Firstly, China does not have the right to stop any of the world leaders from meeting the Dalai Lama. Obama is doing the right thing by meeting with the Dalai Lama and he is not deliberately doing it to ‘offend’ the chinese. That is just how the chinese view it.

Secondly, His Holiness the Dalai Lama is important not only to the US, but to the world. His life is dedicated to peace, communication, and unity.

What he represents, and what he has accomplished, heals and transcends the current tensions between Tibet and China.

In the few decades since the illegal Chinese invasion of Tibet, Tibetans have seen their ecosystem destroyed, their religion, language, and culture repressed, and systematic oppression and violence against anyone who dares acknowledge Tibetan sovereignty.

Yet, above it all, the Dalai Lama has been a consistent voice for peace, sharing a “Middle-Way” approach that has gathered accolades from the Nobel Peace Prize to the U.S. Congressional Gold Medal.

Modeling this peaceful resistance shows the world that nobody is free unless everybody is free — and that a solution exists that can benefit all parties, not just one.

And more than just his nation have taken notice. His inter-religious dialogues, honest, humble demeanor, and sense of compassionate justice sets him apart in a world at war with itself. When China changes policy and lets Tibetans be who they are, Tibet can, in turn, join with China in peaceful coexistence.

He has won the world’s respect, much to the annoyance of China.

Thanks for providing this information in English. Most of Asian people knew Japanese tried to change the history. But Westerner tried to ignore such things.

Dave

I don’t think it’s fair or correct to say that “most Asian people knew Japanese tried to change the history” since you do not know this as fact.

It would be fairer and more correct to say “most Chinese people think…..”

And where do you get your so-called fact “But Westener try to ignore such things” ??

If anyone can be accused of ‘ignoring such things’ it’s the Chinese, whether that be their own history, the history of Japan or the history of Tibet.

However, the chinese people themselves cannot be entirely to blame, since it must be very difficult to grow up in a culture where freedom of speech and freedom to think for oneself is not allowed.

China complains about ANY country who dares to speak/write about the TRUTH, whether that be the Mao era, Tiananmen Square Massacre, or the Dalai Lama and the terrible atrocities that are still going on in Tibet.

I think you’ll find that MOST countries do in fact ‘complain’ about China’s internal history and if you want to call those countries ‘fascist’ then you’d have to say that most of the world is fascist, which is simply not true!

It’s really unfortunate that most Chinese people, even those who are studying abroad and who therefore have access to World History books and the internet, are STILL so aggressive and still carry so much hatred around in their hearts for ANYONE who criticises China.

Yugung:
1) China never complain about how Japan wrote its own internal history. Only the part that has to do with China and Asia.
2) No country has ever complain about China’s internal history except the Fascist apologists looking for an excuse to revise Japan’s past history of external agression.

RV said I have put words in his mouth.
ok, use ur own words and state clearly how Japan should write about the comfort women and its use of human experiment for Biological weapon.

@Robert,

So if Germany , yb using your logic, revises the history of their persecussion agaisnt Jews, do you think the people in the world can agree that?
First of all, do you support their action?

RV is also argueing that since not all Japanese soldiers were bad there should be a blackout. U will find very few Japanese soldier who had not abuse the comfort women yet that was left out of history books.

Robert says:

You are putting words in my mouth again. You pulled the word “blackout” out of thin air. A blackout would be the complete removal of any information about Japan’s invasion into China from Japanese textbooks. Obviously, that hasn’t happened as the Japanese do acknowledge that they went into China.

Yugung said:

I ve not heard any foreign government complain about Chinese text book except the fascist appologists when they want to justify their own history revision.
I wouldn’t care if US text book call Bush a maths genious. It’s when when you write about ur foreign agression that other nations protest.

If US history were to call the invasion of Iraq “an advancement into Iraqi territory in self defence” and Iraqi civilian casualty were” fabrication by leftists and masochist who wanted to see American fall at the feet of the Iraqi people begging for mercy and forgiveness.” I think future Arab scholars will protest.

Robert Vance says:

You missed my point. What I was attempting to point out is that every country has a hand in writing its own history and often that version of history is very distorted. China has had to rewrite (or omit history) in order to avoid condemning Chairman Mao and the hundreds (if not thousands) of Communist government officials and soldiers who did his bloody bidding. What about Tiananmen square? That is what I would call a real blackout. Frankly, I think that part of the problem is that Japan feels like China is (and has been for a long time) trying to stick its ‘paws’ into Japan’s domestic affairs. Japan does not want to be bullied by China. Maybe if you (and others) stopped whining about modern day Japan, the ‘reconiciliation’ that you are looking for would come quicker. Frankly though, I doubt it. Too many Chinese people are programmed to hate the Japanese and I’m not sure that anything can change that.