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Recently, China created a storm by objecting Dalai Lama’s visit to Arunachal Pradesh. Dalai Lama visited Tawang a border town which China claim as part of its TAR ( Tibet Autonomous Region).

South Africa refused VISA to Dalai Lama in March 2009 where Dalai Lama was to take part in international peace conference. Though South Africa gave reason for the refusal as it did not want to divert attention of peace conference to Tiebt issue, but the real reason was not beyond anyone’s comprehension.

JOHANNESBURG, South Africa (CNN) — South Africa has refused the Dalai Lama a visa to attend an international peace conference in Johannesburg this week, a presidential spokesman said. The Dalai Lama fled China in 1959 after a failed uprising against Chinese rule.

The Tibetan spiritual leader and Nobel Laureate did not receive a visa because it was not in South Africa’s interest for him to attend, said Thabo Masebe. Source.

In July 2009, UN Rights Chief refused to receive Dalai Lama in Geneva in his visit. Many view this as pressure from China.

United Nations rights chief Navi Pillay to answer whether she will receive the Dalai Lama on his visit to Geneva next week — understood as a negative answer — but welcomed her criticism of China’s “serious systemic violations of human rights” in Tibet, and her call for due process for detainees and access to international observers. Source.
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News about border incursion by Chinese troops has become a routine in Indian media, TV, discussion, online forums recently. There are three news articles about Indo-China conflict in Times Of India, one of the largest circulated English News Paper in India.

Various Indian television news channels are airing news as well as news analysis about recent developments in India and China relations. A prominent news has been Indian Government support for visit of Dalai Lama to Tawang, world’s second largest Buddhist pilgrimage place, second only to Tibet. Last year, Indian government refused to allow Dalai Lama visit to Tawang, but this year amid growing distrust between India and China, Indian government allowed to visit him. This is seen as pro-active diplomacy by Indian government by many intellectuals. Arunachal Pradesh is area which is claimed by China, mainly due to Tawang.

Various western pundits are also opining that China recent tough posturing against India is due to its growing nervousness about growing India economically and militarily.

NEW DELHI: A US think-tank has said that China’s recent aggression on Indian border is direct result of Beijing’s “nervousness over India’s rise.”
“Well, I think China is becoming increasingly nervous about India’s rise. It’s something that they have to deal with that perhaps 10-15 years ago they didn’t believe was something that was necessary to focus on.
We saw this when they to tried scuttle at the last minute, the civil nuclear deal at the Nuclear Supplier Group meeting last year and so that was sort of an indication that China is not completely comfortable with India’s rise on the world stage,” said Lisa Curtis of the Heritage Foundation, US. Source.

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At least 156 people were killed in a riot involving Uighur, Turkic ethnic group in Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, and ethnic Han settlers in Urumqi city, capital of Xinjiang Uyaghur Autonomous Region. We may not know the exact figure, chronological events leading to the riot as well as actual death toll and ethnicity of deaths, but it was big enough for Chinese President Hu Jintao to leave G-8 submit in Italy for home earlier than scheduled.

Though the riot has been brought under control by China overwhelming deployment of riot police, paramilitary forces, but China has begun to realise its vulnerability. This riot s supposed be the biggest and most embarrassing incident in China after March, 2008, Tibet uprising. China is accusing Al Qaida to have links with criminal elements in Urumqi rioters. Uighur is Muslim ethnic minority group living in a atheist country China. This province was once a Uighur majority area but systematic and government aided ethnic Han Chinese settlement in this province has made Uighur nos constitute 40% of its total population.

Uighur has many political organisation themselves and World Uyghur Congress is a umbrella organisation for many of Uighur Muslims outside China. China accuses this World Uyghur Congress for inciting the riot in Urumqi. Rebiya Kadeer, its charismatic exiled leader is also known as The Uighur Dalai Lama, though she is as charismatic as His Holiness Dalai Lama. She was a successful business woman in Beijing in 1980s before she was arrested and imprisoned for leaking national secret by Chinese government. But later she was released and exiled and since she is leading World Uyghur Congress.
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