military partner and took the initial responsibility to impart the necessary military training to all personnel. Its Mission is that of fighting a war to evict China from the Land of Tibet and the men are not used for spying, or gathering intelligence as undercover agents. The CIA has used the services of this Organization to monitor the nuclear activities of Communist China as China was conducting underground nuclear tests inside Tibet. During 1971-72, in a complete reversal of its foreign policy, the United States allowed the National Security Adviser to change the course of the country and to make decisions on foreign relations without giving any role to the duly appointed Secretary of State. Kissinger used the infrastructure of US State Department to orchestrate a policy that has ignored the vital US national interests and its commitment to Democracy and Freedom. Kissinger had chosen to support Pakistan’s military dictator and had used him to gain access to the Communist Leaders in Peking that paved the way for President Nixon’s visit to China during February 1972. This book reveals as to how Nixon was baffled and annoyed by American sympathies for India and he communicated this opinion to Pakistan’s military dictator General Yahya Khan and observed that Americans could be suffering from a “physiological disorder.” Nixon and Kissinger encouraged other countries to illegally ship their US supplied weapons to Pakistan violating US laws that prohibit such transfer of military equipment. Kissinger had urged China’s Foreign Minister Chou En-Lai to open a second front and attack India to stop India from giving assistance to the people of East Pakistan. As India initiated the Liberation of Bangladesh, Nixon sent the US Seventh Fleet into Bay of Bengal without any concern about India’s logistical support to the US Army that was fighting a bloody war in Vietnam, a war in which Communist China had played a big role to ensure defeat of the US Army.
NIXON-KISSINGER – TIBET – ON THE BACK BURNER. During April 1969, Chairman Mao Tsetung had selected his Defence Minister Lin Biao as his successor and Lin became the Vice Chairman of the Communist Party. Both of them must be held accountable for the atrocities, the crimes against humanity perpetrated in the name of “Cultural Revolution” during 1966-69.
NIXON-KISSINGER – TIBET – ON THE BACK BURNER.Lin Biao Defence Minister and Communist Party Vice Chairman, the successor of Chairman Mao Tsetung was apparently assassinated by Prime Minister Chou En-lai and Chairman Mao Tsetung on September 13, 1971 as he tried to escape from the country. After his killing, most of the People’s Liberation Army’s Generals of high command were purged. It totally amazes me to know that the US National Security Adviser Henry Kissinger had requested Prime Minister Chou En-Lai to launch a military attack on India during that time to prevent India from taking military action to resolve the humanitarian crisis in East Pakistan.
During 1971, the US National Security Adviser, Dr Henry Kissinger had kept his visit to Peking as a big secret. However, at Special Frontier Force, Establishment No. 22, we were fully aware of his activities. The Central Intelligence Agency(CIA) officials who were serving at Establishment No.22 as military instructors were abruptly asked to return to the United States. Communist China had insisted that it would agree to meet Henry Kissinger and receive him in Peking only after the United States removes all its personnel from India who at that time were employed in the Special Frontier Force/Establishment No. 22. After their departure, India and Tibet had agreed to jointly launch a military action in Chittagong Hill Tracts to initiate the Liberation of Bangladesh and to stop the genocide in East Pakistan.
NIXON-KISSINGER – TIBET – ON THE BACK BURNER. On November 04, 1971, India’s Prime Minister Indira Gandhi made a final attempt to get support from President Richard Nixon to resolve the humanitarian crisis in East Pakistan. By that time, US had already decided to remove all its CIA personnel who were employed as military instructors at Special Frontier Force/Establishment No. 22. However, we began our military operation to initiate Liberation of Bangladesh without any assistance from the US personnel deputed by the CIA.
NIXON-KISSINGER – TIBET – ON THE BACK BURNER. India’s Prime Minister Indira Gandhi could not obtain any support from US President Richard Nixon during her visit to Washington D.C. on November 04, 1971. However, it did not deter Special Frontier Force/Establishment No. 22 from initiating our military action to dislodge Pakistan’s Army from East Pakistan. We began our military action on November 03, 1971, a day before this meeting.
INDIA’S SECRET WAR IN EAST PAKISTAN:
NIXON-KISSINGER – TIBET – ON THE BACK BURNER. These two leaders, the US President, the military dictator of Pakistan must be held accountable for the genocide in East Pakistan during 1971.
NIXON-KISSINGER – TIBET – ON THE BACK BURNER. Mockery of the US Constitution. The US National Security Adviser, Dr. Kissinger had misused and abused his official position to meet foreign Heads of State to formulate US foreign relations without participation of the US Secretary of State. I call this Villainous act as “Original Sin”. Both Chairman Mao Tsetung, and Prime Minister Chou En-Lai were leaders of the “Cultural Revolution” during 1966-69 and are guilty of crimes against humanity.
NIXON-KISSINGER – TIBET – ON THE BACK BURNER. “THE CRUEL BIRTH OF BANGLADESH” by Archer Kent Blood, the US Consul General in Dacca during 1971 describes the Villainy, the detestable acts of Pakistan’s military generals, and US President, and National Security Adviser.
India launched a Secret War in East Pakistan to respond to the huge humanitarian crisis which could not be resolved. United States pretended its ignorance of this whole problem. This military operation was given the code name Operation Eagle. On November 03, 1971, while India’s Prime Minister was visiting Washington D.C. in a final bid to enlist the support of President Nixon, Special Frontier Force without the US personnel moved into Chittagong Hill Tracts. President Richard Nixon had failed to endorse our military action, but we executed this military action using military equipment, field gear and rations provided by the United States. The infantry weapons and all other tools that we had used were the same as those used by the US Army in its Vietnam War. We prevailed in the battlefield and forced Pakistan’s Army to withdraw from their entrenched positions. The official war of India with Pakistan was declared by India’s Prime Minister on December 03, 1971.
Rudranarasimham Rebbapragada Ann Arbor, MI 48104-4162, USA
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R. Rudra Narasimham, B.Sc., M.B.B.S., Personal Numbers:MS-8466/MR-03277K. Rank:Lieutenant/Captain/Major. Branch:Army Medical Corps/Short Service Regular Commission(1969-1972); Direct Permanent Commission(1973-1984). Designation:Medical Officer. Unit:Establishment No.22(1971-1974)/South Column,Operation Eagle(1971-1972). Organization: Special Frontier Force. Reference: National Security Archive Electronic Briefing Book No. 79. The Tilt: The U.S. and the South Asian Crisis of 1971.
TIBET CONSCIOUSNESS – TIBET PROBLEM – ON THE BACK BURNER. NIXON-KISSINGER GET CREDIT FOR PLACING TIBET ON THE BACK BURNER. ENOUGH IS ENOUGH. THE TIME FOR ACTION IS NOW.
TIBET CONSCIOUSNESS – TIBET PROBLEM ON THE BACK BURNER. IN 1971, INDIA REFUSED TO KEEP PROBLEM OF BANGLADESH ON THE BACK BURNER. INDIA TOOK UNILATERAL, DECISIVE ACTION TO RESOLVE HUMANITARIAN CRISIS IN BANGLADESH.
THE LEGACY OF TIBET – INDIA – US RELATIONS – THE QUEST FOR TIBET EQUILIBRIUM
TIBET – INDIA – US – RELATIONS – THE QUEST FOR TIBET EQUILIBRIUM. TIBET IS STILL IMPORTANT FOR INDIA’S SECURITY. US WANTS POWER BALANCE IN SOUTHEAST ASIA.TIBET – INDIA – US RELATIONS – THE QUEST FOR TIBET EQUILIBRIUM. US PRESIDENT HARRY TRUMAN WITH INDIAN PRIME MINISTER JAWAHARLAL NEHRU AT THE NATIONAL AIRPORT IN WASHINGTON DC, ON OCTOBER 11, 1949.
