“China is the largest hypocrisy in the world,” Richard Gere told an interviewer from Indian television station NDTV yesterday, while attending a major Buddhist teaching by His Holiness the Dalai Lama in Bodh Gaya. In the lengthy interview, the transcript of which can be read here, Gere argues that China’s policies of repression in Tibet and in China will not succeed, notes the importance of the democratic Tibetan government-in-exile for the future, and identifies”money” or “truth” as the world’s choice in dealing China. Gere is the chairman of the International Campaign for Tibet.
On China’s failure to understand that policies to develop Tibet economically by inundating it with Han Chinese migrants will not achieve Communist Party’s objective of transforming Tibet:
