Whole Tyrant – Red China Micromanages Tibet

Tibet Awareness – Red China Micromanages Tibet

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Red China after invading Tibet in 1950, systematically consolidated its occupation controlling every aspect of Tibetan life, economy, and governance. I predict Beijing’s sudden downfall due to a catastrophic event in her own territory. Tibet will survive. Tibet will endure. Tibet will reemerge from dark shadows of occupation.

China micromanages Tibet, floods it with money to woo locals

By Aritz Parra, Associated Press | Posted Sep 30th, 2015 @ 2:31am

LHASA, China (AP) — Ji Yunpeng misses hot-pot dinners with his wife and daughter back in Beijing and fights insomnia caused by the high altitude in the Tibetan capital by playing computer games, and, occasionally, studying Tibetan Buddhism.

“It’s just out of pure intellectual curiosity,” he said, aware that genuine religious interest would be a breach of discipline in China’s nominally atheist Communist Party.

Ji is in Lhasa on a three-year loan from the Beijing municipal government to oversee the school curriculum in Tibetan classrooms. In return, he gets a double salary and a shortcut up the party ladder. Nearly 6,500 civil servants like him have been dispatched to manage hefty budgets and shape Tibet’s modernization.

They are the human face of top-down development that has poured more than $100 billion dollars into the region since 1952. Critics say that Beijing’s obsession with social stability also has led to widespread human right abuses. But as incomes finally begin to increase across the Tibetan countryside, Chinese authorities are hopeful they can dispel international criticism over their rule in Tibet while winning the hearts of Tibetans and pulling some of their loyalty away from the exiled Dalai Lama.

“The strategy for Tibet is now shifting from the overall kind of repression that we have seen in the past to actually moving toward luring sections of the community and trying to work with those who cooperate with the authorities,” Tibet researcher Tsering Shakya said in an interview from University of British Columbia in Vancouver.

For most Tibetans in exile, the region has been unlawfully occupied by China since it was overrun by the People’s Liberation Army in 1951, and no material gains justify Beijing’s repression. But even skeptics like Shakya acknowledge that “without its intervention, the disparities between the development in Tibet and in China would be even greater.”

In a sign of new confidence, authorities this month invited a handful of foreign media organizations, including The Associated Press, on a tightly scripted visit to showcase Tibet’s development, timed to the 50th anniversary of the creation of the Tibet Autonomous Region.

STRINGS-ATTACHED DEVELOPMENT

Ji oversees the $40 million dollar Lhasa-Beijing Experimental Middle School, where many of the 2,500 students are from rural Tibet. Acting as deputy to the head of Lhasa’s education bureau, Ji explains how the pupils are entitled to nine years of free schooling.

As government minders watched, a Tibetan teacher wrote in Tibetan on a chalkboard crowned by the national flag, the Communist Party emblem and a portrait of President Xi Jinping. School officials explained that all subjects are taught in Mandarin, China’s official language, but that the curriculum includes mandatory Tibetan language.

In Lhasa, Beijing has also paid for housing projects, hospitals, an amusement park, an $80 million stadium and the Tibet Yak Museum, honoring the “hairy cow” of the grasslands.
“Beijing and Lhasa are still like two worlds apart,” Ji says. “But in a place like this, where things are still backward, there is a sense of achievement in every step forward.”

Robert Barnett, leading academic of Tibetan studies at Columbia University in New York, questions whether the two-decade-old policy is truly benefiting Tibetans. Economic gains of the development have for decades gone largely to migrants from China’s ethnic Han minority, who make up only 8 percent of the Tibet’s 3.2 million inhabitants. Only recently, he said, have they started to trickle down to the countryside.

“If you pour in money in that amount to an area that is fragile in its ecosystem and social composition and you just remove barriers for migration, you attract income seekers, with a huge negative effect and a domination of the economy,” Barnett said.

MOVING IN FROM GRASSLANDS

Perfectly identical “new socialist villages” have sprouted in the countryside of the Tibetan plateau during the past decade, compelling former nomads to take on a sedentary lifestyle, but also giving them immaculate two-floor villas with running water, latrines and biogas cookers.

Dawa, a 55 year-old herder resettled in Lhoka prefecture’s Gongkar county, proudly showed visiting officials and journalists how each member of the family now has a separate room. “Even in my dreams I never thought of having a house like this,” he said.

When repeatedly prompted about what he misses from his old life, Dawa paused and stared at the officials seated in his living room before answering.
“We have become selfish,” he said finally. “Now that living standards have improved, eating a piece of meat doesn’t make me as happy as eating a potato once did.”

THE INFLUX OF TOURISTS

Looking ahead, the government hopes to develop the mineral water industry, wool garment weaving workshops and factories of byproducts of traditional Tibetan medicine that will directly benefit the locals. Tourism development is, however, the biggest priority.

With plans to go from 15.5 million tourists in 2014 — five times Tibet’s population and most of them Chinese — to 20 million in the next five years, the industry already is transforming Lhasa’s landscape. Four huge pyramids of concrete and glass, the skeleton of a 2,000 room five-star resort, are joining new shopping malls, karaoke parlors and theme parks.
Visitors sweep through chambers of the labyrinthine Potala palace and compete for space with local pilgrims at the iconic Jokhang temple.

“There is a great deal of unhappiness and resentment among Tibetans over the way their culture and religion is being exploited,” said spokesman Alistair Currie of the London-based activist group Free Tibet, which is campaigning against foreign hotel chains in the autonomous region.

STABILITY ON THE PLATEAU

More than 140 Tibetans, men and women, lay people and monks, have died since 2009 protesting Beijing’s rule and demanding the return of the Dalai Lama, who fled to exile in 1959 following an aborted uprising by Tibet’s elites against the Communist Party.

Tibet’s security budget increased by 28 percent annually from 2007 to 2012, a similar pace as in Xinjiang, home to the Turkic-speaking and Islam-practicing Uighurs. The per capita spending in Tibet was 3.6 times the national average in 2012, said the Center for Human Rights and Democracy in Tibet.

