Whole Trouble – Which type of force can evict Red China?

Trouble in Tibet – Which type of force can evict Red China?

Tibetans under the Spiritual Leadership of His Holiness the Dalai Lama have shared their Road Map for Peace and Reconciliation in Occupied Tibet. However, Red China is adamantly refusing to talk to Tibetans to secure a Peaceful Resolution of Conflict in Tibet. In my analysis, Compassion can act as Physical Force and evict China from Occupied Tibetan territories without causing Pain and Suffering to members of People’s Liberation Army. Compassion exerts influence in Physical World without causing injury or illness.

VOA

DALAI LAMA OPENS CALIFORNIA TEMPLE WITH MESSAGE OF COMPASSION

The Dalai Lama prays at the Dieu Ngu Temple in Westminster, Calif., June 18, 2016.

MIKE O’SULLIVAN

June 18, 2016 8:15 PM

WESTMINSTER, CALIFORNIA—

Thousands of people, many of them Buddhists who left Vietnam decades ago and came to the U.S. to live, have flocked to the Southern California neighborhood known as Little Saigon to welcome the Dalai Lama, the exiled Tibetan spiritual leader, who is dedicating a new temple there.

At a religious teaching session Saturday that drew many visitors, the 80-year-old Dalai Lama said the world needs more compassion in a time of violence.

Canadian Lyane Pellerin, who has attended many talks by the Dalai Lama in the past, agreed, saying, “We certainly do need more peace talks and kindness, understanding and dialogue.”

The Dalai Lama will dedicate the $6 million Dieu Ngu Temple on Saturday. (M. O’Sullivan/VOA)

Thousands of people gathered outside the Dieu Ngu Temple early Saturday, waiting for the gates to open at 6 a.m. The Dalai Lama will dedicate the temple Sunday.

“Just to be in the presence of the Dalai Lama is a wonderful thing,” said Wanda Matjas, one of those who turned out at dawn.

‘A WISE, WISE MAN’

Vietnamese-American Annie Hoang said she came to hear the revered Tibetan monk’s spiritual message.

“I’ve loved the Dalai Lama,” she said. “I think that he’s such a wise, wise man, and he represents such great knowledge, and everything that I’ve always wanted.”

The Dalai Lama’s presence is an important boost for the Dieu Ngu Temple, a $6 million project that marks a milestone of growth for the Vietnamese Buddhist community. Vietnamese immigrants — Buddhists, Catholics and others — have built their community over the past four decades in Southern California, where they arrived in search of political and religious freedom.

“I remember when we started building this,” Jessica Ha says of the Dieu Ngu Temple.
“Our monks’ biggest dream was to have the Dalai Lama come and talk.” (M. O’Sullivan/VOA)
The temple was founded in a Little Saigon home in 2008 and later moved to a warehouse as it grew. Monks and temple members spearheaded the drive to raise funds for the new structure, which features traditional architecture.

“I remember when we started building this,” said Jessica Ha, whose parents are longtime members. “Our monks’ biggest dream was to have the Dalai Lama come and talk, and it’s happening! Good things come to really good people, and this is it.”

DRAWN TO PHILOSOPHY

The Dalai Lama always draws interest from non-Asians.

Temple visitor Eve Moon says her family was drawn to “Buddhist philosophy and the Dalai Lama’s message, and in general, humanitarianism and peace.” (M. O’Sullivan/VOA)

“I was raised by parents who traveled the world and a Vietnam vet father that didn’t know where home was anymore,” said visitor Eve Moon. She said her family was drawn to “Buddhist philosophy and the Dalai Lama’s message, and in general, humanitarianism and peace.”

Buddhists from many traditions — Chinese and Southeast Asian, among others — came to the temple. They included Czech visitor Martin Vitovic, who embraces the Dalai Lama’s teachings. He said he’d been interested in the Tibetan’s message for “about three years, and I want to see him.”

Vietnamese-American Buddhists said the Dalai Lama inspired listeners with his message, and they felt his visit also drew attention to California’s Little Saigon and its imposing new temple.

Tibetans under the Spiritual Leadership of His Holiness the Dalai Lama have shared their Road Map for Peace and Reconciliation in Occupied Tibet. However, Red China is adamantly refusing to talk to Tibetans to secure a Peaceful Resolution of Conflict in Tibet. In my analysis, Compassion can act as Physical Force and evict China from Occupied Tibetan territories without causing Pain and Suffering to members of People’s Liberation Army. Compassion exerts influence in Physical World without causing injury or illness.

Whole Trouble – Red China’s Policy of Obstructionism

Trouble in Tibet – Red China’s Policy of Obstructionism

Red China, after forcing His Holiness the Dalai Lama to live in exile, is pursuing the policy of ‘Obstructionism’ creating Stumbling Blocks, and erecting Roadblocks preventing global community from reaching the destination of Peace and Justice in Occupied Tibet.

OBAMA TO MEET DALAI LAMA AT WHITE HOUSE, DEFYING BEIJING
June 15, 2016

**Trouble in Tibet – Red China’s Policy of Obstructionism**: **President Barack Obama meets with His Holiness the Dalai Lama in the Map Room of the White House, Feb. 18, 2010. (Official White House Photo by Pete Souza)**

China on Wednesday warned US President Barack Obama against meeting with the Dalai Lama at the White House, saying that hosting the exiled Tibetan spiritual leader could damage mutual trust.

Obama has met the Dalai Lama several times before and calls the monk, who is revered by Tibetans but portrayed by Beijing as a dangerous separatist, “a good friend.”The tete a tete, planned for Wednesday will — as usual — take place behind closed doors in an effort to avoid angering China, which accuses the Nobel peace laureate of using “spiritual terrorism” to seek independence for Tibet.

“China’s Foreign Ministry has launched solemn representations with the US side, expressing our firm opposition to such an arrangement,” foreign ministry spokesman Lu Kang told reporters.

