The tag 'Dalai Lama' is associated with 22 posts.

Live From Lhasa

Shaky cell-phone videos from Tibet fore­tell doom for the Chi­nese empire. by Anne Apple­baumSLATE Cell-phone pho­tographs and videos from Tibet, blurry and ama­teur, are cir­cu­lat­ing on the Inter­net. Some show clouds of tear gas; oth­ers burn­ing build­ings and shops; still oth­ers purple-robed monks, riot police, and con­fu­sion. Watch­ing them, it is impos­si­ble not to remember [...]

FTR #616 Going Native, Part 3: Homeland Insecurity

Recorded Octo­ber 28, 2007 MP3: Side 1 | Side 2 REALAUDIO Con­tin­u­ing analy­sis from FTR#550, this pro­gram looks at the use of native, “unrep­re­sented” peo­ples by polit­i­cal ele­ments that don’t appear to be gen­uinely con­cerned with the wel­fare of those pop­u­la­tion groups. Specif­i­cally, we look at a strange brew of Tibetan Bud­dhists, Mon­go­lian Bud­dhists, Islamists [...]

FTR #615 Going Native, Part 2 German Foreign Policy and Its Implications

Recorded Octo­ber 21, 2007 MP3: Side 1 | Side 2 REALAUDIO Con­tin­u­ing analy­sis from FTR#550, this pro­gram looks at the use of native, “unrep­re­sented” peo­ples by polit­i­cal ele­ments that don’t appear to be gen­uinely con­cerned with the wel­fare of those pop­u­la­tion groups. Specif­i­cally, we look at a strange brew of Tibetan Bud­dhists, Mon­go­lian Bud­dhists, Islamists [...]

Strategies of Attrition (IV)

GermanForeignPolicy.com[See also Strate­gies of Attri­tion (I), Strate­gies of Attri­tion (II) and Strate­gies of Attri­tion (III).] BERLIN/URUMQI/MUNICH/BEIJING(Own report) — Ger­man for­eign pol­icy mak­ers, are upping their polit­i­cal pres­sure on Bei­jing, and hold­ing talks with a Chi­nese sep­a­ratist. As the Munich based “World Uyghur Con­gress (WUC)” announced, its pres­i­dent, Rebiya Kadeer will also be received by the [...]

Strategies of Attrition (III)

GermanForeignPolicy.com[See also Strate­gies of Attri­tion (I) and Strate­gies of Attri­tion (II).] LHASA/BEIJING/ULAAN BAATAR/BERLIN(Own report) — Last week­end, par­lia­men­tar­i­ans of the Ger­mano­phonic minor­ity in North­ern Italy (“South Tyrol”) vis­it­ing the head­quar­ters of the Tibetan “exile gov­ern­ment” in India, declared Tibet’s being part of the People’s Repub­lic of China to be “ille­gal” and called for the secession [...]

Strategies of Attrition (II)

GermanForeignPolicy.com [See also Strate­gies of Attri­tion (I) and Strate­gies of Attri­tion (III).] BEIJING/LHASA/BERLIN(Own report) — Ger­man politi­cians have announced an esca­la­tion of the chancellor’s Tibet offen­sive. Accord­ing to com­ments made by the Prime Min­is­ter of Hesse, Roland Koch (CDU), Angela Merkel’s meet­ing with the Dalai Lama is only the begin­ning of large scale inter­fer­ence into [...]

Strategies of Attrition (I)

GermanForeignPolicy.com[See also Strate­gies of Attri­tion (II) and Strate­gies of Attri­tion (III).] BEIJING/LHASA/BERLIN(Own report) — The Ger­man chan­cel­lor is rein­forc­ing Berlin’s spe­cial rela­tion­ships to Chi­nese sep­a­ratists, in spite of Beijing’s mas­sive protests. The Dalai Lama had talks in the Ger­man Chan­cellery, for the first time, Sun­day, Sept. 23. He is the leader of a self-proclaimed Tibetan [...]

FTR #587 Update on September 11 and Related Matters

Odyssey of Sami al-Arian, Islamic ter­ror­ist and polit­i­cal asso­ciate of George Bush.

FTR #550 Going Native

Tibetan Bud­dhists, Islamists and Pan-Turkists work­ing under the aus­pices of the House of Hab­s­burg in order to pre­cip­i­tate the seces­sion of Xin­jiang province from China.

FTR #549 The Pan-Turkist Movement, the Underground Reich and the Earth Island

Oper­a­tional links between Islamist sep­a­ratist ele­ments in Xin­jiang, Pan-Turkist sep­a­ratist ele­ments in that province, and the milieu of the Dalai Lama.