Contents

• Introduction
  
• International Implications
  
  • - Portrayal of the United States -
  • - Implications for Most Favored Nation Status -
  • - Dalai Lama and the Tibetan Government in Exile -
  • - Sino-Tibetan Negotiations -
  • - United Nations -
  • - Tibetans in Exile -
  • - Media Strategy Inside Tibet -
  • - Tibet and Taiwan -
  • - Conclusion -
• Excerpts of the Documents on Key Issues
  • - Importance of Tibet for China's World Image -
  • - Strategy Towards the Dalai Lama -
  • - Criticism of the United States -
  • - The United Nations and Non-Governmental Organizations -
  • - "Eradicating" the Tibetan Opposition -
  • - Suppressing Negative Domestic News -
  • - West is "Main Target" -
  • - Overall Strategy on Foreign Media -
  • - Role of Academics and Research -
  • - Manipulation of Foreign Media -
  • - Policy of Dividing Tibetans in Exile -
  • - Attitude Toward Negotiations over Tibet -
  • - News only for Foreign Consumption -
  • - Political Use of Cultural Exchanges -
  • - On Preparing Effective Propaganda Materials -
• The Documents
• 1. Document #3. Speech by Zeng Jian-Hui.
  • The focus of the external propaganda work on the question of Tibet in 1992 has been...
  • With regard to the whole situation of the external propaganda work on the question of Tibet,...
  • The External Propaganda Work On the Question of Tibet For 1993...
• 2. Document #5. Organization of External Propaganda Work
  • Guidelines and Content of the External Propaganda Work On The Question Of Tibet
  • Work Arrangement For The External Propaganda On The Question Of Tibet Of This Year
  • The Coordination and Cooperation In The External Propaganda Work
• 3. Document #8. Speech by Tenzin.
  • The Work of Last Year
  • Suggestions for This Year's Work and Project Arrangements
  • Main Tasks in the Future
• 4. Document. Summary Speech by Zeng Jian-Hui.
• Notes.

1. Provide a highly regulated and sanitized view of conditions in Tibet;
2. Manipulate and control news coverage of conditions in Tibet by foreign correspondents;
3. Showcase Tibetan culture - approved and packaged by the Chinese government - to the outside world as a form of political propaganda.

The Conference on the Work of External Propaganda on the Question of Tibet Document No. 3

SPEECH BY ZENG JIAN-HUI [Note 1]

1. (We) reinforced the systematic and authoritative nature of the external propaganda work on the question of Tibet. Last year, upon the approval of the Central Committee, we published a White Paper entitled "Tibet--Its Ownership and Human Rights Situation" in the name of the Information Office of the State Council. That was the first time we, in the form of a state document, systematically presented the real situation in Tibet and our principal positions and viewpoints on the question of Tibet at home and abroad. After the White Paper was published, it aroused widespread interest abroad and it also had some very good impact. The public opinion in the West had to admit that the White Paper was "reasonable and accurate". It is said that "Tibet Cultural Studies" of the Dalai Clique is planning on publishing a book to attack our White Paper on the question of Tibet. That shows that our White Paper has hit them at their fatal point. The White Paper entitled "Tibet--Its Ownership and Human Rights Situation" is the result of the cooperation between comrades of relevant departments of the Central Government and the Tibet Autonomous Region and their concerted efforts. In particular, within a short period of time the Tibet Autonomous Region was able to come up with a basic draft of the White Paper which is rich in content. Under the organization of the External Propaganda Committee of the Central Committee, comrades of all the relevant departments and of the Tibet Autonomous Region repeatedly studied, revised, researched and checked information materials in the draft. There were altogether twelve or thirteen revisions. The "Basic Draft" provided by the Tibet Autonomous Region alone was revised five times. In this way the quality and authority of the White Paper were guaranteed. This spirit of unity and cooperation should be carried on in the future.
   
2. We confronted the Dalai Clique and international enemy forces that support it and achieved good results. Last year there were three such major confrontations. One was at the United Nations Human Rights Commission held between February and March of 1992. In order to coordinate our diplomatic struggle, The External Propaganda Committee of the Central Committee organized the editing and translation of a series of (eight) pamphlets in English and French on the human rights situation in Tibet and the social development of Tibet before the Commission. Special arrangements were made to deliver them and other propaganda materials to Geneva before the Chinese New Year. During the course of the Commission, two hundred and thirty sets of the English version pamphlets and one hundred and forty French versions were distributed. In the conference hall, forty five booklets written by Vice-chairman Ngabo [2] on the question of Tibet, over fifty brochures on the social history of Tibet and fifty sets (ten books in a set) of English and French versions of "On Tibet" were also taken. At the conference, our propaganda material once displayed were all taken by the time when morning meetings adjourned. Some were taken within one or two hours of the meeting. A local Geneva paper used three pictures from our propaganda material. This was the first time that such large quantity of our propaganda material entered a United Nations Human Rights Commission, which had a quite good impact. It effectively coordinated for the success of our diplomatic struggle.
   The second one was the struggle at the United Nations Environment Conference. Before the Conference we were told that Dalai would visit Brazil under the name of the "The Earth Summit of Parliamentarians and Spiritual Leaders" with the aim of subverting the presence of our high-level delegation at the conference and pushing the internationalization of the Tibet question. We made arrangements for our propaganda work and assigned people to bring along a lot of propaganda material. In the course of the Conference, our ambassador to Brazil wrote a special article entitled " Tibet: History And Truth" based on the material provided from home. Our non-governmental delegation sponsored seminars that presented the situation of the ecology and environment of Tibet. It also distributed over 2,000 copies of materials on Tibet and presented our opinion regarding the presence of Dalai to one of the three co-chairmen of the Conference. Our diplomatic struggle and external propaganda work forced Dalai to restrain his activities in Brazil, thus frustrating his attempts and ensuring that the activities of our delegation be conducted smoothly during the Environmental Conference.
   The third one was the struggle at the UNESCO Conference in Paris in October last year. Faced with the situation that the Dalai Clique and the enemy forces in the West attempted to use the Conference to attack us on human rights record, the question of Tibet, and the reform of prisoners in particular, we decided to ask comrades from the Labour Reform Department of the Justice Ministry to go to prisons in Tibet and video tape the situation of the prisoners. We brought the video tapes to the Conference. At the Conference, delegations from Western countries and some non-governmental organizations went all out to attack us on human rights and the question of Tibet. They claimed that the prisons in Tibet were cruel, inhuman and ill-treated prisoners etc. Our delegation showed the video tape at the meeting. When the video was over, the Conference room was silent for a few minutes. No one tried to bother us on that question again. The lies of some people in the West were effectively exposed. Besides, when receiving parliamentarians and other people from Western countries, we used facts and carried out the struggle through reasoning and had achieved good results. All departments of the media have actively cooperated in the international struggle on the question of Tibet. They broadcast timely statements of our delegations and international opinions that were favorable to us. At the same time, they organized authoritative persons inside the country to publish articles. Thus a powerful momentum of public opinion was forged through the cooperation between within and outside the country.
   