“If such meeting goes through, it will send a wrong signal to the separatist forces seeking Tibet independence and it will damage mutual trust and cooperation,” he added.

The spiritual leader — who has lived in exile in India since a failed 1959 uprising — has for decades called for more Tibetan autonomy rather than independence.

Beijing maintains he is a “wolf in monk’s clothing” and vigorously lobbies — often successfully — against foreign leaders meeting him.

Obama made a high-profile public appearance with the Dalai Lama last year at a prayer breakfast in Washington, calling him “a powerful example of what it means to practice compassion.”

But three prior meetings were held privately, and Obama was criticised in 2010 for obliging the 80-year-old, clad in his characteristic red robes and flip flops, to leave the White House through a back door and walk past piles of snow and bags of rubbish.

Obama’s schedule indicated the Wednesday meeting would be held away from the cameras in the White House Map Room, not the Oval Office.

TIBETANS APPLAUD

Tibetans “feel happy about His Holiness meeting the president,” said Sonam Dagpo of the Tibetan government-in-exile, adding they hoped the US would support “the struggle of Tibetans.”

China has ruled Tibet since the 1950s, but many Tibetans say Beijing represses their Buddhist religion and culture — charges China denies.

More than 130 ethnic Tibetans have set themselves on fire since 2009 in protest at Beijing’s rule, campaign groups and overseas media have said. Most of them have died.

The Dalai Lama has described the protests as acts of desperation that he is powerless to stop.Many observers believe China is confident that the Tibetan movement will lose much of its potency and global appeal when the charismatic Dalai Lama dies.

The Dalai Lama has also increasingly spoken of succession and has not ruled out picking his reincarnation before his death, fearing that China would instead pick its own boy whom it would use to advance its agenda.

His stance has led Chinese communist rulers, who are officially atheist, to insist that the Dalai Lama can only reincarnate after his death.

**Trouble in Tibet – Red China’s Policy of Obstructionism. China erecting Roadblocks to arrive at Peace and Justice in Occupied Tibet.**

**Trouble in Tibet – Red China’s Policy of Obstructionism. China erecting Roadblocks to finding Peace and Justice in Occupied Tibet.**

**Trouble in Tibet – Red China’s Policy of Obstructionism**: **On April 16, 1991, the 14th Dalai Lama met with US President George H.W. Bush during his first visit to The White House**.

**Trouble in Tibet – Red China’s Policy of Obstructionism**: **His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama speaking with US President Bill Clinton during their meeting in The White House in Washington, DC.**

**Trouble in Tibet – Red China’s Policy of Obstructionism:His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama speaking with US President George Bush during their meeting in The White House on September 10, 2003.**

**Trouble in Tibet – Red China’s Policy of Obstructionism. Red China blocking prospects for Peace and Justice in Occupied Tibet.**

Trouble in Tibet – Red China’s Policy of Obstructionism. Red China blocking prospects for Peace and Justice in Occupied Tibet. NOBLE PEACE PRIZE 2002. US President Jimmy Carter maintained a friendly relationship with the Tibetan Leader since 1979.

**Trouble in Tibet – Red China’s Policy of Obstructionism. Beijing defying prospects for finding Peace and Justice in Occupied Tibet.**

Trouble in Tibet – Red China’s Policy of Obstructionism. Red China blocking prospects for Peace and Justice in Occupied Tibet. US-TIBET RELATIONS: It is very surprising to read the essay published by President Jimmy Carter’s National Security Adviser on the US – China relations. He makes no mention of this apparent US – Tibet relations. His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama is seen with Richard Blum, his wife, US Senator Dianne Feinstein, and former President Jimmy Carter.

**Trouble in Tibet – Red China’s Policy of Obstructionism:The 14th Dalai Lama met with US President Bill Clinton on June 20, 2000 at The White House.**

**Trouble in Tibet – Red China’s Policy of Obstructionism. Beijing defying prospects of finding Peace and Justice in Occupied Tibet.**

Whole Trouble – Where is hope for World’s Future?

Trouble in Tibet – Where is hope for World’s Future

I am not able to share the sense of optimism expressed by His Holiness the Dalai Lama about World’s Future. In my view, Tibet’s military occupation is symptom of World’s Spiritual Sickness. I am not expressing sense of Fear, Despair, or Hopelessness. I am stating that the World has no Future as long as nations like United States, and India continue to maintain trade and commerce relations with Red China with no concern for values of Freedom, Democracy, Peace, and Justice.

The Dalai Lama: Why I’m hopeful about the world’s future

The Dalai Lama says the shooting at an Orlando gay nightclub that left 49 people dead is an example of outdated “20th century” thinking. (Reuters)

By The Dalai Lama June 13 at 3:47 PM

The 14th Dalai Lama, Tenzin Gyatso, is the spiritual leader of Tibet. Since 1959, he has lived in exile in Dharamsala in northern India.

Almost six decades have passed since I left my homeland, Tibet, and became a refugee. Thanks to the kindness of the government and people of India, we Tibetans found a second home where we could live in dignity and freedom, able to keep our language, culture and Buddhist traditions alive.

My generation has witnessed so much violence — some historians estimate that more than 200 million people were killed in conflicts in the 20th century.

Today, there is no end in sight to the horrific violence in the Middle East, which in the case of Syria has led to the greatest refugee crisis in a generation. Appalling terrorist attacks — as we were sadly reminded this weekend — have created deep-seated fear. While it would be easy to feel a sense of hopelessness and despair, it is all the more necessary in the early years of the 21st century to be realistic and optimistic.

