听其言 看其行 Ting Qi Yan Kan Qi Xing. In English, the sentence translates to "Listen to his Words; but Watch his Steps." This is a Chinese axiom that should underpin and frame the proposed dialogue Beijing and His Holliness, the Dalai Lama. The people of China, the masses, laobaixing 老百姓, the youths, and intellectuals are watching ! And to His Holiness, I respectfully say, from "Spatium Trientis" :
""Watch your back, in Dharsamsala, because those are your vulnerabilies from India within your own exile government which you naively consider "family.""
The Chinese also have an age-old saying, "Xiu Xin Qi Jia Zhi Guo Ping Tian Xia 修心 齐家 治国 平天下. " Right now, the Dalai Lama can't even take care of his own family in Dharamsala, India, with his own house in disarray. Beware the politics of mixing politics with religion, Your Holiness.
The "backstabbers" behind His Holliness from the Tibetan Youth Congress (TYC), operating in Dharamsala with Western secret intelligence financing and logistics, have been suspected to be behind much of the violence instigated by "agent provocateurs" from within Tibet and elsewhere in the "dogging of the Olympics torch relay. And these youths are capitalizing on this violence.
See what Chinese authorities from Xinhua have said about TYC by clicking:
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2008-04/10/content_7954661.htm
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2008-04/28/content_8065545.htm
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2008-04/18/content_8006200.htm
Before I get into my blog below about the latest news about TIBET, consider wikiing the subject matter and put it in perspective from even an acknowledgedly pro-West viewpoint.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tibet
Spatium Trientis has a "Third eye" in "Third Space" reading the signals emanating from both EAST and WEST, regarding the most intractable contentious issue of our time, CHINA-WEST, and US-CHINA relations, at its cusp of another major collision of "Tsunami" force.
A day after Xinhua news in China first reported that China's Central government has indicated that Beijing is open to another dialogue with His Holliness, the Dalai Lama, the news is abuzz both inside and outside of China.
As usual, the Western governments and the biased Western news media, are spinning their story through their biased, China-bashing prisms. Worse, they have failed to see the "big picture" or "da qu mien."
What exactly was the Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson saying in the announcement to engage the Dalai Lama in talks ? In context, this is at least the 7th time that talks have been reported before the public eye, excluding those from behind the scene. Click on Xinhua News directly?
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2008-04/17/content_7998026.htm
Consider the key words, by the spokesperson of China's foreign ministry:
"We have repeated that as long as Dalai gives up activities of separating the motherland, disrupting the Beijing Olympic Games and inciting violent sabotage, we are willing to continue contacts and talks with him...."
Consider further how the Washington Post spun the story:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/04/26/AR2008042601655.html
The divergence is more than alarming. It is downright misguided and irresponsible for the Western news media to distort the nuanced language which China's governing officials have publicly stated.
The key, in my view from Spatium Trientis, is not just the Dalai Lama talking the "A" word, but walking the "A" word, and doing the "Do" word.
Borrowing from my African-American friends, this jive about the "A" word, is not just
"Talking the Talk; but Walking the Walk; and Doing the Do" about the "A" word, i.e. Autonomy.
As most Black folks know, can feel, and react in disgust against the "N" word, as expressed by the white man, compared to as expressed from the mouth of a Black person, the "N" word is totally different when spewed out from the mouth of a white racist, whether an overt or a covert white racist, and they Black folks know it when they hear it, see it, and know what the hidden offensive and hurtful intent is of the "N" word. And you can't lie to them about it, dudes !
Ditto with the "A" word camouflaging the real "I" word, Independence. Now being circulated around by "TEAM TIBET-SHANGRI LA." It just won't cut it anymore.
What makes the "A" topic excruciatingly intractable, from all Chinese standpoint, whether official government or the public "laobaixing" of China, its masses of citizenry, is how His Holliness interprets "Autonomy," and how he defines " Greater Tibet."
Again, click on Wikipedia and see the incongruence and hugh chasm between not just the Dalai Lama and China's officials, but between China and the West on this subject, and how the Western news media, e.g. Washington Post, is spinning it through their biased lenses by clicking below :
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tibet
From Spatium Trientis, watching from my perch, I am afraid His Holliness, assuming he is genuinely sincere, arguendo, I am afraid his back flank, from Dharamsala, from his rears through the exile government in Dharsamsala, and from radical saffron militants supported by the CIA, and the Tibetan Youth Congress, will not enable the Dalai Lama talk "peace and reconciliation, harmony and non-violence.' It is the "I" word they want from Dharsamsala, no "if" and "buts" about it. And the Dalai Lama, I am afraid, can't "walk the walk, and do the do," even if he means well with the "talk" of the "A" word.
