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steve19 on Oct 9, 2009 | parent | context | favorite | on: Barack Obama gets Nobel's Peace Prize

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.

elblanco on Oct 9, 2009 [–]

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.

steve19 on Oct 11, 2009 | [–]

thanks

elblanco on Oct 12, 2009 | | [–]

Yup!

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