People’s Republic of China came into her existence on October 01, 1949. Red China openly declared to world her ‘Expansionist’ Policy and it immediately raised security concerns in Tibet, India, and the United States. Tibet – India – US relations began with Indian Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru’s visit to Washington DC on October 11, 1949 to meet US President Harry Truman. Red China posed a direct threat to power balance in Southeast Asia. I would characterize Tibet – India – US relations as ‘The Quest for Tibet Equilibrium’. Tibet – India – United States remain united and have this common purpose for their historical relationship. The issue is not that of Middle Way or of meaningful autonomy for Tibetans. The issue is not that of Tibet’s Independence. It doesn’t matter if Tibet is part of China or not. Tibet, India, and the US view Communist China as “AGGRESSOR” nation in Tibet which endangered Power Balance in Southeast Asia. The issue is that of restoring Balance and Equilibrium in Tibet. Special Frontier Force is prepared to restore Balance and Equilibrium in Tibet by application of physical force to counteract Red China’s Force of Oppression in Tibet.
The Spirits of Special Frontier ForceThe Spirits of Special Frontier Force, Ann Arbor, MI. At Special Frontier Force, I host ‘The Living Tibetan Spirits’…
TIBET – INDIA – US RELATIONS – THE QUEST FOR TIBET EQUILIBRIUM. TIBETAN RESISTANCE MOVEMENT REPRESENTS THE QUEST FOR TIBET EQUILIBRIUM. LHASANG TSERING. Photo. Nolan Peterson. The Daily Signal.
Lhasang Tsering, 68, a Chushi-Gangdruk veteran who served in Nepal’s Mustang region in the 1970s. (Photo: Nolan Peterson/The Daily Signal)
DHARAMSHALA, India—When Sonam Dorjee was a Buddhist monk at the Debung Monastery in the Tibetan capital of Lhasa, he would not kill an insect. After all, that annoying fly buzzing in your ear could be the reincarnation of a beloved family member.
But when Chinese soldiers opened fire on the Tibetan refugees with whom Dorjee was fleeing across the Himalayas in 1959, the then-25-year-old monk picked up a rifle and fought back. “It was a journey to become a different man,” Dorjee, now 81 years old, said during an interview at his home in the misty mountain village of McLeod Ganj, just outside Dharamshala.
“I had to develop a totally different mentality,” he said. “I lost my country and saw the Chinese kill many people in front of me. If you meet such a situation, it helps you to convert your mind. I had to do something for my country. There was no other choice.”
After Chinese soldiers began to shell Lhasa in 1959, Dorjee fled across the Himalayas with a group of monks and other refugees who were escorted by Chushi-Gangdruk guerilla fighters. When Chinese soldiers attacked Dorjee’s group, the fighting spirit of the Tibetan guerillas inspired the young monk. “If not for the Chushi-Gangdruk,” he said, “His Holiness and no other Tibetans would have escaped Tibet.”
“They saved Tibet,” he added. “I saw what they did, and I was thinking that I could take a weapon and I could fight for my country too.”
TIBET – INDIA – US RELATIONS – THE QUEST FOR TIBET EQUILIBRIUM. SONAM DORJEE, ESTABLISHMENT NO. 22, SPECIAL FRONTIER FORCE. Photo. Nolan Peterson. The Daily Signal.
Sonam Dorjee, 81, a veteran of India’s Establishment 22 and a former bodyguard of the Dalai Lama. (Photo: Nolan Peterson/The Daily Signal)
Six years later, a 31-year-old Dorjee decided to abandon his monk’s robes for good when he joined Establishment 22—a secret all-Tibetan unit in the Indian army created after China attacked India in the 1962 Sino-Indian war. For the former monk, becoming a soldier meant abandoning some of his most elemental philosophies and beliefs—including the prohibition on killing.
“It was very difficult to give up being a monk,” he said. “It was a totally different life. As a monk, we do puja and we pray. As a soldier we trained to kill people.”
The CIA initially provided training and equipment for Establishment 22, and Dorjee remembers the CIA instructors fondly. He said their support gave the Tibetan resistance movement a morale boost. “America trained us, and gave us food and weapons,” he said. “I have a deep appreciation and a great respect for America.”
Dorjee served in Establishment 22 for 10 years before he was selected for the Dalai Lama’s bodyguard, a post he held for 11 years. Establishment 22 never faced Chinese soldiers in combat, but saw action in operations against Pakistan, including the 1971 Indo-Pakistani war.
Establishment 22 is still active and draws recruits from Tibetan refugees in India and Nepal. A dispute over pensions has tempered Dharamshala’s support for the unit, but even today, the possibility of one day fighting the Chinese lures Tibetan recruits.
“When I joined the army, I wanted to kill Chinese,” Dorjee said. “All I wanted was to kill just one Chinese soldier. I was very angry.” “It didn’t work out like that,” he continued. “I regretted not killing any Chinese. Now I don’t hate China, but I don’t regret the fighting. I tried my best. I have no anger left.”
STUCK IN THE MIDDLE
The predominant narrative of the Tibetan resistance has been the Dalai Lama’s push for nonviolence and the “middle way”—a policy dating back to the 1970s that does not call for full Tibetan independence but a status of “genuine autonomy,” in which Tibetans control internal matters and are able to preserve their culture and religion but relegate international affairs and defense to Beijing.
Yet, the Dalai Lama is only one part of the Tibetan resistance story. From the 1950s through the mid-1970s a CIA-backed Tibetan freedom fighter army called the Chushi-Gangdruk waged a bloody guerilla war against China from inside Tibet and bases in Nepal. And after the 1962 Sino-Indian war, thousands of Tibetan men signed up for Establishment 22 (which the CIA trained and supported with arms and supplies) for a chance to fight China.
The combined combat history of the Chushi-Gangdruk and Establishment 22 challenges the Tibetan nonviolent resistance narrative. And the legacy of Tibet’s freedom fighters continues to inspire generations of Tibetan refugees to retain their hope for freedom and to resist Chinese oppression off the battlefield. While most Tibetan refugees still support the Dalai Lama’s middle way approach, recent signs of wavering in China’s economy have sparked a debate within the refugee community about how Tibetans should react if China’s Communist Party collapses.
“The Chushi-Gangdruk legacy has inspired younger generations,” said Tenzin Nyinjey, researcher at the Tibetan Center for Human Rights in Dharamshala—home of the Tibetan government in exile.
“The hope for freedom hasn’t faded at all,” he added. “We’re going to see something really explosive within our lifetime.”
The debate orbits around whether the Tibetan government in exile should continue pushing for autonomy, as the Dalai Lama has advocated, or push for full-fledged independence, which Tibet’s freedom fighters fought for during the Cold War. And with the Dalai Lama’s 80th birthday this year, there is also quiet debate within the refugee community about how long support for the middle way will last after his death.
“We know armed resistance is impossible, the CCP [Chinese Communist Party] has to collapse or the system has to change,” Nyinjey said. “This is not the Cold War, no one is going to arm or train Tibetans to fight. But Tibetans are quite ready to declare independence if the Communist system collapses. We have the institutions of political democracy already built here in India.” “Independence usually doesn’t require picking up a gun,” he added. “But when the time comes, young Tibetans will do what it takes.”
Many Tibetan refugees, however, still prefer the middle way approach over full independence. They base their support for the policy on a combination of pragmatism and their faith in the Dalai Lama.
“With Gorbachev, the USSR ended in an instant,” said Norbu Dorjee, 61, a business owner in Leh, the capital of India’s Himalayan Ladakh region. “China’s problems are good for us. We hope that China will become democratic, that the Communist party will collapse and we can go home.”
“But,” Dorjee added, “we are still only asking for internal autonomy, not total independence. We have to maintain faith in the path His Holiness has chosen for us.”
“I believe the middle way will last,” said Thupten Gyantso, 41, a Tibetan refugee living in Pokhara, Nepal. “The reality is that China is too powerful for us to win independence. And even if we become independent, we will still rely on China for many things.”
Opponents of the middle way claim the 40-year-old policy has achieved little for Tibetan refugees and that human rights inside Tibet have worsened in the intervening decades. “So long as Tibet insists on only achieving autonomy, it will not be an international issue,” said Lhasang Tsering, 68, a Chushi-Gangdruk veteran who served in Nepal’s Mustang region in the 1970s. He now lives in Dharamshala and owns a bookshop called “Bookworm.”