There are many reasons for us to be hopeful. Recognition of universal human rights, including the right to self-determination, has expanded beyond anything imagined a century ago. There is growing international consensus in support of gender equality and respect for women. Particularly among the younger generation, there is a widespread rejection of war as a means of solving problems. Across the world, many are doing valuable work to prevent terrorism, recognizing the depths of misunderstanding and the divisive idea of “us” and “them” that is so dangerous. Significant reductions in the world’s arsenal of nuclear weapons mean that setting a timetable for further reductions and ultimately the elimination of nuclear weapons — a sentiment President Obama recently reiterated in Hiroshima, Japan — no longer seem a mere dream.

The notion of absolute victory for one side and defeat of another is thoroughly outdated; in some situations, following conflict, suffering arises from a state that cannot be described as either war or peace. Violence inevitably incurs further violence. Indeed, history has shown that nonviolent resistance ushers in more durable and peaceful democracies and is more successful in removing authoritarian regimes than violent struggle.

It is not enough simply to pray. There are solutions to many of the problems we face; new mechanisms for dialogue need to be created, along with systems of education to inculcate moral values. These must be grounded in the perspective that we all belong to one human family and that together we can take action to address global challenges.

It is encouraging that we have seen many ordinary people across the world displaying great compassion toward the plight of refugees, from those who have rescued them from the sea, to those who have taken them in and provided friendship and support. As a refugee myself, I feel a strong empathy for their situation, and when we see their anguish, we should do all we can to help them. I can also understan the fears of people in host countries, who may feel overwhelmed. The combination of circumstances draws attention to the vital importance of collective action toward restoring genuine peace to the lands these refugees are fleeing.

Tibetan refugees have firsthand experience of living through such circumstances and, although we have not yet been able to return to our homeland, we are grateful for the humanitarian support we have received through the decades from friends, including the people of the United States.

A further source of hope is the genuine cooperation among the world’s nations toward a common goal evident in the Paris accord on climate change. When global warming threatens the health of this planet that is our only home, it is only by considering the larger global interest that local and national interests will be met.

I have a personal connection to this issue because Tibet is the world’s highest plateau and is an epicenter of global climate change, warming nearly three times as fast as the rest of the world. It is the largest repository of water outside the two poles and the source of the Earth’s most extensive river system, critical to the world’s 10 most densely populated nations.

To find solutions to the environmental crisis and violent conflicts that confront us in the 21st century, we need to seek new answers. Even though I am a Buddhist monk, I believe that these solutions lie beyond religion in the promotion of a concept I call secular ethics. This is an approach to educating ourselves based on scientific findings, common experience and common sense — a more universal approach to the promotion of our shared human values.

Over more than three decades, my discussions with scientists, educators and social workers from across the globe have revealed common concerns. As a result, we have developed a system that incorporates an education of the heart, but one that is based on study of the workings of the mind and emotions through scholarship and scientific research rather than religious practice. Since we need moral principles — compassion, respect for others, kindness, taking responsibility — in every field of human activity, we are working to help schools and colleges create opportunities for young people to develop greater self-awareness, to learn how to manage destructive emotions and cultivate social skills. Such training is being incorporated into the curriculum of many schools in North America and Europe — I am involved with work at Emory University on a new curriculum on secular ethics that is being introduced in several schools in India and the United States.

It is our collective responsibility to ensure that the 21st century does not repeat the pain and bloodshed of the past. Because human nature is basically compassionate, I believe it is possible that decades from now we will see an era of peace — but we must work together as global citizens of a shared planet.

Whole Trouble – Red China’s Economic Hegemony

Trouble in Tibet – Red China’s Economic Hegemony

Red China uses a pattern of controlled development to subjugate Tibetan population of Occupied Tibet. Red China’s exercise of economic hegemony is ruining lives of Tibetan nomads who depend upon traditional occupations to maintain their economic independence.

VOA

POLITICAL MOTIVES SEEN IN BEIJING’S WARNING ON ‘HIMALAYAN VIAGRA’

**Trouble in Tibet – Red China’s Economic Hegemony. China manipulating Tibetan occupation of harvesting Caterpillar Fungus, Cordyceps sinensis.**

FILE – Local resident searches for caterpillar fungus, also known as Cordyceps Sinensis, Laji mountains, Guide County, west China’s Qinghai Province.

YESHI DORJE
Last updated on: June 01, 2016 12:27 PM

In high-alpine meadows of the Tibetan Plateau, early May is an auspicious time to prostrate oneself on the loamy, reclining slopes and dig around for desiccated remnants of a medicinally hallowed caterpillar fungus

Map: Cordyceps distribution area, Tibet.

**Trouble in Tibet – Red China’s Economic Hegemony. China manipulating Tibetan traditional occupation of selling Cordyceps Fungus.**

Map: Cordyceps distribution area, Tibet.

Revered as the “Viagra of the Himalayas,” Cordyceps Sinensis is better known across Asia by its traditional Tibetan name, yartsa gunbu, which literally translates as “summer grass, winter worm.” Neither grass nor worm, the coveted delicacy—blended in health drinks or sprinkled over entrees in China’s swankest restaurants—is the fungal bloom of mummified Ghost Moth larvae. Fetching thousands of dollars per pound, its storied powers as a medicinal cure-all have been overshadowed only by its more marketable reputation as a high-octane aphrodisiac, the result of commercial initiatives that have enriched many of Tibet’s struggling nomadic pastoralists.

That’s why a handful of noted research scientists wonder why there’s been such little scrutiny of the research backing a public health warning from China’s State Food and Drug Administration (CFDA). Citing unsafe levels of cancer-causing arsenic in the fungus, the February 2016 announcement triggered a moratorium on pilot programs designed to expand the organism’s commercial development and distribution. While scientists question the research supporting the decision, some free Tibet advocates say science has nothing to do with it.

TRACING SOURCE OF ELEVATED ARSENIC

As the Himalayan winter sets in, parasitic fungi nestled in tundra some 3,000-5,000 meters above sea level begin preying upon burrowing caterpillars, consuming their innards before sending a slim horn up through the dead insect’s head. The matchstick-thin protuberances—difficult to spot in the springtime scrub-grass and weeds—often require the sharp-eyed vision of young children, whose schools typically close to accommodate families that depend upon the harvest.

