China strongly opposes US Senate’s Tibet resolution: FM spokeswoman

BEIJING—China on Monday expressed indignation over and opposition to a resolution on Tibet adopted by the U.S. Senate.
The resolution, proposed by a few senators in disregard of China’s strong protests, “persistently favored the Dalai clique and interfered with China’s internal affairs,” said Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Jiang Yu in a statement. “China is strongly indignant and resolutely opposed to the resolution,” she said.
Jiang urged U.S. Senators to see clearly the Dalai Lama’s true nature, which she said was to engage in secessionist activities under the guise of religion. The Dalai group is talking of dialog and peace, but confrontation and violence is what they do, she said.
“We demand those few Senators to respect facts, abandon prejudice and immediately stop wrongful remarks and deeds that hurt the Chinese people’s feeling and harm China-U.S. relations,” said Jiang. China expressed early Friday morning strong indignation and opposition over a resolution on Tibet adopted by the U.S. House of Representatives.
The resolution proposed by U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi “flagrantly distorted the history and reality of Tibet”, said Chinese Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Jiang Yu in a statement. Jiang said the resolution, which condemned for no reason at all the legal measures taken by the government of Tibet Autonomous Region to deal with the violent crimes in Lhasa last month, was “a rude interference into China’s internal affairs and seriously hurt the feelings of the Chinese people.”
“China is strongly indignant and opposed to this resolution,” she said. There was sufficient evidence to prove that the Lhasa riots were masterminded by the Dalai Lama clique, and staged by “Tibet independence” forces in and out of China, she said.
What happened in Lhasa on March 14 was not at all “peaceful demonstration” or “non-violence” activities as labeled by the Dalai clique, but naked serious crimes of violence, Jiang said.
Some U.S. Congress members utterly confounded right and wrong by turning a blind eye to the mobs who conducted assaulting, looting and arson in Lhasa and leaving the Dalai clique, who masterminded the violent crimes, free from condemnations, but instead blaming the Chinese government and the Chinese people, Jiang said.—Xinhua