March 10, 2019 is the 60th anniversary of 1959 Lhasa Tibetan Uprising which immediately led to the long exile of the Dalai Lama and his 80,000 Tibetan followers in India. Ten years ago in 2009, the FDC organized a 30 odd-member delegation to Dharamsala, India for the participation of the 50th anniversary, with the aim to form a closer coalition between the Chinese democracy movement and the Free Tibet Movement for future joint campaigns of anti-Beijing autocracy, the idea was first initiated by H.H. the Dalai Lama in the audience with the FDC NSW Branch during his tour of Australia in May 1992.

The Chinese democracy movement pursues China's democracy, and Tibetans should pursue Tibet's meaningful autonomy.

For decades, the Chinese democracy movement has still achieved nothing to its ultimate goal. The democracy movement has no living space, with extreme difficulties to survive within China, and while in overseas it has long been in low ebb and continues to shrink. Under the misrule of the CCP, China is farther and farther away from democracy and the people are getting used to its dark rule.

The Tibetan Kashag Government was forced to sign the Seventeen Points Agreement with Beijing government under the PLA's military threat, losing the quasi-nation status enjoyed for 38 years after the abdication of the Qing Dynasty. The CCP had been ever since keeping dominance over Tibet through violence and deception. As a result, the 14th Dalai Lama and his 80,000 Tibetans were forced to exile in March 1959.

Under the initiative of H.H. the Dalai Lama, the Tibetan Kashag Government in exile completed the democratization and the Tibetans in exile have already had democracy. However, the ultimate goal of the Dalai Lama and the Tibetans in exile demanding for the meaningful autonomy from the CCP is still remote to achieve in spite of the continuous and hard work stretched for 60 years. So far, nothing has been achieved.

As an evil clique, the CCP has hijacked the Chinese Titanic with the whole nation kidnapped on board heading in dangerous waters towards iceberg. The wishful expectation that the CCP may put down his butcher's knife and turn into Buddha is no exception consulting with a tiger for its skin but ends with being engulfed. It is so obvious that autocracy is rogue and democracy is helpless. Reagan knew this, to subdue a rogue who is holding threatening weapon, the best solution is to muster up courage to subdue him first. He did this way to the former Soviet Union, and now Trump is also adopting the same strategy to cope with the twin evils in East Asia, Pyongyang and Beijing.

Tibetans persisted their armed resistance against the CCP’s atrocities for more than a decade until the CIA aid was cut off in early 1970s when the US Nixon administration adopted a new policy in alliance with Beijing to contain Moscow. For this strategy, the US abandoned both Tibet and Taiwan.

We both have been working so hard on our respective aims for decades, however, we both have not succeeded and would not succeed because "the potential and tangible strength" has not been on our side, and on the contrary, they are on the side of the CCP. This is the international status quo that determines it. Neither the Chinese democracy movement nor H.H. the Dalai Lama and the Tibetan government in exile has the possibility or capability to change this situation.

We will never give up in spite of the unsurpassable obstacles, both the Chinese democracy movement and Free Tibet Movement. The persistence will give rise to the hopefulness. Tibetans for sixty years, the FDC for 30 years, we are all persevering and indomitable. We have chosen to sacrificed ourselves and put our lifetime into this seemingly hopeless career for the promotion of Chinese democracy. Because of the pursuit we have chosen, we have no home to go, no homeland to return. You Tibetans adhere to your aspiration for the preservation of your culture, religion and language of your homeland, Tibetans in exile are also banned to return their native Tibet. The FDC once again visit Dharamsala for sharing the suffering and sorrows of the Tibetan brothers.

The CCP represents the countercurrent of the development of civilized world. Its rampancy benefits from the weakness and sleeplessness of the West led by the United States, which is the political opportunity for the CCP. Once the United States wakes up from deep sleep, it will herald the end of the CCP. The emergence of Trump brought about the possibility and opportunity to change the existing pattern of the world. Trump, discarding his predecessor’s weakness and mediocrity, with a sharp eye and unique measures of his style, attacked foes he dislikes, including Xi Jinping. Strongly adhering to autocracy, the CCP stays in power through ruthless control over the ruled people in China with its foremost and incomparable pressure, and also without external strikes. The CCP looks like a giant with steel arms but mud-formed legs, and can't withstand the forceful blow. Once subjected to an external blow for whatever reason, it will trigger domestic unrest and cause the instantly collapse of the regime. At present, the political situation in China is something like overcast before the pouring rain. The Chinese democracy movement is the weak underdog in contest with the CCP. H.H. the Dalai Lama and his Tibetan followers have been exile for six decades, the hardship they suffered outraced to Moses and the Chinese democracy movement. Confronting the same rivalry and opponent, these two movements should work closely together, shoulder to shoulder, side by side.

The iron law of the world is that things will develop in the opposite when they go to extremes ". Chinese saying goes as changeable in prosperity and decline capricious in rise, or simply as "thirty years in the east side of a river and also thirty years in the west side of the river“. Similar to this: every dog has its days. The political opportunity to change China in the foreseeable future is emerging on the horizon, equally to both Tibetans who have waited for 60 years and the Chinese democracy Movement that has waited for 30 or 40 years. This is extremely conducive to the opposition of different groups to change the current political situation in China they longed for, so as to achieve the ultimate goal the Chinese democracy movement worked for decades.

Tibetans have the world's prestigious spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama, who has been always raising the aspiration of Tibetans up and maintaining a moral image of the movement. Thanks to the tenacity and perseverance of H.H. the Dalai Lama, saving Tibet from extinction, guarding Dharma, carrying Tibetan Buddhism to the southern foothills of the Himalayas, a place where the origin of Buddhism experienced rise and decline, has made Buddhism flourish in the world and has been widely recognized by the whole world. His tenacious achievement has also raised the worldwide attention to the hardships of Tibetans.

Unfortunately the Chinese democracy movement lacks a leader or a group of leaders who are far-sighted, decisive, caring, with full sense of responsibility, resonance with followers. More than a decade ago, the FDC visited Dharamsala specifically for this purpose.

Days for CCP to be alive are numbered, the Chinese democracy Movement and the Tibetan exiles should not be too difficult to feel the reality of China’s politics and reach a consensus. The situation of the post-CCP will be more complicated. For the upcoming political changes in China, for the arrival of the post-CCP era just around of corner, the FDC pay visit to Dharamshala for the audience with H.H. the Dalai Lama and meeting with the Tibetan government in exile to seek for mutual understanding and future cooperation.

The mountain is static and not moving, so we go over to approach it. This is the goal and all about of the FDC’s visit to Dharamsala.