3. ...(Omitted)
   
4. (We) made appropriate arrangements for people from abroad to visit Tibet and invited Hong Kong journalists to visit and conduct interviews in Tibet so that through their own eyes and experience they would get to know the actual situations and changes in Tibet. People in Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan and overseas Chinese communities are close to us in their viewpoints regarding the sovereignty of Tibet. However, on the question of human rights, they have a lot of hesitations and don't have a good knowledge of the actual situation due to the influence of the propaganda of Dalai and international enemy forces. Faced with this situation, together with the Propaganda Department of The Hong Kong Party Working Committee [3], we invited five Hong Kong journalists to visit Tibet last August. According to incomplete statistics, these journalists published six special editorials, over 220 articles with pictures. Their coverage was basically objective and fair. They created a strong momentum of public opinion and had a good impact.
   In November last year, US Senator Pell came to visit. This man had always been unfriendly to us. He had often launched attacks of distortion regarding our human rights record and the question of Tibet at US Congress. During his visit , our relevant department purposely arranged for him to visit Tibet. He had to admit that what he saw was quite different from what he had imagined before. These two incidents demonstrate that with regard to external propaganda on the question of Tibet, so long as we organize well and make careful arrangements and enable those persons from Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan who don't know the actual situation to visit Tibet, we can achieve very good results.
   

1. The Dalai Clique continues to step up its activities internationally. It has launched its propaganda offensive. In light of the fact that the situation inside our country has developed at a rapid speed and that we have reinforced our external propaganda on the question of Tibet, the Dalai Clique has made some changes in its strategy. In the past, it attempted to achieve its purpose of splitting the country through internal turbulence and external pressure. Since last year, in particular the later half of last year they started to demand "negotiations", " returning home" and "high degree autonomous rule" in an attempt to further seek the "independence" of Tibet. Comrades in the external propaganda department should closely follow and study this situation. On the whole, our principles and positions on the question of Tibet have not changed. However, our tactics can be flexible. Judging from the situation of last year, the main characteristics of the activities of the Dalai Clique can be summarized as follows. Firstly, Dalai is personally very active in conducting activities. He continues high level lobbying. In the past two years, Dalai visited over thirty countries, among which important officials above the level of foreign ministers of twenty one countries received him. Because of the fact that Dalai was received by Bush and Major, heads of states of two major Western countries, he has been received at high levels in many places. Not so long ago, he went to lobby in Thailand as a non-official person. He was received by the Prime Minister of Thailand. It seems that under the cloak of the so-called "Nobel Peace Prize Winner", Dalai has a certain international market. Our external propaganda work should write articles in this respect so as to expose him. Secondly, various forms of international conferences and seminars have been held to advocate the independence of Tibet and to carry out distortions and attacks against us. For example, the Dalai Clique held an "International Symposium On Tibetan Language Studies" last year in Italy. In the United States they held "conference on Sino-American Relations" together with fugitives such as Yan Jia-qi, Chen Yi-zi, and Su Xiao-kang and so on. Their purpose is to create opportunities to carry out propaganda and attacks. Thirdly, they constantly change their means of propaganda in order to win over international opinion. Not long ago, through a Western paper, Dalai revealed that he would send three representatives to go to Beijing and deliver his letter and a "memorandum", and to express his hope to "negotiate" with the Central government and the hope that "neither side should put forward pre-conditions". Dalai also lies that China may reconsider their policy to Tibet. His aim is to influence international opinion. Fourthly, the strategy of their struggle continues to be double-faced. On the one hand, he stops at nothing in labeling himself as "an fighter for international human rights" "fighter for peace" and "an advocate of non-violent struggle". On the other hand, he secretly masterminds turbulence. It is known that the radical group of the Dalai Clique the "Tibetan Youth Congress" has trained large numbers of armed persons abroad. The Dalai Clique plans to sponsor a so-called "Sikkim Kalachakra Initiation" on the Tibetan border near us in April of this year with the aim of creating incidents and inciting turbulence inside the country.
   
2. The attacks launched by Western enemy forces against us on the question of Tibet have the tendency of being further escalated. Due to the fact that the political and social situations inside our country have greatly improved and that we have initiated measures in handling rioters according to law inside the country, it is hard for Western enemy forces to fuss over other issues. Therefore, they focus more and more on the question of Tibet in their attacks and distortions against us. Last year, the United States and France acted especially ugly ("zui wei e lue", in Chinese--ed.) in this respect. In March last year, in order to coordinate the attacks by anti-Chinese forces against at the 48th Session of the Human Rights Conference, the U.S. Senate passed a resolution claiming that "Tibet is an occupied country" and that "the Dalai's exiled government is the legitimate government of Tibet". In November last year, the French Parliament ganged up with the "Sub-committee on the Question of Tibet of the European Parliament" and staged an anti-Chinese farce in Strasbourg called the "Trial on the Question of Tibet".[4] The wife of the French President Mitterand attended it personally to boost its morale, which caused very bad impact. The international enemy forces also use non-governmental organizations to carry out attacks and slanders against us on the question of Tibet. For example at the 48th Session of the United Nations Human Rights Conference and the United Nations World Environment Conference of last year and other international venues, international enemy forces such as "Amnesty International", "International Human Rights Law Group", "Asia Watch" and "Tibet Information Network" in Britain distributed large quantities of material that accuse us of violating human rights. After the anti-Chinese resolution sponsored by the Western enemy force failed last year at the 48th Human Rights Conference, some people claimed that they would continue to pursue it at the Conference this year. According to information, the Dalai Clique and the Western enemy forces are still engaged in active planning in an attempt to continue their attacks on us in the World Human Rights Conference in June of this year. In the program of the Voice of America, it will reinforce its Tibet language broadcast. It is worth noting that the Taiwan authorities has started to strengthen its alliance with the Dalai Clique by establishing the "Mongolia- Tibet Fund". It claimed this year that it will use money to conduct the work of planting seeds and harvesting among the Tibetans.
   Among the content of their attacks, the Dalai Clique and the Western enemy forces, apart from continuing to argue with us on the question of sovereignty, are more emphatic in their attacks on the questions of human rights, democracy, religion and culture. The new trends of last year were as follows: attacking us for violating the human rights of Tibetans in Tibet, particularly on our reform of prisoners. They declare that we "mal-treat prisoners" and that we "inflict cruelties". In order to offset the impact of our "White Paper" on Tibet, they have dished out the so-called "Constitution Of Future Tibet", and "Guidelines For the Future Democratic Government Of Tibet" which demands that "respect the fundamental human rights and democratic freedom of the Tibetan people". It attacks us as "disrupting the ecology of Tibet" and "dumping nuclear wastes in Tibet". It also charges that our policy of openness and reform in Tibet "is a trick to settle more Chinese in Tibet" and that "the large funds invested in Tibet for development is aimed at satisfying the needs of Chinese immigrants" and that "Tibetans will become minorities" and so on. In order to win over the support of the international enemy forces, the Dalai Clique doesn't hesitate to sell out Chinese territory by declaring the "McMahon Line" as the international border line between India and Tibet.
   

1. A clear understanding of policy. The external propaganda work on the question of Tibet should continue to be dominated by the policy of "taking active initiatives, always focusing on ourselves, focusing on positive aspects and focusing on actual facts"("ji ji zhu dong, yi wo wei zhu, yi zheng mian wei zhu, yi shi shi wei zhu"--ed.). Multi-level and different forms of vivid and lively propaganda should be carried out regarding sovereignty and human rights record. Its aim is to promote the further understanding on the part of overseas people of the question of Tibet so as to eliminate the impact created by the Dalai Clique and the international enemy forces through their distortions and attacks against us. Apart from continuing to win the support and sympathy of the overseas people for us, we should reinforce our propaganda work among overseas Tibetan compatriots. We should gradually change their attitude with facts of the social economic development of Tibet and the enhanced living standards of the people and by using their deep feeling for their homeland, so as to split and dissolve the foundation of the Dalai Clique. We should organize experts and scholars to write articles and books and use historical facts to declare righteously to the world that Tibet is an inseparable part of Chinese territory. We should promptly recommend works and articles written by foreign scholars that are favorable to us. At the same time, our emphasis should be on conducting successfully the propaganda work on questions such as the human rights of Tibet. In this respect, apart from continuing to use historical comparisons to expose the dark and barbaric serf system of old Tibet and the hypocrisy of the Dalai Clique, we should, through thorough and detailed coverage, focus on the propaganda of the current situation in Tibet, the introduction of the reform policy in Tibet and the support for its economic construction as well as the changes this work have brought about for the lives of the majority of the Tibetan people. We should publicize the unity of the Tibetans as an ethnic group, freedom of religion and belief and development of their culture etc. We should use facts to present the human rights situation of Tibet and its progress and to demonstrate that the majority of Tibetan masses support the leadership of the Communist Party, support the socialist system and support the People's Government. With regard to the attacks and distortions launched by the Dalai Clique and the international enemy forces against us, we should promptly organize forces to repudiate them and clear them with facts.
   
