Published 21:50 IST, July 29th 2021

China fumes over Blinken's meet with Dalai Lama rep, urges US to 'honour internal affairs'

Beijing said "if it attempts to seek Tibetan independence with US aid & use of force to resist Chinese unification it will only push people to disaster"

Reported by: Srishti Jha
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Just a day later, China retaliated against US State Secretary's rendezvous on July 26 with Tibetan Buddhist monk Geshe Dorji Damdul, current director of Tibet House in national capital and a close aide of Dalai Lama. After one of most conspicuous contacts between any representative of Tibet and American official, Beijing appeared to have hit roof evidently in a series of Tibet-related posts by ir state-affiliated news ncy in a short span. 

China established that y oppose "any form of US military contact with China" and its part. Via an outright mess to US, Xi Jinping-led regime expressed hostility towards any external body attempting to redeem China's misdeeds and violations of human rights. 

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Setting a tone on his India visit, Antony Blinken met with representative of Tibet spiritual leer, Dalai Lama- Tensin Gyatso also kwn as Tibetan government in exile. Of late, Tibetan vocacy groups have hailed a boost in international support amid heightened reports on criticism of China's self-imposed hegemony and human rights record. 

US' interaction with Tibetan leers irks China

A spokesperson for Beijing, Zhu urged US to stop sending wrong signals to Tibetans and asked to abide by one-China principle. Intensifying gravity of her comments, she even warned authorities in Tibet that its attempts to seek US aid and use of force to resist unification with China will he to disaster.

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Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson, Zhao Lijian said, "Tibetan affairs are purely China's internal affairs that allow foreign interference." 

" 14th Dalai Lama is by means just a religious person but rar a political exile who has long been engd in anti-China separatist activities attempting to split Tibet from China," he furr stated. 

Zhao also ruled out possibility of any formal contact between US and Dalai clique. According to Beijing, unison is violative of US commitment to ackwledge Tibet as part of China. 

He urged US to t support Tibetan independence and attempts to separate inved Tibet from China.

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"We urge US to hour its commitment to stop meddling in China's internal affairs under pretext of Tibetan affairs. and offer support to Tibet independence forces to eng in anti-China separatist activities. China will take all necessary measures to defend its interests," he ded.

China exhibits new 'rising' Tibet

Amounting to validation by Beijing to rest of world in relation to China's invasion of Tibet in 1950, ir state-affiliated news ncy published a heline- New Tibet, rising "Roof of world".

Before comprehending Tibet's situation from eyes of an oppressor, it is pertinent to te that Chinese troops inved Tibet in 1950 and later annexed it. Tibetans and Chinese soldiers clashed violently during 1959 Tibetan uprising and after a failed revolt against Chinese sovereignty, 14th Dalai Lama escaped to India. Tensin Gyatso is highest Tibetan Buddhist leer and is called  Dalai Lama who fled China and set up government-in-exile in India.  oppression continued for over eight years until Tibetans, aiming to overthrow Chinese, initiated a full-swing civil uprising. Beijing claimed that Tibet is a part of its Communist regime and labelled Dalai Lama a dangerous separatist.

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results were, however, where close to expectations and, in fact, led to a complete downfall of Tibetan Government and self-imposed exile of Dalai Lama along with 100,000 Tibetans, established  Tibetan Government-in-exile, hequartered in Dharmshala, Himachal Presh. Nearly 64,000 Tibetans living in exile in India, Nepal, rth America, Europe, Australia and elsewhere voted.

Exiled Tibetans chose Penpa Tsering in elections held in January and April who told Republic TV in an exclusive conversation, " Chinese community is completely overwhelming our mirity community and destroying its identity, amounting to a certain level of cultural gecide. Tibetan Buddhists' freedom of religion is being violated., he ded, referring to placement of surveillance cameras in Tibetan Buddhist monasteries." 

Terming invasion as "70th anniversary of peaceful liberation of Tibet", thr Beijing affiliated ncy stated that PRC signed an accord with local government of Tibet to help people to "break free from fetters of invers". 

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"A subsequent democratic reform in late 1950s abolished ocracy and feudal serfdom in Tibet. 14th Dalai Lama, clinging jealously to system of serfdom and slavery that dominated old Tibet, fled China in wake of a failed coup to resist reform," article re.

New Chinese Ambassor to US 

Ar development right after Antony Blinken's visit to New Delhi and subsequent to Deputy Secretary of State Wendy Sherman's recent visit to China was that Beijing delegated Qin Gang as China's new Ambassor to Joe Biden-led ministration and stated that bilateral ties between both nations "has once again come to a new critical juncture, facing t only many difficulties and challenges but also great opportunities and potentials."

"In contrast to US, China sees China-US relations equally with a positive and open mindset," Chinese State media stated.

21:50 IST, July 29th 2021