“Unless the Dalai Lama makes freedom the ultimate goal, for peace and justice, other countries won’t help us,” Tsering said. “It might be too late for Tibet by the time China collapses.” Some point to the recent Tibetan government in exile’s elections for prime minister as a bellwether for a renewed independence movement. The candidate who has arguably created the most media attention within the Tibetan refugee community is LukarJam—who has stirred controversy by openly challenging the Dalai Lama’s middle way policy and arguing for independence.
“It’s fashionable to talk about the middle way, but it kills the passion to act,” Jam said, according to the Associated Press. “I have separated the spiritual and political Dalai Lama and criticize only his political policies.” “His popularity shows skepticism about the middle way,” Nyinjey said, referring to Jam. “There’s a movement happening that shows a fracturing of Tibetan opinion, and proponents of the middle way are being forced to defend their policies.”
TIPPING POINT?
Paralleling the middle way debate is a mounting resistance movement inside Tibet against Chinese rule—evidenced by protests in 2008 and a wave of self-immolations in Tibet that began in 2009. And with Beijing hosting the 2022 Winter Olympics, some speculate that there could be a repeat of the protests that swept across Tibet in advance of the 2008 Beijing Summer Olympics.
During the 2008 protests, Tibetans sacked Chinese-owned businesses and attacked Han Chinese on the streets, underscoring simmering ethnic tensions inside China’s Tibet Autonomous Region.
“In 2008 this major uprising happened across Tibet,” said Sherab Woeser, visiting fellow at The Tibet Policy Institute, a think tank in Dharamshala. “No one expected it, and it was young people who led it. They want to have Tibetan textbooks in school and to be able to wave their flag and honor the Dalai Lama. Young people are expressing themselves in Tibet saying they want to be free.”
After the 2008 protests, Chinese authorities cracked down in the Tibet Autonomous Region. Surveillance increased, as did reports of arbitrary arrest and torture. Pictures of the Dalai Lama and the Tibetan flag were outlawed, new travel restrictions were put in place and the borders with India and Nepal were sealed, practically stemming the flow of refugees out of Tibet.
Since 2009, 142 Tibetans have self-immolated inside China as a reaction to China’s crackdown. While the Tibetan self-immolators comprise all ages and spectrums of society, the average age of the self-immolators is 24, reflecting what some claim is increasing resistance against Chinese rule among Tibetan youth.
“The self-immolations are just a continuance of the Chushi-Gangdruk resistance,” Nyinjey said. “Nothing has changed. The occupation and the oppression have always been there. The same causes of the resistance are still there, but the form of resistance has changed.”
“Tibetans have seen so much death, pain and oppression, and that shows in the way they protest,” Woeser said. Some also speculate that a renewed Tibetan independence movement could spark a chain reaction of secessionist movements in China’s Inner Mongolia and Xinjiang autonomous regions.
“Tibet can be the Tunisia, the trigger, for the breakup of China,” Nyinjey claimed, referencing the self-immolation of a street vendor in Tunisia in December 2010 that was a catalyst for the Arab Spring. LEGACY
Despite the overwhelming odds against them, Tibet’s guerilla fighters fought fiercely, suffering heavy casualties as they faced Chinese artillery, tanks and bombers from horseback, armed with swords and World War I rifles.
“They had no knowledge of how to fight, they were just very patriotic and wanted to fight for their country,” said Tenpa Dhargyal, 37, general secretary of the Welfare Society of Central Dokham Chushi-Gangdruk, a New Delhi-based organization dedicated to caring for Chushi-Gangdruk veterans and their families.
Dhargyal’s grandfather was a Chushi-Gangdruk fighter who died fighting the Chinese. “Their courage came from their anger,” he said.
The Chushi-Gangdruk played a key role in establishing Tibet’s government in exile. In 1959, the Chushi-Gangdruk’s control over territory in southern Tibet created a protected corridor through which the Dalai Lama escaped to India. And after the Dalai Lama was safely in exile, the Chushi-Gangdruk subsequently protected the tens of thousands of refugees who fled across the Himalayas into India and Nepal.
TIBET – INDIA – US RELATIONS – THE QUEST FOR TIBET EQUILIBRIUM. TENPA DHARGYAL, GENERAL SECRETARY, THE WELFARE SOCIETY OF CENTRAL DOKHAM CHUSHI-GANGDRUK. Photo. Nolan Peterson. The Daily Signal.
“We don’t want to live under Chinese rule. We want our country back.” —Tenpa Dhargyal, 37, general secretary of the Welfare Society of Central Dokham Chushi-Gangdruk. (Photo: Nolan Peterson/The Daily Signal)
In 1957, two years prior to the Dalai Lama’s escape, the CIA began paramilitary training for handpicked Chushi-Gangdruk fighters. The training took place at secret bases in Saipan; Camp Hale, Colorado; and Camp Peary, Virginia (at a facility known as the “farm”).
After their instruction, the Tibetan operatives parachuted into Chinese-occupied Tibet from CIA aircraft ranging from World War II era B-17s (which were painted all black) to C-130s. To create plausible deniability should an aircraft go down, the CIA initially used East European pilots recruited for covert missions over Soviet Ukraine. Air America (an aviation front for the CIA) later handled the Tibetan missions.
The Chushi-Gangdruk eventually set up camps in the remote Mustang region of Nepal, from which they launched cross-border raids into China.
The CIA supported the Chushi-Gangdruk with airdropped weapons, ammunition and supplies until 1972, when President Richard Nixon normalized relations with China and U.S. support for the Tibetan resistance was cut off. The Chushi-Gangdruk continued to operate from Nepal for several more years without U.S. backing, but achieved little.
“The U.S. treated it as a tactical move to harass the Communist block from behind, it was not a strategic decision to support Tibetan independence,” Tsering, the Chushi-Gangdruk veteran said.
“But it’s easy to point the finger at others for our failure,” he added. “We failed to capitalize on the CIA’s support to internationalize our cause and unite world opinion to support us.”
In 1974, after bowing to Chinese pressure, the Nepalese military rooted the Chushi-Gangdruk out of their mountain hideouts in Mustang, killing many (including their commander, General Gyato Wangdu, who had been trained by the CIA at Camp Hale, Colorado) in high-altitude gunfights. The Dalai Lama sent a taped message imploring the Mustang resistance to lay down their arms, spurring several fighters to commit suicide.
For some Tibetans, the history of China’s invasion of Tibet and the legacy of lives lost in the ensuing Tibetan resistance fuels a lingering distaste for submitting to Chinese rule—which they see the middle way as promoting.
“Even though they asked us to be friends with China, we don’t want it,” Dhargyal said. “We can’t make friends with them because they killed our grandparents. We don’t want to live under Chinese rule. We want our country back.” KARMA Chungdak Bonjutsang began to cry when he described how Chinese soldiers killed his mother in 1959.
Bonjutsang, now 61 years old, covered his eyes with his hands. His chest heaved a few times with deep breaths. He tried to fight through it and talk, but he choked up. After a silent moment, he wiped his eyes clear, looked up to the ceiling for an instant, and then continued.
Bonjutsang was only 6 years old when his mother, father, uncle and older brother crossed the Himalayas to escape Communist rule in Tibet. They were in a group of about 400, he said. Women, children and the elderly were kept in front, while the men and the Tibetan Chushi-Gangdruk guerilla fighters stayed at the rear to repel Chinese attacks. Their group was a part of the 80,000 Tibetans who flooded into India and Nepal in 1959 after the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) shelled protesters in the Tibetan capital of Lhasa.
TIBET – INDIA – US RELATIONS – THE QUEST FOR TIBET EQUILIBRIUM. CHUNGDAK BONJUTSANG TIBETAN EXILE. Photo. Nolan Peterson. The Daily Signal.