2. Unified planning. The external propaganda work on the question of Tibet involves a broad range of aspects. It involves not only the Ministry of United Front, the State Nationalities Commission, the Central government External Propaganda Committee, but also other relevant departments and regions as well as our embassies and consulates abroad. The working relationship among various sides should be well coordinated. Since the year before last, The United Front Ministry of the Central Committee started a system of joint coordination committee on combating the Dalai Clique. All the concerned ministries and agencies meet on regular basis to share and exchange information, to analyze the situation, to examine and formulate policies, etc., it had a very good result. Perhaps the United Front Ministry should also consider reinforcing their study on external propaganda work. Of course there is still some more work needed to be further coordinated. For example, the exhibition of the history of Tibet in the Palace of Minorities' Cultures was set up by the State Nationalities Commission under the instructions of top leaders of the Central Committee, which is for foreign visitors only. In the past two years, many foreign guests and compatriots from Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan have seen the exhibition. It has had a good impact. However, at present the exhibition is not fully utilized. In the future, measures should be taken to fully utilize it so that it can play a even better role. Secondly, through the coordination with Tibetan Autonomous Region, a lot of external propaganda work has been accomplished, which has achieved good results. This time the Tibet Autonomous Region and other Tibetan inhabited provinces will present their work plans. On some questions, all departments should make great efforts in assisting them and actively make arrangements. Thirdly the work relationship between those at home and those abroad should be well coordinated. On the one hand, our embassies, consulates and delegations attending international conferences should report back information regarding the activities of the Dalai Clique and the international enemy forces and their attacks against us in good time. On the other hand, relevant departments inside China should cooperate actively through compiling external propaganda material on certain important issues for relevant departments, organizations stationed abroad, news agencies, to be used as reference material in their work. This important work should mainly be handled jointly by the United Front of the Central Committee and the External Propaganda Committee. As regard to the major distortions and attacks which have significant influence worldwide, the news agencies should make quick responses under unified arrangements.
   This year, we should also through strengthened leadership and unified arrangements strive to utilize several international human rights conferences and other important occasions to concentrate our efforts and expand and increase our external propaganda work, so as to launch a tit-for-tat struggle in public opinion against the Dalai Clique and the international enemy forces. For example, regarding the 39th Session of the International Human Rights Conference in March, and the World Human Rights Conference (Vienna) in June and the so called "Sikkim Kalachakra Initiation" orchestrated by the Dalai Clique, external news agencies should cooperate and make great efforts in external propaganda. Apart from timely reporting statements and activities of our delegations, and reporting news favorable to us, they should organize key note articles inside China to coordinate the propaganda. Relevant departments should also coordinate the struggle by supplying propaganda material.
   Inside China, we plan to hold the "Beijing Human Rights Seminar" with relevant departments later in this year. In September this year, the ceremony for the consecration of the stupa of the Panchen Lama will be held in Tibet. All the external news agencies should fully utilize these opportunities to conduct external propaganda.
   
3. Launching offensives. With regard to the attacks by the West and the Dalai Clique and their frequent activities, our external propaganda should launch offensives. We should expand our spheres of influence, in particular, we should infiltrate our propaganda into the mainstream life of the West. Firstly we should continue to send Tibetan scholars and Tibetan singing and dancing troupes abroad to lecture and perform. Secondly, relevant embassies and consulates should aim at the public opinion and the activities of the Dalai Clique in the countries they are stationed and utilize speeches, picture exhibitions, special articles and other forms to carry out propaganda work, so as to win over officials and people of those countries. The propaganda materials provided from inside China should be fully utilized so that they can play their due role. Thirdly, TV programs for external broadcasting should include programs about Tibet. We should broadcast to Europe and America so that our propaganda can directly reach audiences of the Western countries.
   
4. We should reinforce the work of utilizing the power of foreign propaganda. A few years ago, in light of the situation of that time, we made good arrangements for foreign journalists to visit Tibet. Since Comrade Deng Xiao-ping delivered his important speech during his Southern tour and the fourteenth Party Congress, the situation both at home and abroad has gone through great changes, which have provided us with favorable conditions to do a good job with foreign journalists stationed in Beijing, foreign news media and foreign public opinion. Therefore, we should be more open-minded in our external propaganda work on the question of Tibet. By arranging foreign journalists and other people to go to visit Tibet we should be able to use foreign forces to carry our external propaganda and gradually change their mind about us through what they have seen with their own eyes. In particular, this year there should be a breakthrough in terms of visits by foreign journalists stationed in Beijing. We are still considering arranging for a few journalists and foreign journalists stationed in Beijing to visit Tibet at an appropriate time. In this regard, we should coordinate well with the Foreign Ministry. Apart from that, we are planning to arrange for some journalists from Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan to visit Tibet. We hope that the external propaganda committee of the Tibet Autonomous Region will, on the basis of projection, make detailed arrangement jointly with the Foreign Affairs Office, as well as preparing propaganda material.
   
5. Important work in cultural exchange, film, television and publication. Using cultural exchange as a form of conducting propaganda work on the question of Tibet is easily acceptable by people of different ideologies, different countries, different races and different classes. It can reach either common people or those at the top. It is very infiltrating and influential. It plays a role of imperceptible influence. Facts of last few years have demonstrated that such propaganda work has achieved good results. Therefore, if possible, this form should be more utilized in the future external propaganda work on Tibet.
   

The Conference on the Work of External Propaganda on the Question of Tibet Document No. 5

1. Reinforcing the propaganda in external news circles and mass media. All external propaganda agencies must on a day to day basis reinforce the external propaganda work on the situation of Tibet. Emphasis should be laid on the positive presentation of the achievements and development of the reform, opening-up an economic construction of Tibet, as well as the peace and joy of people's lives, the improvement of people's living standard and the stability and unity of the society. It is in the consideration to organize a series of more focused propaganda which will give a deeper impression on people. Taking into account the complexity of the international struggle, in general, the problems existing in our work should not be released to the outside. The news coverage of sudden incidents such as turbulence and demonstrations should be done in accordance with the unified arrangements by the Central Committee. In September this year, Tibet will hold the consecration of the mausoleum stupa of the Panchen Lama. The external propaganda departments should take advantage of this opportunity to conduct successful external propaganda. With regard to the World Human Rights Conference in June and the "Sikkim Kalachakra Initiation" orchestrated by the Dalai Clique, the external propaganda departments must gather up their forces to forge a powerful mass media in their propaganda on the question of Tibet, so as to strike back forcefully at the propaganda of the Dalai Clique and international enemy forces. Apart from timely reports, focused articles must be mobilized inside China to coordinate the propaganda with specific targets.
   In order to report the development of Tibet in a comprehensive and thorough way, all the news agencies should continue to send able and highly competent journalists to Tibet and other Tibetan regions to gather news. The relevant departments and regions should make great effort in assisting them and making arrangements for them.
   "Beijing Review" is going to continue to make full use of the White Paper-"Tibet--Its Ownership and Human Rights Situation" and produce a series of articles presenting the historical and current situations of Tibet.
   