**Trouble in Tibet – Red China’s Economic Hegemony. China manipulating Tibetan trade and commerce.**

FILE – Cordyceps Sinensis harvester, Laji mountains of Guide County, west China’s Qinghai Province.

“Cordyceps are considered one of the most valuable medicines in Chinese medicine, historically,” says Professor Karl Tsim of Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, explaining that the rare fungus allegedly boosts the immune system, restores youthfulness, improves sexual vigor and even treats some forms of cancer. Records of its health benefits can be traced for nearly 1,000 years, which is why Tsim decided to investigate soil samples from several Tibetan harvesting grounds.

Commissioned with funding from government officials in Hong Kong—a thriving market for the fungus—Tsim’s study began when CFDA officials doubled down on their public health warning, announcing plans to end a yartsa gunbu pilot program launched in August 2012. According to state-run Xinhua news, the five-year pilot program had permitted several large pharmaceutical companies to use yartsa gunbu as a raw ingredient in a range of health food products. If the programs had become permanent, harvest contracts likely would have provided a windfall for people in the Tibetan areas where yartsa gunbu is already a backbone of the rural economy.

What Tsim’s team found, however, produced more questions than answers. While arsenic levels in three Tibetan soil samples were slightly higher than those found near Hong Kong, preliminary results show no indication that resulting crops could be contaminated.

NORMAL LEVELS OF ARSENIC

Naturally present in the earth’s crust, trace concentrations of arsenic are commonly found in staples such as brown rice. However, a 2012 joint working document of the U.N.’s Food and Agriculture and World Health organizations indicates that rice-paddy irrigation practices, not soil contamination, were the culprit.

“As a result of naturally occurring metabolic processes in the biosphere, arsenic occurs in a large number of organic or inorganic chemical forms in food,” the documents says, adding that “analysis of total arsenic in food has up to date suffered from difficulties with respect to accuracy and precision.”

“Available data about the possible human exposure to inorganic arsenic … suggest that the [permissible human weekly exposure] will normally not be exceeded, unless there is a large contribution from drinking water,” it says.

Because arsenic-concentration levels fluctuate across different harvesting grounds, Tsim says trace amounts of the substance are to be expected, and that his soil samples reveal no indication of inorganic contaminants, let alone grounds for a public health warning. Furthermore, alpine meadows—exposed only to rainwater and, sometimes, glacial runoff—aren’t irrigated. Indeed, the only quantitatively provable threat to public health would be if the fungus, which is literally worth its weight in gold, were consumed in unreasonably large quantities.

“Nobody can eat 100 grams at one time,” let alone afford that type of routine diet, he said. “If we look at numbers, whatever arsenic that we intake for a certain period of time is very minimal.”

**Trouble in Tibet – Red China’s Economic Hegemony. China manipulating Tibetan traditional occupation of selling Caterpillar Fungus.**

FILE – Local resident displays caterpillar fungus, also known as Cordyceps Sinensis, Laji mountains, Guide County, west China’s Qinghai Province.

Dr. Michelle Stewart, an Amherst College-based conservationist who conducted field research on Tibetan yartsa gunbu production, says although traces of arsenic in various individual caterpillar fungi “could be possible,” cases are typically isolated.

“I wouldn’t call it grounds to issue an alarmist reaction to caterpillar fungus broadly,” she told VOA. But a sustainable and financially vibrant yartsa gunbu industry could, she added, impede some of Beijing’s long-term regional development strategies.

“China’s idealized development model [for Tibet] would probably be based on settling nomadic populations in urban areas and transitioning their livelihoods into, if possible, non-skilled labor positions in towns or small-scale businesses,” Stewart said. “But the caterpillar fungus economy has actually been able to allow Tibetans to stay in their pastoral livelihoods and make money.”

For staunch critics of China’s Tibet policy, the sudden cancellation of pilot programs smacks of economic hegemony.
“The Chinese are the colonizers in Tibet,” said Lhukar Jam, a Dharmsala-based advocate of self-rule who recently ran for head of Tibet’s exiled government.

“The colonizers don’t want their subjects to become politically, economically and culturally … equal to them,” he said, accusing Beijing of conspiring to undermine Tibet’s growing middle class. “The Chinese government fundamentally feels threatened when they see people on the Tibetan Plateau gain power through the economy. They don’t want to have genuine economic development in Tibet.”

Kalsang Gyaltsen Bapa, a China analyst and member of the Tibetan parliament-in-exile, also cites a relationship between stable livelihoods and political activism in some Tibetan communities.

“The Chinese government uses the economy to gain people’s obedience, which has achieved some success,” Bapa told VOA, calling Tibetans who are financially dependent upon Beijing’s sustained rule—government employees or retired people, for example—“politically paralyzed.”

**Trouble in Tibet – Red China’s Economic Hegemony. China manipulating Traditional Tibetan occupation of selling Caterpillar Fungus.**

FILE – Local residents search for caterpillar fungi, also known as Cordyceps Sinensis, Laji mountains, Guide County, west China’s Qinghai Province.

Financially independent Tibetans, he added, are more likely to think independently, and therefore support movements for a return to self-governance.
Over the course of three months, at least four email requests and phone calls seeking CFDA commentary on the public health warning, and response to its subsequent criticism, went unanswered.

PATTERN OF CONTROLLED DEVELOPMENT

Ever since Ex-Premier Jiang Zemin’s “Great Western Development” policies, China has expanded efforts to lure Tibetan farmers and nomads into new housing developments with a combination of subsidies and interest-free loans. Coupled with high-tech rail and infrastructural development campaigns designed to create a widespread middle class by 2020, none of Beijing’s grand economic strategies have supplanted the tiny parasitic worm’s power to elevate the average Tibetan household.

