Award Medal

Why does China demand the U.S. Congress withdraw it’s gold medal award to the Dalai Lhama?

In China all news is censored by the government, and the citizens know only what the Communist Party allows them to.
Surely it would have been wiser simply to ignore, not publicise, the incident?

I am in China right now studying. People here are told that Tibet was “peacefully liberated” when really its citizens were brutally slaughtered. The Dalai Lama had to escape Tibet so he wouldn’t be killed. Because the communist party believes in there being only one China, they dislike Tibet and Taiwan saying that they should be liberated. In my opinion, it could be because the government is afraid that the Dalai Lama could be a figure that would inspire people to fight for freedom. By the U.S. recognizing him like that, it is giving him more power, rather than acknowledging that Tibet is part of China. It may seem weird that it was publicized, but I certainly only read about it on CNN, not on CCTV English. I’m guessing that most Chinese people don’t know that it happened, but it does make China look tyrannical to the rest of the world. To add insult to injury, the U.S. did this during the one every five years meeting of the CCP.

But, that is just my opinion and what I can speculate from being an American citizen living in China.

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