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发帖数: 38600 | 1 http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/news/politics/140904/does-th
Look at that face. You're suddenly a bit more serene, a bit more contented
than you were a minute ago, aren't you? Maybe you're remembering the year —
was it 2002? 2003? — when you gave every single one of your friends and
family a copy of "The Art of Happiness" for Christmas.
On the other hand, if you're the president, prime minister, or foreign
secretary of any country in the world, then this face is giving you serious
angina right now.
We learned on Sept. 4 that South Africa had denied a visa request by the
Dalai Lama, the head of Tibetan Buddhism and symbol of Tibetan freedom, who'
d been planning to attend the 14th world summit of Nobel peace laureats in
Cape Town. (He won the prize in 1989.) It's widely assumed — and the Dalai
Lama's representative to South Africa claimed — that the decision had to do
with South Africa's economic ties with China, a country that considers the
Dalai Lama a separatist.
From reading headlines around the world today, you'd think this was a major
event in geopolitics.
It's not. The Dalai Lama is losing friends all over the place as the world
undergoes a geopolitical realignment. | b********n
发帖数: 38600 | 2 I always thought he was a globalist con-man. | n***c
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