Penpa Tashi, an ethnic Tibetan party member who is the region’s vice chairman, blames the tight security on unrest linked to the Dalai Lama, the spiritual leader of Tibetans, many of whom revere him as a demigod. “Only by remaining stable can we achieve development and improve people’s livelihood,” he said.

The paramilitary police who were ubiquitous following deadly riots in 2008 have retreated from the spotlight, leaving the streets in the hands of lightly armed patrols and police stations on every block. More subtle forms of surveillance — from CCTV cameras to plainclothes agents and monitored communications —have taken the lead.

COMMUNISTS IN THE MONASTERY

The party in the past installed “special working groups” at Tibet’s county levels to ensure patriotism. Those groups now have been extended to every village and every monastery, exercising an unprecedented level of control while also funneling money and resources to groups who cooperate.

In Lhoka’s Tradruk monastery, the secular management office has obtained funds for the latest renovation of this 12-century-old institution, one of the earliest Buddhist constructions in Tibet. As Han Chinese workers placed the last slate slabs in a courtyard, congregation head Migmar Tsering explained how the monastery can get electricity, televisions and libraries in exchange for displaying the Communist leaders’ portraits and topping the complex with the red flag of China.

In addition, monks meet once a week with the monastery’s Communist Party branch to receive legal and patriotic education.

“We now enjoy complete freedom of religion,” Migmar Tsering, 43, said in an interview arranged by the county propaganda office.
Shakya said the new system is actually helping to revive Buddhism throughout Tibet, although under the controlling eyes of the party.

However, other experts dispute that there has been any revival, especially given that the government has been providing the same figure of nearly 1,800 religious sites and more than 46,000 monks and nuns in the autonomous region since the early 90’s.

“You can have television sets, roads and flags in monasteries but you are not allowing the number of people to grow,” said Barnett, the Columbia University professor. “It’s hard to have monastic life thrive if you have a cadre team overseeing them.”

DALAI LAMA’S LONG SHADOW

The current, 14th Dalai Lama, who is now 80, remains the nemesis of China’s interests in Tibet. Despite an obsessive vilification of the man by Chinese government and party officials, he remains immensely popular and influential among Tibetan Buddhists.

He has said he may not reincarnate, to undercut Beijing’s plans to pick his successor. This has forced the atheist Communist Party to embrace a practice introduced seven centuries ago by a Qing dynasty emperor to control the selection by having names drawn from a government-controlled golden urn.

The region’s vice governor, Penpa Tashi, told reporters over a dinner of yak meat that, without doubt, the 15th Dalai Lama will be approved by the Chinese government and that the 14th has been an “anomaly” who made no contribution to Tibet’s development and sought only to split the region away from China.

“His attempt to split and destroy will never be realized,” he said. “The 14th Dalai is just like a pustule or a weed. A pustule must be squeezed to make the body healthier, the same way that a weed must be uprooted.”

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Glimpses of Tibet: Plateaus, people and faith — **TIBET AWARENESS – RED CHINA – NEOCOLONIALIST – MICROMANAGES TIBET. TIBET WILL SURVIVE. TIBET WILL ENDURE. TIBET WILL REEMERGE.**

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Whole Awareness – Tibet is the first victim of Red China’s Hegemonism

Tibet Awareness – Red China – Hegemonist

Deng Xiaoping General Assembly Speech — **TIBET AWARENESS – RED CHINA – HEGEMONIST – CHINESE PREMIER DENG XIAOPING IN HIS SPEECH AT UN GENERAL ASSEMBLY DELIBERATELY, PURPOSEFULLY LIED ABOUT RED CHINA’S HEGEMONIST POLICY.**

Chinese Premier Deng Xiaoping in 1974 during his maiden appearance at United Nations General Assembly assured UN members that China is not and never will be a superpower or seek dominance over others. Deng Xiaoping carefully avoided using the term “Hegemon” while describing Communist China’s state policy. Hegemonism is the policy or practice of a nation in aggressively expanding its influence over other countries. Hegemony refers to dominance of one nation over others. Tibet is the first victim of Red China’s Hegemonist Policy.

Tracing China’s long, convoluted relationship with the UN

BEIJING (AP) — China’s President Xi Jinping is poised to address the U.N. General Assembly for the first time on Monday. Here are some milestones in China’s long, convoluted relationship with the world body:

1945 — The Republic of China, led by Chiang Kai-shek, becomes the first nation to sign the U.N. charter. As one of the victors in World War II, China assumes one of five permanent seats on the U.N. Security Council over the objections of some world leaders, including Britain’s Winston Churchill. Chinese representatives also help draft and sign the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

1949 — Chiang’s Nationalists lose the Chinese civil war to Mao Zedong’s Communists and retreat from the Chinese mainland to the island of Taiwan. The Republic of China, however, retains China’s Security Council seat with the key backing of the U.S. in order to restrain Mao’s ally, the Soviet Union, as the Cold War unfolds.

1950 — The Korean War breaks out. With Soviet encouragement, Chinese forces are sent to bolster North Korea’s military. The Security Council recognizes North Korea’s attack on the South as an invasion and dispatches a 21-nation force led by the U.S. to repulse the aggression. U.N. forces frequently fight against Chinese troops until the signing of an armistice in 1953.

1950s and 1960s — Mao’s People’s Republic of China attempts repeatedly to replace the ROC as the legitimate representative of China at the U.N. However, with Washington’s strong support, the Republic of China manages to hang on even as support in the General Assembly steadily erodes.

1971 — Amid a thaw in relations between Beijing and Washington, the People’s Republic of China secures the votes of 26 newly independent African nations and finally prevails in its campaign to win the China seat. Passed on the 21st attempt, U.N. Resolution 2758 expels the representatives of Chiang Kai-shek from the body, effectively casting Taiwan into the diplomatic wilderness.