Chungdak Bonjutsang, 61, fled Tibet with his family in 1959. (Photo: Nolan Peterson/The Daily Signal)
Bonjutsang remembers the sounds of bullets ricocheting off the hard stones of the mountain when the Chinese attack came. Exposed on a high-altitude pass with nowhere to hide, the only options were to run or fight back. Bonjutsang’s father tied the scared 6-year-old boy to one of the horses used to carry supplies so that he wouldn’t be lost in the confusion of the gunfight. And then his father and uncle joined the Chushi-Gangdruk guerillas in fighting back the Chinese soldiers.
During the attack, Bonjutsang’s mother was shot in the side. She died quickly. And with the Chinese in pursuit, there was no time to bury her. “We just left her on the ice, and then we ran away,” Bonjutsang said during an interview at the Sonamling Tibetan refugee colony in India’s Himalayan Ladakh region.
“I was very young then,” he said. “But as I grew older, the pain got worse. I can’t stop thinking about her lying dead on the ice. I see her at night when I go to sleep.” Fifty-six years later, Bonjutsang’s pain and his anger over his mother’s murder have not faded. “China is still the enemy,” he said. He has never returned to Tibet, and admits that he may never be able to. Yet, his hope that Tibet will regain its independence has not faded—and that hope is sustained by his unshakeable faith in the Dalai Lama.
“We have great hope that we will be able to return the Dalai Lama to Tibet before he passes,” Bonjutsang said. “As long as His Holiness is alive we believe freedom is possible.” A smile crept across Bonjutsang’s face. He added: “And, of course, we also hope His Holiness outlives the Communist Party in China.”
Nolan Peterson, a former special operations pilot and a combat veteran of Iraq and Afghanistan, is The Daily Signal’s foreign correspondent based in Ukraine.
TIBET – INDIA – US RELATIONS – THE QUEST FOR TIBET EQUILIBRIUM. THE QUEST BEGAN ON OCTOBER 11, 1949 WITH INDIAN PRIME MINISTER’S VISIT TO WASHINGTON DC. INDIA REPRESENTED TIBET’S INTERESTS AND PROVIDED STIMULUS FOR INDIA – US RELATIONS.
TIBET – INDIA – US RELATIONS – THE QUEST FOR TIBET EQUILIBRIUM. NEHRU – TRUMAN MEETING ON OCTOBER 11, 1949. TIBET EQUILIBRIUM WAS THE CHIEF CONCERN AND PURPOSE FOR THIS RELATIONSHIP.TIBET – INNDIA – US RELATIONS – THE QUEST FOR TIBET EQUILIBRIUM. NEHRU – TRUMAN MEETING ON OCTOBER 11, 1949. INDIA REACHED OUT TO THE US ON BEHALF OF TIBET.TIBET – INDIA – US RELATIONS – THE QUEST FOR TIBET EQUILIBRIUM. THIS LEGACY BEGAN ON OCTOBER 11, 1949 WITH HISTORICAL MEETING OF NEHRU AND TRUMAN.
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TIBET EQUILIBRIUM – DOCTOR’S ORDER – COMPASSION – DR BARRY KERZIN, DALAI LAMA’S PERSONAL PHYSICIAN.
His Holiness the Dalai Lama’s personal physician, Dr. Barry Kerzin who lives in India is prescribing use of Compassion in practice of Medicine. Compassion is an instinct that is evoked when a person witnesses pain and suffering in the lives of other living entities. Compassion provides Motivation or Drive to perform actions that will help to relieve pain experienced by a victim and provide uplift to such victim to overcome feelings of sorrow and misery. Compassion acts like a physical force for it helps the performer of Compassionate action. While acting under the influence of Compassion, the performer acts without experiencing personal hardship or tiredness. Compassion provides additional energy with which performer of Compassionate actions overcomes physical barriers that may limit physical capacity in ordinary circumstances.
In Tibet, I witness action of two opposing forces; 1. Physical Force used by Red China to oppress Tibetans, and 2. Resistance Force used by Tibetans to counteract Oppression. To have Balance and Equilibrium in Tibet, we need both interacting forces to be of same power. I witness pain, suffering, and misery in the lives of Tibetan people as their power of Resistance is not equal to Force of Oppression applied by Red China. This tragic situation in Tibet evokes instinct of Compassion directing me to take action to find Balance and Equilibrium in Tibet. I am seeking Force of Compassion to physically uplift Red Army from Tibet. When this brutalizing force is evicted from Tibet, there will be Peace, Harmony, and Tranquility in Tibet as Balance and Equilibrium will be restored.
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PBS NEWSHOUR Dalai Lama’s American doctor wants more compassion in medicine
October 27, 2015 at 6:35 PM EDT
Dalai Lama’s doctor wants more compassion in medicine. Before he was a personal physician to the Dalai Lama, Dr. Barry Kerzin never imagined that a professional trip to Tibet would lead him down a decades-long path studying Buddhism and meditation. Special correspondent Fred de Sam Lazaro talks to Kerzin in India about his feeling that compassion and empathy are essential to medical training. 2015-10-27
JUDY WOODRUFF: But, first, the Dalai Lama was supposed to arrive in the U.S. yesterday. He didn’t, because doctors at the Mayo Clinic advised him to rest. But advice flows both ways in the relationship between the Buddhist leader and his personal physician.
Special correspondent Fred de Sam Lazaro reports on how the Dalai Lama inspired a California native to move halfway across the world and bring compassion back into a medical care system dominated by technology.
The report is part of Fred’s ongoing series Agents for Change.
FRED DE SAM LAZARO: Sixty-eight-year-old California native Barry Kerzin began his career as a professor of family medicine at the University of Washington. He never dreamed it would lead to a pro bono house calls thousands of miles away in Tibetan.
DR. BARRY KERZIN, Buddhist Scholar: I keep pinching myself, Fred. I don’t know. (LAUGHTER)
FRED DE SAM LAZARO: He first arrived here after hearing that the Dalai Lama had wanted a Western physician to train traditional Tibetan doctors in modern research methods.
DR. BARRY KERZIN, Buddhist Scholar: We did a research study. And we used that pedagogically to train the local Tibetan medicine doctors how to do the research. And then I got more involved with Buddhism. I had already been very interested. I got more involved with meditation and study. And I ended up extending my stay. And that’s happened again and again and here I am 27 years.
FRED DE SAM LAZARO: He came to India from a life punctuated by pain and loss, at 11, a near fatal brain abscess that required extensive surgery and left a permanent lump on his skull. His mother died young, and a few years later so did his wife, only in her mid-30s, both from cancer. Buddhism became a sanctuary under the tutelage of the Dalai Lama, who told him to stay connected to the world.
DR. BARRY KERZIN: He always encouraged me to keep my credentials and to continue practicing medicine. Don’t just do the wisdom. Also do the love and the compassion. In fact, do them 50/50. Those were his words.
FRED DE SAM LAZARO: Scholarship in Buddhism led to his ordination as a monk, while meditation has been a path to inner peace and happiness. And that’s translated into empathy, he said.
DR. BARRY KERZIN: It’s slowly moved me along to be more compassionate, to be less selfish. I don’t get angry very much anymore. I used to be highly competitive. I’m still somewhat competitive, but it’s more now personal, not at the expense of somebody else. I think it’s a combination of meditation and also, as His Holiness calls, emotional hygiene.
FRED DE SAM LAZARO: Kerzin, who now serves as a personal physician to the Dalai Lama, has taken the spiritual leader’s gospel of emotional hygiene and compassion to medical practitioners around the world. DALAI LAMA (through interpreter): He is my messenger. Go to Japan, go to Mongolia.
FRED DE SAM LAZARO: And full circle to America.
DR. BARRY KERZIN: It’s lovely to be at Stanford.
FRED DE SAM LAZARO: A few years ago, a prestigious lecture at a top U.S. medical school wouldn’t have been given by a man who left American medicine and many stunned colleagues for a very different world, where he doesn’t own a house, car or refrigerator.
DR. BARRY KERZIN: I think initially they thought I went off the deep end. What are you doing living in India? Come on. You know, how can you stay healthy? Why don’t you come back? And you could have a very good life. You could have a very good academic life in medicine. You could have a very comfortable economic life. It’s ridiculous what you’re doing. So let’s meditate, OK?
