Chinese students in the U.S are protesting the Dalai Lama speaking on campus. You have to ask yourself why that would be. Those reasons will not go far to explain why foreign students are allowed to champaion their government's causes as part of "free speech". They are not allowed free speech in their own country so one would think when they came to U.S schools they would not be bound by the state propaganda. The Wall Street Journal has an editorial on this democratic expression in today's paper, saying it has more than a passing relationship to the Cultural Revolution where thousands died for their lack of conviction.
We could write this off as "that's just California" only it isn't. I wrote previously about scholarships being given to Chinese students by Chinese faculty in Florida schools. You can bet those people will not be inviting the Dalai Lama to speak there either.
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