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March 31 To time magazine, an essayDear Time Magazine:
Dalai Lama is probably spiritual, but more importantly, he is stratistical. To the rest of the world, the recent protest in Lhasa seemed to suggest the strong will of ordinary Tibetan for their independence. However, it must have read differently for Dalai Lama, for the protest was neither peaceful nor spiritual and was mostly in the form of vandalism and violence toward Han people shops and mechandises owned by Han people. It must seem quite obvious to Dalai Lama that underlying the protest was the resentment that Tibetan people cannot own or afford things that the Han people living right next door can. And that is something he knows he cannot address without China's help. Therefore, on one hand, he accuses Chinese government for occupation, cleverly ignoring the rise in literacy, the decrease in infant mortality rate, grows of economics, most of which owed to Chinese government's effort; on the other hand, he does not ask for Tibet independence either, because he knows only too well that even a national independence won't improve the lives of ordinary Tibetans.
It's time that the Western countries look at this issue realistically.
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