2. Actively launching propaganda in TV and publications
   • The production center for the documentary TV series "China" has produced two documentaries "A Trip To Gyantse" and "Talking About Tibet" which reflect the agricultural development of Tibet and a series of two videos "China In Change--Report From Tibet";
   • Shanxi TV station has produced a series of five programs "Journey To Tibet";
   • China TV continues to present the situation of Tibet in its program "China Report" and "The Traveler" to be broadcasted abroad;
   • Huayi Video Company, owned by the Liaison Department of the P.L.A. General Political Department have filmed "Tibetan Members of the CPPCC [5]" and produced Karioke tapes of popular Tibetan songs sung by famous Tibetan singers;
   • The Cultural Relics Bureau in cooperation with Tibetan Autonomous Region have produced the documentary "Potala in Renovation" and " The Potala";
   • The Bureau of Laogai [6] of the Justice Ministry has shot special video programs and photographs of the situation of prisons in Tibet, the treatment of prisoners and particularly the prison lives of the Tibetan prisoners who are often mentioned by people abroad. These materials should be publicized at appropriate timing with appropriate ways to cooperate our fight on human rights front;
   • Tibet has produced TV series such as "The Consecration Of The Stupa Of The Tenth Panchen Lama", "Historical Leap-Gyantse in Reform", "Hometown Chamdo (Part Two)" and "The Enthronement of the Reincarnation of Karmapa";
   • The Tibet Office of Sichuan Province has organized the production of TV films that present the Tibetan region of Ngapa, such as "Native Culture of Gyalrong", "Mili" and " Walking Out of the Grassland".
     In Publishing:
     
   • The Central Government External Propaganda Committee together with the Foreign Language Bureau have compiled "Catalogue of Tibetan Studies Books"(800,000 words).
   • They have published "Tashilunpo, the Throne of the Panchen Lama", "The Biography of the Panchen Lama" and "Poetess Going to No-man's Land in North Tibet" in Chinese, English and Tibetan.
   • "A Glimpse Of China" published " The Nature Reserves of Mount Everest" and "Journey Into the Tibetan Region of Western Sichuan";
   • "China Profile" has compiled "Journey on the Roof of the World";
   • The "Potala" magazine will continue to publish four issues in 1993, which are: "Gyantse in Progress in the Reform", "The Development of the Arts and Crafts of the Tibetan People", "The Wonder of Tibet--Gyantse Rugs" and " Talking About the Geothermal Heat in Yangpachan";
   • The China Tibetan Studies Center has compiled and published "Kagyur" and "Tengyur"(Tibetan). It has compiled "Selected Works on the Five Fields of Knowledge" which is a collection of works of representation by great Buddhist scholars of different historical periods.(Estimated 2 or 3 books will be published every year.) It will also publish three books on historical references: "Selected Files from Archives on the Historic Relationship Between Tibet and the Central Government Since the Yuan Dynasty", "Study on the Tibetan Local Governments Since the Yuan Dynasty" and "Study on the Formation of the Society of Feudal Serf System of Tibet"; --Tibet has compiled and published pictorials like "The Scenery of Tibet" and "The Consecration of the Tenth Panchen Lama";
   • The External Propaganda Organization of Qinghai Province has produced a set of postcard that reflect arts of Tibet regions, they are: "The Arts of Rekong", "Tibetan Customs", "Tibetan Dresses" and "The Three Wonders of the Kumbum Monastery";
   • The External Propaganda Office of Sichuan Province and it's Tibetan Office have jointly published "The Tibetan Regions In Sichuan Province" both in Chinese and English.
3. (We) should do a good job in cultural exchange in external propaganda work.
   • The Tibet Singing and Dancing Troupe has decided to perform in Hong Kong in February at the invitation of Hong Kong Arts Festival;
   • Tibetan Shigatse Performing Arts Troupe is going to perform in Nepal;
   • The China International Book Trading Company will hold a joint book exhibition in Nepal with Tibetan Autonomous Region;
   • The State Cultural Relics Bureau has curated "Exhibition of Tibetan Cultural Relics" to be shown In Argentina and Chile;
   • Under the sponsorship of Criss Group(Ke Rui Si Jituan--ed.) of Tienjin and Beijing's "China's Tibet" magazine, it is planned that the Tibetan Cultural and Arts Delegation will perform in Taiwan between April and May. At the same time, there will be an exhibition of cultural relics and planned exchange of religious activities;
   • With the introduction of our embassy in Japan, the Japan --Art Center plans to hold an exhibition in Japan of works by Tibetan artists this year;(still planning)
   • A relevant Austrian group plans to invite a twenty-member Tibetan Arts Delegation to participate in the art festival "The Voice of Music, the Voice of the World".(still planning)
     
   • The External Cultural Exchange Association Of Tibet has organized several delegations to visit Nepal, India, United States, Canada, Britain and France respectively. It has also sent ten Tibetan studies scholars to lecture in India, Italy and Britain. It has sent prominent religious people to visit Thailand, Sri Lanka and Japan. It plans to hold a "Tibetan Book Fair" in Hong Kong and a "Exhibition Of Tibetan Photography" in Nepal.
     
   • The exchange items of the China Tibet Studies Center include: sending Tibet studies scholars to Japan and Taiwan to participate in symposiums of Tibet Studies; sending Tibet studies scholars to Germany, Britain, United States and so on to participate in international academic exchanges on Tibet studies.
     
   • Inviting foreign journalists and those from Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan to visit Tibet.
     
   This year, on the premises of thoughtful planning and careful arrangement, (we) shall choose the right time to properly arrange for foreign journalists and those from Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan to visit Tibet. The External Propaganda Committee will arrange for journalists from Hong Kong and Macaw and foreign journalists to go into Tibet respectively. (We) hope that the external propaganda Committee of the Party Committee of Tibet Autonomous Region will make adequate preparations.
   THREE, THE COORDINATION AND COOPERATION IN THE EXTERNAL PROPAGANDA WORK.
   The coordination and cooperation in the external propaganda work on the question of Tibet must be reinforced. The external propaganda work on the question of Tibet is very wide in range. All the relevant departments and regions must coordinate the relationship among themselves and strengthen their cooperation in accordance with the guidelines of the Central Committee, so that our propaganda will become an unified and effective force.
   The coordination and cooperation among the departments of the Central Committee must be strengthened. Starting from the year before, the United Front of the Central Committee established a coordinating system for the struggle against the Dalai Clique in which all relevant ministries and departments of the Central Committee participated. It has worked well. In the future, we should further reinforce the study and analysis of the external propaganda work, strengthen the exchange of information among the external propaganda departments under the Central Committee. When the relevant departments of the Central Committee receive foreign guests, they should make full use of the exhibition of historical material of Tibet at the Palace of Minority Cultures, and try to organize tours there so that they will better understand the history and current situation of Tibet and so that the exhibition can play its role.
   
   • The working relationship between the Central Committee and the Tibet Autonomous Region and other provinces and regions should be well coordinated. In the past few years, the Tibetan Autonomous Region has done a great deal of work and has achieved good results in its propaganda. At the same time, other Tibetan provinces and regions have also done a lot of work. In particular, they have played an important role in conducting work among the Tibetans. With regard to the external propaganda work conducted by the Tibet Autonomous Region and other related regions, the departments of the Central Committee must make a great effort in assisting them and actively coordinating with them. At the same time, all the relevant regions must also actively support and coordinate with the work of the Central Committee.
     
