The International Herald Tribune: China Criticizes US Senate Over Tibet Resolution
by Danny Fisher
The International Herald Tribune reports that China has criticized the U.S. and accused it of “supporting Tibetan independence” following the passage of a bipartisan Senate resolution on Wednesday that urged Beijing to “hold serious talks with supporters of the Dalai Lama” and also “called for China to allow more religious freedom in Tibet.” (A U.S. State Department report released earlier this week showed that repression of religious freedom intensified in the Xinjiang province of China and in Tibet over the past year.)
Your blog does a good job on these kinds of issues, but I’d note that the world financial markets are doing gyrations unknown since the Great Depression … and if that’s not a Buddhist issue I don’t know what is…all kinds of concepts such as suffering, greed, ignorance, and right livelihood are all mixed up in this.
Hey, Mumon:
Thanks for your comment. I have two responses:
1.) I have been posting about the world’s financial woes, most recently in this post. I also feel like I post pretty regularly about global poverty and other issues of gross disparity in the world.
2.) I can’t possibly cover every issue at this blog, so I concentrate on the ones I feel most conversant in. Ergo, you’ll probably see more substantive posting about Burma and the Sino-Tibetan conflict than you will about financial news. (Which is not to say that that’s not relevant or important–it certainly is–but I’m not as confident in my ability to talk about it as I am in my ability to talk about certain Buddhist countries.)
DCF
Danny:
Re point 1: Sorry I missed that Friday post; you’re quite prolific.
Re point 2: I kinda got that point too. I have a Ph.D. in a technical field (and could easily have wound up on Wall St. but for fate), but I assure you that even those with noble intentions and the technical qualifications don’t have all the answers. But we should at least agree on certain principles.
Which I know you do.