But while I find it plausible, even likely, that the U.S. government has had a hand in stirring up the recent unrest (when has it not?) in Tibet, it would not have been in cohoots with the so-called "Dalai Lama clique", as Engdahl implies (and as the Chinese propaganda machines keeps on hysterically insisting), but rather among the angry young generation of Tibetans who the Dalai Lama has repeatedly and publicly urged to "calm down", both before and after the violence in March.

Certainly, such frustrated, desperate and increasingly educated young people would be ripe for manipulation, especially when they say things like,

What has nonviolence achieved for the Tibetan cause, apart from some converts to Buddhism in the West?

Seeking Buddhahood is one thing, and freedom for a country is another. We are fighting for freedom in the world and not freedom from the world.

Our leaders quote Gandhi.  But Gandhi saw British rule in India as an act of violence and said that resistance to it was a duty. I see the Chinese railway to Lhasa as a similar act of violence. What's wrong with blowing up a few bridges? How can such resistance be termed wrong and immoral?

"The Restless Children of the Dalai Lama"

It would have been better had Engdahl provided some specific evidence that the CIA and/or some other rightwing reactionary forces were behind the Tibet demonstrations and violence.  His essay makes for an entertaining just-so story, but the reader wonders why his theory should be taken as anything more than nicely spun speculation that is ultimately based on paranoia about American efforts to stimy China's rise to world prominence.

Of course, if his sources for such hard evidence were the same as those who arranged to have his article published on the China Internet Information Center, it would be understandable that they would not want to divulge how they obtained such inside information.

(Incidentally, you may want to add "LQD:" to the front of this diary title -- it stands for "Lazy Quote Diary", just a friendly way to let readers know that the bulk of a diary, in this case all of it, is quoted from another work.  It also helps if you put <blockquote>TEXT<blockquote> tags around the quoted text.)

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