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Article: Brooking no Dalai; Tibet; China's contacts with the Dalai Lama.(Asia)(some see a partial softening in the Chinese stance against Tibet)(Brief Article)
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- The Economist (US)
- Article date:
- December 16, 2000
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"OUR struggle against the Dalai Lama clique is one between ourselves and the enemy in nature, a life-and-death class struggle." So says China's new Communist Party secretary in Tibet, Guo Jinlong. Yet watchers of Tibet think the appointment of Mr Guo marks an easing of China's treatment of its "autonomous region". He can scarcely be more hardline than Chen Kuiyuan, his brutal and benighted predecessor. And the Tibet Information Network in London reports that various bans on religious activities have recently been relaxed.
There is another, more telling scrap of evidence of a softer line: China has admitted to "channels of contact" between the authorities in ...