nice headline, BBC!
Nov. 10th, 2008 03:49 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
winterbadger Tibetans blamed [by Chinese] for failed talks
Pretty biased headline with those words missing.
But Zhu Weiqun, of the Chinese Communist Party's United Front Work Department, said the talks had not got anywhere.
"Our contacts and talks failed to make progress and [the Tibetans] should assume full responsibility for it," he told a press conference.
The Dalai Lama, the head of Tibetans in exile, has previously said he does not want independence for Tibet, only meaningful autonomy.
But Mr Zhu said that a memorandum presented by the Tibetans to the Chinese during the latest talks showed they had not given up their dream of independence.
"They aimed at revising the constitution so that this separatist group could actually possess the power of an independent state," said Mr Zhu.
He added that China would not accept "independence, half-independence or covert independence".
The memorandum also contained other proposals that were unacceptable, such as a plan to withdraw Chinese troops from Tibetan areas, Mr Zhu said.
He claimed the plan would give non-Tibetans less rights in the region, a move that he described as "ethnic cleansing".
Mr Zhu also claimed Tibetans had continued to disrupt the Beijing Olympic Games, despite promises to support the event.
So, let me get this straight. You invade someone else's country, set up a puppet government, and begin to force mass migrations of your own population there so as to change the ethnic balance. And then when the original inhabitants want a little bit of autonomy, to have your army move out, and to not be simply swamped by the people you've imported to their country, you accuse them of being obstructive. Yeah, I've never really been able to muster any sympathy for China (or other countries I could name that behave this way...)
Pretty biased headline with those words missing.
But Zhu Weiqun, of the Chinese Communist Party's United Front Work Department, said the talks had not got anywhere.
"Our contacts and talks failed to make progress and [the Tibetans] should assume full responsibility for it," he told a press conference.
The Dalai Lama, the head of Tibetans in exile, has previously said he does not want independence for Tibet, only meaningful autonomy.
But Mr Zhu said that a memorandum presented by the Tibetans to the Chinese during the latest talks showed they had not given up their dream of independence.
"They aimed at revising the constitution so that this separatist group could actually possess the power of an independent state," said Mr Zhu.
He added that China would not accept "independence, half-independence or covert independence".
The memorandum also contained other proposals that were unacceptable, such as a plan to withdraw Chinese troops from Tibetan areas, Mr Zhu said.
He claimed the plan would give non-Tibetans less rights in the region, a move that he described as "ethnic cleansing".
Mr Zhu also claimed Tibetans had continued to disrupt the Beijing Olympic Games, despite promises to support the event.
So, let me get this straight. You invade someone else's country, set up a puppet government, and begin to force mass migrations of your own population there so as to change the ethnic balance. And then when the original inhabitants want a little bit of autonomy, to have your army move out, and to not be simply swamped by the people you've imported to their country, you accuse them of being obstructive. Yeah, I've never really been able to muster any sympathy for China (or other countries I could name that behave this way...)