1974 — Soon-to-be paramount leader Deng Xiaoping becomes the first major Chinese politician to address the General Assembly. In his speech, Deng assures the body that China is not and never will be a superpower or seek dominance over others (replacing “hegemon”), assertions increasingly at odds with China’s rising global influence in the 21st century.

1991 — The Republic of China applies to join the U.N. separately from mainland China as the representative of Taiwan and its related islands, saying that Resolution 2758 was irrelevant to Taipei’s status. The move is fiercely condemned by China and is never included in the General Assembly’s agenda or put to a formal vote.

1992 — Having dropped its objections to U.N. peacekeeping on grounds of non-intervention, China sends its first contribution in the form of an engineering company to join in a mission in Cambodia. In subsequent years, China becomes far and away the biggest contributor of personnel to peacekeeping operations among the five permanent Security Council, with more than 3,000 troops and police committed as of this year.

2013 — China is granted a seat on the U.N. human rights council despite frequent criticisms of its authoritarian political system and heavy restrictions on civil liberties. Opponents say that move not only provides cover for China’s detention of political opponents and other abuses, but also allows it to suppress all U.N. human rights initiatives and attempts to hold rights violators accountable.

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Tibet is the first victim of Red China’s Hegemonist Policy.

FILE In this May 2, 1949 file photo, a column of Chinese Communist light tanks enter the streets of Peking, which are filled with people watching the conquerors pass. In 1949, Chiang Kai sheks Nationalists lost the Chinese civil war to Mao Zedongs Communists and retreat from the Chinese mainland to the island of Taiwan. The Republic of China, however, retained Chinas Security Council seat with the key backing of the U.S. in order to restrain Maos ally, the Soviet Union, as the Cold War unfolds. (AP Photo, File)

FILE In this Dec. 22, 1945 file photo, Gen. George C. Marshall, left, special envoy of U.S. President Harry Truman to China with rank of ambassador, poses with Generalissimo Chiang Kai Shek, right, and Madame Chiang at Chiang’s Nanking home shortly after his arrival in Nanjing. In 1945 the Republic of China, led by Chiang Kai shek, became the first nation to sign the U.N. charter. As one of the victors in World War II, China assumed one of five permanent seats on the U.N. Security Council over the objections of some world leaders, including Britains Winston Churchill. Chinese representatives also helped draft and sign the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. (AP Photo, File)

FILE In this Nov. 27, 1974 file photo, Chinese Premier Deng Xiaoping, right, listens to U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, left, during their meeting in Beijing. In 1974, soon to be paramount leader Deng became the first major Chinese politician to address the General Assembly. In his speech, Deng assured the body that China is not and never will be a superpower or seek dominance over others (replacing hegemon), assertions increasingly at odds with Chinas rising global influence in the 21st century. (AP Photo, File)

FILE In this May 19, 2014 file photo, Chinese President Xi Jinping, right, shakes hands with United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki moon, left, as they pose for photos on the eve of the fourth Conference on Interaction and Confidence Building Measures in Asia (CICA) summit at the Xijiao State Guesthouse in Shanghai, China. Chinas President Xi is poised to address the U.N. General Assembly for the first time on Monday, Sept. 28, 2015. (Mark Ralston/Pool Photo via AP, File)

Tibet is the first victim of Red China’s Hegemonist Policy.

Whole Awareness – Tibet under the Yoke of Occupation

Tibet Awareness – Yoke of Occupation

Tibet Awareness: Tibet under the Yoke of Occupation. While Tibet is nominally in charge of its own affairs, its top officials are appointed by Beijing and expected to rule with an iron fist. The region incorporates only about half of Tibet’s traditional territory and has been smothered in multiple layers of security ever since deadly anti-government riots in 2008.

Tibet is not part of Red China. However it will be correct to claim that Tibet is under the Yoke, under control, is subdued, and has become subservient to Red China. This ‘Yoking’ speaks of Tibet’s subjection, bondage, servitude, enslavement imposed by the burden of military occupation. The Yoke clamped over necks of Tibetans causes hardship, pain, suffering, and sorrow. Tibetans resist this restriction on their natural freedom.

AP PHOTOS: Glimpse of life in Tibet after China celebrates anniversary of autonomous region

Tibet Awareness: Chinese officials have taken foreign journalists on a visit to the region, normally off-limits to them, weeks after Communist Party officials commemorated the 50th anniversary of the establishment of the Tibet Autonomous Region. (AP Photo/Aritz Parra)

In this Friday, Sept. 18, 2015 photo, a Tibetan family walks across Jokhang Square in the center of Lhasa, capital of the Tibet Autonomous Region in China. Chinese officials have taken foreign journalists on a visit to the region, normally off-limits to them, weeks after Communist Party officials commemorated the 50th anniversary of the establishment of the Tibet Autonomous Region. (AP Photo/Aritz Parra)

Associated Press Sept. 19, 2015 | 3:40 a.m.

LHASA, China (AP) — Tibet is usually off-limits to the foreign media, but Chinese officials this week took foreign journalists on a visit to the region, almost two weeks after Beijing celebrated half-century control over the Himalayan territory.

China sent troops to occupy Tibet following the 1949 communist revolution. The government says the region has been part of Chinese territory for centuries, while many Tibetans say it has a long history of independence under a series of Buddhist leaders.

The region’s traditional Buddhist ruler, the Dalai Lama, fled in 1959 amid an abortive uprising against Chinese rule, and continues to advocate for a meaningful level of autonomy under Chinese rule.

China established the Tibetan autonomous region in 1965, one of five ethnic regions in the country today. While Tibet is nominally in charge of its own affairs, its top officials are appointed by Beijing and expected to rule with an iron fist. The region incorporates only about half of Tibet’s traditional territory and has been smothered in multiple layers of security ever since deadly anti-government riots in 2008.

Tibet Awareness: While Tibet is nominally in charge of its own affairs, its top officials are appointed by Beijing and expected to rule with an iron fist. The region incorporates only about half of Tibet’s traditional territory and has been smothered in multiple layers of security ever since deadly anti-government riots in 2008.

