In an article entitled What Is the Real Intention of the United States, Hua criticizes the US Government's "gross interference" in China's internal affairs.

On May 8 this year, US President George W. Bush submitted to Congress a report on so-called Tibet negotiations consistent with section 613 of this year's Foreign Relations Authorization Act.

Hua said that the report reiterates that the United States recognizes the Tibet Autonomous Region to be part of the People's Republic of China but it also claims that Washington supports the Dalai Lama's "middle way approach" of seeking "genuine autonomy."

The US report says an "important objective" of the United States is to encourage the Chinese Government and the Dalai Lama to hold substantive dialogue that would lead to a negotiated settlement on "questions related to Tibet."

The "Tibet issue" essentially arose from the fact that, for nearly a century, Western imperialist forces fostered and supported Tibetan separatists attempting to separate Tibet from China.

Hua said that the issue would not now exist if the United States and other Western countries did not support the Dalai Lama clique and if the Dalai Lama clique gave up its intention of achieving Tibetan independence.

On the one hand, the report that Bush sent to Congress recognizes Tibet to be part of China and does not recognize Tibet as an independent state. On the other hand, it maintains that the Dalai Lama represents the views of the vast majority of Tibetans. Such a view is quite illogical if not in bad faith, Hua said.

Hua pointed out that those who best know how to safeguard the fundamental interests of the Tibetan people, including protecting the Tibetan language, religion and cultural heritage, are not the US Government or the Dalai Lama, who has been away from his home country and his followers for more than four decades, but the Chinese central government and the government of the Tibet Autonomous Region.

Both the "Tibet issue" and the Dalai Lama are used by US anti-China forces in their attempts to contain China, Hua added.

(China Daily June 11, 2003)