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Americans are using Tibet to disrupt China’s Olympic games?
By admin | March 30, 2008
“In my darker moments I tend to think that the Americans are using Tibet to disrupt China’s Olympic games and thereby seek to weaken its position as an emerging world power and that Australia is dangerously meddling in a battle between a dwindling giant and an emerging super power. Personally I am surprised that Lu Kewen could be so stupid!
In no particular order:
AS the China - Tibet story catches the western world’s attention we are now beginning to see press stories (see below) decrying the wicked Chinese and their imperialistic tendencies while lauding the Dalai Lama. Having seen personally the economic and social havoc caused by having a large proportion of a country’s male youth sidelined into prayer rather than gainful activity, I find the veneration of the Dalai Lama perverse. In essence I think that Lobsang Rampa who idealised the position of the Dalai Lama from a seat in a British museum has a lot to answer for as he successfully perpetrated a fraud that led to the veneration of a religious despot, for want of a better description, by much of the west. (Rampa’s book The Third Eye was widely read by western youth involved in the psychedelic revolution / change of consciousness movement and has in my opinion continued to cloud the West’s judgement.)
The Bloomberg article: “Rudd, Bush Urge China to Hold Talks With Dalai Lama, Supporters” … March 28 (Bloomberg) — Excerpt: “Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd and President George W. Bush today urged the Chinese to meet with the Dalai Lama to discuss human rights in Tibet” end excerpt– is almost bizzare in that Bush’s America with 1 in 10 black males in jail and Australia’s woeful record on Aboriginal health and longevity qualify both countries as being prime human rights deniers suddenly have become arbiters of human rights and seek to lecture the Chinese. Perhaps Bush and Rudd’s positions should be checked until their own back yards reflect better on them.
By many measures China has helped the Tibetans live longer, healthier lives: “After the Democratic Reform in Tibet, mortality declined by a large margin. The decrease in the mortality rate has slowed down since 1970. The mortality rate had fallen from 28 per 1,000 in the 1950s to 6.60 per 1,000 in 2000. The model of age-specific death rates is in the stage of transferring from the traditional “U-shaped” model to the modern “J-shaped” model. The death rates for males were higher than those for females. There was a wide gap between urban and rural people in the death rates. Mortality at all ages in Tibet was much higher than the national average. The death rates in each age groups in rural areas were higher than those in urban areas. The infant mortality rate was very high in Tibet with a great difference between the sexes. But the infant mortality rate had fallen from 430 per 1,000 in 1951, 91.8 per 1,000 in 1990 to 35.3 per 1,000 by the year 2000. In 1990, life expectancy in Tibet has reached 59.64 years, 57.64 for male and 61.57 for female.” http://www.unescap.org/esid/psis/population/database/chinadata/tibet.htm“
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