Bawa Kelsang, who will soon be the representative of the Central Tibetan Administration in Taiwan, was once a key cadre in the Chinese Communist Party’s United Front, but has since gone into exile in pursuit of Tibetan freedom. In an interview with Radio Free Asia on the eve of his appointment, he pointed out that the Chinese Communist Party’s profit-oriented values have destroyed the natural resources of the Tibetan plateau and plagued the world, and that it sees its own worst totalitarian dictatorship as the best management model to be exported to the world.
In an interview with Radio Free Asia, Kelsang Gyantsen, who will take over as the representative of the Tibetan Administrative Center and the Dalai Lama in Taiwan on April 22, reminded the Chinese Communist Party of its black record of environmental destruction. Tibet, which has important water sources, lakes, grasslands and other natural resources in Asia, has been plundered by the Chinese Communist Party.
Sacred Mountains for Tibetans and Communist Interests for China
Kelsang Gyantsen said: “(Tibetans) had protected the entire ecological balance very well, but you (the Chinese Communist Party) do not have any environmental science, you come in and you are profit-oriented, predatory mining, for economic purposes, cut all the wood, mining all the minerals, and pollute all the rivers. All those rivers that flowed down from the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, that could feed billions of people, were interrupted. It’s only been a few decades, and the impact of the Chinese Communist regime is not only (wreaking) havoc on Tibet, but now on China itself, India and all neighboring countries, and even the world.”
This year marks the 70th anniversary of the signing of the “Seventeen Agreements” between the Tibetan and Beijing governments for the “peaceful liberation of Tibet.” Kelsang Gyantsen pointed out that Tibet has been suffering from it all these years. The world’s expectations that China would join the international universal value system after its economic development have been dashed.
“He (the Chinese Communist Party) has been interfering everywhere, using his worst totalitarian dictatorship as the best mode of governance and sending it to other parts of the world to harm all mankind, which has caused resentment among all countries, mainly those allied with the values of democracy and freedom. He intimidates the neighboring countries by force on the one hand, and on the other hand buys these countries that are in stink with him economically by spreading money.”
Kelsang Jianshen questioned what the world has become when the Chinese Communist Party infiltrates international organizations, destroys the international order, tramples on human rights and democracy and freedom, but enters the UN Human Rights Council and the World Interpol. The Chinese Communist Party’s attacks on Taiwan, its conflicts with India, its bullying of neighboring countries, and its internal actions in Xinjiang, Tibet, and Hong Kong have alerted the United Democrats to the need to unite to “surround China.
He mentioned that Chen Quanguo, Party Secretary of the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR), had engaged in the same kind of genocide and so-called “re-education” in Xinjiang that he had engaged in as Party Secretary of the Tibet Autonomous Region from 2011 to 2016.
Xinjiang is a replica of Tibet
For example, Kelsang Gyantsen said that the CCP would praise so-called “model villages of national unity,” “advanced monasteries,” and “model monks” on the basis that no “protests” had occurred. “model monks” and so on. The government will give a lot of materials and money to the winning “patriotic monasteries”. The monasteries have “six one” and “nine one” policies, that is, they have statues of Chinese leaders, five-star flags, TVs, water and electricity, etc. It seems to be a project for the benefit of the people, but the monks only want to concentrate on studying Buddhism and do not need the Chinese Communist propaganda machines like TVs and newspapers. The promotion of Sino-Tibetan intermarriage has also been included in the performance appraisal and promotion of civil servants.
Kelsang Gyantsen said that Chen Quanguo promoted the policy of double-associated households in Tibet, where every fifteen households form a joint management system, linking the state’s interests in poverty alleviation and welfare, water and electricity, etc. If any household has something that supposedly divides the country and the nation, all fifteen households will suffer, and the joint-associated households will be supervised, so that Tibetans will monitor Tibetans. In addition, the government also sent 20,000 cadres to the village every year, a cadre and a monk pairing, the so-called “make a friend, build a file, solve a problem”, everywhere is the civilian police, monitors, carpet control Tibetans.
Kelsang Gyantsen said that Tibetans will suffer if they have a little bit of national pride. In 2012, when Tibetans were forced to fly the Chinese flag, the five-star flag was thrown into the water and suppressed by the military police. Even though more than 160 Tibetans have set themselves on fire in protest of the Chinese Communist Party’s tyranny, Tibet is still an “island” against the Chinese Communist Party.
According to Kelsang Gyantsen, the Democratic Alliance’s Indo-Pacific strategy of besieging China is mainly the result of a clear understanding of China: “The election of monasteries and monks (in Tibet) is a big event. In fact, while the commendation was going on, those who were not elected on the other side were suppressed. The world can’t understand how, and they all pretend not to understand, and can’t draw attention to it, so the world has become very sad. That’s why China has the opportunity to infiltrate these organizations that are doing justice. Taiwan can’t enter (Tibet), the Tibetan issue can’t be promoted, the world is also very sad. Fortunately, there is now some improvement, but it is a big question mark as to how long this improvement will last when it comes to the issue of interests.”
Kelsang Gyantsen was born in Batang County, Kham District, and was assigned to work for the Political Consultative Conference of Ganzi Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture after graduating from the Sichuan Tibetan Language School. He later enrolled in the Sichuan Socialist Institute, specializing in the theory of the Communist Party’s United Front Work, and was reassigned to work in the United Front Work Department of Ganzi Prefecture after obtaining a college diploma.
The Communist Party’s key cultivator of the United Front Work elite, but chose to go into exile
After joining the United Front Work Department, Kelsang Gyantsen recognized the face of the Communist Party and decided to go into exile in India to participate in the struggle for Tibetan freedom: “In 1994, the struggle to find the reincarnated child of the 10th Panchen was so intense that we had to call on top-level, religious and ethnic people in Tibet every day to criticize the Dalai Lama. Religious and ethnic people criticized the Dalai Lama for sabotaging the work of reincarnating Guru Panchen, and we were in a very low mood.”
Kelsang Gyantsen once went to Sichuan University for six months to study Chinese language before he learned about Tibetan history. “Many popular protests broke out in Lhasa starting in 1987. The Chinese media reported negatively that the Chinese Communist Party had cracked down on Tibetans in Lhasa, Tibet, and in the newspapers those Tibetans were all turned into thugs.”
Kelsang Gyantsen revealed that he had to hide his national pride in his work, and after a year in the United Front Work Department, he asked to be transferred to the Federation of Industry and Commerce Department, and then moved to Lhasa, where he successfully went into exile in India in 1999.
Tibetans look at the Chinese: profit-oriented, sad and pathetic
Kelsang Gyantsen talked about the Chinese Communist Party’s characterization of Tibetan culture as the most cruel, barbaric, ignorant and backward. The Chinese have long been indoctrinated and brainwashed to discriminate against Tibetans in their bones and to liberate Tibetans from on high, but Tibetans see them as pathetic and miserable. “Chinese culture is the pursuit of economic profit and materialism, with no spiritual dimension. In pursuit of profit, they kill and set fire, make counterfeit and shoddy things, even baby milk powder can be faked, black-hearted to this extent.”
According to Kelsang Gyantsen, the Han Chinese have no sense of karma and think that if they earn money in this life, they are happy, resulting in the destruction of all of China’s inherent traditional culture, rituals and morals. On the contrary, Tibetan Buddhism teaches human beings to protect nature, have compassion and respect for all sentient beings, do things that benefit others, and find happiness and joy from suffering, and Tibetans with faith are truly rich.
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