Dalai Lama & Obama

Washington, DC. USA, 18 February 2010

Amigos lunatics: debo decir que me da mucho gusto el que Obama haya recibido al Dalai Lama. China invadió y despojó y destruyó no sólo templos sino que resquebrajó tradiciones ancestrales que en nada perjudicaba a su gobierno esclavizante.

Intento, amigos lunatics, intento llevar día a día el mayor número de preceptos que ofrece el budismo explicado por el Dalai. Pero de verdad que el Gobierno de China puede llegar a ser muy irritante. Se sigue brincando trancas en todos los ámbitos, no respetan nada y en parte debido a su manejo económico la debacle mundial ha seguido sufriendo los efectos. No la gente. El gobierno Chino, intolerante, cerrado. Es de verdad desesperante. ¿Qué opciones podrá dejar este gobierno atrabancado?

Tocante al tema del Tibet, ellos ni siquiera están clamando que les devuelvan su nación; piden que se respete su cultura, religión, pensamiento y actividades. ¿De veras es mucho pedir?

(By Foster Klug, Associated Press) - President Barack Obama welcomed the Dalai Lama for closely-watched White House talks Thursday, risking fallout in China over the get-together and Obama's statement supporting preservation of Tibet's identity and human rights.

So Obama sat down with his fellow Nobel Peace Prize laureate in the Map Room rather than the much-more-photographed Oval Office where presidents usually visit with international leaders. Their talks were held entirely out of view of cameras and the public. Instead, the White House only released just a single White House photo.

Even the description the White House press office gave reporters of the talks was done on paper.

All these gestures — small to many but important in the supersensitive world of diplomacy — were meant to tamp down China's displeasure that Obama was holding the meeting in the first place.

"The optics of this thing are incredibly important to the Chinese," said Michael Green, former President George W. Bush's senior Asia adviser. "The Chinese government is preoccupied with protocol and how things look."

Despite China's angry words, recent U.S.-China tension may be easing. On Wednesday, five American warships were allowed to dock for a port call in Hong Kong, a possible indication that Beijing does not want relations with Washington to worsen.