TIBET to USA: “WHAT DOES IT MEAN TO YOUR COUNTRY, TO YOUR VALUES, TO YOUR PRINCIPLES, HOME OF THE FREE AND HOME OF THE BRAVE?”

Quotes from the movie: Tibet, City of the Snow Lion. 2003.

Can be watched here: http://www.tvguide.com/celebrities/john-major/videos/246469

When I see beings of wicked nature oppressed by violent misdeeds and afflictions, may I hold them dear, as if I had found a rare and precious treasure. ~ The 14^th Dalai Lama

“The PLA not only suppresses its own people, but also represses the people of Tibet and we are directly subsidizing that repression. We have raised capital for the PLA on Wall-Street. Mao must be laughing in his grave.” ~ Jeff Fiedler, AFL/CIO China Labor Expert

“People ask me, what does it mean for Tibet. That’s not the question. What does it mean to your country, to your values, to your principles, home of the free and home of the brave? Stooping down to this murderous dictatorship, we just lost the confidence of its own people.” ~ Lhasang Tsering, poet, writer and independence activist, Amnye Machen Institute, Dharamsala, India.

“It is easy for Chinese to portray people who are sympathetic with Tibet as religious fanatics, as new-agers, as people who are on the fringes of popular opinion. Whereas China is big important international country and they appeal to political and economical mainstream.

~ John Major, Professor of Chinese History, then of Dartmouth College.

"Human rights is not just some wishy washy idealistic thing, it is geopolitically practical thing. (…) It means that the measure of the government trust-ability and credibility in the word arena as citizens of the world is how well they treat people who are under their own power."  ~ Robert Thurman, Ph. D.

 “I think big business is cornering market in many ways on US China policy. People who have been fighting for human rights and democracy in Tibet are up against much bigger force then they were before. In the years to come, the China lobby in this country will be so significantly tied in with Chinese government, with billions and billions and billions dollars worth of contracts that those few voices calling for democracy and human rights in that part of the world will have a hell of a time in congress making their case heard.” (2003) ~ John Aveda

• Lodi Giari, Special Envoy of the Dalai Lama to the U.S.
• Here & Now: China, Tibet & the World
• Tsering Shakya 
•  Amnye Machen Institute

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• January 19, 2011 Clinton: U.S., China Must Build Cooperative Relationship

'With Chinese President Hu Jintao in Washington for a state visit, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton says that while the United States must stand by its values and interests, the relationship should not be “zero-sum.” '

•  November 18, 2010 Infringements on Religious freedom Continue in Tibet: Clinton< The Tibet Post

According to the annual State Department report, in the last one year, the level of religious repression in the Tibet Autonomous Region (TAR) and other Tibetan areas remained high, especially around major religious holidays and sensitive anniversaries.

"The government remained wary of Tibetan Buddhism and the central role traditionally played by His Holiness the Dalai Lama and other prominent Tibetan Buddhist leaders.

• February 21, 2009 Clinton: Chinese human rights can't interfere with other crises < CNN

"U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton broached the issue of human rights with Chinese leaders on Saturday, but emphasized that the global financial slump and other international crises were more pressing and immediate priorities."

"The United States will continue to press China on issues such as Tibet, Taiwan and human rights", she told reporters accompanying her.

"Successive administrations and Chinese governments have been poised back and forth on these issues, and we have to continue to press them. But our pressing on those issues can't interfere with the global economic crisis, the global climate change crisis, and the security crisis," she told reporters in Seoul, South Korea."

• March 15, 2008 Clinton Campaign Ducks a Simple Question About Tibet

"During the subsequent Q&A, however, Clinton's National Security Advisor, Lee Feinstein, ducked my question about the Bush Administration's decision last week to remove China from its list of human rights violators - a decision made right in the middle of escalating tensions in Tibet that have culminated in riots in Lhasa, a military crackdown on protests and media nationwide, and according to some reports, upwards of 100 deaths.