泛华网号外：北京已與達賴恢復接觸

泛华网自林中斌部落格得知，习近平在8月26日派蕭武南去德蘭沙拉見達賴。林中斌是中国民国前陸委會第一副主委、前國防部副部長，现任淡江大學國際事務暨戰略研究所專任教授、兼任國防大學戰略研究所教授。

林中斌部落格的内容是：

林中斌 2012.12.30 印度

“北京將與達賴恢復接觸。”這是我在2012年10月31日聯合報名人堂“習近平與佛教”中所寫。但是我當時並不知道5天前印度報紙已登載習近平已在8月26日派人去德蘭沙拉見達賴。以下是那篇印度的報導。報導中蕭武南與大寶法王照片，來自蕭武南自己部落格，是他回北京後貼的。據進一步查證，蕭當時並不一定帶了習近平的信，但是他在德蘭沙拉時，口氣友善、樂觀、但不自誇，只是想瞭解德蘭沙拉方面的想法。這點與其他不少來自北京號稱代表某某領導的訪客完全不一樣。他應該是真正北京派來的人物。                                 

“Beijing will resume contact with Dalai Lama” so wrote I in the October 31, 2012 oped entitled “Xi Jinping and Buddhism” in United Daily News. I, at the time, did not know that 5 days ago, an Indian news source had already published a report (see the following posting)revealing that Xi Jinping sent an envoy to Dharamsala to contact Dalai Lama on August 26. My further investigation suggests: Mr. Xiao Wunan might not have carried a letter from Xi Jinping to Dalai Lama, but he was courteous, optimistic, somewhat vague, intent on learning what Dharamsala’s thinking was, and did not claim to represent anyone important in Beijing which set him apart from many other namedropping visitors from Beijing who claimed to represent certain VIPs in Beijing. That made him look more like the real emissary.   
                                             
                                              Chong-Pin Lin Dec. 30, 2012 India