Beijing Invites Diplomats to Tibet - WSJ.com: "Beijing Invites Diplomats to Tibet
By SHAI OSTER and JAMES T. AREDDY Interactive Map
March 28, 2008 9:28 a.m.
LHASA, China – A group of foreign diplomats has been invited to visit Tibet in the latest effort by Beijing to temper international criticism of its policies there ahead of this year's Olympic Games.
Embassy officials representing the U.S., France, the U.K. and other nations were making an overnight visit to the Tibetan capital Lhasa starting Friday.
The diplomats arrived as 26 foreign reporters concluded their three-day visit with a morning of scripted visits to neighborhood and religious centers in Lhasa on Friday. It offered none of the kind of drama that occurred on Thursday, when sobbing monks used the opportunity of television cameras and reporters to accuse China's government of religious repression"
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