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In such cases one really needs to wonder if there was an agente provocateur with Tibetan sympathies inside the Chinese government, who suggested this course of action. I mean, seriously, there are three groups of people for this purpose:
(1) Chinese citizens who believe everything that their government tells them, that will believe the government when it announces that the new reincarnation of the Dalai Lama has been born inside China proper.
(2) Tibetan nationalists that won't accept the Chinese government's party line, and will probably take the Dalai Lama's word for what's going to happen with his reincarnation.
(3) The rest of the world, who is looking upon this spectacle with a bemused expression, thinking "what the _hell_?" and/or laughing their asses off.
So you're playing to the home gallery and you don't care who else believes you, fine. Do you really think it's going to make a difference, and is it worth the increased reputation as the place to go for really thorough totalitarianism?
In such cases one really needs to wonder if there was an agente provocateur with Tibetan sympathies inside the Chinese government, who suggested this course of action. I mean, seriously, there are three groups of people for this purpose:
(1) Chinese citizens who believe everything that their government tells them, that will believe the government when it announces that the new reincarnation of the Dalai Lama has been born inside China proper.
(2) Tibetan nationalists that won't accept the Chinese government's party line, and will probably take the Dalai Lama's word for what's going to happen with his reincarnation.
(3) The rest of the world, who is looking upon this spectacle with a bemused expression, thinking "what the _hell_?" and/or laughing their asses off.
So you're playing to the home gallery and you don't care who else believes you, fine. Do you really think it's going to make a difference, and is it worth the increased reputation as the place to go for really thorough totalitarianism?