[Buddha-l] Tibetan Exiles Meeting Over Strategy

[Christopher Fynn]

Weng-Fai Wong wrote:

> Unfortunately all the cards are on China's side. Esp. with this financial
> tsunami, all eyes are on how China will use its vast reserves to directly
> and indirectly help them out. The Tibetans have very little room for
> maneuver.
> 
> W.F. Wong

Yes - An example is that, for the first time, the British Foreign 
Secretary recently said "Like every other EU member state, and the 
United States, we regard Tibet as part of the People's Republic of 
China". Previously the UK position was that  "Tibet had never been fully 
part of China."

This change of policy is significant as the UK was one of the few 
countries which formerly had relations with Tibet and had signed 
agreements with Tibet. I hardly think it is just a coincidence that this 
change of policy came at the same time PM Gordon Brown was begging China 
to contribute some of it's huge stash of dollars to bail out the 
international financial system.

<http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/7730774.stm>



- Chris