According to one yartsa gunbu dealer who asked to remain anonymous, a family with good harvesters stand to make as much as 1,000,000 yuan (about $150,000) within the two month harvest window. One tangible sign of the economic progress is visible on the roads. In 2014, Xinhua reported that the Tibetan Autonomous Region had an estimated 325,000 privately owned cars—one for every 10 people in the region, with the highest concentration of ownership in yartsa gunbu harvesting hotspots.

**Trouble in Tibet – Red China’s Economic Hegemony. China manipulating Tibetan traditional trade and commerce.**

FILE – A local buyer weighs a pile of caterpillar fungus, also known as Cordyceps Sinensis, Laji mountains, Guide County, west China’s Qinghai Province.

According to chinadialogue.com, Tibet’s annual yartsa gunbu haul earns local collectors some $1 billion annually. But reports from the bi-lingual environmental publication also suggest production may well exceed what’s reported to authorities. Daniel Winkler, a Seattle-based ecologist who has done extensive research on the fungus, puts annual global yields closer to 100 to 200 tons. With 96.4 percent of global supply coming from Tibet, annual revenues may well exceed the $2 billion mark.

ANTI-CORRUPTION PARALLELS

The specter of greed and corruption inevitably shadow high-volume sales of any precious commodity. As President Xi Jinping’s anti-corruption campaign was launched, yartsa gunbu, which is often exploited to leverage “Guanxi”—the personal connections and networks in which the exchange of expensive and often exotic gifts are key to building influence in politics or business—was an easy target.

February’s CFDA announcement declaring yartsa gunbu a threat to public health occurred just as President Xi’s anti-corruption campaign gained nationwide momentum.
“The place within the Guanxi—which some people say is bribery—within that economy, the value (of yartsa gunbu) has diminished slightly in the past year,” she said.

Whether any political motivations are driving the Chinese government’s claim to public health concerns about the fungus is yet to be seen. But Professor Tsim, who continues evaluating soil samples, says any regulatory action on the fungus inevitably affects the livelihood of Tibetans. The CFDA announcement has yet to impact Hong Kong prices, he said, and one eBay seller recently posted the fungus for about $78,000 per pound.

“[For] many of those of people, their lives all depended on collection of Cordyceps,” Tsim said. “So in Tibet, many of those local people, their daily income [depends upon] the collection of Cordyceps. So I suppose that before we place that hold [on pilot projects], we need to know what we are talking about.”

VOA correspondent Yeshi Dorje reports for VOA’S Tibetan Service. Pete Cobus contributed reporting.

**Trouble in Tibet – Red China’s Economic Hegemony. China manipulating traditional Tibetan Trade and Commerce. Caterpillar Fungus known as ‘Himalayan Viagra’.**

Whole Trouble – A Strategy in support of Imperialism and Neocolonialism

Trouble in Tibet – ‘One Belt, One Road’ Strategy of Imperialism and Neocolonialism

The Chinese national flag is raised during a ceremony marking the 96th anniversary of the founding of the Communist Party of China (CPC) at Potala Palace in Lhasa, Tibet Autonomous Region, China, July 1, 2017. CNS/He Penglei via REUTERS/Files

Red China’s Chengdu-Lhasa Railway Project serves just one purpose; Security of Tibet’s military Occupation. Red China’s Policy of “One Belt – One Road” or ‘OBOR’ Initiative, Solidarity Strategy stands for her Imperialism and Neocolonialism.

CHINA POWER

**Trouble in Tibet – One Belt, One Road Policy of Imperialism and Neocolonialism. Chengdu-Lhasa Railroad secures military occupation of Tibet.**

Image Credit: Tibet Railroad image via Shutter Stock

China’s Chengdu-Lhasa Railway: Tibet and ‘One Belt, One Road’

A newly planned railway linking Tibet with central China will serve to provide stability for the Belt and Road.

By Justin Cheung for The Diplomat
May 27, 2016

It is no secret that Tibetan independence movements have long drawn the ire of Chinese authorities. Alongside heightened rhetoric in recent years over Tibetan unrest and the growing publicity of riots and self-immolations, China has sought to augment its capacity for crackdown in the restive province.

The swiftness of Chinese response to previous swells of separatist sentiment is best illustrated in the 2008 Tibetan unrest. During that time, the BBC reported that within days of the start of anti-government riots, over 400 troop carriers of the People’s Armed Police were mobilized. Ultimately, the speed with which the Chinese government was able to ferry troops into sites of unrest was a crucial factor in quelling the upheaval.

In more recent times, China’s “One Belt, One Road” (OBOR) policy – Xi Jinping’s plan to expand the reach of Chinese trade routes to Europe through a land route in Central Asia and a sea route through the Indian Ocean and around the horn of Africa – has taken center stage as a cornerstone of modern Chinese foreign policy. Access to Pakistan and Central Asia are crucial to ensure the success of these trade routes, which incidentally must start or pass through Tibet or Xinjiang, historically separatist provinces. This has put particularly urgent pressure on the Chinese government to bring stability to its westernmost regions.

Furthermore, the implementation of the OBOR policy comes at a critical time for China. Recent downturns in economic growth and output have put leaders such as Xi Jinping in a bind, spending a great deal of political capital to restrict and cripple any seeds of social dissent. On a geopolitical level, ensuring robust strategic control over Tibet has never been more essential, for both propaganda and economic reasons.

With that said, China’s newly planned Chengdu-Lhasa railway – over 2,000 km of tracks – would serve as a crucially efficient connection between Sichuan province in central China with the heart of Tibet. The construction of the railway was recently announced; such an infrastructural feat would facilitate rapid travel between the two locations, bringing a multi-day trip down to just fifteen hours. A recent report by The Economist cited a Chinese expert as saying the railroad could be feasibly completed by 2030.