FRED DE SAM LAZARO: But on this day, they were listening, even meditating, with him. Kerzin says meditation helps one focus on the now, the present. You tune out the past and all your regrets, tune out planning and worry about the future. It’s taken years, he says, but gotten results, scientifically measured results.
DR. BARRY KERZIN: This is in Madison, the University of Wisconsin, and they’re researching my brain.
FRED DE SAM LAZARO: Kerzin has been part of a series of studies into the impact of meditation on the brain.
DR. BARRY KERZIN: What they found were changes in the prefrontal cortex. This area is called the executive function area, the PFC, and it helps with things like planning, reasoning, imagination, empathy, to feel as — like another person is feeling. So these areas were enhanced, both anatomically and functionally, in long-term meditators.
FRED DE SAM LAZARO: Kerzin’s host at Stanford said there’s an epidemic of dissatisfaction among American doctors today, which likely makes them more receptive to a message like Kerzin’s.
DR. ABRAHAM VERGHESE, Stanford School of Medicine: Fifty percent of them, they say in some studies, are unhappy. And that tells you this is not an individual problem. This is a systemic problem.
FRED DE SAM LAZARO: Dr. Abraham Verghese, well-known author and professor at Stanford, says technology, for all its benefits, leaves doctors little time for the compassion that drew most of them to medicine.
DR. ABRAHAM VERGHESE: There was a chilling paper from the “Journal of Emergency Medicine” titled “4,000 Clicks,” suggesting that an emergency medicine physician does 4,000 clicks a day and spends the great majority of their time on the computer, very little percentage of the time actually with patients, and similar studies that are coming out suggesting the same about residents and medical students and physicians in other specialties.
FRED DE SAM LAZARO: Kerzin says he wants to make compassion as integral to medical education as physiology or biochemistry, more partnerships between scientists and Buddhist scholars, a reconciliation of very different perspectives on life that he said he’s made internally.
DR. BARRY KERZIN: I used to say I wear two hats. So, sometimes, this is the medical hat, this is the Buddhist hat. But I don’t say that any more.
FRED DE SAM LAZARO: Today, he says he wears one scientist monk hat.
For the PBS NewsHour, this is Fred de Sam Lazaro in Dharmsala, India.
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Tibet’s awareness of military occupation generates a natural response called ‘RESISTANCE’. However, the strategy of Resistance demands recognition of external realities. Tibet’s Enemy is using overwhelming physical force to suppress any sign of Resistance. Tibet needs to use the tactic called Patience and Perseverance while Enemy wears herself out pursuing a course of self-destruction. I ask Tibet to practice Resistance as a Daily Routine. Red China’s Policy of Subjugation, and Tibet’s response of Resistance when practiced with Patience and Perseverance will maintain balance and equilibrium in the lives of Tibetans who may not have ability to confront Occupation using physical force. Tibet need to stay calm and unperturbed for Beijing is Doomed.
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The Dalai Lama’s Daily Routine and Information Diet
“To understand the Dalai Lama … perhaps it’s most useful to see him as a doctor of the soul.”
By Maria Popova
TIBET EQUILIBRIUM – RESISTANCE IS DAILY ROUTINE
I think a great deal about the difference between routine and ritual as a special case of our more general and generally trying quest for balance — ripped asunder by the contrary longings for control and whimsy, we routinize daily life in order to make its inherent chaos more manageable, then ritualize it in order to imbue its mundanity with magic, which by definition violates the predictable laws of the universe. I suspect that our voracious appetite for the daily routines of cultural icons is fueled by a deep yearning to glean some insight on and practical help with this impossible balancing act, from people who seem to have mastered it well enough to lead happy, productive, creatively fruitful, and altogether remarkable lives. Perhaps the most unexpected yet brilliant master of this elusive modern equilibrium is the Dalai Lama.
TIBET EQUILIBRIUM – RESISTANCE IS DAILY ROUTINE.The Dalai Lama by Manuel Bauer
In the altogether magnificent The Open Road: The Global Journey of the Fourteenth Dalai Lama(public library), writer Pico Iyer — who has known the beloved spiritual leader since adolescence and, by the time he began writing this book, had visited him in his exile home for nearly thirty years — describes how the Dalai Lama begins each day:
[By] nine a.m. … the Dalai Lama himself had already been up for more than five hours, awakening, as he always does, at three-thirty a.m., to spend his first four hours of the day meditating on the roots of compassion and what he can do for his people, the “Chinese brothers and sisters” who are holding his people hostage, and the rest of us, while also preparing himself for his death.
Compressed into this humble and humbling morning routine is the entire Buddhist belief that life is a “joyful participation in a world of sorrows.” This daily rite of body and spirit is the building block of the Dalai Lama’s quiet and steadfast mission to, as Iyer elegantly puts it, “explore the world closely, so as to make out its laws, and then to see what can and cannot be done within those laws.” He writes:
To understand the Dalai Lama … especially if (as in my case) you come from some other tradition, perhaps it’s most useful to see him as a doctor of the soul.
As someone deeply invested in the crucial difference between information and wisdom, I was particularly fascinated by the Dalai Lama’s information diet — that is, what daily facts he chooses to fuse with ancient wisdom in his dedication to unraveling the nature of reality and making use of it in fortifying the soul. Iyer writes:
As a longtime student of real life, ruler of his people before the age of five, he listens every morning to the Voice of America, to the BBC East Asian broadcast, to the BBC World Service — even while meditating — and devours Time and Newsweek and many other news sources (I think of how the Buddha is often depicted with one hand touching the earth, in what Buddhists call the “witnessing the earth” gesture).
And yet the Dalai Lama approaches his information diet like he does his meditation — as a deliberate practice. In that sense, “meaning diet” is far more accurate a term, for he is remarkably deliberate about which aspects of the Information Age to fold into his meaning-making mission and which to sidestep. He chooses, for instance, to avoid one of the most perilous byproducts of our era, which Susan Sontag presaged in 1977 in her famous admonition against “aesthetic consumerism.” Iyer writes:
In the Age of the Image, when screens are so much our rulers, anyone who wishes to grab our attention — and to hold it — does so by converting himself into a “human-interest story,” translating his life into a kind of fable…. Those who long to be entrusted with real consequences in our lives acquire that power increasingly by presenting themselves as fairy tales.
The Dalai Lama, by nature and training, is in the odd position of trying to do the opposite: he comes to us to tell us that he is real, as real as his country, bleeding and oppressed, and that he lives in a world far more complex than a two-year-old’s cries of “Good Tibetans, bad Chinese” (the Dalai Lama would more likely say, “Potentially good Tibetans, potentially good Chinese”).
TIBET EQUILIBRIUM – RESISTANCE IS DAILY ROUTINE.The Dalai Lama by Manuel Bauer
At the heart of this message is a larger testament to the most essential characteristic of reality — something Alan Watts, who began popularizing Eastern philosophy in the West when the Dalai Lama was still a teenager, captured memorably when he wrote: “Life and Reality are not things you can have for yourself unless you accord them to all others.”
Indeed, contacting this interconnectedness of all beings and all lives is the very impetus for the Dalai Lama’s morning routine and his information diet — a beautiful assurance that beneath our obsession with routine and ritual lies a deeper, more expansive longing for meaning, for orienting ourselves in this vibrating universe of interconnectedness that we call reality.