   • The relationship between the agencies both home and abroad must be better coordinated. On the one hand, our embassies and delegations attending international meetings must promptly report home the original material regarding and attacks and slander launched against us by the Dalai Clique and the Western enemy forces and their activities. On the other hand, relevant departments at home must also actively cooperate with them. They should compile material and provide guidelines in accordance with the needs of external propaganda. With regard to some serious rumors and attacks, the news agencies should make quick responses.
     The above arrangements should be carried out by relevant departments as soon as possible. Changes may be considered in actual execution in light of actual situations. All the external propaganda departments should report their work and the impact of their propaganda work to the External Propaganda Committee of the Central Committee so that it can better grasp the situation and better strengthen work in organization, coordination and service.
     

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   3. Speech by Comrade Tenzin [7] CLASSIFIED

   TAR Conference on External Propaganda Work Document No. 8 SPEECH BY COMRADE TENZIN [7]

   At the Regional Conference on External Propaganda Work Beijing, March 11, 1993

   
   Comrades, a few days have passed since we opened this meeting. We have relayed the spirit of the "National Conference on External Propaganda Work" and that of the "Symposium on the External Propaganda Work on the Question of Tibet", which is beneficial to our analysis of the current situation and the further understanding of our task. And now, I am going to talk about our work in the last year and our work arrangement for this year.
   1. The Work of Last Year Last year, under the leadership of the External Propaganda Committee of the central government, and under the direct leadership of the Regional [8] Party Committee and the Regional People's Government, all relevant sides within the region have coordinated with each other and cooperated with each other closely. Thus we have attained great achievements in external propaganda and have left a significant impact in the world. The Party Committee has given generous acknowledgment in this regard. We have followed the guidelines of "taking active initiatives, launching both offensives and defensive and relying mainly on offensives as a form of defensive", and "focusing on ourselves, focusing on positive sides and focusing on actual facts"(yi wo wei zhu, yi zheng mian wei zhu, yi shi shi wei zhu--ed.). Focusing on the "two rights" [9] and the offensives launched by the Dalai Clique and Western anti-Chinese forces, we used various ways to reinforce our external propaganda. We targeted at neighboring countries, the majority of the people in the Western countries and Tibetans abroad. Thus, we have brought our work to a new level.
      Since last year, we have accomplished the following work:
      
      • (We) focused our efforts in organizing more than ten experts who finished writing the draft of the White Paper "Tibet-Its Ownership and Human Rights Situation" after months of work and after editing the draft four times. There after, in order to coordinate the publicity for the White Paper, (we) organized the writing of more than ten editorials and essays. Chairman Gyaltsen Norbu delivered a speech on TV, which had some impact abroad.
        
      • (We) have quite successfully accomplished the task of entertaining journalists both from home and abroad who visited Tibet (six groups consisting of 75 people in all). (We) coordinated with relevant departments in accomplishing the tasks of entertaining guests from Bhutan, the Philippines, Nepal and Thailand who visited Tibet and organized and assisted news agencies in their reporting. Hong Kong journalists that visited Tibet have published over one hundred of various reports and pictures in influential major Hong Kong papers and magazines, which focused on presenting Tibet in a relatively objective way.
        
   2. Suggestions for This Year's Work and Project Arrangements
      
      1. The Analysis of the Situation of the Struggle. The scientific analysis of the current situation in the world, in our country and in our region is the basic pre-condition for carrying out the guidelines, principles of the external propaganda work of our region and that for understanding our tasks. Inside our country, under the leadership of the Chinese Communist Party, peoples of all nationalities are marching forward in big strides on the road of building a socialism Characteristic of China. The achievements of reform and open policy and that of socialist modernization have been expanded and consolidated. The overall national strength has been reinforced. The situation inside the region is similar. Last year, we made historical breakthroughs in achieving major targets in the gross national product, the national income, gross industrial and agricultural products, the average income of farmers and herdsmen and total financial revenue. The society is stable. People enjoy a peaceful and pleasant life. These are the material guarantees and political backbone of the success of our external propaganda work. Looking at the international situation, our international exchange is wider and wider in scope. Over 155 countries have established diplomatic relationship with our country. We are enjoying a good relationship with our neighboring countries. The Chinese government has steadfastly adhered to the policy of independence and self reliance and peaceful diplomacy. It has withstood severe tests of changes in the world. It has created a favorable external environment for our reform and open policy and for the construction of modernization. Prime Minister Li Peng elaborated on the situations both at home and abroad in his work report of the Government at the 8th Session of the National People's Congress, which I am not going to go into detail here. Now, in connection with our work, I shall focus on the current anti-splittist struggle and the situation we face in external propaganda work. I am also going to present to you some information.
         On the whole, the external propaganda work has been conducted with great effort from the Central Government to local governments. There are more and more people in the world that know the actual situation of Tibet. The public opinion abroad has turned in the direction favorable to us. However, international enemy forces do not want to see a strong China. They attempt by all means to stop the smooth development of China. Yet, due to their helplessness in the face of a strong momentum of the accelerated pace of reform and openness and the economic development, they use human rights and the so-called "Tibet Question" as their targets in an attempt to create barriers and trouble to hinder the process of reform and openness. Proceeding from their splittist needs and under the support and manipulation of international enemy forces, the Dalai Clique is very active in conducting their activities in the world. The distorted propaganda by the splittist clique and the international enemy forces on the question of Tibet enjoy a large market in the world. Quite a lot of people have deep rooted misunderstanding about us. It should be noted that our struggle against the Dalai Clique and the international enemy forces on the question of Tibet is a protracted, complicated and at times even fierce one. On one hand, the Dalai Clique conducts its activities everywhere in the world in an attempt to heat up the "the question of Tibet". On the other hand, the attacks launched by the Western enemy forces against us on the "question of Tibet" have the tendency to escalate.
         As we all know, since last year, the Dalai Clique has adjusted its strategy. However, they have not changed their position of insisting on the independence of Tibet and the splitting of our country. Furthermore, they have become even more deceitful, which exposed their obstinate and scheming reactionary nature. The mutual collaboration and manipulation between the Dalai Clique and the international enemy forces will be even closer. At the same time, due to the restraint of internal forces, its political position will not undergo fundamental changes in the near future. As for Dalai himself, he enjoys the status of religious leader and a Nobel Prize Laureate. He has accumulated dozens years of experience of splittist activities and certain international connections. Besides, financially, he is assisted by enemy forces including Taiwan, which has provided assistance for his political activities. According to analysis, since the beginning of the 80s, the splittist activities of the Dalai Clique have entered a new cycle. It is still in the process of developing and has yet reached its peak stage. The adjustment of its policy is based on the experience learned from its several decades of splittist activities in exile, the lesson learned from the changes in Eastern Europe and the "success story" of the breaking up of the Soviet Union. Therefore, the Dalai Clique continues to employ two faced tactics to launch offensives targeted inside our region and infiltrate into our internal circle. At the same time, it uses negotiation as a smoke screen, anxiously trying to gain some progress in their favor when the old generation of our revolutionaries is still alive and to deceive the international public opinion as well.
         
