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Well, Hiram, the DL cannot outgun the Chinese and negociation through the moral and other suation of the international community is all he really has to work with. A substantial number of younger Tibetans openly contested and defied the DL's strategy, winding up as prisonners and labourers of the occupying Chinese powers. This in turn only made the DL's task more difficult, as now these would-be liberators are in effect extra bargaining chips for the Chinese to exercise further leverage against anyone's desires for autonomy and human rights in Tibet. China is acting way out of line dictating to the US who and where it can exercise it's soverignty with (this concerning arms sales to Taiwan as well). In fact, the DL himself is acting as an instrument with which the Americans can increase their diplomatic clout in countering these dictates from China, by welcoming the DL as a recognized friend of the US. The Chinese Communist Party should keep it's paranoia in China. The DL has never threatened China, so why is he so feared there? It is the responsibilty of the US and it's allies to recognize the DL as a champion of human rights and a spiritual leader of an occupied people. If the Americans and other democracies can perserve the soverignty and territorial integrity of other contries though massive armaments sales, why can't they just invite the DL over for a cup of tea? David Berridge.