Whole Awareness – Tibet is not a part of China

Tibet Awareness – Tibet is not a part of China

TIBET AWARENESS - TIBET IS NOT PART OF CHINA . URBAN SMOG AND AIR POLLUTION MASK OR CONCEAL REALITY OF A PLACE. OCCUPATION CONCEALS REALITY OF TIBET. TIBET IS FREE AND FREEDOM IS A NATURAL CONDITION. — TIBET AWARENESS – TIBET IS NOT PART OF CHINA . URBAN SMOG AND AIR POLLUTION MASK OR CONCEAL REALITY OF A PLACE. OCCUPATION CONCEALS REALITY OF TIBET. TIBET IS FREE AND FREEDOM IS A NATURAL CONDITION.

TIBET AWARENESS - TIBET IS NOT PART OF CHINA. OCCUPATION IS LIKE POLLUTION AND URBAN SMOG. THE REALITY OF BEIJING IS REVEALED BY BANNING CARS. THE REALITY OF TIBET WILL BE REVEALED BY REMOVING OCCUPATION. — TIBET AWARENESS – TIBET IS NOT PART OF CHINA. OCCUPATION IS LIKE POLLUTION AND URBAN SMOG. THE REALITY OF BEIJING IS REVEALED BY BANNING CARS. THE REALITY OF TIBET WILL BE REVEALED BY REMOVING OCCUPATION.

I am sharing photo images of Beijing that demonstrate Red China has awareness and has ability to find solutions to problems of urban smog, and atmospheric pollution. Occupation is like pollution and urban smog. The reality of Beijing is revealed by banning cars. I am asking Red China to use the same awareness to know Tibet and its reality. Tibet is not a part of China. The reality of Tibet will be revealed by removing occupation. Tibet in reality is Free and Tibet’s Freedom is its Natural State or Natural Condition.

2.5 Million Banned Cars Show Blue Skies For First Time

On August 20th, Beijing put restrictions on factory production and car use. Five million cars were forced to drive on alternating days leading up to the 70th anniversary of Japan’s WWII defeat on September 3rd so that the city’s usually smoggy skies would be a picture-perfect blue.

The day after the parade, with the restrictions lifted, Beijing’s air quality index hit 160, a level at which “everyone may begin to experience some adverse health effects,” according to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.

“Military Parade Blue is gone; in its place is our ‘Normal Status Gray’” wrote one user online. While the LA Times cites several examples of such commentary on Chinese social media, CNN speculates that Chinese censors have actively removed similar posts from sites like Weibo.

5 million cars were forced to drive on alternating days in Beijing.

***Tibet is not a part of China. The reality of Tibet will be revealed by removing occupation. Tibet in reality is Free and Tibet’s Freedom is its Natural State or Natural Condition.***

The result is surprising – people could finally see buildings in the distance where there was usually thick smog

During the ban, Beijing’s average levels of PM (particulate matter) dropped by 73.2% compared to the last year.

40,000 construction sites in and around Beijing were also shut down for the duration.

An international standard for measuring the severity of air pollution dipped to a pristine 17 out of 500, signifying very healthy air.

This is how the Great Wall should look every day!

Whole Dream – Starbucks Coffee Tastes Better if there is Freedom in the Air

Tibet Awareness – Starbucks Opens Up Shops on the Tibetan Plateau

Whole Dream – Starbucks Coffee Tastes Better if there is Freedom in the Air. I would be happy to sip a cup of hot, freshly brewed Starbucks coffee to begin my day in Lhasa on a bright note. The Coffee is going to taste better when there is Freedom in the thin air of Tibetan Plateau.

Any mountain climber will be able to describe the shortness of breath that normally comes with altitude. It’s not that the air has a lower percentage of oxygen – it’s around 21% wherever you stand in the world. But air pressure decreases the further you walk or fly from the sea’s surface, allowing the gas molecules to spread out in all directions, and a lung can only stretch so far to compensate. The Tibetan plateau is one of the highest regions on Earth. It has an average elevation of ∼4,000 m, a barometric pressure of <500 mmHg, and an ambient partial pressure of oxygen (Po₂) of 80 mmHg. At more than 4,000m (13,000ft) above Sea Level, each breath contains around a third less oxygen than the same breath far below. At this altitude, the oxygen level in the air is roughly 60% of what is found at sea level, meaning people breathe in considerably less oxygen with each breath. Low oxygen levels can cause various health issues including nausea, dizziness, headaches, fatigue, and in severe cases, altitude sickness.

I am sharing this story published by Brandchannel with the hope generated by my prediction of Red China’s sudden downfall. There is a chance that I may be attending festivities in Lhasa to celebrate Tibet’s Liberation from Communist occupation. I would be happy to sip a cup of hot, freshly brewed Starbucks coffee to begin my day in Lhasa on a bright note. The Coffee is going to taste better when there is Freedom in the thin air of Tibetan Plateau.

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Starbucks Opens Up Shops on the Tibetan Plateau

Posted September 15, 2015 by MARK J. MILLER

A trip to Tibet has long been considered a journey one takes when seeking internal peace. Escaping Western creature comforts can help an individual reprioritize what life is all about.

That image may still be true, but Starbucks is inching closer to getting its caffeine and sugar into the country. On Friday, it opened two locations on the Tibetan Plateau over the border in the northern Chinese city of Xining.

The locations are strangely only 300 meters away from each other in a city of 2.2 million people. “Young people are very excited by the Starbucks,” student Padma Yangkyi told the Xinhua News Agency. “The fondness for traditional buttered tea and Tibetan opera doesn’t weaken our love for coffee and pop songs.”

China now has about 1,700 Starbucks, passing Canada as the country with the second-most locations outside the US, according to Quartz. The plan is to double that number in the next five years.

It isn’t clear when Starbucks will get to Tibet proper but it seems inevitable. The Australian reports that new Sinopec gas stations have popped up, there’s a shiny new Tibet Tiandi Green Barley brewery, and China is pumping “capital into the area, funding new infrastructure and providing subsidies and assistance, including free education, to many of its population.”