      2. The Guideline for Our External Propaganda Work In the whole period of the 1990s, it will not be possible to eradicate splittist forces, yet it may be possible to divide them and tear them apart. We should recognize the obstinate nature of the Dalai Clique as well as the changes of its strategy so as to adopt opposing strategies. (We) should focus on the current struggle and be fully prepared mentally for a long term struggle. In the current anti-splittist struggle, there is no change to (our) position or strategy. Our short term goals are to ensure stability, seek breakthrough on focal points and prevent escalation. With regard to negotiations, (we) insist that Tibet is an inseparable part of China and we adhere to the " Five Principles". The nature of the negotiation is that it is an internal affair of China, which is between the Central Government and an exiled religious leader, the purpose of which is to solve the problem of his repatriation and that of the people who follow him. The solution of the Tibet problem should not be the same as that of Taiwan. The future of Tibet is national regional autonomy and the realization of socialism.
         Of course, the success or failure of the anti-splittist struggle depends on whether we can further promote reform and open policy in Tibet and its modernization construction, further develop its economy, enhance the standard of people's cultural and material lives, maintain long term social stability, prosperity and progress. But by so saying does not mean that we could be negligent toward the struggle against splittism, or be ignorant of the various activities of the splittist force. It is for the purpose of further promoting the reform and open policy and modernization construction of Tibet that must pay due attention to the struggle against splittism so as to clear any obstacles and create a good external environment for economic construction.
         
         1. Enhance the understanding in our region of the important position and role of external propaganda work. Our struggle against the Dalai Clique and the international enemy force is to a large degree carried out through propaganda and public opinion. External propaganda plays an outstanding and special role. At the same time, with the acceleration of the reform and open policy and economic construction of our region, the work of building an image of socialist new Tibet through external propaganda has become a battle front that can only be strengthened instead of weakened. Looking at it in a bigger picture, the external propaganda work on the question of Tibet has bearing not only on the progress and development of Tibet, but also the image of China as a whole in the world, as well as the creation of a good international environment for the reform, open policy and the construction of the modernization of all China. Therefore, we should not merely emphasize the importance of external propaganda work in a general sense or understand it superficially. Instead, (we) should recognize the deep international political background of the Tibet question and the sinister motives of the splittist force and that of the international enemy forces. Furthermore, (we) should recognize that the reform, the open policy and economic construction in Tibet have created new and more arduous tasks and demands. Only in this way can we truly enhance our understanding and become more conscientious and active in improving external propaganda work. And only in this way can we see the situation clearly, strengthen our confidence, work actively and expand our gains. The Dalai Clique fabricates rumors to mislead the public, the international enemy forces launch large scale attacks on us. All these look very strong, but are vulnerable in reality. They can be and will be broken down by us, because truth and justice are in our hands. For example, the current human rights situation in Tibet is our strong point. We should feel justified and righteous.
            
         2. Further clarifying the guidelines of external propaganda work The guideline of the external propaganda work of our region for this year is as follows: carrying out the spirit of the 14th Party Congress with the theory of building a socialism characteristic of China as a guiding principle and economic construction as the center of work; expanding the propaganda work regarding the reform; open policy and modernization construction in Tibet; in light of the situation of Tibet, continuing the struggle against the Dalai Clique and the international enemy forces around them of sovereign rights and human rights; and furthering the propaganda on the question of Tibet. The guiding principles of external propaganda work in our region for this year are as follows: (we) will continue to adhere to the guideline of "taking initiatives, focusing on ourselves, focusing on positive sides and focusing on actual facts"; with regard to the direction of the Dalai Clique, (we) will continue to persist in our unchanged position and unchanged strategy; (we) will launch offensives; (we) will use (their) conflicts to divide (them); (we) will center around economic construction in order to serve the external open policy of "enabling the world to better understand Tibet and enabling Tibet to open to the world." From a long term point of view, (we should) enhance planning and predictability of external propaganda work; enhance the adaptability of external propaganda work and the strategies of the struggle against the enemies and improve the results and focus of the external propaganda work so as to adopt effective propaganda methods in consideration of different situations and different targets. The main targets of the external propaganda work of our region are Western European countries, neighboring countries and Tibetans abroad. With regard to Western Europe, the main work is to repudiate the slanders and attacks by anti-Chinese forces on the question of Tibet so as to clear facts and eliminate misunderstandings. Also, (we) should work on those people who have been "invited in", including journalists stationed in China and celebrities. The neighboring countries mainly refer to Nepal and India. This year, appropriate arrangement should be made for exchange activities with the two countries to increase mutual visits. Apart from working on the high level people abroad, the emphasis should be on winning the support and sympathy of the majority of the people. This year, we should also further reinforce propaganda towards Tibetans abroad. We should have more contact with them and utilize their deep feeling for their homeland and the facts of the economic and social development and the enhanced living standard of the people to divide and destroy the basis of the Dalai Clique.
            The direction and emphasis of the external propaganda work of our region that we must grasp are: emphasis should be on the propaganda about the current situation of Tibet, including economic development, social progress, cultural prosperity, political stability, the pleasant and peaceful life of the people and the protection of the biological environment, as well as the solution of social problems including the reform of criminals. (We) should reinforce regular positive propaganda and reporting regarding the achievements of the two civilization constructions [10] in Tibet. These should include tradition and national characteristics. They should also emphasize the spirit of the time. The propaganda on the major events should be done well. The consecration of the stupa of the Tenth Panchen Lama in September this year and the "International Symposium on Human Rights" to be held in Beijing in the later half of this year should be publicized and reported with concentrated efforts. (We) should continue to present the basic situation. We should present our important projects one after another. The news media, television and radio should conduct special subject reports which present things and people. An example of which is the construction of the "One River, Two Streams" which includes people who are the builders. The White Paper must be further explained. We have very convincing material in our hands that should be well utilized and used to the utmost. This is what so called relying on facts, which is also positive propaganda. More religious contents could be included in external (propaganda), because of its special role, which is also a characteristic difference between external and internal propaganda.
            
         3. Strengthening the initiatives and focus of external propaganda work and mastering the strategy of the struggle against the enemies and the art of external propaganda work.
            The significance of publicizing the new socialist Tibet is not limited to Tibet alone, it is also relevant to the whole country. We must enhance a sense of self motivation and initiative. We should voluntarily and actively insure the success of our current work, as well as voluntarily and actively explore and study new situations and new problems that changes may bring about, so as to turn passive into active and enhance predictability and foresight. (We) must closely watch the new direction of the Dalai Clique and the international enemy forces on the question of Tibet, study the pattern of Dalai's theories and activities and study their strategy and its changes in order to know them as well as ourselves and be prepared early and engage ourselves in war prepared.
            There are different factions within the Dalai Clique, they are, however, unanimous in their political nature and position. They differ from each other in ideological view points and ways of expressing them. Different strategies must be adopted to use their differences, to deal with them differently in order to divide and destroy them. Dalai himself has adopted different strategies at different times. He usually says different things in different situations. We should be flexible and adjust our strategies according to changes of situations and improve the art of the struggle against the enemies. We should also conduct detailed analysis of the different situations of different countries in the world (mainly the Western countries), of the different factions in these countries and all levels of society and their representatives. We should work on them according to their different political background, history, psychological status, ways of thinking, their different levels of knowledge about us and their attitudes. In external propaganda work, we should differentiate between the internal and the external and consider the external and internal needs in a comprehensive way. We should educate people and do our job well. At the same time, we should do a good job in external propaganda and anti-splittist struggle, yet not to let them interfere with the arrangement of opening up to the outside world. (We) should be open minded and down to earth, and meticulous with our work; (we) should be flexible and quick in response but not hasty in order not to leave any mistakes to be used as tools by others.
            
