In October 1963, the "Tibetan Government-in-exile" released a "Tibet Constitution," claiming that Tibet was an "independent nation" and the Dalai Lama was in charge of the "Tibetan Government." The Dalai Lama claimed that "it is not true that Tibet is part of China" and demanded "China withdraw from Tibet." The plot manifested the fact that the illegal government wanted to break with the Chinese Constitution and laws.

On December 17, 1964, a plenary session of the State Council passed a decision to remove the Dalai Lama from his post. The document said he had alienated himself from the motherland and the people after his plots of launching the armed rebellion in 1959, organizing a government in exile and framing the bogus constitution.

Consequently, the Dalai Lama and his "Tibetan Government-in-exile" are illegal in nature and are not eligible to represent Tibet and the people living there. Not a single country in the world has ever recognized such a "Tibetan Government-in-exile." Any foreign leaders who meet with the monk on any pretext are considered to be supporting the illegal political organization that means to split China.

U.S. President Barack Obama's meeting with the Dalai Lama grossly violated the basic norms governing international relations, and ran counter to the principles set forth in the three China-U.S. joint communiqués and the China-U.S. Joint Statement.

It also went against the repeated commitments made by the U.S. Government that the United States recognizes Tibet as part of China and gives no support to "Tibet independence." It was markedly inconsistent with the spirit of abolition of slavery upheld by late U.S. President Abraham Lincoln.

Self-claimed "son of India"

When some foreign groups claim they support the Dalai Lama for the protection of the distinct Tibetan religion, culture and language, it is also a question as to whether the monk himself is a Tibetan.

On March 31, 2009, the Dalai Lama said to the media in New Delhi that he was a son of India. He repeated the claim at an international conference on November 22 later that year. He made it more clearly at the opening ceremony of an international Buddhist conference held in Gujarat State in India on January 16 this year, saying, "It is indisputable that I am a son of India. In the past 50 years I have been living on Indian food and India has presented great opportunities for me. For these reasons, I see myself as a son of India and I am proud of that. I am a Tibetan in appearance because my parents are Tibetans, but spiritually I am Indian."

The statements should not be judged as words on a whim. On January 23, 2007, he told the Indian media that in 1914, both the then Tibetan Government and India, which was under the British rule, recognized the McMahon Line, which meant, according to the then agreement, "Arunachal Pradesh" was part of India.

He said to the British media on August 10, 2009, that the McMahon region was indeed a complicated problem but the place belonged to India after 1914 though there were different claims in history. The monk's statement was echoed by senior officials of the "Tibetan Government-in-exile." Actually, the so-called "Arunachal Pradesh" and McMahon region, which cover more than 90,000 square km, were all governed by the local government in Tibet in the Chinese history.

It is the birthplace of the sixth Dalai Lama and boasts temples built by the fifth Dalai Lama. The McMahon Line has never been recognized by the Chinese Government at any time.

How can the Dalai Lama, who on the one hand seeks a "Greater Tibet" that would cover not only Tibet Autonomous Region but also all other Tibetan-inhabited areas in China, and on the other presents the land of ancestors to foreign countries, be representative of the Tibetan people? Is such a person in a position to talk about religion, culture, language and human rights? It only testifies to his plot of splitting the nation by counting on foreign forces. And it justifies the necessity of the Central Government to demand the Dalai Lama recognize Tibet is an inalienable part of the Chinese territory.

The Dalai Lama told the media at a press conference in Tokyo on October 31, 2009, that the Chinese Government saw him as a troublemaker, so his responsibility was to make more trouble. The act of pressing the Central Government by sabotaging China's relations with other countries would only worsen his relation with the Central Government and cause nationwide resentment against him. He will taste the bitter fruits of his plots in the long run.