While your article on the Dalai Lama was accurate, it didn't go far enough to show how the Chinese are attempting to wipe the Tibetan culture from the face of the earth. There are currently more Chinese people in Tibet than there are Tibetans. It is forbidden to teach the Tibetan language in school and speaking Tibetan in public can land one in jail. Children who have fled to India are forced to return to Tibet under the threat that the child's relatives remaining in Tibet will be jailed. If one is sent to jail, it is never certain that he or she will make it out alive. Slave labor is rampant.

This is just the tip of the iceberg. I'm no Clinton basher, but for me, his greatest failure is our China trade policy. The Chinese prosper while the Tibetan people suffer and their culture is destroyed. Even at the United Nations, the recent gathering of the world's spiritual leaders excluded the Dalai Lama in order to placate China.

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