Barack Obama gets Nobel's Peace Prize

Re:Barack Obama gets Nobel's Peace Prize by elblanco on Friday October 09, 2009 @10:58AM (#871514)

He has also said that he would be more than happy having Tibet remain an autonomous state of China for reasons of economics.

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Re:Barack Obama gets Nobel's Peace Prize by steve19 on Friday October 09, 2009 @05:28PM (#872494)

link to the quote?

I am sure a Hong Kong style autonomy would benefit them but is hard to see the Communist party handing out semi-democracy like candy to whoever asks.

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Re:Barack Obama gets Nobel's Peace Prize by elblanco on Friday October 09, 2009 @07:16PM (#872658)

Yeah, I'll have to hunt around to find the citation. I heard it in a speech he gave in NYC about 10-11 years ago following the release of Kundun.

searches around a bit http://www.dalailama.com/news.220.htm Here is a recent-ish post by His Holiness.

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Re:Barack Obama gets Nobel's Peace Prize by steve19 on Sunday October 11, 2009 @06:41AM (#874616)

thanks

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Re:Barack Obama gets Nobel's Peace Prize by elblanco on Monday October 12, 2009 @10:10AM (#876714)

Yup!

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