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Signed Article Refutes US Report on Tibet

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A signed article published Monday refutes a US report on so-called Tibet negotiations. Citing historical data and present-day facts, the article, titled "What is the real intention of the United States" by writer Hua Zi, criticizes the US government's gross interference in China's internal affairs.

US President George W. Bush submitted a report on so-called Tibet negotiations consistent with section 613, foreign relations authorization act, 2003 to the Congress on May 8, 2003.

The article points out that the report on one the hand reiterates that the United States recognizes the Tibet Autonomous Region to be part of the People's Republic of China, whereas it claims on the other hand that it supports the Dalai Lama's "Middle Way Approach" of seeking "genuine autonomy".

The US report says an "important objective" of the United States is to encourage the Chinese government and the Dalai Lama to hold substantive dialogue, to lead to a negotiated settlement on "questions related to Tibet."

Hua Zi says in the article that there would have been no "Tibet issue" in the world, just as there have been no "Washington issue "and "New York issue".

The "Tibet issue" essentially arose from the fact that for nearly a century western imperialist forces had fostered and supported Tibetan separatists attempting to separate Tibet from China.

Hua Zi says that at present, the "Tibet issue" would not exist, if the United States and other western countries don't support the Dalai clique, if the Dalai clique gives up its intention of achieving "Tibet independence" or independence in disguised forms, and stops activities of splitting the country.

"The United States should not shun the essence of the issue," says Hua Zi.

The article reviews what the US government has done on the "Tibet issue" for the past half a century and more. It notes that in this period every instability in Tibet had resulted from the disruption and sabotage by the Tibetan separatists, and behind them were some US and other western anti-China activists.

The US report on the one hand recognizes Tibet to be part of China and doesn't recognize Tibet as an independent state, while on the other, it holds that the Dalai Lama represents the views of the vast majority of Tibetans. Such a view is quite illogical if not ill-natured, the article says.

The article points out that it is not the US government or the Dalai Lama, who has been away from his home country and religious followers for more than four decades, but the Chinese government and the Tibet Autonomous Regional government that best know how to safeguard the fundamental interests of the Tibetan people, including protecting the Tibetan language, religion and cultural heritage.

The US concern about the "Tibet issue" is not for the purposes of protecting Tibetan people's language, religion, cultural heritage, the human rights and freedom of the Tibetan people, and China's stability, says the article.

Both the "Tibet issue" and the Dalai Lama are used as a card by the US anti-China force in its attempt to contain China, says the article.

The article says that the US government, by distorting the facts, has tried its best to puff the Dalai Lama. It has patently profaned the will of several million Tibetan people in China. By putting pressures or even threat on the Chinese government, it is interfering in China's internal affairs, which hurts the progress of Tibet, the stability of Chinese society, and the improvement and development of Sino-US relations. Such interference can but meet with firm opposition from the Chinese government and create further distrust in the United States by all Chinese people including Tibetans.

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