The implications of this railway’s construction are particularly diverse, but they all center on a particular purpose: expedited control. In an age where social media platforms such as Twitter and Facebook can cause riots to explode into revolutions overnight (see: the Arab Spring), China must ensure that its ability to quickly muster a physical military presence can match the speed of modern rebellions. The Chengdu-Lhasa railway provides a means of quickly mobilizing armed forces and also facilitates the movement and migration of Han Chinese from more central regions of China into Tibet, a policy that China has long pushed in order to smother ethnic dissent.

This is not the first time that China has used “railway power projection” to assert its power in Tibet or Xinjiang. However, it is the most recent and the most ambitious project thus far. Most importantly, the timing of this undertaking highlights the effort and investment that Chinese leaders are willing to make to ensure that the crossroads of its budding OBOR policy remain firmly under Chinese control. Tibet is an important starting point for the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) and an equally important entryway to the Central Asian states where trade through the Caspian, Caucasus, and to Europe must begin.

As such, the construction of the Chengdu-Lhasa railway is separate from previous Chinese attempts to quell separatist movements. This time, there is much more at stake. The railway plays an important duality in optimizing China’s foreign and domestic geo-policy today: the necessity of political stability within its borders to ensure economic success from the outside.

Justin Cheung is a student in Stony Brook University’s 8 Year BE/MD Engineering Scholars for Medicine Program. He has been published in the Center for International Relation’s International Affairs Forum as well as in Soft Matter and ACS Macro Letters.

**THE EVIL RED EMPIRE – THE ROAD TO CONQUEST AND SUBJUGATION, AND DOMINATION OF GLOBAL MARKETPLACE.**

**THE EVIL RED EMPIRE – THE ROAD TO CONQUEST AND SUBJUGATION. RED CHINA’S NEOCOLONIALISM.**

**Trouble in Tibet – One Belt, One Road Solidarity Strategy Reflects Red China’s Policy of Imperialism and Neocolonialism.**

**THE EVIL RED EMPIRE – THE ROAD TO CONQUEST AND SUBJUGATION. RED CHINA’S PROJECT, ONE BELT, ONE ROAD REFLECTS THE DOCTRINE OF NEOCOLONIALISM.**

TRUTH ABOUT TIBET IN INFORMATION ERA

TRUTH ABOUT TIBET IN INFORMATION ERA

Sharing ‘INFORMATION’ is the central component of all aspects of social life and national life as people make choices using information. Technology makes it easy to collect and disseminate information to all corners of Earth. Why is it difficult to share information about Tibet? On May 18, in celebration of Tibet Museum on International Museum Day, let us dedicate the use of ‘Information’ to combat lies and deception used by Red Dragon to create illusion and fantasy.

Rudranarasimham Rebbapragada
Ann Arbor, MI 48104-4162 USA
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THE TIBET MUSEUM PORTRAYS “TRUTH ABOUT TIBET’S HISTORY”: SIKYONG

The Tibet Museum portrays “truth about Tibet’s history”: Sikyong

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Wednesday, 18 May 2016 14:33 Shalkie, Tibet Post International

Dharamshala — The Tibet Museum of Department of Information and International Relations, CTA, commenced it’s three-day celebration of 39th International Museum Day by launching the museum’s exhibition catalog, “A Long Look Homeward” and a promotional video.

Sikyong Dr Lobsang Sangay was the chief-guest and launched the catalog. Mr Sonam N. Dagpo, Secretary of DIIR launched the promotional video of the museum. The Tibet Museum was established in 1998 and graced by His Holiness Dalai Lama, with the purpose to document, preserve, research, exhibit and educate on the matters related to Tibetan history, culture and the present issue.

The event saw Dr Sangay, Mr Tashi Phuntsok, Secretary of DIIR and Mr Tashi Phuntsok Director of the Tibet Museum addressing the audience on the importance and success of the museum in preserving the Tibetan culture, heritage and the stories of undying struggles of Tibetan people under the Chinese oppression. The museum is the proof of China’s attempts to create a false image of contentment and prosperity in Tibet.

Speaking to TPI, Sikyong said “Tibet issue is an issue of truth and justice. Truth is on our side and Justice is what we deserve, so this is the truth about Tibet’s history, this is the truth about occupation and oppression. China’s narrative says that Tibet is happy and content with the Chinese government. This is our true narrative in response to Chinese narrative.”

His message to the current world leaders regarding their passive approach towards the Tibet issue is “What Tibetans are facing and suffering is real so if they see, they must stand for the basic principles of their country which they claim to be democracy and freedom for all”.

Every year May 18th is celebrated as International Museum Day with the participation 142 countries and more than 35,000 museums.

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Whole Tyrant – Red China’s Cultural Warfare on Tibet

Red China’s Cultural Warfare on Tibet

Red China’s Communist Party Chairman Mao Zedong initiated Cultural Warfare on Tibet as part of his Campaign called ‘Cultural Revolution’ that started on May 16, 1966. This brutal Campaign of Cultural Repression, Political Oppression, and Economic Suppression to wipe out Tibetan Identity continues unabated. Cultural Revolution is not a relic of China’s past history. I ask people to break their silence to oppose Red China’s Cultural Warfare on Tibet.

THE WASHINGTON POST

CHINESE PAPERS BREAK SILENCE ON CULTURAL REVOLUTION, SAYING IT COULD NOT, WOULD NOT HAPPEN AGAIN

By EMILY RAUHALA MAY 17, 2016.

**Red China’s Cultural Warfare on Tibet. Chinese citizens view writings and slogans in 1967 at the height of the decade-long Cultural Revolution. (AP Photo)**

Trust us, they say, the past is in the past.

Two newspapers linked to the Communist Party have broken the silence on the 50th anniversary of the Cultural Revolution, publishing editorials meant to assure readers that the party has granted the country “immunity” from political chaos and social unrest.