The signals from the non-Western world, around China's fringes cannot be more telling; consider that at this time, at this juncture. China's officials are now engaged in consultation with Russian and Pakistan officials.
These are two countries which governments the West would not like to offend nor insult at this time, at this juncture, nor antagonize. Taking on Vladimir Putin ? Or Pervez Mussaraf or who might behind Mussaraf? Be real, WEST. Click on below if you don't believe me:
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2008-04/18/content_8004989.htm and
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2008-04/26/content_8056950.htm
The game after London, Paris, and San Francisco has shifted against "TEAM TIBET-SHANGRI-LA" now favoring "TEAM CHINA."
And the dragon has stirred all over the world, where there are ethnic Chinese, inside and outside of the Diaspora.
Consider that at this time, the Western news media, including the San Francisco Chronicle, in the name of a "free press" has completely blacked out and embargoed the story about a massive Anti-CNN, Anti-Jack Cafferty protest rally yesterday, Saturday, April 26, 2008, at the local offices of CNN in San Francisco.
By conservative estimate, over 3,000 to 5,000 Chinese-Americans, of all political hues and shades, showed up to protest against China Bashing and against a biased and racist Western news media, with CNN's dumb jackass "talking head" Jack Cafferty being the "designated poster boy."
Since our local American English mainstream newspaper, the SF Chronicle, won't cover the story, and embargoed the news, I thought that those of you overseas might want to read the story in Chinese through the local Chinese newspapers, Ming Pao 明報 and Sing Tao 星島 in Chinese. (Consider that 1/4 of San Francisco's inhabitants are ethnic Chinese) Click on:
http://www.mingpaosf.com/htm/News/20080427/sa1.htm
http://www.singtaousa.com/index1.html
Consider that unlike the San Francisco Chronicle, the local paper here, in Los Angeles Times in the Southland has the professional integrity to the news as it is, and not as the white folks want the news to be, on the story about the anti-CNN Jack Cafferty protests in Los Angeles. Click on how the Los Angeles Times cover the story from the Southland, and compare the embargo and blackout in the Northland in San Francisco:
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-chinese26apr26,0,6415623.story
The downright biases and China bashing posture of most of the Western News media is palpable and convincing.
And in the West, their leaders and their biased shills in the Western news media have failed to grasp a fundamental point:
"The fate of TIBET is out of the hands of the Chinese government. It is in the hands of the Chinese peoples --- 1.4 billion of them, inside and outside of China, in the Chinese Diaspora."
"No governments, no leaders, EAST or WEST, can compromise on China's territorial integrity and sovereignty. "
"No Chinese, political or cultural descendants of the Yellow Emperor, will allow it. "
"The Dragon awakes. A cultural reawakening has been re-ignited.
"The Spirit of the May 4th Movement ( of 1919) 五四運動 has been rekindled among all Chinese around the world, whether they are political or apolitical or simply cultural. " Click on for more about May 4th Movement 五四運動 :
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/May_4th_Movement
And as can be seen readily, even by the biased Western news media, the tide has shifted, after London, Paris, and San Francisco. After Canbrerra, the "protect the torch" forces behind "TEAM CHINA" has mobilized and overwhelmed "TEAM TIBET-SHANGRI-LA" overwhelmingly. Click on the latest torch relay in SEOUL, South Korea as reported by the biased prism of the New York Times:
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/27/world/asia/27cnd-torch.html?_r=1&hp&oref=slogin
Want to pick a fight with 1.4 billion Chinese around the world, dude, or ex-massah or ex-Sahib or ex-Western imperialists and ex-colonialists ? Want to pick on CHINDIA ?
When you can't even finish a war in Iraq with your "Coalition of the Willing" in Iraq and Afghanistan? And are now trying to prick Iran, the old great Persian civilization, cradle of human civilization ?
帮帮忙 Bang Bang Mang ! Go figure out what these words mean, Dude, if you are not dumb or drugged or drunk enough already.
