‘Seeds of Mistrust’ Over Tibet:  China’s heavy-handed presence remains as a key an

WASHINGTON—Two years after protests against Chinese rule erupted into rioting in the Tibetan capital and spread across western China, sporadic talks between Beijing and envoys of the Dalai Lama appear to have achieved little progress.

“If there were no anti-China forces or no Dalai to destroy and create chaos, Tibet would be better off than it is today,” the region’s Communist Party secretary Zhang Qingli said in an interview posted on a government Web site.

As the two-year anniversary of the Lhasa violence approached, the Dalai Lama’s senior envoy Lodi Gyari meanwhile accused the Communist Party of sowing seeds of racial strife in the wake of the unrest.

Beijing ordered a huge military intervention in Lhasa following the riots, which began March 14, 2008.

“With all respect, they have really been distorting the facts and really trying to create a negative image of His Holiness,” Lodi Gyari said.  Read Article