The editorials, published by the state-owned People’s Daily and the Global Times, were rare public comments on a decade-long disaster that former party chairman Mao Zedong unleashed and that his party now prefers to play down, recast or ignore.

But the articles broke no new ground, rehashing the official line determined by a clutch of cadres in a 1981 resolution.In it, they condemned the violence of the era, blamed Mao and his close associates, and advised everyone to move on. The Chinese people never got a say.

In a piece published Tuesday, the People’s Daily hewed closely to the old line, noting that “history always advances.”
“There will not be re-enactment of a mistake like the Cultural Revolution,” it said.

An editorial in the Global Times, a newspaper known for its nationalist tone, hit at the same theme more forcefully: “We have bid farewell to the Cultural Revolution. We can say it once again today that the Cultural Revolution cannot and will not come back.”

The papers aim to instill confidence. They tell readers that what was decided in 1981 was not contingency or compromise but “unshakably scientific and authoritative” fact. They emphasize that the Chinese people have decided, unequivocally, to push ahead.

This is standard policy on several historical questions, from the Great Famine to the Tiananmen Square protests. As a result, when party papers write boldly about eyes fixed forward, it casts our gaze back, reminding us of how China’s past is shaping the present — and spooking the ruling party along the way.

Over the years, some survivors of that brutal decade have come forward to tell their stories, calling for truth and accountability, wanting to address old wounds. Under President Xi Jinping, though, the space for reflection has narrowed.

Xi has moved in many ways to bolster Mao’s reputation, drawing a single line between revolutionary struggle, World War II and the era of “national rejuvenation” that he says is underway.
But Xi, a survivor of the Cultural Revolution, knows well that marshaling Mao is dangerous business; when you invite people to rally around the party’s founder, you risk overshadowing the party itself.

The truth is that the party’s stance on the Cultural Revolution is not accepted as fact.

It is questioned by survivors who want their trauma acknowledged and by neo-Maoists who think talk of “calamity” is overblown. Some see shades of Mao in Xi’s moves to consolidate power; others dismiss the comparison outright.

In an editorial published in the run-up to the anniversary, even the Global Times acknowledged the split, saying the Cultural Revolution “remains divisive” and has become a “proxy” for clashes between “rightists” and “leftists” debating “China’s political route.”

Which is why Tuesday’s twin editorials seem to open, not close, the question of what the Cultural Revolution means and what that, in turn, means for the party.
The party asks for faith. Its papers beg the question: Does it yet trust itself?

Emily Rauhala is a China Correspondent for the Post. She was previously a Beijing-based correspondent for TIME, and an editor at the magazine’s Hong Kong office.

**TIBET AWARENESS – SUPREME RULER OF TIBET FORCED TO LIVE IN EXILE.**

**Red China’s Cultural Warfare on Tibet. Apart from military occupation, it aims to destroy Tibetan Culture.**

**Red China’s Cultural Warfare on Tibet.**

**RED CHINA’S CULTURAL WARFARE ON TIBET. POTALA PALACE, LHASA, TIBET IS MUTE WITNESS OF CHINESE POLICY OF CULTURAL REPRESSION.**

**Red China’s Cultural Warfare on Tibet. Potala Palace, Lhasa, Tibet stands as mute witness of Chinese Cultural Repression.**

**Red China’s Cultural Warfare on Tibet. Potala Palace, Lhasa, Tibet is witness to Chinese Cultural Repression.**

**Red China’s Cultural Warfare on Tibet. Potala Palace, Lhasa, Tibet symbolizes Cultural History of Tibet.**

Whole Trouble – Never Ending Cultural Revolution Troubling Tibet

Trouble in Tibet – Never Ending Cultural Revolution

Red China formally launched her Cultural Revolution on May 16, 1966 paving the Road to Tibet’s Serfdom. On its 50th Anniversary, Tibetans experience the same sense of horror for the Cultural Revolution has never ended. World should not remain silent on this human tragedy.

CHINA WAS SILENT ON ITS 50th ANNIVERSARY OF THE CULTURAL REVOLUTION

Jun Mai, South China Morning Post May 16, 2016, 11:01 PM

**TROUBLE IN TIBET – NEVER ENDING CULTURAL REVOLUTION. TIANANMEN SQUARE, BEIJING ON MAY 16, 2016. 50th ANNIVERSARY OF THE CULTURAL REVOLUTION.**

Reuters/Kim Kyung-Hoon Paramilitary solders stand guard at Tiananmen Square where the portrait of late Chinese chairman Mao Zedong is seen, on the 50th anniversary of the start of the Cultural Revolution in Beijing, China, May 16, 2016.

Mainland media met the 50th anniversary of the start of the Cultural Revolution with silence in a reflection of Beijing’s eagerness to contain discussion and avoid embarrassment over one of the most tumultuous periods in Chinese history.

A party directive issued on May 16, 1966, that launched a campaign to rid the country of “representatives of the bourgeoisie” plunged the nation into 10 years of turmoil and violent class struggle that would leave at least 1.72 million dead.

In a speech on China’s economy first made public last Tuesday, President Xi Jinping called the revolution a “decade of catastrophe” that had stalled the country’s industrialization.

But when the anniversary arrived, while international media dug through photo and story archives to provide extensive coverage, official Chinese outlets such as People’s Daily stayed away from the topic.

The website ifeng.com, which belongs to the Hong Kong-based Phoenix Media Group, briefly ran a piece featuring street interviews with people on the mainland, asking them their thoughts on the revolution.

One woman, asked for the worst part of the revolution, replied that it was the Nanking Massacre – an event which in fact happened almost 30 years earlier, in 1937 during the Japanese invasion of China.
A man said he had no memory of what happened in “ancient times,” while some said they would take part in the revolution because “everyone was doing it.”