A railway opened in 2006 that brings travelers from Qinghai, Tibet, saw 15 million tourists last year, up 20 percent from 2013. Where the people go, Starbucks will surely follow.

I would be happy to sip a cup of hot, freshly brewed Starbucks coffee to begin my day in Lhasa on a bright note. The Coffee is going to taste better when there is Freedom in the thin air of Tibetan Plateau.

Whole Trouble – Potala Palace, Lhasa, Showcases the Yoke of Occupation

Tibet Awareness – The Reality of Potala Palace, Lhasa, Tibet

**Tibet Awareness – The Yoke of Occupation. Potala Palace, Lhasa, Tibet. China Showcases 50 Years of hold on Tibet with Big Parade.**

On Tuesday, September 08, 2015, Red China hosted a ceremony in the square of Potala Palace, Lhasa, Tibet to celebrate formation of Tibet Autonomous Region or TAR on September 01, 1965. This celebration does not change the reality of Potala Palace. It stands as a proud symbol of Tibetan Independence and Tibetan Sovereignty. Potala Palace like the White House can only represent one form of national government. As long as the name ‘Potala Palace’ survives, it stands for a political institution called Ganden Phodrang.

**CHINA SHOWCASES 50 YEARS OF HOLD ON TIBET WITH BIG PARADE**

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BEIJING, September 8, 2015
Updated: September 8, 2015 18:38 IST

CHINA SHOWCASES 50 YEARS OF HOLD ON TIBET WITH BIG PARADE

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Performers carry a giant Chinese national emblem (right) and pictures of Chinese government leaders including President Xi Jinping, former leaders Hu Jintao, Jiang Zemin, Deng Xiaoping and Mao Zedong, during the celebration event at the Potala Palace marking the 50th anniversary of the founding of the Tibet Autonomous Region, in Lhasa, Tibet Autonomous Region, China, on Tuesday.

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China on Tuesday marked 50 years of Tibet’s amalgamation with the Communist giant, holding a grand parade in Lhasa showcasing its grip on the strategic Himalayan region even as it adopted a tough stance against the Dalai Lama, Tibetan religious leader, calling for a crackdown on “separatist forces.”
A big meeting followed by a grand parade was held in front of the Potala Palace, traditional home of the Dalai Lama from where he fled to India in 1959, attended among others by senior official of the ruling Communist Party of China (CPC), Yu Zhengsheng, to mark 50 years of Tibet being declared as an autonomous province of China.

China’s claim

China says Tibet became a part of the country by “peaceful liberation” when Chinese troops invaded the Himalayan plateau in 1950 establishing Beijing’s control over it.
The Tibet Autonomous Region was founded on September 1, 1965, after the establishment of the regional People’s Congress, the local legislature.
Addressing the colourful ceremony, Mr. Yu, who is in-charge of minorities in China, stressed the legality of crackdown on separatists, the official characterisation of supporters of the Dalai Lama including Buddhist monks.

High-handedness charge

Overseas Tibetan groups accused the Chinese authorities of high-handed methods in dealing with those supporting the Dalai Lama, widely regarded as the spiritual head of Tibetan Buddhism.

Over 130 Tibetans, including monks, have committed self immolations in the recent years demanding the return of the Dalai Lama to Tibet.
Calling for “strict adherence to the law in managing religious affairs in Tibet,” Mr. Yu said “law-based governance is fundamental to the long-term stability of Tibet.”

Policing of separatism

In a nationally telecast ceremony, Mr. Yu said policing of separatism must also be done legally while asserting that the crackdown on separatists would continue, scotching any hopes of reconciliation with the Dalai Lama under the new leadership headed by President Xi Jinping.
Law-based governance in Tibet was also highlighted in a speech by Mr. Xi last month, state-run Xinhua news agency reported. Referring to security of Tibet which formed part of the India-China border, Mr. Yu also said: “Border areas must be well managed to successfully govern the country, and stability in Tibet is paramount to the management of these areas.”

RED CHINA – RED ALERT – RED DRAGON COVETS ARCTIC

RED CHINA – RED ALERT – RED DRAGON COVETS ARCTIC

Five-ship Surface Action Group, three combat ships, a resupply vessel, and an amphibious ship, from Chinese People’s Liberation Army Navy or ‘PLAN’ for the first time in US history are spotted in Bering Sea while US President Barack Obama is visiting Alaska.

RED CHINA - RED ALERT - RED DRAGON COVETS ARCTIC. US JOINT CHIEFS OF STAFF GENERAL MARTIN DEMPSEY BRIEFED NEWS MEDIA AND FAILED TO ACKNOWLEDGE RED DRAGON'S INTENTIONS IN BERING SEA AND IN ARCTIC OCEAN. — RED CHINA – RED ALERT – RED DRAGON COVETS ARCTIC. US JOINT CHIEFS OF STAFF GENERAL MARTIN DEMPSEY BRIEFED NEWS MEDIA AND FAILED TO ACKNOWLEDGE RED DRAGON’S INTENTIONS IN BERING SEA AND IN ARCTIC OCEAN.

US General Martin Dempsey assured news media that these Chinese navy vessels do not pose any threat to United States while they use international waters in close proximity to Alaska. Some news analysts have speculated that Red China is flexing her muscles to retaliate for US naval presence in South China Sea. In my view, Red Dragon covets Arctic to exploit its vast energy resources. Red China’s policy of Economic Expansionism aims at controlling world’s natural resources for her own economic advantage and to dominate nations of the world.

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Five Chinese naval ships are currently positioned in the Bering Sea off the coast of Alaska, US officials confirm.
It is believed to be the first time Chinese military vessels have been seen operating in the area.

Officials say they have been monitoring the ships’ activities, but said they were operating in international waters.
In recent years Beijing has taken a more assertive stance on maritime territorial disputes with Japan and South East Asian nations.

