[Buddha-l] Chinese Distrust in Tibet

[jkirk]

http://www.feer.com/politics/2009/march53/distrust-in-tibet

Distrust in Tibet
by Alex Pasternack
Posted March 12, 2009 

Alex Pasternack, a Beijing-based free-lance writer, interviewed
Robert Barnett, adjunct professor of contemporary Tibetan studies
and director of the modern Tibetan studies program at Columbia
University, in Beijing on March 6. [article follows]

Buddhist content here only in the views Barnett states, saying
that China needs to "stop bans on religion, stop banning students
from religion, stop banning the Dalai Lama, stop banning his
photographs, immediately bring in commissions to regulate the
migration of non-Tibetans. Stop pushing short-sighted GDP growth.
Do human capacity-building. And you build yourself 10 years of
good will instantly."  This interview is more informative than a
lot I've come across recently having to do with the anniversary
of China invading Tibet.

Joanna