Iyer articulates this elegantly:
Imagine, for a moment, that you are a body (not difficult to do, since in part that is what you are). You have eyes, ears, legs, hands, and, if you are lucky, all of them are in good working order. You never, if you are sane, think of your finger as an independent entity (though you may occasionally say, “My toe seems to have a mind of its own”). You are never, in your right mind, moved to hit your own foot, let alone sever it; the only loser in such an exercise would be yourself. […] This is all simplistic to the point of self-evidence. But when the Buddhist speaks of “interdependence” (the central Buddhist concept of shunyata, often rendered as “emptiness,” the Dalai Lama has translated as “empty of independent identity”), all he is really saying is that we are all a part of a single body, and to think of “I” and “you,” of the right hand’s interests being different from the left’s, makes no sense at all. It’s crazy to impede your neighbor, because he is as intrinsic to your welfare as your thumb is. It’s almost absurd to say you wish to get ahead of your colleague — it’s like your right toe saying it longs to be ahead of the left. […] Perhaps it’s not surprising, then, that the Fourteenth Dalai Lama is famous for his laughter, the sudden eruption of almost helpless giggles or a high-pitched shaking of the body. Seen from the vantage point of one who meditates several hours a day, traveling to the place where everything is connected, much of our fascination with surface or with division seems truly hilarious… Talking about friends and enemies is a little like holding on to this hair on your arm and claiming it as a friend, because you see it daily, and calling the hair on your back an enemy, because you never see it at all. Talking of how you are a Buddhist and therefore opposed to the Judeo-Christian teaching is like solemnly asserting that your right nostril is the source of everything good, and your left nostril a place of evil. The doctrine of “universal responsibility” is not only universal but obvious: it’s like saying that every part of us longs for our legs, our eyes, our lungs to be healthy. If one part suffers, we all do.
Suddenly, the Dalai Lama’s morning routine and his information diet are revealed in a whole new light of meaning — they are a form of self-empowerment in the journey toward shedding self-centeredness. (Lest we forget, as another great Buddhist teacher has put it, “you first need to have an ego in order to be aware that it doesn’t exist.”)
Iyer writes:
Buddhists do not (or need not) seek solutions from outside themselves, but merely awakening within; the minute we come to see that our destinies or well-being are all mutually dependent, they say, the rest naturally follows (meditation sometimes seems the way we come to this perception, reasoning the way we consolidate it). If you believe this, human life offers you many more belly laughs daily, as the Dalai Lama exemplifies.
And there, with a good-humored smirk, Iyer reminds us that his perspective isn’t perched on a holier-than-thou branch in the tree of life but grounded in his reality as a Westerner and a writer, and thus a creature of ego trying to learn the very lesson he is channeling:
Why despair, indeed, when you can change the world at any moment by choosing to see that the person who gave your last book a bad review is as intrinsic to your well-being as your thumb is?
The Open Road is an illuminating read in its totality, propelled by Iyer’s deeply pleasurable prose. Complement it with Iyer on what Leonard Cohen knows about the art of stillness and his superb On Being conversation with Krista Tippett, in which he recounts the experience of shadowing the Dalai Lama in order to capture his inner light:
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TIBET CONSCIOUSNESS – GIVE ME LIBERTY OR GIVE ME DEATH
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On Monday, October 26, 2015 His Holiness the Dalai Lama is set to receive National Constitution Center’s Liberty Medal in Philadelphia. A moment has arrived in Tibetan history when all Tibetans will demand in no uncertain terms, “GIVE ME LIBERTY OR GIVE ME DEATH.” There is no fulfillment in Tibetan’s life without Freedom.
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Dalai Lama Set To Receive NCC’s Liberty Medal, Although Not In Person
October 25, 2015 5:48 PM By Molly Daly
TIBET CONSCIOUSNESS – GIVE ME LIBERTY OR GIVE ME DEATH. LIBERTY MEDAL AWARD BY NATIONAL CONSTITUTION CENTER, PHILADELPHIA.
(Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama, in 2013 file photo by Keith Tsuji/ Getty Images)
By Molly Daly PHILADELPHIA (CBS) – National Constitution Center staffers are getting ready for Monday night’s Liberty Medal Ceremony, although this year’s recipient, the Dalai Lama, won’t be able to accept the honor in person because of health concerns.
After a performance by the all-boy Tibetan Children’s Choir, there’ll be remarks from National Constitution Center CEO Jeffrey Rosen, Mayor Nutter, and Richard Gere — a longtime friend of the Dalai Lama and Delaware Valley native.
“He’s always glad to come back to Philadelphia for a reason, and I think this is a reason that’s deeply personal to Richard Gere as a person, and I think it’s something that he’s going to feel very honored to be participating in,” says the National Constitution Center’s Jenny Parker.
There’ll also be a moving video tribute to His Holiness. Parker says the man of the hour is sending a video of his own: “One of the things that you might hear in the Dalai Lama’s remarks is the idea that human beings are naturally inclined towards compassion and kindness, but the necessity of liberty and freedom in realizing that full potential is essential.”
Parker says that although His Holiness won’t be there physically, “I think the spirit will be very evident, and will be felt by all the attendees.” The Dalai Lama is sending two representatives to accept the Liberty Medal on his behalf.
Molly attended Hallahan High School, LaSalle College, and Temple University, but left in her senior year. A woman of exceptional vocal talents, Daly has worked delivering singing telegrams and performing in a rock band. She once worked as a backup…
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TIBET CONSCIOUSNESS – GLOBAL WARMING – CLIMATE ACTION
TIBET CONSCIOUSNESS – GLOBAL WARMING – CLIMATE ACTION. JIANGGENDIRU GLACIER. HEADSTREAM OF YANGTZE RIVER. RED CHINA MUST CURB HER GREENHOUSE GAS EMISSIONS. REDUCE USE OF DIRTY FOSSIL FUELS.On www.theguardian.com
Red China’s use of Coal as fuel is causing global warming and climate change is severe across Tibetan plateau. Red China has to reduce use of fossil fuels and restrict emission of greenhouse gases. About 2.25 million Tibetans live on the Tibetan plateau mostly leading a pastoral life. These Tibetan nomads are forced to live in ‘model villages’ where livestock-rearing as an economic activity is impossible. Tibetans need Freedom to live their lives in harmony with nature. Red China’s attempts to seed clouds with Silver Iodide to promote precipitation will not address the problem caused by industrial activity using dirty fossil fuels.
DALAI LAMA WARNS OVER GLOBAL WARMING ON ‘ROOF OF WORLD’ October 20, 2015 5:48 AM
TIBET CONSCIOUSNESS – GLOBAL WARMING – CLIMATE ACTION. THE DALAI LAMA ALERTED GLOBAL COMMUNITY ON IMPORTANCE OF TIBET IN UNDERSTANDING PROBLEMS OF CLIMATE CHANGE AND PROTECTING GLOBAL ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH.
New Delhi (AFP) – The Dalai Lama on Tuesday urged the world to protect Tibet from global warming, saying his Himalayan homeland was crucial to the health of the world.
The exiled spiritual leader called on the younger generation to play a more active role in fighting climate change as he launched a campaign by the Tibetan leadership ahead of crunch talks beginning in Paris next month.
“This blue planet is our only home and Tibet is its roof. As vital as the Arctic and Antarctic, it is the Third Pole,” he said in a statement.
“The Tibetan Plateau needs to be protected, not just for Tibetans but for the environmental health and sustainability of the entire world.” Tibet, the world’s largest and highest plateau, is often called the “third pole” because it stores more freshwater in the form of glaciers than any region on Earth, except the North and South poles.
The region is warming at twice the global average, leading to accelerated melting of tens of thousands of glaciers that feed seven major rivers flowing through India, Bangladesh, China and Southeast Asia. Tibet, the world’s largest and highest plateau, is often called the “third pole.”
China, which has ruled Tibet since 1951 after sending troops into the Himalayan region, has already committed to reduce emissions as a key step toward a global climate pact before the end of the year.
But exiled Tibetan leaders say the Himalayan region must be central to climate change negotiations due to open in Paris on November 30. They want the meeting of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) to recognise the “global significance of the Tibetan Plateau”.
“Tibetans must have a say on what happens to their land,” said Lobsang Sangay, the head of the exiled Tibetan government, which is based in the northern Indian town of Dharamshala. “Tibetan nomads are the expert custodians of the alpine pastures and their knowledge and experience must be recognised.”
China has resettled thousands of Tibetan herdsmen in permanent villages and restricted grazing as it tries to protect the fragile ecosystem from increasing desertification. But for many, resettlement in villages has meant an end to a traditional nomadic life that goes back centuries.
