To My friends from China and all Chinese around the world:
I know you are out there.
Many of you have been pained, anguished, and horrified by the travesty which has accompanied the highly politicized Olympics torch as it winds its way towards Beijing.
We can do better to tone down the rhetoric and push for the depolitization of the Olympics.
But at the same time, we can do so in a respectful and intelligent way. Yes, with passion and firm conviction, too. And we must tell the West that they can't interlope and interfere in China's sovereign affairs.
In short, "Butt Off, West." "Don't run ahead of the race."
I know the issue of Tibet and the Dalai Lama have gripped and taken all of us "goodwill" Huaren netizens in the internet, inside and outside China, in our Diasporic communities.
Many of us feel that we have been held hostage and this subject of Tibet has drowned out and superceded and pushed over everything else that matter in the spirit of these Olympics Games. We have seen the incivility and insults against the Chinese in London, Paris, and San Francisco.
I feel that unless we all act together, the forces of evil will triumph over the goodness that all of us have who support China's role in its rightful place before the world, hosting the Beijing Olympics games in particular.
I also understand why the Dalai Lama is viewed as a "splittist" and considered to be someone who talks from both sides of his mouth, on the one hand talking "autonomy" and then on the other hand, engineering and mobilizing his people from Dharamsala, to push the "I" word, i.e. Independence.
As a Chinese-American, I have seen how the internal forces at play within the Dalai Lama's own movement is viewed with mistrust.
And I know why. The old Chinese adage rings very true, " Watch what I say; but also observe what I do."
I have been in the vortex in San Francisco where the Dalai Lama's troops schemed, machinate, and produced their anti-China narrative, twisted Tibetan history, and pander to a naive, ignorant, and even stupid American public. His forces are very good at spin, especially directed towards the naive and ignorant public in the West, including its equally naive and ignorant public officials.
The Dalai Lama can't tell people he is for "non-violence" when we all see before our own eyes how his Tibetan supporters rioted in Llasa, and elsewhere inside Western China, including in Qinghai, Chengdu, etc. Those riots, further, were distorted in the West by Western news media through their "biased lenses" to portray that it was the Chinese government who abused the rioters, instead of the rioters abusing innocent, ordinary citizens.
Truth be told, the narrative has been twisted, distorted, and massaged by the Western press and amplified by Western governments. And we are calling the Western news media, on it. A free press? More like a reckless, irresponsible, China-bashing press.
The Dalai can't talk "non-violence' when his own supporters in the West, including in Europe and in America, assault, mau-mau, scream, hector, and uncivilly engage those of us in support of the Beijing Olympics 2008, in a relentless and vicious campaign of uncivil, rude, boorish, hooliganistic behavior.
He can't talk "non-violence" when the assaults by his "political monks" exceeded the boundaries of what religious men and women should and ought to do.
Buddhism is about peace. Yes. But we know and I have also seen violent buddhists, including buddhist monks in other parts of Asia, e.g. Vietnam, Burman, Korea, Japan, breach the call of "non-violence" and project violence and attack others. This is buddhism perverted. It is politics masked in religious verneer, with a theocratic hidden agenda.
Whenever politics get mixed up with religion, it is a "powder keg." The latest attempt to use the Beijing Olympics as a stage to soundblast, amplify, and push politically the cause of separatism inside China, is a manifestation of Western powers' neo-imperialist ambitions to destabilize and attack its western fringe, with hidden motives.
All of these, in my view, is designed to use the Olympics games, as a stage to push his "I" narrative, i.e. Independence, while mouthing the "A" word, "autonomy" while orchestrating and fomenting the divisve forces within China's polity.
You can't have it both ways, your Holliness. And to the West, we see through your hidden motives. And we are calling you on it.
I say this in all sincerity to the supporters of the Dalai Lama:
"I have seen your troops operate right here in San Francisco, in a boorish, uncivil, and downright rude behavior while the Dalai Lama professed innocence, and talk "non-violence."
"It is not "non-violent" when in Paris, a clearly disabled Chinese female youth in a wheelchair trying to carry the Olympics torch was assaulted by your "Team Tibet-Shangri La" supporter.
And I hear nothing from you when this mortified youth probably will have nightmares because of this assault."
Getting back to my call to all Huarens: let's work to steer the course of this catamaran sailing boat to ensure that rational voices of reason, mutual respect, and intelligence come into play in China-West relations.
Let's lower the din of yelling, screaming, and incivility.
And let's work truthfully to ensure that a respectful dialogue be started within China, without outside interloping, especially from the West, to make sure that China succeeds, without the forces of separatism and secession pushing to insult and worse harm our civilization for the long run.
Calling Huarens inside and outside of China: lets work to tell the West to butt out.
China's problems, as many as there are, are "Our problems" as Huarens. And the West has no right nor standing to interfere.
We can do better. Much better than the incivility, rudeness, and insults that are happening recently in the West.
