The future belongs to China.
China is the next great nation.
The 21st century will be dominated by China.
I’m sure all of you have heard variations of the above prediction over the past decade or so. I know I have.
Perhaps China will be the next great nation, but perhaps not. I’ll tell you one thing, unless the political environment changes a lot over there, a world defined by the Chinese perspective is not a world I want to live in.
The relative lack of political and internet freedom in China is well known, as is the egregious treatment of the Tibetan people. Despite having controlled Tibet since 1949, and the subsequent intentional migration of ethnic Han Chinese into the region in order to dilute the culture, Chinese authorities remain paranoid and filled with fear. So much so that the government is panicking at recent statements by the Dalai Lama that he may not be reincarnated. This screws up the government’s plan to name the next Dalai Lama and use him as a puppet stooge for the regime. Truly embarrassing.
The AP reports that:
BEIJING (AP) — China’s Communist Party is officially atheist, but that has not stopped it from making some impassioned claims on the afterlife.
Some of the strongest language at this week’s annual national congress has been reserved for the Dalai Lama, the exiled Tibetan Buddhist leader. The fury is over his claim in recent interviews that he may not be reincarnated, ending the Dalai Lama’s seven-century lineage. His comments undercut Beijing’s plans to pick a China-friendly successor to the Dalai Lama after he dies.
China’s stance: The Dalai Lama doesn’t control the next life. We do.
Zhu Weiqun, a senior government adviser, followed up in similarly caustic language, declaring Wednesday that “the reincarnation of the Dalai Lama has to be endorsed by the central government, not by any other sides.”
He blasted the Dalai Lama’s refusal to bend to Beijing’s political demands as a “dual betrayal” to China and his faith. He said the religious leader displayed a “very unserious, very disrespectful attitude” by suggesting he might be reincarnated as a foreigner, a woman or even a bee.
“It is meant to make the Dalai Lama wholly subordinate, in all matters, to the authority of the People’s Republic of China,” said Elliot Sperling, a professor at Indiana University and expert on China-Tibet relations.
Buddhists believe the soul is reincarnated after death in an eventual journey to nirvana, or liberation from the repeating cycle or birth and death. The Dalai Lama is considered an aspect of Buddha whose mission is to help others along the path to nirvana. Tibetan Buddhist tradition holds that a Dalai Lama can exercise some degree of control over how and when his soul is reincarnated.
In fact, the golden urn method soon fell into disuse and played no part in the recognition of the current Dalai Lama, the 14th. Beijing revived it in its recognition of the latest Panchen Lama, Tibetan Buddhism’s second-highest figure, in 1995. The Dalai Lama recognized someone else as the Panchen Lama; that candidate, a 6-year-old boy, quickly disappeared.
That was seen as just one more Chinese attack on Tibet’s religious institutions, culture and way of life, already eroded by Beijing’s heavy-handed rule and large-scale migration to the region by ethnic Han Chinese.
Is this the sign of a powerful nation, or a weak and insecure one?
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The Chinese are a highly intelligent people with a long history, and rich culture. They unfortunately suffer from the same malady we do here in the west – a government, that in spite (or because) of its best efforts, can not manage to pull its head out of its own ass, and as a result, will ultimately fail…
I agree. This one-page “Sequel to Climategate” shows the absolute absurdity of frightened world leaders 1945 decision to take totalitarian control of the world and rule by deceit:
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/273132711_Sequel_to_Climategate?showFulltext=1&linkId=54f8a2ba0cf210398e96c66f
World leaders are delusional and dangerous – blind to reality by selfish arrogance – but they are also totally powerless.
That’s the reason I don’t believe China can take over the US position. They may have some economic power, but will never be a leader for a prosperous and free world
The America you talk of died years ago, it’s as mercenary and profit driven as any other despotic reigeim. Just look at its trail of death and destruction over the last 20 years and counting…
I’m a brazilian and after living in some countries as US, NZ, Italy and even Cuba, I understand your point and can’t argue with that. First time I’ve been in the US was 2001 and last time was 2013, and the decline is clear even for me as a foreigner, but you guys still have a solid foundation. But when you live in a rich country with a miserable nation like Brazil with a history of patrimonialism and people only trying to take advantage from each other, is hard to even imagine the US coming anywhere close to this situation. That’s the reason, I believe, there is still so many people moving from third world countries to the US or even Europe. I might be wrong, but I don’t see it as just a matter of money, but as mind set, personality. Even after a “collapse”, people will be much better of in the developed countries.
Yes, because everyone knows that the Dalai Lama’s reincarnation process is the one true reincaration process™, Mr Gordon Chang.
If we see how Brezinski got off a helicopter telling Afghans to instigate fight the Russians and they would win because He personally knew God was on their side..Or How the Saudi wahabbi have manipulated the Sunnis to exterminate Shia, etc etc..then the following quote is spot on and applicable here.
Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Brilliant move though but sad no more Golden Child. I aways liked Eddie Murphy in that movie.
However there might be hope.
Maybe WE can restore the lineage and process and make a deal with China.
we can use this guy for our own Dalai or sumtin’
zee news india
“Washington: The freelance NBC News cameraman diagnosed in Liberia with Ebola virus, was once deemed reincarnation of a Buddhist master teacher who played a key role in introducing Buddhism to the West.
Ashoka Mukpo, 33, is the son of a British-born aristocrat who married a famous Buddhist monk when she was 16 year old. She is now married to the journalist`s biological father, a prominent Rhode Island doctor, according to media reports.
Mukpo`s mother, Diana Mukpo, formerly Lady Diana Pybus of North Umberland, is said to have had an affair with Mitchell Levy, personal doctor to Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche, while still married to the Tibetan Buddhist lama.
She gave birth to Ashoka in 1981. Trungpa, who went on to become a major figure in the transmission of Buddhism to the West, adopted Ashoka as his own and deemed the boy a `tulku`, the reincarnation of a Buddhist master teacher, reports said.”
Its really quite easy to do
The Chinese gov. is just another tyrannical regime in every possible way. Filled with a bunch of bureaucratic, kiss ass, half-witted num-nuts that want to have control over everything people do. They can kiss my white ass.
They will probably kill most of their people with the pollution they are creating.
The Chinese people deserve something much, much better. As do the rest of us.
The Dalai Lama meets with criminal elite. Remember, to control the opposition one must lead it. The ones always condemning a situation are the ones condoning. All versed in the Inversion meme
Look what China’s government did to the Fulan Dafa practitioners. A very peaceful group was attacked and many of the practitioners had their organs harvested,,,possibly alive. One of the surgeons came forward and explained how they shoot the patient so that he/she dies slowly and they can harvest the liver.