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Re: Spellbound by Dalai Lama (4.00 / 5)

Has been dealt with by Migeru and appears to be Chinese government spin.
Would you like to provide evidence to support that proposition?
& 4. Is he cosying up to European and American celebrities and politicians for the sake of his own ego or is he using them to further his and/or the Tibetan people's aims? I think that it's more likely that he and the Tibetan movement are doing the latter than the former.

Point 4 could have been expressed more temperately, by the way, which is what the 2 rating is for.

I don't buy the Dalai-Lama as saint spin, but your comment seems more reflective of Chinese government or nationalist spin than anything else. Evidence please.

by Colman (colman at eurotrib.com) on Sat Apr 5th, 2008 at 09:44:11 AM EST
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Hey. I will not have you and Mig denigrating the Chinese government with accusations of spin.

Conservatives want live babies so they can raise them to be dead soldiers. - George Carlin

by Drew J Jones (myfriends@thisispancakes.com) on Sat Apr 5th, 2008 at 02:15:18 PM EST
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Is the fact that the PRC has picked up on a story (and not been the original sourceof it) necessarily mean it is wrong?

Seems to me we are employing two sets of standards here in evidentiary evaluation.

Fai de bèn a Bertrand, te lou rendra en cagant

by redstar on Sun Apr 6th, 2008 at 12:17:10 PM EST
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No, it means that it needs corroboration because the source is known to be untrustworthy. Same as the US government talking about anything in China or "Western" media talking about the Balkans.

by Colman (colman at eurotrib.com) on Sun Apr 6th, 2008 at 12:20:35 PM EST
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Well, I think this has been covered, below. There are sources other than the PRC offered below, and in fact the circumstantial evidence that mig throws up (esp as regards donations to the Tibetan government in Exile and their acceptance thereof) would suggest there is indeed something more to this than "beijing spin".

Fai de bèn a Bertrand, te lou rendra en cagant

by redstar on Sun Apr 6th, 2008 at 12:24:21 PM EST
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Yeah, all I see is the Dalai Lama being unbelievably naïve, which would be consistent with the diary's quoted characterisations of the Dalai Lama as "childlike".

When the capital development of a country becomes a by-product of the activities of a casino, the job is likely to be ill-done. — John M. Keynes

by Migeru (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Sun Apr 6th, 2008 at 12:26:20 PM EST
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Further noting that on other diaries (none / 0)

this diarist has gotten away with picking and choosing sources (some of them decades old) he deems as credible, while when facts are in dispute and other sources are cited, these source's intergrity is quickly attacked not just by the diarist, as lies (charges he cannot of course back up), but also by the audience (calling respected and published political scientists on the left as "hacks" and so forth).

No, Colman, there's really nothing equal here imho.

Fai de bèn a Bertrand, te lou rendra en cagant

by redstar on Sun Apr 6th, 2008 at 12:26:58 PM EST
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