Anti-Free-Tibet opinions are not tolerated in the West: German experts
German-Foreign-Policy.com, an independent online publication by journalists and social scientists, reveals in an article how the US and Germany have cooperated in using Tibet to weaken and destabilize China, a rising power deemed a threat to the West. This article tells us how the whole “Free Tibet” movement was created in and manipulated by the US-Germany axis.
- Not least among the consequences, the Tibet campaign is also stimulating an anti-Chinese atmosphere in Germany leaving a dwindling amount of room for criticism. Opinions that are at variance with the anti-Beijing mainstream are, in the meantime, being punished. In Cologne a sinologist’s lecture on the theme of Tibet had to be cancelled at the last minute. The organizers had criticized the one-sided western media reporting and sought to initiate a differentiated debate of the conflict. This intention led to the cancellation on short notice of the rental contract for the location in the Cologne Community Center. Those responsible for the community center made it known that no “anti-Tibetan” events would be tolerated.
- Several front organizations of German foreign policy have for years been supporting the Tibetan exile structures in Dharamsala, India. This includes support for organizational measures enabling the “government in exile” in Dharamsala to orchestrate its activities against the People’s Republic of China worldwide. Particularly the Free Democratic Party (FDP) affiliated Friedrich Naumann Foundation and the Heinrich Boell Foundation (affiliated with the Green Party) are cooperating with the “government in exile” and other exile Tibetan institutions.
- Front organizations of US foreign policy are working toward the same objectives. Already in the 1950s Washington was intervening in Tibet with millions of dollars, at the time, even supporting Tibetan armed uprisings against the People’s Republic of China. German organizations took up the question of Tibet around the end of the 80s, at a time when China was beginning its rise to become a global competitor of the west. The current activities are apt to greatly weaken China. These supplement other German-US measures aimed at thwarting the rise of their East-Asian rival.
- The US logistical and military support for the armed Tibetan rebellions, beginning in 1957, was aimed at destabilizing the communist government. The intervention outlasted the Dalai Lama’s flight into exile in Dharamsala, India, where, after 1959, a Tibetan “government in exile” was called into being. According to official documents from the government in Washington, during the 1960s the CIA was paying up to $1.7 million per year to maintain “operations against China.” Up to $180,000 was given directly to the Dalai Lama.
- German organizations have become intensively engaged in the Tibet question since the 1980s, when the People’s Republic of China began an economic upswing that has now placed it in the top ranks of global commercial statistics. Already at that time political strategists were predicting the possibility of China’s rise to becoming a major power and foresaw rivalry between China and western powers. Using contacts to Tibet by “alternative” political circles, who had converted to Buddhism, the Green parliamentary group, through hearings and parliamentary resolutions, placed the questions of autonomy and the demands for secession in that region of China on the political agenda of the Bundestag in 1985.
- Tsewang Norbu, a former assistant of the Dalai Lama, helped shape policy on Tibet, first as an employee of the Green parliamentarian Petra Kelly and, since 1992, as an employee of the Green Party affiliated Heinrich Boell Foundation. In addition, Norbu founded the German-Tibetan Cultural Society and, over an extended period of time, presided as its vice-chairman. He also works as a “special correspondent” for the US financed “Radio Free Asia” (RFA). RFA is among the news sources of western reporting on the recent uprising in Tibet.
- German foundations’ activities around Tibet touch one of the most sensitive spots in Chinese policy. Not only do they represent interference into the domestic affairs of that nation, they also threaten the People’s Republic’s territorial integrity. “To a certain extent, Tibet is the cornerstone of a fragile multi-ethnic state,” writes a policy advisor at the Institute of Asian Studies of the German Institute of Global and Area Studies (GIGA) in Hamburg. “A horror scenario for Beijing is that beginning with Tibet, a conflagration develops.” One finds “designated on a map published in a 1990 autobiography of the Dalai Lama (…) alongside Greater Tibet also ‘East Turkestan,’ as the area where Moslem Uygurs settled, Inner Mongolia and Manchuria.”[11] The secession of these regions would have drastic consequences: “the remaining Chinese settled areas would have shrunk to a third of the People’s Republic.”
- In fact, the current Tibet campaign, with the participation of German organizations, is but an example of Berlin’s and Washington’s growing anti-Chinese policy. In Africa, Germany and the USA are now openly agitating against China. Aggressive competition is being practiced also in Latin America as well as in Central Asia. India is seen as a possible counter-balance for the containment of the People’s Republic.
It is ethic to allow different voices to be heard. What is the point to through away the dignity of media for no reason.
– Goon