Tibet Post International
Yeshe Choesang
Aug 26, 2015
Special Envoy of His Holiness the Dalai Lama, Kasur Lodi Gyari, with Envoy Kelsang Gyaltsen during their meeting with Vice Chairman of Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference Du Qinglin during their meeting on 30 January 2010 afternoon. (Photo credit DIIR/CTA)
Dharamshala — The Chinese central government will never accept the “Middle Way” proposed by the Dala Lama group, China’s United Front said in its official websitein an article pen-named Kelsang.
The article was posted after the Chinese Central Government ended its sixth working conference on Tibet Tuesday in Beijing.
“The Central Government did not in the past, nor is now and will not in the future accept the Middle Way solution to the Tibet issue,” reads the article.
The essential intent of the ‘Middle Way’ is to split China, ” adds the commentary , saying that the Dalai group refuses to accept China’s sovereignty in Tibet and wants to seize the reins of power and set up a semi-independent political regime.”
In particular, China is against the Dalai Lama’s proposal for a “high degree of autonomy” in Tibet, saying “the essence of ‘a high degree of autonomy’ is to setup ‘a state within a state’ free of any control from the central government.
The article recalls that the central government has attached great importance to Tibet, holding six Tibet working conferences since 1980, with the second one in 1984, the third one in 1994 , the fifth one in 2010 and the sixth conference ended just on Tuesday.
Each Tibet working conference worked out specific measures to push forward Tibet’s economic development and secure social stability.
On Tibetan Buddhism, the article promotes “political unity and respecting religious belief ” saying the government is against intervening and limiting Tibetan’s religious freedom.
However, the Central Tibetan Administration (CTA) repeatedly reaffirmed its commitment to the “Middle Way Approach” (MWA) of engaging China through dialogue to achieve meaningful autonomy for all Tibetans, saying the Middle Way Approach, which neither seeks “Greater Tibet” nor a “high degree of autonomy”, but “genuine or meaningful autonomy” for all Tibetan people under a “single administration.”
During the seventh round of talks in Beijing on 1 and 2 July 2008, the Tibetan side has presented to the Chinese leadership a Memorandum on Geniune Autonomy for the Tibetan people and Note on the Memorandum on Genuine Autonomy for the Tibetan People, seeking genuine autonomy for Tibet as enshrined in the Chinese constitution and Law on Regional National Autonomy.
