"Sarkozy, Dalai Lama ties fuel China's ire; Scholar: Meeting could hurt trade" by Christopher Bodeen, Associated Press | November 30, 2008
BEIJING - .... Trade retaliation is one of the most potent weapons in China's arsenal, and China's decision to pull out of a summit with the European Union that was to have begun yesterday in France has already prompted hand-wringing among French business leaders.
The Chinese aren't stoo-pid! They know where to hurt you (right in the old pocketbook).
More than 150 Chinese business executives had been expected to meet with European counterparts at an event on the summit's sidelines organized by the French employers' lobby Medef. France has "underestimated China's resolution to protect its sovereignty," said Feng, who is the European studies director at the China Institutes of Contemporary International Relations. Feng's institute is associated closely with the Foreign Ministry.
French leaders want to "play the Tibet card and at the same time maintain good economic trade relations with China, which is very difficult to achieve," Feng said. "China doesn't want the West to think that 'OK, we will meet the Dalai Lama and business will go on as usual,"' he said.
China routinely objects strongly to meetings between foreign leaders and the Dalai Lama, who fled Tibet for India in 1959 amid an abortive uprising against Chinese rule. However, the summit's cancellation was a dramatic example of the lengths to which Beijing will go in its campaign to isolate the Dalai Lama internationally.
Abortive uprising? My state school told me China INVADED?! (Arrrrgggh)
China's uncompromising attitude toward the Dalai Lama's calls for greater Tibetan autonomy has hardened further since deadly riots broke out in the Himalayan region in March. Those set off the biggest revolt against Chinese rule in decades, to which China responded by flooding Tibetan areas with heavily armed troops.
Yup, and we know who was behind that -- and why !
Also see: Olympic Happiness
While Beijing sought to remain low key and avoid criticism ahead of the Olympics, authorities have since discarded any such restraint, recently vilifying the Dalai Lama and his followers as racist thugs intent on splitting China and returning feudal theocracy to Tibet.
China says Tibet has been part of its territory for 700 years, although many Tibetans say they were effectively independent for most of that time. Beijing's anger appears to be stoked in part by the fact that the Dalai Lama remains deeply revered among Tibetans and well respected internationally for his commitment to freedom and nonviolence.
Well, I guess you know where the agenda-pushing AmeriKan MSM stands.
Too bad the guy is a FRAUD!!!!
The Dalai Lama blessed a child yesterday upon his arrival in Prague for a meeting with former president Václav Havel. He also had plans to address the Tibet Group in the Czech Parliament. (Petr David Josek/ Associated Press)
I know it is painful, readers; however, the guy is a CIA asset. That explains why the college loved the guy, and the overwhelmingly positive coverage that guy gets in the AmeriKan MSM! Another of life's beliefs is shattered!
The 1989 Nobel Peace Prize recipient has met in recent months with President Bush, Prime Minister Gordon Brown of Britain, and Chancellor Angela Merkel of Germany, drawing protests and differing levels of economic and political retaliation from Beijing.
Look at the MAN of PEACE meeting with all the GLOBALIST SCUM!!! Man, is the respect ever fading fast!
Beijing's latest protests have focused attention on pending Chinese orders for Airbus aircraft made by France, with the company forced to deny rumors of cancellations. China's top three airlines are state-owned, and aircraft orders are timed for maximum political effect. --more--"
Yeah, THANK GOD that AMERICA doesn't award contracts based on POLITICS, huh?
(Blog author once again shaking his head at the s*** journalism)