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Prime minister of the Tibetan government in exile, Lobsang Sangay, center flanked by government officials unveils the Tibet Climate Action poster during the launch of a campaign in Dharamsala, India, Tuesday, Oct. 20, 2015. The Dalai Lama on Tuesday urged the worlds nations to take strong action to limit global warming and to protect fragile environments including the Himalayan glaciers and Tibetan plateau.(AP Photo/Shailesh Bhatnagar)
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Tibet consciousness – Global warming. Yak-rearing is not the cause of global warming.
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Tibet Awareness – Red China does not want the World to know several truths
Tibet Awareness – Red China does not want the World to know several truths. Red China demands to control Tibetan Cultural Traditions and Social Institutions including Reincarnation of Dalai Lama.
Red China deliberately and purposefully distorts truth about her military occupation of Tibet. Red China claims that she has peacefully liberated Tibet from feudal rule. Apart from illegal occupation of Tibet, Red China conceals several truths which she doesn’t want the world to know. Apart from rest of the world, Chinese people have no access to truth about their own country.
Secrets China doesn’t want the world to know ….
TIBET CONSCIOUSNESS – GLOBAL WARMING – CLIMATE ACTION. RED CHINA REFUSES TO ACCEPT THE CAUSE OF GLOBAL WARMING. RED CHINA IS USING DECEPTION AND PROPAGANDA INSTEAD OF ADDRESSING CORE ISSUES.
1. Poverty.
Even though China is the world’s most populous country, at over 1.35 billion people, it still has some secrets it doesn’t want us to know.
Even though China is the world’s most populous country, at over 1.35 billion people, it still has some secrets it doesn’t want us to know. But we dug some of them up just for you! For instance, despite the fact that the US borrows a lot of money from China, a lot of it’s population is still living in utter poverty. In fact, about 100 million people in China are surviving on less than $1 a day, which works out to less than $365 a year! And nearly 400 million people live on less than $2 a day!
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2. Death Penalty.
NEVER FORGET JUNE 04, 1989 – TIANANMEN ANNIVERSARY – BEIJING DOOMED.
In 2005, China executed more than 4 times as many convicts as the rest of the world combined. That works out to over 1,770 executions, most of them done by firing squad.
3. Air Pollution.
China’s air pollution is so bad from its rapid industrial growth that many people wear masks outside just to be able to breathe.
China’s air pollution is so bad from its rapid industrial growth that many people wear masks outside just to be able to breathe. But their problems aren’t limited to their own country. Due to the jet stream carrying their air over to the United States, much of that pollution has traveled to northern California. In fact, about a third of the air pollution in San Francisco comes from China!
4. Reincarnation.
The Chinese government has actually banned Buddhist monks from reincarnating. That is, unless they get permission from the government first. In reality, what seems ridiculous is actually a move to limit the influence of the Dalai Lama.
5. Empty Mall.
TIBET AWARENESS – RED CHINA – LIAR. EMPTY SHOPPING MALLS IN SHANGHAI.
China can proudly boast that it has the world’s largest mall, the New South China Mall, with space for 2,350 stores and 7,000,000 square feet of leasable space! The only problem is that 7 years after it opened it is still 99% empty. The only things actually in the mall are a few fast food stores near the entrance.
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6. Blocked Sites.
Facebook and Twitter have been blocked sites in China since 2009 and The New York Times has been blocked since a 2012 article didn’t please the government. They are going to lift the ban in what is called the Shanghai Free Trade zone soon but it is more of a business decision than anything else.
7. Cave Dwellers.
About 35 million people in China still live in caves. Most of these live in the Shaanxi province where the porous soil makes the caves easy to dig. They are often decorated or reinforced with bricks.
8. Water Contamination.
About 700 million Chinese people, or about half of their population, drink contaminated water every day. One of the biggest reasons is that only about 10 percent of the raw sewage produced by the big cities is treated and the rest is dumped straight into lakes and rivers where it leaks into ground water
9. Time Zones.
Back in 1949, China’s Communist regime decided that, even though the country is huge, in order to assert more control it all needed to be under the same time zone, Beijing Standard Time. This has led to ridiculous sunrise times such as 10am in certain parts of the country.
10. Piracy.
78% of the software installed on computers in China in 2010 was pirated. That is a really high number no matter how you look at it. Globally, the average piracy rate is still quite high at 42%, but it is almost twice that in China.
11. Birth Defects.
Birth defects are actually increasing in China by a rate of 40% since 2001. About 1.2 million babies are born in China every year with a birth defect, or about one every 30 seconds.
12. Christianity.
When you think of religion in China, probably the last thing that comes to mind is Christianity. But what is really surprising is that China has a booming Christian population of about 54 million people and growing. Soon they will have the largest Christian population in the world! They already have more Christians than Italy!
A note over here . Due to large masses of people turning to Christianity, the government is resorting to a specific quota of Christian conversions per month.
13. Dwarf Theme Park.
There is a place called the Kingdom of the Little People in China where people with dwarfism put on comical shows for tourists. There are over 100 dwarfs employed by the park.
14. Ghost Towns.
TIBET AWARENESS – RED CHINA – LIAR. RED CHINA’S GHOST CITIES.
About 65 million homes sit vacant in China. This includes some entire towns that are completely devoid of people and they sit empty. These aren’t old houses and towns that died out. They are new cities and houses that were built in expectation of a population boom expanding into them that never happened.
TIBET AWARENESS – RED CHINA – LIAR. RED CHINA’S GHOST TOWNS. IMPENDING DEBT CRISIS.TIBET AWARENESS – RED CHINA – LIAR. CHINA’S GHOST TOWNS.TIBET AWARENESS – RED CHINA – LIAR. RED CHINA’S ECONOMIC CONTRADICTIONS. INVESTMENT FAILURES NOT REPORTED. CHINESE ECONOMY READY FOR MELTDOWN.
15. Gobi Desert.
China is home to the enormous Gobi desert which is already about 500,000 square miles or about the size of Peru and it’s only getting bigger.
China is home to the enormous Gobi desert which is already about 500,000 square miles or about the size of Peru and it’s only getting bigger. The Gobi is expanding at a rate of about 1,400 square miles a year due to over grazing, deforestation and water source depletion.
TIBET AWARENESS – RED CHINA – LIAR. CHINA’S WASTEFUL SPENDING. ABANDONED FACTORY.TIBET AWARENESS – RED CHINA – LIAR. A HORROR STORY. ABANDONED FACTORY OF CHINA.TIBET AWARENESS – RED CHINA – LIAR. CHINA’S EMPTY FACTORIES.TIBET AWARENESS – RED CHINA – LIAR. ABANDONED FACTORY. RED CHINA ON A SLIPPERY SLOPE.
TIBET CONSCIOUSNESS – RED CHINA HAS NO REDEEMER. RED CHINA’S DESTINY IS NOT DECIDED BY RELATIVE MILITARY STRENGTHS OF CHINA AND UNITED STATES.
The proud Han Chinese people may choose to ‘love’ or ‘hate’ United States of America. The issue is not that of bilateral US – China relations. Red China would be paid back with the very weapons she used on others. Just as she destroyed Tibet, she would be destroyed. Red China is exhausting herself for nothing. She dominated Tibet but she is wearing herself out. Red China is moving toward her own logical end of self-destruction.
The Evil Red Empire is destined to be uprooted, torn down, and destroyed for Red China has not repented and her evil actions are not forgiven.
Chinese people may love or hate America. But, Red China has no choice. Red China has no Redeemer. No one can save Red China for she pursued a hazardous course of action to the brink of catastrophe. Beijing is Doomed.
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TIBET CONSCIOUSNESS – RED CHINA HAS NO REDEEMER. UNITED STATES CANNOT SAVE RED CHINA FROM HER CHOSEN FATE. BEIJING IS DOOMED.
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MURONG XUECUN
HONG KONG On the 10th anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks, a major Chinese television network broadcast a documentary that investigated how Chinese people viewed not only those pivotal events but America itself. One man, referring to the slaughter of thousands of Americans, declared, What a beautiful job! Another said, They should give America more of the same. And a student standing in Tiananmen Square said he approved of the attacks because the United States was a bully and a hegemon. Later in the film, the young man in Tiananmen Square went on to describe his plans for the future. He said that he loved America and that he was about to go there to study. If I don’t have to come back, then I won’t, he said. The Chinese view of America has not changed since this aired four years ago.
