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Tweet[IWS] CECC: TIBET 2008-2009 [SPECIAL TOPIC REPORT] [22 October 2009]
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Institute for Workplace Studies----------------- Professor Samuel B. Bacharach
School of Industrial & Labor Relations-------- Director, Institute for Workplace Studies
Cornell University
16 East 34th Street, 4th floor---------------------- Stuart Basefsky
New York, NY 10016 -------------------------------Director, IWS News Bureau
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Congressional-Executive Commission on China (CECC)
Special Topic Paper: Tibet 2008-2009
October 22, 2009
http://www.cecc.gov/pages/virtualAcad/tibet/tibet_2008-2009.pdf
[full-text, 155 pages]
This Commission topic paper adds to and further develops information and analysis provided in Section VTibet of the Commission's 2009 Annual Report, and incorporates the information and analysis contained therein.
About the Report:
The Chinese government has announced that by 2020 it will have completed the redesign of Lhasa and crisscrossed the Tibetan plateau with new railways, including a high-speed electric railway linking densely populated areas of China with Lhasa. Chinese officials are strengthening efforts to separate Tibetan Buddhists from the Dalai Lama, and look forward to supervising the selection of a person they intend to recognize as his successor one day.
At the same time, the current Dalai Lama and his representatives have created an unprecedented opening for progress in their dialogue with Chinese leaders by proposing that discussions focus on the areas of China that the Chinese government already has designated as areas of Tibetan autonomy.
What do Tibetans in China face as they look toward 2020? The Commission's "Special Topic Paper: Tibet 2008-2009" provides a comprehensive and in-depth analysis of key developments and trends in 2008 and 2009 and builds on the Commission's 2009 Annual Report.
Table of Contents
Findings .......................................................................................................................................................................1
Introduction: Tibetans Persist With Protest, Government Strengthens Unpopular Policies ...............................3
Government Shifts Toward More Aggressive International Policy on Tibet Issue ...............................................5
Beijing Think Tank Finds Chinese Government Policy Principally Responsible for the "3.14 Incident" ...................................................8
Status of Negotiations Between the Chinese Government and the Dalai Lama or His Representatives............13
The China-Dalai Lama Dialogue Stalls .............................................................................................................................................................14
The Eighth Round of Dialogue, Handing Over the Memorandum..................................................................................................................14
Party Officials Attack the Dalai Lama, Press Preconditions ............................................................................................................................15
Neither Chinese Officials Nor the Dalai Lama See Progress..........................................................................................................................16
A Detailed Tibetan Memorandum on "Genuine Autonomy" ..........................................................................................................................17
Principal Features of the Memorandum...........................................................................................................................................................17
Memorandum Addresses, Has Potential To Resolve, Question of Tibetan Territory......................................................................................19
Map 1: Tibetan Autonomous Areas of China......................................................................................................................................22
Map 2: Tibetan Autonomous Areas of China and Areas of the "Three Traditional Provinces of Tibet" That Are Outside of the
Tibetan Autonomous Areas .................................................................................................................................................................23
Table 1: Tibetan Autonomous Areas of ChinaTibetan and Han Chinese Population in 2000........................................................24
Memorandum's Vision of Autonomy and China's Hierarchy of People's Congresses and Governments .....................................................25
Tibetans in Exile Meet, Decide To Maintain Support for the Middle Way Approach .................................................................................28
Religious Freedom for Tibetan Buddhists: Tightening Control Over Tibetan Buddhism, Tibetan Buddhists 30
Strengthened Efforts To Separate Tibetan Buddhists From the Dalai Lama................................................................................................30
Government, Party, Buddhist Association Leaders Challenge Dalai Lama's Suitability as a Religious Figure.............................................31
TAR Buddhist Association Uses Charter To Isolate Monks, Nuns From the Dalai Lama..............................................................................32
Government-Built Buddhist Academy Near Lhasa To Teach Politics Along With Religion .........................................................................32
Patriotic and Legal Education: Seeking To Reshape Tibetan Buddhism.......................................................................................................33
Intensive Period of Patriotic, Legal Education Aims for "New Order" in Tibetan Buddhism........................................................................34
Authorities Eject 1,200 Monks From Drepung, Sera; Detention, Education, Abuse Follow..........................................................................36
Official "Warns" Dalai Lama That Chinese Government Must Approve Next Dalai Lama.......................................................................38
China's Panchen Lama: Only the Party Can Lead Tibetans to a Bright Future ..........................................................................................39
Tibetan Development Initiatives Reinforce Government Priorities: Focus on 2020 ...........................................41
Party Labels Dalai Lama, "Dalai Clique" as Principal Obstructions to Development.................................................................................41