         4. Comprehensive planning and coordination of steps. The success of the whole campaign of the external propaganda on the question of Tibet involves many aspects, therefore, comprehensive arrangements must be made to organize the working relationship among all sides. External propaganda departments, external departments and other related departments must have a deep sense of external propaganda and integrate it in their daily work. The External Propaganda Sub-committee of The Communist Party of our region requires all departments to do one thing and solve one problem for external propaganda in their work plan. The Sub-committee of External Propaganda of the Communist Party of our region and other relevant departments should fully utilize the advantage of unified direction and unified arrangement. They should strengthen systematic organization which includes the integration of campaign propaganda and regular propaganda, the integration of external and internal propaganda, the reporting of important problems, the conformity of positions and the combination of the forces from inside and outside our region and that from inside and outside our country(our embassies abroad, the use of other forces). On the other hand, the systematic content and forms of propaganda must be reinforced which is the integration of history and reality, the integration of "going out" and "inviting in", the integration of launching offensives and using the outside forces and the integration of external propaganda and diplomatic struggle and diplomatic activities and integrated role of magazines, videos and cultural exchanges.
            
      3. Main Tasks in the Future
         
         1. To cooperate and coordinate with the External Propaganda Sub-committee and other departments of the Central Government in writing external propaganda material on important questions regarding Tibet. To organize the writing of series of articles which further explain the White Paper from different aspects. To produce videos that enrich and further the content of the White Paper. To further strengthen external radio program which is an important battle front of external propaganda, by occupying airwaves, expanding broadcasting and enhancing the efficiency of broadcasting.
         2. Through unified planning to produce high quality external propaganda material and goods characteristic of Tibet, including music and video, books, magazines, maps, tourist guides, notebooks, pins and expensive gifts wrapped in gift boxes. The External Propaganda Sub-committee of our region will assign specific tasks to be accomplished.
         3. To open two more external propaganda tourist spots.
         4. To strengthen research and study work, to closely watch and follow the direction of the Dalai Clique and the international opinion. To establish necessary channels for exchange and handling of information and data. A symposium on the external propaganda work regarding Tibet should be held at an appropriate time. It will be prepared by Tibet under the auspices of the External Propaganda Committee of the Central Government. Provinces including Sichuan, Gansu, Qinghai and Yunnan and other relevant departments of the Central Government will be invited to participate, in order to exchange experience and discuss common strategy.
         5. There will be 26 external propaganda items. There will be some overlap between some of the videos, books and magazines and other external propaganda material.
            
         There will be 11 items regarding sending out delegations and putting up exhibitions:
         • Three delegations will be formed under the name of the External Cultural Exchange Association of the Autonomous Region, which will be headed by the leaders of the Autonomous Region, which will visit six countries separately, including Nepal and India, United States and Canada, United Kingdom;
         • To organize ten Tibetologists into two groups to visit and lecture in India, Italy and Britain;
         • To organize famous religious persons to visit Thailand, Sri Lanka and Japan;
         • The Shigatse Performing Arts Troupe will visit Nepal;
         • The Tibet Performing Arts Troupe will visit Taiwan Province;
         • The "Tibetan Book Fair" will be held in Hong Kong;
         • The "Tibetan Artifacts Exhibition" will be held in Britain, Italy and Canada;
         • The "Tibetan Photography Exhibition" has been invited to open in Argentina, Chile and Brazil;
         • To organize Tibetan radio and TV journalists to visit Nepal and India;
         • To organize external propaganda cadres to visit Nepal and India.
         - Activities of inviting (people) into Tibet (5 items):
         • To invite 8 to 10 journalists from Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan,as well as 15 journalists from Canton, Shanghai, Jiansu and Shandong provinces to visit and report in Tibet;
         • The Cultural Office of the Autonomous Region will invite a German cultural troupe to perform in Tibet during the Shoton festival;
         • To invite Nepalese religious associations leaders and journalists to visit Tibet;
         • The leaders of the External Propaganda Committee of the CentralGovernment will visit Tibet and survey the work there.
         - Movies and Televisions (6 items):
         • The Tibet News and Documentary Films Station will produce a documentary "Tibet in Change";
         • The Radio and Television Department of the Autonomous Region will produce a TV program "The Consecration of the Stupa of the Tenth Panchen Lama";
         • The Radio and Television Department of the Autonomous Regionwill produce a TV program "Looking at Gyantse in the Reform Wave";
         • The Radio and Television Department of the Autonomous Region will produce the third part of the TV series "Hometown Chamdo";
         • 200 copies of the TV series "Hometown Lhasa" will be produced;
         • The Radio and Television Department of the Autonomous Region will produce TV special program "The Enthronement of the Reincarnation of Karmapa".
         - Books (4 items):
         • The pictorial "The Scenery of Tibet";
         • "The Potala" series in English and Tibetan which includes four subjects;
         • A small picture book about the Consecration of The Stupa of the Tenth Panchen Lama;
         • The production of pamphlet and small picture books about bringing foreign investment and expanding domestic economic relations, investment guide, scenery and customs, well-known monuments and ancient sights and important construction projects.
           
         
         
         Comrades, the above arrangements need to be materialized urgently in the work of the next stage. They could be adjusted in the process of implementation in accordance with actual situations. In order to enhance the forcefulness and thoroughness the external propaganda work of our region, we should not only have division of labor but also good coordination. The purpose of the requirement of the External Propaganda Sub-committee of the Party Committee of our region that every department must do one thing for external propaganda each year is to mobilize the enthusiasm of everybody so that concerted efforts can be made to win an all-out war. The External Propaganda Sub-committee of the Party Committee of our region had also decided to conduct an examination and comparison at an appropriate time next year so as to reward departments and individuals that have performed outstandingly in external propaganda work of this year. We are convinced that under the correct leadership of the Party Committee of the Region and with the concerted efforts of all of us, the external propaganda work of this year will definitely move on to a new stage.
         

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      4. Summary Speech by Zeng Jian-Hui.
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      The Conference on the Work of External Propaganda on the Question of Tibet Document No.

