Dalai Lama: Faith in China Shrinking
The Dalai Lama told reporters on Sunday that his faith in China’s willingness to come to some kind of compromise is shrinking.
The Dalai Lama has tried to convince the Chinese to agree to a compromise, which would give Tibetans more autonomy to practice their culture and religion, while being part of China nonetheless.
Now, after many decades of patient negotiations, the Dalai Lama says the situation in Tibet is deteriorating and that talking to China has proved quite useless.
The sad fact of the matter in this specific case is that the Tibetans are, perhaps, the least violent people in the world, who will try to find a peaceful solution when everyone else is telling them it’s not going to work. Nonetheless, they try and the Dalai Lama tried. All out of the belief that violence is inherently evil and that patience will in the end be rewarded.
But that is not always the case.
The situation is looking increasingly grim, with little to no hope left for Tibetans and their wonderful, peaceful culture.
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Gee – it’s only been almost 60 years now that Communist China has occupied Tibet. And they have never shown any willingness to give up any control whatsoever. And he’s just figuring this out now?