Maintaining the Priority of Infrastructure Construction................................................................................................................................42
Lhasa Redesign To Feature "Old" and "New" Downtowns by 2020 ..............................................................................................................42
Officials Acknowledge Tibetan Resentment Against the "Floating Population," but Call for More, Better Migrant Services .....................43
TAR Statistics Show Little Increase in Non-Tibetan Population After Qinghai-Tibet Railway Startup............................................45
Railway Logistics Center Opens, Will Support TAR Rail Links With Surrounding Provinces .....................................................................46
Official Warns of Global Warming Threat to Qinghai-Tibet Railway ................................................................................................48
Work on Sichuan-Tibet Railway To Start, Impact May Far Surpass Qinghai-Tibet Railway ........................................................................49
Table 2: PopulationProvincial and Municipal-Level Populations Linked Directly by the Qinghai-Tibet Railway or by the Planned Sichuan-Tibet Railway ......50
Table 3: IndustryProvincial-Level Economies Linked Directly by the Qinghai-Tibet Railway or by the Planned Sichuan-Tibet Railway ....52
Hu Jintao Calls For More "Socialist New Villages" .......................................................................................................................................53
Confrontation Over Mining, Hydroelectric Projects; One Possible Successful Resolution ............................................................................54
For Tibetans, Another Year of Heightened Security, Repression, Isolation ........................................................56
Rising Tension and a Crackdown as Sensitive Dates Approached, Passed....................................................................................................57
February 25: Tibetans Express Grief Through Non-Observance of Lunar New Year ....................................................................................59
Losar Boycotts in 2009 in Areas Where Tibetans Protested in 2008...................................................................................................60
March 10: Security Forces Prevent New Tibetan Protests Marking Events in 1959, 2008.............................................................................62
March 28: Officials Pressure Tibetans To Celebrate New Holiday Marking the 1959 Dissolution of Dalai Lama's Government...............64
Tibetan Protesters Persist During Period of Heightened Security ..................................................................................................................65
A "Farming Boycott Movement" Results in Threats, Detention, Beatings, Shooting.....................................................................................69
Political Detention and Imprisonment of Tibetans.................................................................................................71
2009 Overview ......................................................................................................................................................................................................71
Chart 1: Tibetan Political Detention by Year, 1987-2009 ...................................................................................................................72
Chart 2: Tibetan Political Detentions Recorded Per Month: September 2007 to August 2009 ..........................................................72
Protesters Persist, Adapt...................................................................................................................................................................................73
Targeting Tibetan Writers, Publishers, Pop Culture........................................................................................................................................74
Where Are the Tibetan Political Protesters? Detained, Imprisoned, or Released? ..........................................................................................75
Summary Information: Tibetan Political Detention and Imprisonment...........................................................................................................76
2009 Developments...............................................................................................................................................................................................78
Tibetans in Ganzi TAP Dominate Reports of Peaceful Protest Activity .........................................................................................................78
High-Profile Ganzi Defendant Gains a High-Profile Beijing Defense ............................................................................................................79
Lhasa Court Hands Down Long Sentences for Sharing Information...............................................................................................................81
Table 4: Lhasa Intermediate People's Court: Punishing Tibetans for Sharing Information With "The Dalai Clique" ...................82
Sentences for Lhasa "Rioters" Include Death, Death With Reprieve, Life Imprisonment.............................................................................83
Tibetan Bombers: An Exception to Peaceful Protest ......................................................................................................................................84
ENDNOTES..............................................................................................................................................................87
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This information is provided to subscribers, friends, faculty, students and alumni of the School of Industrial & Labor Relations (ILR). It is a service of the Institute for Workplace Studies (IWS) in New York City. Stuart Basefsky is responsible for the selection of the contents which is intended to keep researchers, companies, workers, and governments aware of the latest information related to ILR disciplines as it becomes available for the purposes of research, understanding and debate. The content does not reflect the opinions or positions of Cornell University, the School of Industrial & Labor Relations, or that of Mr. Basefsky and should not be construed as such. The service is unique in that it provides the original source documentation, via links, behind the news and research of the day. Use of the information provided is unrestricted. However, it is requested that users acknowledge that the information was found via the IWS Documented News Service.