‘Not threatening’

US defence officials have spotted three Chinese combat ships, a supply vessel and an amphibious ship moving toward the Aleutian Islands which is split between Russian and US control, according to the Wall Street Journal.

They were seen not far from where US President Barack Obama is visiting as part of his three-day tour of Alaska to raise awareness of the effects of climate change on the state.

“We are aware of the five People’s Liberation Army Navy (PLAN) ships in the Bering Sea. This is the first time we have observed PLAN ships in the Bering Sea,” US defence department spokesman Bill Urban told the BBC on Wednesday.

“We respect the freedom of all nations to operate military vessels in international waters in accordance with international law,” he said.

Another official told the Wall Street Journal the defence department did not “characterise anything they’re doing as threatening”.
Peter Dutton, director of the China Maritime Studies Institute, described it as a big advancement in the way Chinese ships operate.

But, he tells the BBC, “it’s not a surprise in a sense that the Chinese have been continually expanding their presence in Eurasia”.

“They have conducted exercises with Russia in the Mediterranean and in the Sea of Japan… they have interest in the northern sea route so to see them off the coast of Alaska is the next evolutionary step along these lines.”

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Patrick Cronin, of the Center for a New American Security, agrees, saying: “It’s part of a pattern over the last six years or so of China getting tougher in maritime space.”
China wants to rewrite international maritime laws so that they are more favourable to its own interests, particularly in the South China Sea where rival countries are wrangling over territory, Mr Cronin adds.

China this year boosted its defence spending in a bid to modernise its forces, including developing stealth fighters and anti-satellite missiles, a move that has unnerved the US and its allies in the Asia-Pacific region.

President Xi Jinping will on Thursday preside over an enormous military parade in Beijing in commemoration of China’s World War Two victory over Japan 70 years ago.

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RED CHINA – RED ALERT – MARITIME EXPANSIONISM

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During the US President Barack Obama’s three-day visit to Alaska, Red China dispatched five of its naval vessels to Bering Sea. Red China became a permanent observer to the Arctic Council in 2013. Arctic Council’s members are eight Arctic States, Canada, Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, Sweden, Russia, and the United States. Red China is interested in Arctic region’s vast energy reserves. This demonstration of Red China’s naval power is a clear indication of Red China’s assertion of her right to drill for Oil and Gas in Arctic Sea with or without consent of Arctic Council.

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Chinese Navy Ships Spotted Off Alaska During Obama Visit

U.S. President Barack Obama (L) tours the Kotzebue Shore Avenue Project, an effort to protect against rising sea levels in Kotzebue, Alaska Sept. 2, 2015.

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Five Chinese Navy ships have been spotted in international waters off the coast of Alaska, according to U.S. officials, in what many analysts see as a fresh attempt by Beijing to project military power far from its shores.

Pentagon spokesman Bill Urban on Wednesday confirmed the presence of the five vessels, noting that it is the first time the U.S. has observed Chinese Navy ships in the Bering Sea.
“We respect the freedom of all nations to operate military vessels in international waters in accordance with international law,” he said, adding that the U.S. military is tracking the ships.

White House spokesman Josh Earnest said U.S. officials have not detected any “threatening activities” by the ships, but said the intent of their presence was “still unclear.”
The Chinese ship deployment came as President Barack Obama visited Alaska to build support for his environmental policies to combat climate change.

The island village of Kivalina, an Alaska Native community of 400 people the White House chose to highlight as a community at risk from rising sea levels, can be seen from Air Force One as U.S. President Barack Obama flies to Kotzebue, Alaska Sept. 2, 201

Coincidence?

But it is not likely Beijing planned the deployment to coincide with Obama’s trip, said Ralph Cossa with the Center for Strategic and International Studies.

“I would guess that their presence during Obama’s visit is coincidental more than deliberate. Because deployment like that is normally planned months in advance and I don’t think anyone knew Obama was going to be in Alaska until a few days ago,” Cossa told VOA.

However, the presence of the ships is meant to send a message to the U.S., he added.
“What it’s saying is that at some point the Chinese are going to be just as obnoxious as we are when it comes to sailing around in international waters close to the other country’s shores, and we should get used to it,” he said.

The U.S. military has numerous bases in Asia and regularly conducts various air-and-ship-based activities off China’s coasts in international waters.
“And China has repeatedly expressed its concerns about that,” noted VOA Beijing correspondent William Ide. “It feels like China’s trying to say if you’re going to continue to do this, we’re going to do the same.”

U.S. officials say the Chinese flotilla is made up of three surface warfare ships, one amphibious assault ship, and a replenishment vessel.
If that is the case, the deployment represents less of a threat, and more of a projection of power, according to Scott Harold of the RAND Corporation.

“A replenishment vessel says to me this is in part a demonstration of its capacity to operate far from their shores,” Harold told VOA.

“And an amphibious assault vessel would be absurd as a threat. No one is going to invade the United States by ground or by sea, much less are they going to do it in Alaska. But it is a symbol of China’s ability to project naval or amphibious forces at some distance from China,” he said.

FILE – Chinese navy warships arrive at the seaport of Port Sudan.

Near-Arctic power

The deployment fits a larger pattern by China’s navy, which is rapidly modernizing and attempting to venture out well beyond its shores.
And even though it does not border the resource-rich polar region, Beijing has made it clear that it wants to be regarded internationally as a “near-Arctic power,” said Harold.

“Chinese leaders have clearly recognized that the resources that may be in the Arctic, the sea lines of communications that transit through the Arctic passageways that may open up as the ice melts are of tremendous potential value to China,” he said.

Underscoring the strategic importance of the Arctic, Obama this week used his Alaskan tour to push lawmakers to speed up construction of a new heavy icebreaker ship that can navigate the region year-round.

The U.S. has just two functioning icebreakers, while Russia has 41. China unveiled its own icebreaker vessel in 2012, and plans to finish construction of another by 2016.

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Natural Freedom is Essence of Tibet

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The very essence of Tibet is natural freedom and Tibetans have their natural right to enjoy freedom without foreign domination or interference.

