“Former Chinese People’s Liberation Army photographer Lan Zhigui, left, shows his guests one of the photographs in his photo exhibition, Witnessing the Democratic Reform in Tibet from 1950 to 1970, in Beijing on Saturday.” Photo by Goh Chai Hin for AFP/Getty Images.
Here’s the latest on Tibet:
The New York Times reports that Google announced Tuesday that YouTube has been blocked in China. Google says it does not know why the site has been blocked, but the Associated Press reports that Chinese media is the Dalai Lama’s supporters of fabricating the recently-released video that shows (among other things) Chinese police beating handcuffed Tibetan protestors in Lhasa last year.
The Agence France-Presse reports that Lodi Gyari, His Holiness the Dalai Lama’s chief envoy, has said that Chinese Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi told US President Barack Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton “absolutely, totally baseless lies about the proposal I submitted [on the issue of Tibet].”
The Times also reports that “organizers of a peace conference that was to have been attended by five Nobel Peace Prize winners in Johannesburg said Tuesday that they had canceled the conference after the South African government denied entry to the Dalai Lama.” South African Nobel laureates, Archishop Desmond Tutu and former President F. W. de Klerk, both “condemned the government for giving in to pressure from China to block the Dalai Lama’s entry and said they would refuse to participate in the conference this Friday if he was not there.”
According to the AP, the South African government responded by stating that His Holiness would not be welcome “until after the 2010 football World Cup for fear that Tibet will overshadow all other issues.”
Reuters reports that “France sought to heal its fraught relationship with China on Tuesday with a conference that emphasised trade and business ties but eschewed any talk of political flashpoints such as Tibet.”
Lastly, USA Today writes about “celebrations” around China’s politically calculated “Serf Liberation Day” (which falls on the same day as the anniversary of the Tibetan Uprising in Lhasa in 1959).
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“Former Chinese People’s Liberation Army photographer Lan Zhigui, left, shows his guests one of the photographs in his photo exhibition, Witnessing the Democratic Reform in Tibet from 1950 to 1970, in Beijing on Saturday.” Photo by Goh Chai Hin for AFP/Getty Images.
