tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4050554817776641945.post979483493845291783..comments2023-06-05T07:33:16.696-07:00Comments on The China Beat: The Dalai Lama and the Nobel Prize: Correcting a MisunderstandingThe China Beathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17042877198563453117noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4050554817776641945.post-71277600419814027192009-04-04T12:04:00.000-07:002009-04-04T12:04:00.000-07:00I was going to say something, but PorticoBanner ha...I was going to say something, but PorticoBanner has basically said everything I wanted to say. I'm not sure if this post is disingenuous, but it seems completely pointless. That the Nobel Peace Prize has a political side is hardly news. The Dalai Lama sure deserves one more so than some of cold-hearted killers who have been awarded in the past.master_of_americanshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11649653266887681184noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4050554817776641945.post-89219145586068554642009-04-03T08:04:00.000-07:002009-04-03T08:04:00.000-07:00There is a disconnect in your logic, Professor Gru...There is a disconnect in your logic, Professor Grunfeld. Though the repression of protesters in Beijing in 1989 may well have <I>motivated</I> the Nobel committee to choose the Dalai Lama as recipient that year, the Dalai Lama did indeed <I>receive</I> the award on behalf of his efforts representing Tibet and the Tibetan people, as well as his international status as a speaker for peace. Directly from the NYT article you quote:<BR/><BR/>"The Dalai Lama, as religious and political leader of Tibet, has been waging a nonviolent struggle for nearly 40 years to end Chinese domination of his homeland."<BR/><BR/>I understand the many perspectives on the China-Tibet situation, but to undermine the Dalai Lama's status as a recipient of the Nobel Peace prize -- and his continued recognition for such in the Western media -- appears a bit disingenuous. I have no doubt that international politics and situations often motivate the Nobel committee, but that does not minimize and/or discredit the reasons for which an individual receives this award.Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15251987125192778196noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4050554817776641945.post-86815731515863526452009-04-02T19:41:00.000-07:002009-04-02T19:41:00.000-07:00Without the brutal suppression of students in 1989...Without the brutal suppression of students in 1989, Dalai would not have gotten his prize. So the brutal CCP is the one that awarded the prize to Dalai Lama!!Billnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4050554817776641945.post-12639864215679021222009-04-02T14:41:00.000-07:002009-04-02T14:41:00.000-07:00Dear Professor Grunfeld,I appreciate the link you ...Dear Professor Grunfeld,<BR/><BR/>I appreciate the link you provide here to the New York Times article. I have little doubt that awarding of the Nobel Peace Prize to the Dalai Lama was politically motivated by a desire to chastise China for its suppression of the Beijing rioters on the streets of Beijing in June, 1989.<BR/><BR/>Your book, "The Making of Modern Tibet", incidentally, along with Melvyn Goldstein's "The Snow Lion and the Dragon" and Barry Sautman and June Teufel Dreyer's(eds.)"Contemporary Tibet" (which you are also a contributor to) has had a great impact on the development of my understanding of the Tibetan Issue.<BR/><BR/>As Suzanne Ogden, who is a China specialist who teaches at Northeastern University in Boston, once said to me in response to a comment I left on another site back, "Tibet has become such a political issue that most commentators, not excluding academicians and journalists, lead with their emotional ideological commitments rather than with the facts and reality."Mark Anthony Joneshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10182443553516881761noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4050554817776641945.post-86287775247767250312009-04-02T13:47:00.000-07:002009-04-02T13:47:00.000-07:00I find it difficult to believe that the Peace Priz...I find it difficult to believe that the Peace Prize committee recognized the Dalai Lama partly to recognize the Tienanmen protests, since they were completely different issues. I doubt Tibetan independence was uppermost in many students' minds.achttp://ssmag.wordpress.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4050554817776641945.post-52286401296679827922009-04-02T10:23:00.000-07:002009-04-02T10:23:00.000-07:00Will this prevent the Western Media(tm) from start...Will this prevent the Western Media(tm) from starting grandstanding lines with "Dalai Lama, the Nobel Peace Prize winner..."?Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14089667317843085889noreply@blogger.com