A break for Tibet.(Dalai Lama offers China a compromise concerning Tibet)(Brief Article)

From: The Economist (US) | Date: November 14, 1998 | Copyright information

If China does not talk to the Dalai Lama, Tibet will turn uglier

THOSE looking for confirmation that China is a responsible, pragmatic power are confounded by its treatment of Tibet. The harsh and paranoid rhetoric hurled from Beijing this week at Tibetans and their exiled leader, the Dalai Lama, is torn straight from the copybook that Lenin used to subjugate Turkestan. The same Communist leaders who display their sophistication at international gatherings keep incarcera...

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