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		<title>Chinese academic cites CCP control of monks as source of unrest</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This article from Tuesday’s South China Morning Post (below) is worth noting. As my colleague Ben observes, it is highly unusual for someone on the faculty a major government think tank, at a major conference in Beijing, to challenge a key tenet of the strategy to co-opt Tibetan Buddhism. And it appears to undercut the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://weblog.savetibet.org/2010/03/11/chinese-academic-cites-ccp-control-of-monks-as-source-of-unrest/</link>
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		<title>Political monks</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I was struck by coincidental statements made last week, from Washington and Beijing, about the question of whether senior Tibetan monks do have, or should have, political roles.
In these two cases, the governments of the United  States and China are applying contradictory positions on this topic. Perhaps a common and consistent approach could nurture [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://weblog.savetibet.org/2010/03/08/political-monks/</link>
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		<title>Comments by Lodi Gyari at a Reception Hosted by ICT for Tibetan Americans and Tibet Supporters Participating in Tibet Lobby Day 2010</title>
		<description><![CDATA[On Monday, March 1 as part of the 2010 Tibet Lobby Day activities, ICT and the Capital Area Tibetan Association hosted a reception for Lobby Day participants and friends of ICT.  Lodi Gyari, Special Envoy of His Holiness the Dalai Lama and Executive Chairman of ICT&#8217;s Board of Directors, made remarks to the gathering, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://weblog.savetibet.org/2010/03/05/comments-by-lodi-gyari-at-a-reception-hosted-by-ict-for-tibetan-americans-and-tibet-supporters-participating-in-tibet-lobby-day-2010/</link>
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		<title>China’s Annual Tibetan Ritual: Are these enough?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Every year this time, when the annual sessions of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC) and the National People’s Congress (NPC) are held, we can see some activities in Beijing relating to Tibet.
This time one such event is the “approval” of the membership of the boy (now man), Gyaltsen Norbu la, that the Chinese [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://weblog.savetibet.org/2010/03/04/china%e2%80%99s-annual-tibetan-ritual-are-these-enough/</link>
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		<title>The Spotlight on Obama and the Dalai Lama</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As His Holiness the Dalai Lama arrives in town today, I pose a question:
Is tomorrow’s meeting between the Dalai Lama and President Obama getting greater attention than it would have had it been held last October?
I think, indisputably, YES, even without the benefit of a time machine to test the hypothesis.
Jump back to last summer/fall. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://weblog.savetibet.org/2010/02/17/the-spotlight-on-obama-and-the-dalai-lama/</link>
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		<title>Legitimacy and otherwise</title>
		<description><![CDATA[One of the more jarring assertions made by members of the United Front Work Department at the press conference following the just-concluded ninth round of Sino-Tibetan dialogue in Beijing, was that the Dalai Lama is not the legitimate representative of the Tibetan people.
(Other jarring assertions could be saved for another blog, such as claims by [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://weblog.savetibet.org/2010/02/03/legitimacy-and-otherwise/</link>
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		<title>Governments react to new Tibetan-Chinese dialogue</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The following is a list of  public reactions thus far (January 26) from national capitals on the announcement that the representatives of the Dalai Lama are in Beijing for the ninth round of their dialogue with their Chinese counterparts.
It is interesting to observe that the British and the Danes expressly  are calling for “meaningful autonomy” [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://weblog.savetibet.org/2010/01/26/governments-react-to-new-tibetan-chinese-dialogue/</link>
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		<title>China pulls Avatar: colonization theme hits a nerve?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Wall Street Journal recently reported that the Chinese authorities have removed the 2D version of &#8220;Avatar&#8221; from all 4,500 theaters in China currently playing the blockbuster movie (the 3D version will still run). I have a feeling that this move may have unintended results, similar to Chinese officials&#8217; attempts to pull &#8220;The Sun Behind [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://weblog.savetibet.org/2010/01/25/china-pulls-avatar-colonization-theme-hits-a-nerve/</link>
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		<title>Humility, amongst other thoughts&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Guest Blog by Heidi Minx
ICT staffers provide the content for ICT&#8217;s blog, but we occasionally like to offer space to others in the movement to share views and ideas. This guest blog is by Heidi Minx, entrepreneurial punk rock chick, designer (for her own clothing line, Franky &#38; Minx), and now founder of one-woman charity, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://weblog.savetibet.org/2010/01/15/humility-amongst-other-thoughts/</link>
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		<title>A Google alert, indeed</title>
		<description><![CDATA[By now, the news that Google has decided not to censor the Chinese version of its search engine in China and has threatened to pull out of the Chinese market in response to cyberattacks has made it around the world and back again.
ICT welcomes the announcement as a positive development in the quest for internet [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://weblog.savetibet.org/2010/01/13/a-google-alert-indeed/</link>
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