Jokhang Temple, Potala Palace and other tourist spots that capture the essence of Tibet

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Tibet, the highest region on Earth is a dream come true for every traveler. Tibet is undoubtedly one of the most peaceful places that offer tranquility to tourists’ mind with its utmost beautiful natural scenery.

Keeping its old traditions alive, this place is a must visit for every person.

Here we bring you a list of aesthetic places that you should visit at least once in your life time.

**Tibet is not in China. Jokhang Temple.**

Jokhang temple is the most sacred temple in Lhasa, Tibet. It was built by the Tibetan King Shrong Tsong Gompo. Tourists from all over the world visit this temple, Another attractive spot is the Bharkhor Bazaar that encircles the temple.

In this July 11, 2013, photo, pilgrims pray at Jokhang Temple in Lhasa, Tibet, China. Tibet has been a source of controversy ever since Beijing sent troops to occupy the Himalayan region following the 1949 communist revolution. It says the region has been part of Chinese territory for centuries, while many Tibetans say it has a long history of independence under a series of Buddhist leaders. (AP Photo/Penny Yi Wang)

The Kharola glacier is seen through Tibetan praying flags from a nearby hill some 200km (125 miles) west to Lhasa, Tibet.

Potala Palace was built-in 17th century by the fifth Dalai Lama. This palace houses a great wealth of Tibet’s culture and art.

**TIBET AWARENESS – POTALA PALACE, LHASA, TIBET. Potala Palace was built-in 17th century by the Fifth Dalai Lama.**

A night view shows the Potala Palace in Lhasa, Tibet.

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Tibetan women pray in front of the Potala Palace in Lhasa, Tibet.

LHASA, CHINA SEPTEMBER 1: (CHINA OUT) Pilgrims walk on the Potala Palace Plaza on September 1, 2006 in Lhasa of Tibet Autonomous Region, China. Chinese tourists are flooding into Tibet this summer with the recently completed Qinghai Tibet railway bringing an extra 3,000 people a day into Tibet. Critics say that it could threaten the cultural and even the physical landscape of the fragile Tibetan plateau and accelerate Lhasa’s changing face as it continues to expand into a modern Chinese city. Expensive hotels and shops have opened in the new section Lhasa while the Tibetan quarter fights to hold onto its cultural image, according to reports. (Photo by China Photos/Getty Images)

Buddhist prayer flags flutter in the wind near Namtso Lake in Tibet. It takes around 16 days to complete the pilgrimage around the lake which is 70 km (43 miles) long and 30 km (18 miles) wide.

About 112 km from Lhasa at the border between Damxung County and Baingoin County is located yet another of Tibet’s treasures, the magnificent Namtso (Lake Nam) which has a surface area of 1,870 sq km. It is the highest salt lake in the world, located as it is at a height of 4,718 meters

Buddhist faithful offer ‘khada’ and pray in front of the “wish-fulfilling” stone monument near Namtso Lake in Tibet.

The world’s highest post office stands at over 5200 metres (17060 feet) near the base camp of Mount Everest, also known as Qomolangma, in Tibet. The post office services around 30 customers a day, and is only open for seven months of the year between April and October.

The temple of Rongbuk Monastery situated at the foot of the world’s highest mountain Mount Everest, also known as Qomolangma, in Tibet .

**Rongbuk Monastery, in the background is the Qomolangma/Mount Everest.**

Cona lake is a major lake of northern Tibet lake and is the world’s highest freshwater lake at 4800 meters above sea level. In the picture, A woman is seen watering a yak near Cona Lake in Amdo county.

Ethnic Tibetans walk along a rapeseed field in Duilongdeqing County, Tibet.

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CHINA’S FATE IS SEALED – BEIJING IS DOOMED

Red China after her act of military aggression in 1950 and occupying Tibet had several opportunities to make amends to her evil actions and return to peaceful relationships with her neighbors. By choosing to use evil force, Red China has sealed her own fate. She has opted to “Live by the Sword, surely, she will Die by the Sword.” What she conquered by Sword, she will lose by Sword.

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China denies all universal rights to Tibet even after 50 years of rule (Part-II)

