Intel risks Buddhist ire going to Tibet

According to the wire, quoting Intel's head of the Asia Pacific region, Jason Chen, the work done in this kind of club "is a very important part of Intel's work in China".

China describes Tibet as the Tibet Autonomous Region but it has been widely criticised for its human rights record in the region.

What's worse, is that Intel has set up its clubhouse in a building next to the Potala Palace, formerly the home of Nobel Peace Prize winner, the Dalai Lama, who runs the government of Tibet in Exile at this web site.

Mainland China doesn't recognise the Dalai Lama as the spiritual or temporal leader of Tibet, but instead recognises the Panchen Lama, who is esconced in Beijing.

The report quotes Chen as saying that both Intel and the government of the "autonomous region" had similar opinions about establishing the computer club. It quotes him as saying that the club corresponds with the Chinese government's policy to develop in "Western China".

The Chinese government has cooperated with Intel to set up the club, the report added.

The report said Intel will use Chinese characters in its advertising campaign across the mainland. Tibetan is a completely different language.

Amnesty International, which has a site that is regularly censored by the Chinese powers, has a page on alleged breaches of human rights in Tibet, here. Coincidentally, Amnesty International is also a winner of the Nobel Peace Prize, started by a Swede who felt guilty about turning nitroglycerine, in the form of dynamite, into a weapon of war -- although nitroglycerine continues to be a veritable boon for angina sufferers everywhere. Other winners include Kofi Annan, German chancellor Willy Brandt, and Martin Luther King. Oddly, few awards for the Peace Prize were made between 1939-1945. The Norwegian government is the bestower of the Nobel Peace Prize and it was occupied by Nazi Germany during this period. µ

* INQBLOT. IT WAS BRITISH "explorer" Sir Francis Younghusband who first bothered Tibet when he invaded Tibet nearly a hundred years back in 1904. As well as this signal event, where several Tibetans felt the power of the Royal Enfield rifle, he also failed to climb Mount Everest three times -- surely a triumph of sorts. Here.

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