Earlier this week a senior Chinese official said foreign leaders who meet the Dalai Lama should “pay a price” for their insolence.
“We can only push the West to change its way of thinking if we let them understand that China’s power cannot be avoided . . . and that the West’s interest lie in development and maintaining ties with China, not the opposite,” Zhu Weiqun, chairman of the ethnic and religious affairs committee of the main advisory body to China’s parliament, wrote in an editorial.
Most Tibetan areas in China are closed to foreign journalists and the Chinese authorities go to great lengths to stop reports coming out of those areas, including handing down lengthy prison sentences for those who smuggle out information to exiled groups or journalists.
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