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HONG KONG, Sep.1(ANI): Its been more than 50 years since China established complete control over Tibet and in this period China has institutionalised a system of two policies – one for the Chinese people and another for the Tibetans.
Hong Kong based Tibet watchers who on the condition of not being identified for fear of Chinese reprisal outlined a series of instances which prove that China has treated Tibet as nothing more than a Colony and as a strategic buffer against India.
Experts point to the fact that China has accepted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) as a member of the United Nations.
The declaration forms the basic charter of rights for all global citizens. However over the past many decades, adherence to the UDHR has been minimal at best as far as Tibet is concerned.
When it comes to Tibet and Tibetans, they count for less than an average Han Chinese citizen, and actually don’t enjoy the rights they are entitled to as per international laws.
The UDHR calls on governments to grant every human being these rights, but the reality is that not one of the UDHR rights is extended to the people of Tibet.
For example Article 16 of the UDHR says that men and women of full age, without any limitation due to race, nationality or religion, have the right to marry and to create a family. They are also entitled to equal rights as when to marry, how to manage their marriage, and to decide when to dissolve it.
The family, according to the UDHR, is the natural and fundamental group unit of society and is entitled to protection by society and the state.
But, when comes to Tibet, since 1980, China has passed a series of measures related to marriage laws. Beijing has stopped the practice of polygamy in TAR, and has been actively promoting the mixed marriages between Tibetans and Han Chinese.
The local administration has reportedly announced offers of special treatment to children born of such unions. Such incentives are publicised heavily by the state media.
Tibetan poet Tsering Woeser says that “authorities use it as a tool”, and compared it to the Japanese police being encouraged to marry local women during Japan’s occupation of Taiwan.
On the issue of owning property, the UDHR says no one shall be arbitrarily deprived of his or property, but in China-dominated TAR seizure of farmland for industry is arbitrary and common.
Joel Brinkley of the Chicago Tribune adds that “China has evicted more than 400,000 Tibetans from their homelands” over the past few years, and believes that the intent behind this is to exploit Tibet’s vast mineral and water resources.
The UDHR’s Article 18 talks about the right to freedom of thought, conscience and religion, but evidence has surfaced of the People’s Armed Police firing on unarmed Tibetan protestors calling for a semblance of religious freedom.
During the Cultural Revolution, most, if not all, Tibetan monasteries (97 percent were actually closed down) were reportedly ransacked by the Communist Party.
Currently, every monastery and nunnery is constantly under surveillance and subject to random checks by Communist Party officials. So-called Monastery Management Committees have been set up in increasing numbers to keep check on the activities of monks and nuns, and to control their numbers, particularly in the largest ones of Drepung, Sera and Ganden.
Such checks extend to night raids for images of the Dalai Lama and other such “subversive” objects.
For example, recently, a 13-year old nun, after participating in a peaceful protest, was held, interrogated, beaten and tortured.
She was sentenced for singing nationalist songs – which does not exactly exemplify “freedom of thought”.
On the issue of everyone having the right to express their opinion without interference and to seek, receive and impart information and ideas through any media and regardless of frontiers, which is enjoined in Article 19 of the UDHR, China routinely cuts off internet and phone-messaging services after each incident of self-immolation in TAR, of which there have been over 140 in the past six years.
As for the right to expression and freedom of opinion, the armed crackdowns, the surprise arrests and the extrajudicial killings are indicative of a general intolerance to such niceties.
The right to freedom of peaceful assembly and association as enshrined in Article 20, is regularly stamped out and quickly, with violence if required.
Tibet and the Tibetan people have been compelled to identify with the People’s Republic of China. In April 2015, the Communist Party demanded that all Buddhist monasteries display the Chinese flag, or face punishment.
This latest move is part of a drive to make places of worship ‘secularised’, and in line with Beijing’s ideologues.
Article 21 of the UDHR allows every individual to take part in the government of his or her country, directly, or through freely chosen representatives, but in the case of China, democracy does not exist in the sense that it is understood the world over.
The political representatives of the Chinese are not freely chosen, but are designated by the Communist Party. As such, not only Tibetans, but all citizens under the authority of the People’s Republic of China have no right of participation in their governance.
Recently, China arrested ten Tibetans for protesting against the denial of welfare benefits to their community.
Tibetans have been subject to “city moats” which prevent their access to their own cities.
The ‘will of the people’ is a concept almost entirely alien to any Chinese citizen in conceptual and real terms.
The right to social security, as enshrined in Article 22 of the UDHR, which calls for realisation both through national effort and international co-operation, is used to violate the rights of Tibetans further.
Article 23 says everyone has the right to work, and to have free choice of employment, but in Chinese – ruled TAR, the resettlement policy violates this article, depriving Tibetan nomads of their free choice of employment.
As far as just conditions of work, Tibetans are forced to learn Chinese in order to access any gainful employment, even as a construction worker.
Tibetans claim that Chinese workers receive higher wages; the loss of jobs due to political activities is also very common.
Even China admits that there is no minimum wage in the TAR.
The right to rest and leisure, as well as reasonable limitation of working hours and periodic holidays with pay does not exist in Chinese-ruled TAR.
Here, re-education is promoted through labor camps, and there is no semblance of worker’s rights to be defended here.
Holidays, too, are out of the question, and there is no reasonable limitation on working hours.
What about the right to an adequate standard of living, as enshrined in Article 25 of the UDHR?
It simply does not exist in TAR. Pulmonary diseases are the most widespread affliction in Tibet. While prefectural and city hospitals are adequate in responding to such illnesses, there is very little recourse to proper medical care for nomadic tribes as village and township hospitals are extremely poor.
The medical system is “clearly inequitable.” Distances across Tibet have also led to Chinese healthcare works failing to immunize children as “they don’t want to travel so far.”
Access to medication is clearly segregated: Tibetan doctors are unable to purchase drugs from pharmaceutical companies, as only Chinese government workers and ‘officials with connections to the Chinese’ are given access.
While officially, China’s ‘One Child’ policy does not extend to Tibetans as a community, in practice, birth control has actively been promoted in the TAR.
Sterilisation can take place on the basis of volunteering or through forced abortions, which leaves a very chilling picture of healthcare in TAR.
Article 26 of the UDHR talks of the right to education and the right to have free education at the elementary and fundamental stages, but in TAR, schooling is compulsory until secondary education, nominally “bilingually”, and guidelines are applied arbitrarily.
The emphasis is on creating Chinese-medium schools in Tibetan areas despite the fact that Tibetan students want to be taught in Tibetan and learn more effectively when they are.
Tibet has six institutes of higher learning, but only 60 percent of those selected for university in TAR are ethnic Tibetans, compared to the 97 percent share of population they reportedly enjoy.
This demonstrates the fact that access to higher education is highly coloured by discriminatory policies. Indeed, state funds go disproportionally to schools where Chinese students predominate.
Chinese authorities in TAR are on record, as saying that the purpose of giving an education to Tibetans is to see whether they are “opposed to or turn their hearts to the Dalai Clique and in whether they are loyal to or do not care about our great motherland and the great socialist cause..”
China does not promote tolerance, but actively seeks to destroy it in TAR.
The right freely to participate in the cultural life of the community as enjoined in the UDHR’s Article 27, is absent in TAR. The Chinese, admittedly, are very happy to impose limits on Tibetan intellectual production.
Insofar as duties to the community are concerned, while keenly desired by the Tibetan people, is trounced upon, and all vestiges of rights for the minorities are virtually non-existent.
China has a long history of using the justifications of human rights and economic prosperity “for all” to oppress those in Tibet, and nothing seems likely to change.
The recently concluded 6th Tibet Work Forum on August 24 and 25 did not offer any guarantees for the future, but harped instead on the need to maintain stability, a buzzword to Tibetans that they can expect an even harsher regime ahead.(ANI)