Tibet Peaceful Liberation Celebrations, Central gov't delegation arrives in Lhasa
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A delegation of China's central government arrives in Lhasa, capital of southwest China's Tibet Autonomous Region, on July 17, 2011. The delegation came to attend the celebrations marking the 60th anniversary of Tibet's peaceful liberation. (Xinhua/Xie Huanchi)
BEIJING -- China on Sunday slammed President Barack Obama's meeting with the Dalai Lama as an act that has "grossly interfered in China's internal affairs" and damaged Chinese-American relations.
The strident statement from China's Foreign Ministry came hours after Obama met with the Tibetan spiritual leader and Nobel Peace Prize laureate, who was in Washington for an 11-day Buddhist ritual.
China had already called on the United States to stop Saturday's meeting, warning it could hurt relations between the two countries.
After the 45-minute private session at the White House, China said the Foreign Ministry and the Chinese Embassy had lodged objections with U.S. representatives in Beijing and Washington.
"Such an act has grossly interfered in China's internal affairs, hurt the feelings of the Chinese people and damaged Sino-American relations," Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Ma Zhaoxu said in the statement.
"We demand the U.S. side seriously consider China's stance, immediately adopt measures to wipe out the baneful impact, stop interfering in China's internal affairs and cease to connive and support anti-China separatist forces that seek 'Tibetan independence,'" Ma said.
Dharamsala (Himachal Pradesh), July 17: Social activists and intellectuals assailed the China's attitude to eliminate the Tibetan cultural heritage.
They were participating in a function to mark the release of a book titled 'Imposing Modernity with Chinese Characteristics: The Fate of Tibetan Civilisation' on the cultural genocide committed by China on Saturday.
The book was released at the Tibetan Centre for Human Rights and Democracy (TCHRD).
This publication is a concise report on the alleged cultural genocide that China is committing in Tibet with the Tibetan language, customs and other cultural aspects.
Anant Kumar Asthana, a representative of the Human Rights Law and a co-author of the book, stated that this book makes a clear attempt to look into China's role in the eradication of the original Tibetan culture in Tibet.
"This book is making an attempt to examine the charges of committing cultural genocide in Tibet on People's Republic of China. So this book is a kind of fresh attempt to look into the latest realities and to see whether whatever is happening in Tibet amounts to cultural genocide or not. So this book is an inquiry into that," said Asthana.Ugyen Tenzin, Director of TCHRD stated that the book exposes China's misdeeds with the culture of Tibet.
"The cultural genocide taking place in Tibet is the Chinese government's systematic policy of eliminating the Tibetan culture, identity and language. That kind of a thing is taking place inside Tibet. So we have brought out in this report that how Tibetan identity and culture are being eliminated inside Tibet. The Chinese are claiming that lots of development is taking place inside Tibet. But are the developments benefiting all the Tibetans?" he said.
The researchers of the book have interviewed newly arrived refugees from Tibet explaining why there is such a massive retaliation and opposition towards the developments and why it failed to persuade Tibetans to remain within China.
An estimated 80,000 Tibetans, along with their spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama, arrived in India in 1959 after an unsuccessful uprising against the Chinese rule
