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Heads Up: Dalai Lama Agonistes

From this week's dead tree edition, here's my take on what the Dalai lama should do to break the deadlock. Hint: it wouldn't be fun for him.

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  • 1

    well, Thanks ... cute Simon, according to your article, basically ...someone made those normal Tibetan believed something actually not truly happened (hundreds gunned down). If something happened in the future, we know whom to blame and we'll have Simon's article as an evidence. There are real dirty hands messing up the situation in Tibet. They use lies to fool the normal Tibetan and made them on the street. Do they really care about the benefits of Tibetan people?

    I'm very glad to see that China has a strong government now. They do have the ability to take care of those morons.

  • 2

    thanks simon for the heads up... have you heard the phrase 'smiling eyes that cannot see'. Or the joke of blind chinese traffic cop in Lhasa...'he's actually the mayor feeling the pulse of the city... another overpaid chinese official. i'm no defalt specialist of chinese idiom and don't wanna be.
    But lets paint the kettle black once more for the dumb***es. One day china will have civil right, there will be Dalai Lama and there will be tibetan independence.

    most of the views against tibetans are racist and words of dump insensitive bigots, born from an authoritarian cesspool of ignorance.

    with the marginalization of the republican party collapse of the economy in the US and china i expect the the authoritarian elite in 'tinsil town beijing and shanghai' to be looking for somewhere else to party because their own country is tired of the greed.

    JIG IS UP CHINA...your not invisible and i will call you down every chance i get. the policy of your government is RACIST and your RACIST if you back that policy.

  • 3

    To chinatoon:

    Please give some evidence of Chinese towards Tibetan as racist.

    In fact some Tibetan extremists cry for clean off the ethnic Hui and Han Chinese out of Lhasa as the Nazi did in the night of broken glass seventy years ago, burn ethnic Chinese alive and their shores. They are the racists.

    And thing to correct you, if one day China get democracy, more you Western encourage separatists more the majority of Chinese will be behind a nationalist government, in a democracy way. Less chance end with peaceful solution and more less the separatists get their wish of independent. Learn something from history.

  • 4

    don't talk to deaf and dumb racist like you ass****e

  • 5

    Clearly you are a racist ass****e

  • 6

    Simon,

    The anniversary of 2008 Tibetan unrest is approaching. Please help us to find out the truth. How many people actually been killed on Lhasa street? Hui people, Han people and Tibetan people? How many killed by police? Did the mosque been burned?

  • 7

    The truth is simple. Those 19 Tibetans died playing hide and seek and bumped their heads against a brick wall. Others died because someone else was doing push-ups, while the rest of the people were just walking around shopping for soy sauce.

  • 8

    "The Dalai Lama's presence in China might allow for improvement in the way Tibetans are treated."

    You are the ultimate optimist. You really think the Chinese government will be less worried about Tibetans wish for autonomy with Dalai in Tibet ? It is the hold of CCP in Tibet that CCP worries about, not whether Tibetans will be better treated.

    Dalai should stay out of China, after he retires as the head of the Tibetan movement. It will be much better off for Tibet, for Dalai, and for China. He should just continue to go around the world visiting heads of states as a simple monk, and get Chinese government excited every time he has tea with some body. That should make good copies, and fun to watch how the government of a major nation misbehave.

  • 9

    John
    I trust Simon's story not your day dream

  • 10

    John
    The CCP goverment did a good job keep you busy

  • 11

    I just read an article written by a group of Indian journalists, who just finished a long journey in China. Tibet was of the places, which they visited and paid special attention to. It turn out that they were very surprised for what they saw.
    First, they realized that Chinese government was heavily investing in protecting Tibetan culture. For example, the major temples in Tibet are all receiving funds from Chinese government to maintain the spectacular appearances of those temples. The feeling of these Indian journalists was that Chinese government was protecting and investing in Tibetan culture for tourist money. Second, they did not see any signs of human right abuses or religious activity interventions. They saw that Lamas and regular Tibetans prayed wherever. Tibetans showed no special interests on these Indians at all, unless they were spending money in their stores or restaurants. The conclusion of the Indian journalists was that Tibet had been misunderstood and misinterpreted so much. So, who is misinterpreting Tibet to rest of the world? It is the people like you, Simon Elegant with the help from the people like Johnsmith here.

  • 12

    .Today... MONK SHOT BY CHINESE POLICE AFTER SELF-IMMOLATING IN PROTEST IN TIBET

    whose the racist and pathetic liar! You my red neck friend.

