{"id":26835,"date":"2012-04-17T13:12:00","date_gmt":"2012-04-17T13:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1:10081\/?p=26835 "},"modified":"2012-04-17T13:12:00","modified_gmt":"2012-04-17T13:12:00","slug":"26835-revision-v1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/?p=26835","title":{"rendered":"According to Dalai Lama, Beijing\\&#8217;s Oppression of Tibetans Stems from Fear"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; \">China&#8217;s leaders continue to impose oppressive policies on the people of Tibet out of fear, the Dalai Lama said earlier today onMorning Edition.<\/span><\/div><div>&nbsp;<\/div><div><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; \">They fear what might happen if Tibetans were allowed to live freely and others under Chinese rule started to demand more respect for their rights. That has meant, he said, that &#8220;they ignore &#8230; reality and they impose their rules. &#8230; That&#8217;s the problem.&#8221;<\/span><\/div><div>&nbsp;<\/div><div><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; \">&#8220;The sad events&#8221; of the past year &#8212; the self-immolations of about 30 Tibetans in protest of China&#8217;s rule &#8212; are the result of &#8220;several decades&#8221; worth of such oppression, he added.<\/span><\/div><div>&nbsp;<\/div><div><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; \">Still, the Buddhist spiritual leader says he remains optimistic. Eventually, he told NPR&#8217;s Renee Montagne, things will change for the better. He gets some hope from Chinese leaders&#8217; comments in recent years about the need for political reform in China.<\/span><\/div><div>&nbsp;<\/div><span style=\"color: #2d2d2d; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', 'Lucida Grande', 'Segoe UI', Arial, Helvetica, Verdana, sans-serif; text-align: -webkit-left; font-size: 12pt; background-color: #ffffff; \"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; \"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; \"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; \"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; \"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; \">Read&nbsp;<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/thelede.blogs.nytimes.com\/2011\/12\/05\/journalists-should-be-government-mouthpieces-chinas-state-tv-president-says\/?ref=china#h[]\" style=\"color: #034af3; text-decoration: none; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', 'Lucida Grande', 'Segoe UI', Arial, Helvetica, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: -webkit-left; background-color: #ffffff; \"><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/blogs\/thetwo-way\/2012\/04\/17\/150794057\/fear-drives-chinas-oppressive-rule-in-tibet-dalai-lama-says\" style=\"text-decoration: none; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', 'Lucida Grande', 'Segoe UI', Arial, Helvetica, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: -webkit-left; background-color: #ffffff; color: #034af3; \"><span style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; \"><strong>original article<\/strong><\/span><\/a><span style=\"color: #2d2d2d; text-align: -webkit-left; background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; \">.<\/span><span style=\"color: #2d2d2d; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', 'Lucida Grande', 'Segoe UI', Arial, Helvetica, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: -webkit-left; background-color: #ffffff; \">&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/span><span style=\"color: #2d2d2d; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', 'Lucida Grande', 'Segoe UI', Arial, Helvetica, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: -webkit-left; background-color: #ffffff; \">&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/span>&nbsp;<br \/><div>&nbsp;<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Buddhist spiritual leader says that China worries what would happen if they gave the Tibetan people more freedom. &amp;nbsp;He goes on to call the recent string of Tibetan self-immolations sad, but goes on to state that they are the result of decades of oppression by the Chinese government.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26835","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ChinaHumanRights","et-doesnt-have-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26835","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26835"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26835\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26835"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26835"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26835"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}