      SUMMARY SPEECH BY COMRADE ZENG, JIAN-HUI At the Seminar of the External Propaganda Work on the Question of Tibet
      March 11, 1993
      Even though we had only two days for this seminar, it has been a good seminar which has achieved substantial results. During the meeting, representatives from relevant departments of the Central Committee, Tibet Autonomous Region, provinces that have Tibetan areas and some news agencies provided some information. We have put forward proposals, exchanged information and studied some problems. Our opinions are quite similar with each other. We have reached a common understanding with regard to the importance of the external propaganda work on the question of Tibet, which is an important component of our whole external propaganda work.
      The external propaganda work on the question of Tibet involves the opening-up and the development of Tibet as well as the struggle against the Dalai Clique and the international enemy forces in the field of public opinion. When the Dalai Clique and foreign reactionary forces use the question of Tibet to attack us , they are in fact not just referring to some specific incidents but to the entire Tibetan issue, namely the issue of "human rights" and the issue of "sovereignty". Their final aim is the "independence of Tibet". Therefore, our propaganda should touch these major issues, not merely specific incidents or points. We should take the initiative and present the whole history of development and progress of Tibet. Tibet has undergone such great changes, such fast development, which is a difference of sky and earth [11] in comparison with the past. This should be regarded as a strong point in our propaganda. A good presentation of the actual situation of Tibet enables us to do a good job in the propaganda of our Party's policy regarding minorities and religion. The question of human rights, the question of human rights in Tibet in particular, should be seen as our strong point, not a weak point. We should righteously carry out positive propaganda. The current situation is such that under the support of foreign enemy forces, the Dalai Clique is launching a ferocious propaganda offensive through large scale Western news media. It looks strong. But careful analysis tells us that their offensive is actually weak, because they rely on rumors and distortions and are void of any truth.
      In the past two years, under the leadership of the Party Central Committee, all external propaganda departments have carried out struggles in public opinion in consideration of actual struggles, which has achieved great results. In fact the struggle in public opinion is part of the actual struggle. The attacks launched by the Dalai Clique have all been done through public opinion and propaganda. We should learn from the past where we achieved good results and develop on that basis.
      The guideline for the propaganda on the question of Tibet should be focused on the following three aspects: "Focusing on ourselves, focusing on positive sides and focusing on actual facts". We pretty much have similar opinions on this. At the meeting, we have put forward many good suggestions which I shall not repeat here. In my view, the content of the propaganda should focus on the propaganda of the situation of Tibet, especially the facts that the economy has been making progress, cultural education is developing, the nation is united, religious belief is under protection, the market is prosperous and the society is stable. We have done propaganda work in this aspect in the past, however not enough. We should often send such information abroad. The "Voice Of America" talks about the question of Tibet all the time. There are also many articles and broadcasts abroad attacking us on the question of Tibet. It is fundamental for our external radio, television, newspaper and magazines and news agencies to include materials concerning Tibet, including the economic development of Tibet, the reform and the peaceful and stable life of the people. These are what the majority of the people would like to know. They are also the most convincing facts that can be used in the struggle of public opinion against the Dalai Clique and Western enemy forces. Recent coverage, including those on the grand plan for economic development of Tibet can be very encouraging. They are particularly attractive to Tibetans abroad. Again, some basic coverage on the situation of Tibet were previously little known to many people abroad. These are what is called positive propaganda. All in all, the external propaganda work on the question of Tibet should be conducted in an organized and planned way. With regard to external propaganda work, unlike other provinces, Tibet should have greater coverage and there should be frequent information about Tibet.
      Another important aspect is cultural exchange. At the meeting we all agreed that it is a very effective way of propaganda to go out and publicize the actual situation of Tibet. In the future, if financially possible, we should arrange for more cultural troupes and Tibetan scholars to go abroad to visit. Putting on exhibitions and organizing lectures abroad can achieve good propaganda results. Such propaganda is imperceptible. It could be participated by all the Tibetan provinces. Cultural exchange could be combined with economic and trade activities. In recent years, some departments arranged some cultural activities while conducting economic and trade activities abroad. As a result, those two aspects complimented each other and good results were achieved. At present, we don't have enough activities abroad. In the future, we should create conditions to organize cultural exchange activities abroad. This aspect of the work should be well taken care of. Even though the delegations that we send abroad each year have a great impact, we don't have enough news coverage in this respect. One of the important reasons is that our propaganda department have no knowledge of them. Relevant departments should inform Xinhua News Agency, radio and TV stations, People's Daily, China Times and other news agencies early so that they may arrange news coverage in time and report the news before the delegations leave China so as to create public opinion. Journalists stationed abroad should be arranged to cover their activities abroad. Many touching events should be reported in good time instead of waiting till the last minute to issue a simple news summery. With regard to important delegations, journalists stationed abroad should accompany them so as to provide complete coverage. Of course in usual situations, it is impossible for journalists stationed abroad to accompany every delegation. This is when we should strengthen our contact. Embassy comrades or consulate comrades that accompany these delegations should provide journalists with relevant information so that they will be reported promptly. Important local public response must be reported also.
      We should have vision, foresight, focus, and we should plan well in advance in conducting the struggle of external propaganda on the question of Tibet. We should try as much as possible to plan early. Preparations must be made early for events that we know ahead, such as the human rights conferences. At present, we are usually late in making preparations. For instance, the direction of Dalai's activities( which usually has us as targets), we should launch our propaganda in whatever country he goes to. We should deliver relevant material to where the Xinhua Agencies are stationed and where our radio and TV can reach so as to present our situation in a positive way. We should rely on our own initiative by providing our embassies with more information. We hope that the relevant departments in charge would inform us of such situation ahead of time, so that we could promptly ask these agencies to make plans so as to send out the information earlier. We should take active initiatives in this respect. We should strengthen our research and study so as to better understand the enemy as well as ourselves. We should collect the attacks against us launched by the Dalai Clique abroad so as to study them. We should also keep a close watch of the Dalai's activities and closely study the pattern of his activities so as to design counter strategies. Materials collected in this way have more of a focus. In a word, we must go to war well prepared. One of our shortcomings in the past was that very often we tried to manage in a hurry. When the material was prepared, they were usually out of date. In the future, such incidents must be avoided. With regard to knowing ourselves better, there are a lot of precious historical information unknown to the outside in the archives in Lhasa which should be explored and utilized to the full. Some of the more convincing materials among them should be sorted out first and put into a handbook to be presented to the outside. Relevant leaders in Tibet must be consulted as to whether it is possible.
      Another point is that we should reinforce our propaganda to Tibetans living abroad. There are hundreds of thousands of Tibetans living abroad. These people form the basis of the Dalai Clique. We should try to win them over through our propaganda and our actual work with them, so as to weaken the force of the Dalai Clique. We should try to move them with the development of Tibet and their feeling for their homeland. We should advocate to them minority policy and religious policy, and welcome them to come back. In this respect, Tibet and other Tibetan inhabited provinces have done a lot of work, such as producing videos and pamphlets. Such work is an ongoing process that should be done continually.
      We should attach great importance to the utilizing of outside force, which I am not going to elaborate. The utilization of outside forces is a very important part of successful external propaganda. We may select some relatively objective and fair minded persons and journalists to visit Tibet and only request them to report objective facts. Being truthful to facts is very convincing. Thus, many questions the outside has could be solved. We would not force foreigners to praise us. In utilizing foreign force, we should be open minded on the one hand, and make very careful plans and arrangements on the other. The number of people doesn't have to be large, but the selection must be well made. All the foreigners that we entertain and send to Tibet must have a relatively objective opinion of Tibet. We should use people from abroad to carry out the propaganda on Tibet for us, which is more powerful than we do it.
      As to certain important religious events, they should not necessarily be reported at home, but must be fully covered for external propaganda. The consecration ceremony for the Panchen Lama in coming September must be well publicized.
      It is highly necessary for external news agencies to send journalists to Tibet to conduct highlight interviews. Of course, there are many difficulties here, especially when it comes to funds. The Tibet side also has problems with funds. Therefore, there shouldn't be high demands regarding the kind of reception they provide. The news agencies should try to solve the problem of funds by themselves as much as possible. But Tibet side should, within their capabilities help to solve some problems such as transportation and so on.
      Another question is the communication among the news agencies. They should use good articles or information from one another.
      In the future, we should revise our plans according to the spirit of this conference. Those that have been finalized must be carried out and with results. This meeting was held a little late than it should have been. Initially, there was no plan to hold this meeting. This is the fault of all of us. We hope to hold a meeting at the end of this year to study the external propaganda work on Tibet for next year.
      

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      Notes
      [1] Zeng Jian-hui, Vice-Minister of the Propaganda Ministry of the CCP Central Committee--ed.
      [2] Ngabo Ngawang Jigme, Vice-Chairman of the National People's Congress of China--ed.
      [3] Hong Kong Party Working Committee, the Chinese Communist Party's Hong Kong branch. The official title of the Committee is "Hong Kong Xinhua News Agency"--ed.
      [4] This refers to the Permanant Peoples Tribunal, a private juridical organization based in Strasbourg, France.
      [5] CPPCC, Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference--ed.
      [6] "Laogai" is to reform prisoners through physical labour--ed.
      [7] Tenzin, deputy-secretary of the Tibet Autonomous Region Party Committee--ed.
      [8] "Regional," here refers to the Tibet Autonomous Region--ed.
      [9] Two Rights: sovereign rights and human rights--ed.
      [10] Two civilization constructions: Construction of spiritual civilization and material civilization--ed.
      [11] A Chinese expression meaning a world of difference--ed.
      

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