Foreign and Military Affairs
Foreign backing gives Dalai Lama no room but doom
(Xinhua)
Updated: 2010-02-20 11:25
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Illegitimate clique
The Dalai Lama tries very hard to legitimize his clique, but in fact he is just a card in the hand of foreign forces to serve their China strategies.
In 2008, the "Note Relating to the Memorandum on Genuine Autonomy for All Tibetans" spread by the Dalai Lama clique once again claimed that the "Tibetan government-in-exile" symbolized the interests of Tibetans and represented the Tibetan people.
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In fact, the Dalai Lama and the so-called "Tibetan government-in-exile", which is the "Central Tibetan Administration of His Holiness the Dalai Lama" in full, are the very same thing. Neither is legitimate at all. They are merely a political clique raised by foreign forces to be engaged in activities aimed at splitting the motherland.
In 1951, the local government of Tibet signed with the central government the 17-Point Agreement on the peaceful liberation of Tibet.
The Dalai Lama telegraphed the central government with pledges to advocate and assist the People's Liberation Army in strengthening national defense, driving out imperialist forces and safeguarding the sovereignty and territorial integrity of the motherland.
Given the agreement, the local government headed by the Dalai Lama was legitimate at the time.
On March 10, 1959, the ruling class of the Tibetan local government launched an armed rebellion and declared "Tibet independence." The Dalai Lama announced the founding of a "provisional government" headed by him when he was fleeing from the Norbulingka palace in Lhasa. He worked out a string of activities demonstrating "Tibet independence" when he was later outside China.
On March 28, premier Zhou Enlai issued a State Council decree to dismiss the local government of Tibet given their rebellious act that defied the 17-point agreement. The mandate of the local government was replaced by the Preparatory Committee for the Tibet Autonomous Region.
Therefore, the so-called "Tibetan government-in-exile" which lumped together the rebels was against the interests of all ethnic groups in Tibet and also illegal.
In October 1963, the "Tibetan government-in-exile" released a "Tibet Constitution," claiming that Tibet was an "independent nation" and the Dalai Lama was in charge of the "Tibetan government." The Dalai Lama claimed that "It is not true that Tibet is part of China" and demanded that "China withdraw from Tibet." The plot manifested that the illegal government wanted to break with the Chinese Constitution and laws.
On Dec 17, 1964, a plenary session of the State Council passed a decision to remove the Dalai Lama from his post. The document said the Dalai Lama had alienated himself from the motherland and the people after his plots of launching the armed rebellion in 1959, organizing a government in exile and framing the bogus constitution.
Consequently, the Dalai Lama and his "Tibetan government-in-exile" are illegal in nature and are not eligible to represent Tibet and the people living there. Not a single county in the world has ever recognized such a "Tibetan government-in-exile". Any foreign leaders who meet with the monk on any pretext is considered to be supporting the illegal political organization that means to split China.
US president Barack Obama's meeting with the Dalai Lama grossly violated the basic norms governing international relations, and ran counter to the principles set forth in the three China-US joint communiques and the China-US joint statement.
It also went against the repeated commitments made by the US government that the US recognizes Tibet as part of China and gives no support to "Tibet independence." It was markedly inconsistent with the spirit of abolition of slavery upheld by late US president Abraham Lincoln.
