By Chime Tenzing
I am the emperor of the Universe
My element is Venus
My ruling planet Earth
I am the Dragon
With the recent Chinese brouhaha and commotion surrounding the proposed visit of His Holiness the Dalai Lama to the ‘so called’ disputed Indian state of Arunachal, China has once again made it clear, that, it is always aware of its rising ‘economical and military might’ to the extent that it makes no effort in whatsoever ways to respect and behave with its neighbor with the basic sense of political decency!
But, India’s firm position on ‘not stooping to the Chinese pressure’ so far has, in a way, managed to demean the ‘China Shining’ notion from the global mentality! Despite India’s records of kowtowing to communist China, India has restored its image of being one of the potential future challengers to China and a power-in-waiting on the world stage by this simple yet brave act against China’s baseless banter. However, it remains to be seen what turns out in the end vis-à-vis India’s decision not to stop the Dalai Lama from visiting to the state in question.
The latest Chinese pressure on the Bangladeshi’s government to bar a Tibet exhibition (“Into Exile –Tibet 1949-2009”) from conduction on its soils showed us the extent to which the Chinese could traverse to brag about its political influence, even to a country as aloof as Bangladesh which had remained ‘uncharted’ so far from being used as China’s barricade to stop any ‘anti-China’ activities from happening. Eventually, as expected, due to such ‘fear psychosis’ among world’s leaders today, Bangladesh also succumbed to the Chinese political caveat and did not allow the exhibition to see the light of the day on its soil.
Despite His Holiness the Dalai Lama’s repeated clarification – that his more-than-frequent visits abroad being religious in nature, China is invariably hell-bent on terming his frequent travels as ‘political ’and ‘dangerous’ to the state. Due to this fear or insecurity they never seem to rest their arse from going about warning the leaders of the host country against meeting with the spiritual guru whom they termed as ‘splittist’, ‘monk in a wolf’s robe’ and accusing him of waging war from foreign soil to ‘dismantle China’s unity’. Such vituperative and slanderous charges against the Dalai Lama and the Tibetans (Dalai clique) have become a kind of rare addiction for them, from which they can not get out so easily!
Similarly, a series of attacks have been aimed against the Dalai Lama during his current visit to Japan and as expected, the Japanese Prime Minster has ‘shied away’ from according a state welcome to the Dalai Lama in the fear of upsetting the Chinese bosses. The shadow of the Chinese influence has already reached New Zealand. As early as November, the Prime Minister of New Zealand has already announced his intention of not meeting with the Dalai Lama during His Holiness’ forthcoming visit to New Zealand in the month of December. The reason is obvious.
Beginning with Obama’s drama to the recent Bangladeshi ‘chamchagiri’ to China, the world has come to a full circle under the shadow of the communist China. The wings of the Dragon had flapped even the mighty America to death!
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