Dalai Lama’s Realpolitik: Gold Medals versus Human Rights

Dalai Lama’s Realpolitik: Gold Medals versus Human Rights Posted by barunroy on April 4, 2008 By Satis Shroff The Chinese poet Dong Guanfu writes in his blog: “We cannot win the heart of the Tibetans if we only develop their economy. If we cannot manage to understand this, then many other conflicts will follow. There’s no denying that one of the reasons of staging the Olympic Games is that we want to make money. But the greater value of the Games is to strengthen and rejuvenate the spirit of

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