The Dalai Lama cooked up countless lies, such as "Tibet has always been an independent country from ancient times" and "China killed 1.2 million Tibetans" as the two main typical examples.

In 1950, the Dalai Lama's regional Tibetan Government appealed to the United Nations to "stop China's invasion" and in that letter, he mentioned Tibet had 3 million people. In 1987, he mentioned that Tibetans had increased to 6 million when making a speech in the U.S. Congress. It is also in that speech he said that the Chinese Government had killed 1.2 million Tibetans. Obviously, in the 37 years under the rule of the Government of the People's Republic of China, the population of Tibetans doubled, and at the same time the whole Chinese population doubled. If the Chinese Government did kill 1.2 million Tibetans, then the Tibetan population grew from 1.8 million to 6 million during this period. That is, under the rule of Chinese Government, the growth of the Tibetan population is twice that of Han population. This is really a miracle from the perspective of both fertility science and human development.

The Dalai Lama's mouthpiece, the World Tibet Network News, had to defend his speech by saying that "the so-called 1.2 million Tibetans killed by China is not in terms of flesh but of culture." This is really a weird argument. If it is true, among the 6 million Tibetans only 1.2 million Tibetans had their culture damaged by the Chinese Government and the other 4.8 million did not. In other words, the Chinese Government has preserved the culture of 80 percent of the Tibetan population. Isn't this praise for the Chinese Government?

U.S. accusations

The U.S. Foreign Relations Act for Fiscal Years 1988 and 1989, while admitting that "Tibet's economy and education, health and human services remain far below those of the People's Republic of China as a whole," accused the Chinese Government of having "encouraged a large influx of Han-Chinese into Tibet, thereby undermining the political and cultural traditions of the Tibetan people."

The fact is that the Chinese Government realizes that Tibet's economy, education, health and human services remain far below the national average and has decided to send large numbers of engineering personnel, managerial experts, medical workers, teachers, scientists and technicians, cultural workers and their assistants to Tibet. They build hospitals, schools, power plants, electricity transmission networks, TV stations, broadcast relay stations, telephone offices, radio stations, residential buildings, waterworks, water supply and drainage networks, roads, airports, oil pipelines, gas stations, stores, restaurants, cinemas, ballrooms, libraries, museums, as well as a variety of banking, communications, transportation, R&D and maintenance facilities, for local residents, remarkably improving Tibet's economy, education, health and human services. These efforts, however, have been accused of encouraging "a large influx of Han-Chinese into Tibet, thereby undermining the political and cultural traditions of the Tibetan people." If not done this way, I believe the Chinese Government would have been criticized for discriminating against Tibetan people.

It seems that only Aladdin's Lamp, which can do the bidding of the person holding it, can help the Chinese Government. It would be able to meet Tibetan people's demand for electric lamps, telephones, movies, tap water, new homes, stores, hospitals, schools, vehicles and airplanes, by giving each of them such an enchanted lamp instead of transferring huge human resources and an untold amount of materials from other parts of the country into Tibet.

To be frank, I don't think the United States would have praised China even if the latter had fulfilled the mission impossible of realizing an advanced economy, education, health and human services by finding a Lamp. For example, the U.S. Department of State says in its 1997 Report on Tibet Human Rights, "Overall, government development policies have helped raise the economic living standards of many ethnic Tibetans." Yet, in the same document it criticizes, "China's economic development policies, fueled in Tibet by central government subsidies, are modernizing parts of Tibetan society and changing traditional Tibetan ways of life...," and "risk undermining Tibet's unique cultural, religious and linguistic heritage."