  • 13

    love the entertainment....you guys are a bunch of comedians, or i guess more appropriately 'intellectual idiots... this is better but still childish like the kung fu movies. have just gotten out of school or do you get paid to spread this nonsense.

  • 14

    To:chinatoon:
    History has taught us lessons that geopolitics determines the boundary of countries.
    Example I:
    There used to be a country called Hawaii with their own Queen. The US did not like that idea and sent in the marine to kick out the entire royal family. Washington assigned a governor. After large immigration from oversea, now the native Hawaiians are nothing but performers at tourist attraction. In 1977, Hawaii became part of the US. WERE US a democratic country?
    Example II:
    North Ireland was part of Ireland when they declared independent from England. However, a large number of landlords originally from England refused to join. England sent in large number of troops to pacific native Irish. Now they have a truce and North Ireland is still not part of Ireland.
    DL the idiot lays claim to 25% of China's landmark that covers 5 Chinese province. If Tibet ever becomes a country, Xinjiang will be cut off from the rest of China and undoubly, US army would like to station in Tibet with missile aiming towards Beijing.
    Do you see that would ever happen?
    Do you remember the countries in the Middle East? None of them exists after the Second World War when England and France decided to partition the loser of the war into pieces.
    Now you know why Tibet can never be an independent country. If DL ever returns to China, he will be living in Beijing of unknown address and only shows his face on special occasion. Therefore, Simon's idea does not make sense at all.
    I would like to hear your comment on this.

  • 15

    Tibet will be independent and the Dalai Lama will survive as head of Tibetan Buddhism and you will have to answer for the killing of a culture. There is no place to run if that happens. And with your bat like wisdom and senses are no match for any free thinking society.

    You chinese will fall very easily on your own pride and arrogance.

  • 16

    chinatoon:
    Ha. You are such an idiot.
    Nobody can kill a culture. A culture is decided by the people who practices it. Tibetan Buddhism is alive and well. It is spreading across China. On CNN, it just showed a Tibetan Buddist Temple in Beijing celebrating the Tibetan new year.

  • 17

    Let me write it down clearly 'batman' or girlie:

    You...LIE LIE LIE LIE LIE LIE LIE LIE 8 times and are STUPID beyond belief 8 TIMES. So you see how lucky you are Batman the you are a biggest, luckiest, stupidous bast***d in all the bat caves in China and maybe the world

    The world according to you"batman" is a place where only the strong survive.

    The needs of the world is quite different and doesn't need the politics of authority, violence and greed, but one who listens to the peoples needs.

    Buddhist culture has taken a terrible hit and is on the verge of collapse in Tibet because of government policy.

    Your a preacher of hate, their is no place for you. You have the arrogance of a southern red neck in mississippi and will probably beat up women when you cannot trash defenseless Tibetans.

    Your nothing but a of punk racist! One day you'll find your maker and there will be a price to pay for your arrogance!

    You chinese really depress me....you spout shit uncontrollably.

    Become a better landlord of the Tibetans,

    lol du**sses

  • 18

    The existence of idiots such as chinatoon adds color to the world.
    So, let's celebrate!

  • 19

    'ding dong' anybody home ... deaf and dumb arisobats... time to celebrate!!!

    OH excuse me you are Ding Dong!

  • 20

    2morrow ... 00-morrow with sing son...

    a ding dong of chinese sing song pol-icy...

    gov-ernment killing policy of the inno-cent

    ti-betan

    00-morrow a big guy...

    kung fu panda so brave,

    beat the innocent monks or nuns or child-ren,

    lets sing along all you ariso-bats

    doesn't matter to make up for lack of aud-ience...

    your time will come to lets celebrate!!!

    ding dong, 00-morrow, and batman lets sing along

    with dead nun and monk you kill for fun!!!

  • 21

    You are like a cartoon character, Chinatoon

    Not trying to make you and your kind furious, we are going to take all the land in Xizang(tibet) because it is ours. We may leave a few square miles waste land as "Reserves" for the tibetians, they can build casinos there.

    Dalai Lama is a bad lama, cause all the good lamas are dead lamas,

    Happy now?

  • 22

    kiss my ass kiss alot...you silly panda

  • 23

    Only after you pull your head out from it first.

  • 24

    is it true pandas smell the ass first before kissing romeo

  • 25

    your idea of romance is better left overseas if you get my drift romeo

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