Stuart Basefsky
Director, IWS News Bureau
Institute for Workplace Studies
Cornell/ILR School
16 E. 34th Street, 4th Floor
New York, NY 10016
Telephone: (607) 255-2703
Fax: (607) 255-9641
E-mail: smb6@cornell.edu
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_______________________________
Institute for Workplace Studies----------------- Professor Samuel B. Bacharach
School of Industrial & Labor Relations-------- Director, Institute for Workplace Studies
Cornell University
16 East 34th Street, 4th floor---------------------- Stuart Basefsky
New York, NY 10016 -------------------------------Director, IWS News Bureau
________________________________________________________________________
Congressional-Executive Commission on China (CECC)
Special Topic Paper: Tibet 2008-2009
October 22, 2009
http://www.cecc.gov/pages/virtualAcad/tibet/tibet_2008-2009.pdf
[full-text, 155 pages]
This Commission topic paper adds to and further develops information and analysis provided in Section VTibet of the Commission's 2009 Annual Report, and incorporates the information and analysis contained therein.
About the Report:
The Chinese government has announced that by 2020 it will have completed the redesign of Lhasa and crisscrossed the Tibetan plateau with new railways, including a high-speed electric railway linking densely populated areas of China with Lhasa. Chinese officials are strengthening efforts to separate Tibetan Buddhists from the Dalai Lama, and look forward to supervising the selection of a person they intend to recognize as his successor one day.
At the same time, the current Dalai Lama and his representatives have created an unprecedented opening for progress in their dialogue with Chinese leaders by proposing that discussions focus on the areas of China that the Chinese government already has designated as areas of Tibetan autonomy.
What do Tibetans in China face as they look toward 2020? The Commission's "Special Topic Paper: Tibet 2008-2009" provides a comprehensive and in-depth analysis of key developments and trends in 2008 and 2009 and builds on the Commission's 2009 Annual Report.
Table of Contents
Findings .......................................................................................................................................................................1
Introduction: Tibetans Persist With Protest, Government Strengthens Unpopular Policies ...............................3
Government Shifts Toward More Aggressive International Policy on Tibet Issue ...............................................5
Beijing Think Tank Finds Chinese Government Policy Principally Responsible for the "3.14 Incident" ...................................................8
Status of Negotiations Between the Chinese Government and the Dalai Lama or His Representatives............13
The China-Dalai Lama Dialogue Stalls .............................................................................................................................................................14
The Eighth Round of Dialogue, Handing Over the Memorandum..................................................................................................................14
Party Officials Attack the Dalai Lama, Press Preconditions ............................................................................................................................15
Neither Chinese Officials Nor the Dalai Lama See Progress..........................................................................................................................16
A Detailed Tibetan Memorandum on "Genuine Autonomy" ..........................................................................................................................17
Principal Features of the Memorandum...........................................................................................................................................................17
Memorandum Addresses, Has Potential To Resolve, Question of Tibetan Territory......................................................................................19
Map 1: Tibetan Autonomous Areas of China......................................................................................................................................22
Map 2: Tibetan Autonomous Areas of China and Areas of the "Three Traditional Provinces of Tibet" That Are Outside of the
Tibetan Autonomous Areas .................................................................................................................................................................23
Table 1: Tibetan Autonomous Areas of ChinaTibetan and Han Chinese Population in 2000........................................................24
Memorandum's Vision of Autonomy and China's Hierarchy of People's Congresses and Governments .....................................................25
Tibetans in Exile Meet, Decide To Maintain Support for the Middle Way Approach .................................................................................28
Religious Freedom for Tibetan Buddhists: Tightening Control Over Tibetan Buddhism, Tibetan Buddhists 30
Strengthened Efforts To Separate Tibetan Buddhists From the Dalai Lama................................................................................................30
Government, Party, Buddhist Association Leaders Challenge Dalai Lama's Suitability as a Religious Figure.............................................31
TAR Buddhist Association Uses Charter To Isolate Monks, Nuns From the Dalai Lama..............................................................................32
Government-Built Buddhist Academy Near Lhasa To Teach Politics Along With Religion .........................................................................32
Patriotic and Legal Education: Seeking To Reshape Tibetan Buddhism.......................................................................................................33
Intensive Period of Patriotic, Legal Education Aims for "New Order" in Tibetan Buddhism........................................................................34
Authorities Eject 1,200 Monks From Drepung, Sera; Detention, Education, Abuse Follow..........................................................................36
Official "Warns" Dalai Lama That Chinese Government Must Approve Next Dalai Lama.......................................................................38
China's Panchen Lama: Only the Party Can Lead Tibetans to a Bright Future ..........................................................................................39
Tibetan Development Initiatives Reinforce Government Priorities: Focus on 2020 ...........................................41
Party Labels Dalai Lama, "Dalai Clique" as Principal Obstructions to Development.................................................................................41
Maintaining the Priority of Infrastructure Construction................................................................................................................................42
