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| Monday 12 July 2010 |
Brendan O’Neill
Tibet: still a ‘buffer state’ for posh Westerners?
Kicking off a week of reports from Tibet, spiked’s editor finds that Lhasa is nothing like the mystical kingdom of British imperial fantasies.
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| Tuesday 13 July 2010 |
Brendan O’Neill
Chinese officialdom embraces ‘Shangri-La’
The Chinese authorities use the idea that Tibet is somehow ‘different’ to justify the lack of democracy and development.
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| Wednesday 14 July 2010 |
Brendan O’Neill
Are Tibetans being ‘seduced’ by modernity?
Western activists are often disappointed to find that Tibetans aren’t keen on living lives of peaceful, contemplative poverty.
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| Thursday 15 July 2010 |
Brendan O’Neill
Investing the Dalai Lama with unearthly powers
In one of their first interviews with a Westerner since the 2008 unrest, Tibetan officials wildly claim that the ‘Dalai clique’ is behind everything.
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| Friday 16 July 2010 |
Brendan O’Neill
Stuck between a rock and a hard place
Tibetans are caught between a Chinese authoritarianism that treats them as undeserving of liberty, and a shallow Western solidarity that treats them as incapable of exercising liberty.
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