On Sept. 3, President Xi Jinping orchestrated an extravagant military parade in Beijing. An acquaintance from my schooldays was so excited by the spectacle, the disciplined troop formations, the advanced equipment that he wrote in a post on WeChat that he could hardly sleep that night. He added that his friends should guard against America because American imperialism still wants to destroy us.
Only a few months earlier, this same man had taken his daughter on a trip to Boston, where he reported enthusiastically on social media about visiting Harvard University and eating a huge lobster. He also pledged to send his daughter to America. We should help our next generation live in a place without pollution, without recycled cooking oil and poisoned milk powder, he wrote.
The young man in Tiananmen Square and my former schoolmate are hardly alone in holding contrasting, schizophrenic views of America. For many Chinese people, the depth of their admiration for the American system and way of life is matched only by their animosity toward the country.
According to a Pew Research Center survey released earlier this year, only 44 percent of Chinese people have a favorable view of America the 33rd lowest approval rating out of 40 countries surveyed, and far lower than the 84 percent reported for South Korea and the 68 percent for Japan.
The Chinese hostility to America is first and foremost the result of government propaganda. Because of censorship, many people lack a basic understanding of life outside China. And although in the past few decades the Chinese government has been careful to avoid a real clash with America, Beijing’s domestic propaganda has never ceased presenting it as the enemy. Stir in 60 years of uninterrupted anti-American schooling, and it is hardly surprising that one result is an irrational hostility toward the United States.
Another Chinese documentary, Silent Contest, from 2013, highlighted one of the major reasons for castigating America as the eternal enemy. In the film, it was said that America’s key strategic objective is to dominate and break up China. You hear a lot of this kind of talk from Chinese officials. Like most despotic governments, the Chinese leadership likes to play the part of defender of the people a role that necessitates the existence of a powerful external enemy. A strong and hostile America is an important source of the legitimacy for Communist Party rule.
But in our globalized age, where there are myriad, multilayered interactions between countries, it is impossible for our government to fully stop people from seeking to research, study and understand the United States.
American films, TV shows and products, and many other aspects of American culture remain influential in everyday Chinese life. On the Internet, Chinese netizens loudly praise America’s system of government and spontaneously rally to America’s defense in global affairs. Some people like to compare America and Russia in recent years Beijing has been cozying up to Moscow and analyze the behavior of the two countries toward China, wondering aloud if we have chosen the right friend.
Many of the same people who are suspicious of America’s intentions are the ones who harbor the most fervent hopes of going to live there. In everyday conversation these people might be ashamed of China’s human rights record and our political situation, or they may talk about how they want to buy an apartment in New York to find a secure place for their money, but when a foreign government or organization (from no matter what country) criticizes the Chinese system, they become defensive. In the case of the United States, they will often fire off a list of America’s failings, such as racism and gun violence.
A mixed view of extremes about America is not uncommon around the world, but what makes it so striking here is that many Chinese government officials and elites seem to hold these contrasting views. Like the young man in the documentary in Tiananmen Square, the children of many high officials go to America to study, to settle down, to invest in property. For years, the children and grandchildren of the Communist Party elite have been attending America’s top universities. Perhaps most famously, President Xi Jinping’s daughter enrolled at Harvard in 2010.
Many Chinese people can’t help but notice that the elites have no problem taking advantage of what America has to offer, but when they are preaching to the public, they seem to have another view.
Government leaders can’t be relied on to deliver better bilateral relationships, especially not the Chinese government. But its encouraging that, in the shadow of censorship, some ordinary Chinese people are opening their eyes and looking more realistically at our country and its place in the world. American leaders should realize that the best hope for improved Chinese-American relations resides with these Chinese people.
Nevertheless, as long as the Chinese government pretends to be the defender of the people against the United States and persists in its negative propaganda, Chinese-American relations will have a long way to go.
Murong Xuecun is a writer whose latest novel to be published in English is Dancing Through Red Dust. This article was translated by The New York Times from the Chinese. A version of this op-ed appears in print on October 14, 2015, in The International New York Times.
Copyright 2015 The New York Times Company.
TIBET CONSCIOUSNESS – RED CHINA HAS NO REDEEMER. RED CHINA HAS NOT REPENTED AND HER EVIL ACTIONS ARE NOT FORGIVEN. UNITED STATES CANNOT SAVE RED CHINA AS SHE MOVES ON HER CHOSEN PATH OF SELF-DESTRUCTION.
TIBET CONSCIOUSNESS – RED CHINA HAS NO REDEEMER. CHINA CANNOT SAVE HERSELF FROM RUIN AND CATASTROPHE. UNITED STATES CAN WEEP ALOUD BUT CANNOT SAVE CHINA FROM HER DOWNFALL.
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Tibet Consciousness – Red China – Neocolonialist: MEGA DAM ACROSS YARLUNG TSANGPO OR BRAHMAPUTRA RIVER IN OCCUPIED TIBET.
Red China’s Hydroelectric Dam across Yarlung Tsangpo, Yarlung Zangbo or Brahmaputra River in Occupied Tibet is the evidence to establish Red China as a Neocolonialist. Neocolonialism is revival of colonialist exploitation by a foreign power of a nation that has achieved independence. Colonialism is the system or policy by which a country maintains foreign colonies especially in order to exploit them economically. Colonization refers to extension of political and economic control over a nation by an occupying state that has military and technological superiority. Imperialism gets translated into colonizing force. Red China occupied Tibet and is relentlessly oppressing Tibetans to exert pressure to assimilate Tibetans to Red China’s way of life.
China’s 9700 Crore Dam on Brahmaputra in Tibet is Now Working
All India Press Trust of India Updated: October 13, 2015.
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India is concerned that if the waters are diverted, then projects on the Brahmaputra, especially in Arunachal Pradesh, get affected.
Beijing, China: China today operationalised the largest dam in Tibet, built on river Brahmaputra, raising concerns in India over the likelihood of disrupting water supplies.
The Zam Hydropower Station has been built at a cost of $1.5 billion (approximately Rs 9764 crores).
All six of the station’s units were incorporated into the power grid today, the China Gezhouba Group, a major hydropower contractor based in Wuhan, capital of Hubei Province in central China, told state-run Xinhua news agency.
Located in the Gyaca County, Shannan Prefecture, the Zam Hydropower Station also known as Zangmu Hydropower Station, harnesses the rich water resources of Brahmaputra – known in Tibet as Yarlung Zangbo River – a major river which flows through Tibet into India and later into Bangladesh.
The dam, considered to be the world’s highest-altitude hydropower station and the largest of its kind, will produce produces 2.5 billion kilowatt-hours of electricity a year.
“It will alleviate the electricity shortage in central Tibet and empower the development of the electricity-strapped region. It is also an important energy base in central Tibet,” the company said.
Officials said when the electricity is ample in the summer season, part of the electricity will be transmitted to the neighbouring Qinghai province, Xinhua report said.
The first unit began operations last November.
Reports in the past said besides Zangmu, China is reportedly building few more dams. China seeks to allay Indian fears saying that they are the run-of-the-river projects which were not designed to hold water.
The dams also raised concerns in India over China’s ability to release water in times of conflict which could pose serious risk of flooding.
An Indian Inter-Ministerial Expert Group (IMEG) on the Brahmaputra in 2013 said the dams were being built on the upper reaches and called for further monitoring considering their impact on the flow of waters to the lower reaches.
The IMEG noted that the three dams, Jiexu, Zangmu and Jiacha are within 25 kilometres of each other and are 550 kilometres from the Indian border.
India has been taking up the issue with China for the past few years.
Under the understanding reached in 2013, the Chinese side agreed to provide more flood data of Brahmaputra from May to October instead of June to October in the previous agreements river water agreements in 2008 and 2010.
India is concerned that if the waters are diverted, then projects on the Brahmaputra, particularly the Upper Siang and Lower Subansari projects in Arunachal Pradesh, may get affected.
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