Dalai Lama eyes reform in China, fearing 'revolution'

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[I]Tibetan spiritual leader The Dalai Lama, seen February 2012, says there are hopeful signs that China will push through political reforms in China and Tibet in order to avoid another "cultural revolution[/I]."

The Dalai Lama said there are hopeful signs that China will push through political reforms in China and Tibet in order to avoid another "cultural revolution."

But the exiled Tibetan leader warned that there were still "worshippers of the gun" in Tibetan areas of China, where more than 30 protestors -- many Buddhist monks and nuns -- have set themselves alight since March 2011.

"The same cultural revolution is returning that was the cause of a crisis in 2008 when several hundred people were killed or disappeared," he said in Hawaii, where he spent the weekend before a trip to the US mainland.

"Now the time has come that the Chinese authority must investigate the causes" of Tibetan protests, the Dalai Lama said.

"The local (Chinese) authority (in Tibet) I think .. are worshippers of the gun, as Chairman Mao Zedong once expressed that power comes from the barrel of the gun. Unfortunately some hardliners still believe that," he said.

But the Dalai Lama said he sees hopeful signs in statements last month by outgoing Chinese Prime Minister Wen Jiabao, that China has no way forward but through economic and political structural reform.

Wen said on March 14 that China could see a repeat of the Cultural Revolution's deadly chaos without "urgent" political reform, in a dramatic parting shot at his final news conference as premier.

"Without a successful political structural reform, it is impossible for us to fully institute economic structural reform and the gains we have made in this area may be lost," said Wen.

The Dalai Lama said that Wen's statement, and an apparent crackdown on some government corruption, indicate "that the majority of the Chinese leadership is thinking seriously of some change, and that is a hopeful thing."

The exiled spiritual leader is due to fly to San Diego, California this week, before visiting Los Angeles and Chicago. From there he will travel to Canada and on to Europe.[/QUOTE]

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[I]Associated Press:[/I]

[QUOTE]OTTAWA, Ontario (AP) — Richard Gere chided Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper on Friday for meeting with the Dalai Lama privately rather than publicly.

Harper met the exiled Tibetan spiritual leader in his Parliament Hill office Friday. His office billed the meeting as a "private courtesy call," in an apparent bid to avoid tensions with China. Canada's Conservative government has ambitious trade goals with China, which regards the Dalai Lama as a separatist and opposes any contact between him and foreign leaders.

The Dalai Lama was in Ottawa to address the 6th World Parliamentarians' Convention on Tibet, a gathering of lawmakers and academics from around the world to discuss the situation in Tibet.

"The positive thing was that he met him. The less positive thing is that it wasn't public," Gere said at a news conference. The "Pretty Woman" star, a practicing Buddhist and longtime activist in the movement to free Tibet, was in Ottawa to chair a panel discussion during the parliamentarians' conference.

Canada conferred honorary citizenship to the Dalai Lama in 2006 and Harper angered the Chinese Embassy when he met the Tibetan leader in 2007. However, he has since made two trips to China to boost trade with the Asian economic superpower.

"I have no trouble with trade with the Chinese, but to diminish ourselves in the process is a double death for the Chinese people, because it perpetuates the totalitarian state and it kills us in the core of who we are," Gere said.

Carl Vallee, the prime minister's spokesman, declined to give details on the meeting between Harper and the Dalai Lama.

"He met with him as an international spiritual leader and an honorary Canadian citizen," Vallee said in response to why the meeting was held in private.[/QUOTE]