Lhasa Redesign To Feature "Old" and "New" Downtowns by 2020 ..............................................................................................................42
Officials Acknowledge Tibetan Resentment Against the "Floating Population," but Call for More, Better Migrant Services .....................43
TAR Statistics Show Little Increase in Non-Tibetan Population After Qinghai-Tibet Railway Startup............................................45
Railway Logistics Center Opens, Will Support TAR Rail Links With Surrounding Provinces .....................................................................46
Official Warns of Global Warming Threat to Qinghai-Tibet Railway ................................................................................................48
Work on Sichuan-Tibet Railway To Start, Impact May Far Surpass Qinghai-Tibet Railway ........................................................................49
Table 2: PopulationProvincial and Municipal-Level Populations Linked Directly by the Qinghai-Tibet Railway or by the Planned Sichuan-Tibet Railway ......50
Table 3: IndustryProvincial-Level Economies Linked Directly by the Qinghai-Tibet Railway or by the Planned Sichuan-Tibet Railway ....52
Hu Jintao Calls For More "Socialist New Villages" .......................................................................................................................................53
Confrontation Over Mining, Hydroelectric Projects; One Possible Successful Resolution ............................................................................54
For Tibetans, Another Year of Heightened Security, Repression, Isolation ........................................................56
Rising Tension and a Crackdown as Sensitive Dates Approached, Passed....................................................................................................57
February 25: Tibetans Express Grief Through Non-Observance of Lunar New Year ....................................................................................59
Losar Boycotts in 2009 in Areas Where Tibetans Protested in 2008...................................................................................................60
March 10: Security Forces Prevent New Tibetan Protests Marking Events in 1959, 2008.............................................................................62
March 28: Officials Pressure Tibetans To Celebrate New Holiday Marking the 1959 Dissolution of Dalai Lama's Government...............64
Tibetan Protesters Persist During Period of Heightened Security ..................................................................................................................65
A "Farming Boycott Movement" Results in Threats, Detention, Beatings, Shooting.....................................................................................69
Political Detention and Imprisonment of Tibetans.................................................................................................71
2009 Overview ......................................................................................................................................................................................................71
Chart 1: Tibetan Political Detention by Year, 1987-2009 ...................................................................................................................72
Chart 2: Tibetan Political Detentions Recorded Per Month: September 2007 to August 2009 ..........................................................72
Protesters Persist, Adapt...................................................................................................................................................................................73
Targeting Tibetan Writers, Publishers, Pop Culture........................................................................................................................................74
Where Are the Tibetan Political Protesters? Detained, Imprisoned, or Released? ..........................................................................................75
Summary Information: Tibetan Political Detention and Imprisonment...........................................................................................................76
2009 Developments...............................................................................................................................................................................................78
Tibetans in Ganzi TAP Dominate Reports of Peaceful Protest Activity .........................................................................................................78
High-Profile Ganzi Defendant Gains a High-Profile Beijing Defense ............................................................................................................79
Lhasa Court Hands Down Long Sentences for Sharing Information...............................................................................................................81
Table 4: Lhasa Intermediate People's Court: Punishing Tibetans for Sharing Information With "The Dalai Clique" ...................82
Sentences for Lhasa "Rioters" Include Death, Death With Reprieve, Life Imprisonment.............................................................................83
Tibetan Bombers: An Exception to Peaceful Protest ......................................................................................................................................84
ENDNOTES..............................................................................................................................................................87
______________________________
This information is provided to subscribers, friends, faculty, students and alumni of the School of Industrial & Labor Relations (ILR). It is a service of the Institute for Workplace Studies (IWS) in New York City. Stuart Basefsky is responsible for the selection of the contents which is intended to keep researchers, companies, workers, and governments aware of the latest information related to ILR disciplines as it becomes available for the purposes of research, understanding and debate. The content does not reflect the opinions or positions of Cornell University, the School of Industrial & Labor Relations, or that of Mr. Basefsky and should not be construed as such. The service is unique in that it provides the original source documentation, via links, behind the news and research of the day. Use of the information provided is unrestricted. However, it is requested that users acknowledge that the information was found via the IWS Documented News Service.
Stuart Basefsky
Director, IWS News Bureau
Institute for Workplace Studies
Cornell/ILR School
16 E. 34th Street, 4th Floor
New York, NY 10016
Telephone: (607) 255-2703
Fax: (607) 255-9641
E-mail: smb6@cornell.edu
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