Dalai Lama Says Trip to a Disputed Region in India Isn’t Political

Here is a recent article that talks about Dalai Lama's , something related to some topics in our classes about the China-Tibet situation and conflicts:

BEIJING — The Dalai Lama said Saturday that the Chinese government was wrong to attribute political motives to his travels, including a planned trip in early November to a Buddhist mountain enclave in northeastern India that China claims as its territory.

“The Chinese government considers me a troublemaker, so it is my duty to create more trouble,” he said jokingly, according to The Associated Press. “The Chinese government politicizes too much wherever I go. Where I go is not political.”


So, as we see in the article China's government has several problems with these visits to Disputed and controversial regions as Taiwan and Tawang a China-India territory that allways has been claim by China as a Tibet's territory, but the question is are these visits by the Dalai Lama are politcal or only in a religious way?, also we have to take care in the fact that China has always been fighting the Tibet territorie, and all historical and main things and events of the Tibet are not in the mind of the Chinese government, so we can assume that China made this declaration only to say that they have always had the thruth in this aspect with Tibet and to say they're the good ones, also we have to take in care the Chinese way of think, they are just seeking for an oportunity to make a declaration about how Tibet, Dalai Lama is bad etc, just as this case Dalai Lama is just traveling and they make a huge problem of something that doesnt hurt anyone. As he said in these words: "I am surprised the Chinese government is negative about my visit,” the Dalai Lama said during a visit to Tokyo. “If it creates some problems, that is sad.”

An other really interest fact is that President Obama didnt meet with him when Dalai Lama asked for as the article says: "Mr. Obama’s decision not to meet with the Dalai Lama is part of a new attempt to find common ground with China that American officials call “strategic reassurance", but which has drawn criticism from human rights advocates and some prominent Republicans."

The New York Times- http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/d/_dalai_lama/index.html