**TROUBLE IN TIBET – NEVER ENDING CULTURAL REVOLUTION. TIANANMEN SQUARE, BEIJING ON MAY 16, 2016.**

Reuters/Kim Kyung-Hoon A cleaner sweeps ground in front of the Mausoleum of late Chinese chairman Mao Zedong at Tiananmen Square on the 50th anniversary of the start of the Cultural Revolution in Beijing, China, May 16, 2016.

The report was deleted from the website, then reappeared and was deleted for a second time.

This month’s publication of Yanhuang Chunqiu, a monthly political magazine run by party liberals, was delayed a week as its editors and censor disagreed over articles on the revolution. One article was removed, a source close to the magazine said.

No official commemoration was held on the mainland, following the lead of previous anniversary dates, and online discussions on Weibo were censored.
Foreign ministry spokesman Hong Lei offered a single sentence in response to a question about the anniversary in yesterday’s daily press briefing.

“The Chinese government already made the correct verdict on it long ago,” Hong said.

Additional reporting by Agence France-Presse.

**Trouble in Tibet – Never Ending Cultural Revolution that started on May 16, 1966.**

**Trouble in Tibet – Never Ending Cultural Revolution that started on May 16, 1966. Sacking of Temples and Monasteries in Tibet.**

**Trouble in Tibet – Never Ending Cultural Revolution that started on May 16, 2016.**

**Trouble in Tibet – Never Ending Cultural Revolution that started on May 16, 1966. Tibetan Road to Serfdom paved by Red China in 1950.**

**TROUBLE IN TIBET – NEVER ENDING CULTURAL REVOLUTION THAT STARTED ON MAY 16, 1966. WORLD CANNOT IGNORE THIS HUMAN TRAGEDY.**

Whole Trouble – Red China’s Hydropower Projects in Occupied Tibet

Trouble in Tibet – Red China’s Hydropower Projects in Occupied Tibet

Red China is constructing numerous dams in Tibet blocking natural flow of various rivers without concern for environmental impacts. None of the other Asian nations like India, Bangladesh, Myanmar, Laos, Kampuchea, and Vietnam are able to intervene to assert their rights to River Waters. At this moment, while Red China plunders Tibet’s natural resources, the World is watching helplessly.

THE FINANCIAL EXPRESS

China begins construction of Tibet’s biggest dam; Suwalong project to cost $3 bn

China has started construction of its biggest hydropower project in Tibet costing over $3 billion which will supply electricity to the economically well-off regions in the country’s eastern region.

By: PTI Beijing Published: April 30, 2016 8:20 PM

China has started construction of its biggest hydropower project in Tibet costing over $3 billion which will supply electricity to the economically well-off regions in the country’s eastern region.
The Suwalong hydropower project at the junction of Mangkam county in Tibet and Batang county in Sichuan province has a design capacity of 1.2 gigawatts and will be able to generate about 5,400 gigawatt hours of electricity a year when completed in 2021, official media reported.
The design capacity is more than double that of the Zangmu hydropower plant on Brahmaputra river which Tibet’s largest existing hydro project.
It was completed in October last year. It is hoped that the 18 billion yuan (USD 3 billion) Suwalong dam, could pave the way for other projects in the headwaters of the adjacent Nu (Salween) and Lancang (Mekong) rivers to “fuel development” of hydro power in Tibet, Hong Kong-based South China Morning Post quoted Chinese media as saying.

Whole Aggression – Occupation of Tibet is a shameless act of Naked Aggression

Red China’s Occupation of Tibet – Shameless Act of Naked Aggression

Tibet’s military occupation describes ‘The Naked Truth’. The word ‘NAKED’ means completely unclothed, bare, nude, uncovered, exposed, plain, or stark. Publication of Nude Photo images in social media is not of much concern. Red China’s unprovoked attack, Red China’s use of her armed forces violating international laws, and Red China’s destructively hostile and aggressive actions constitute ‘The Naked Truth’ and this Shameless Act of Naked Aggression is cause of pain and suffering across Land of Tibet. There is no controversy; Queen of Red China is Shameless, has no clothes, and cannot hide or conceal her acts of aggression.

NUDE PHOTOS IN TIBET GET MIXED REACTION

China Daily Editor: Feng Shuang

Basum Lake was listed by the World Tourist Organization as a world tourist spot in the 1990s.(Photo/Xinhua)

Reaction to nude photos posted online of a woman at a sacred lake in the Tibet autonomous region has been mixed.

Negative comments followed the posting of the images earlier this week, but there were also many internet users who supported the nude photography and criticized Sina Weibo user YouchumDolkar for posting private images.

“Nudity does not necessarily imply sex, and nudity does not mean vulgarism,” said Weibo user Miaoira.

The photographer was not detained by the police, as reported by some media, according to Wang Jin, head of the publicity department of Nagarze county, Tibet. That was confirmed by the police in Lhasa, the regional capital.

However, Wang said, such photography would not be welcomed by ethnic groups, and public nudity is forbidden by the country’s public security regulations.

“Yamdrok Lake is one of the sacred lakes in Tibet, and it is of major significance to its people. Any action that desecrates the lake is forbidden,” Wang said.

YouchumDolkar, a female netizen, first posted the nude photos on Monday.

She condemned the actions of the male photographer and the woman for what she said was their “way of thinking without any cultural or moral principles”.

She added another post on Thursday saying, “I only wanted more people to know about the local customs in Tibet” and “When in Rome, do as the Romans do.”

The posts had more than 2,370 comments and 390 reposts as of Thursday.

Accompanying the posts was a screen shot of a WeChat “Moment” in which the photographer explained that the woman who posed for the camera simply wanted to create a memory of the sacred spot because she was able to visit Tibet in the prime of her life.

Beijing News had reported on Wednesday that the police had placed the photographer－identified only as Yufeixiong in his social media account－in administrative detention for 10 days after receiving reports about the nude photo shoot from local residents.

The photographer did not respond to a request for comment on Thursday .

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