Despite his cautious approach to relations with China, the Dalai Lama is regularly condemned by Chinese officials who accuse him of being a "splittist" with the desire of breaking Tibet away.
The Dalai is still, officially, "a national splittist with a religious overcoat"; his nine-day trip to the United States, which began on November 5th, and the "international clamours" it is generating, provide further proof of his "insincerity", it is said in Beijing.
In keeping with the "splittist" tendencies of micronationalism, there are several overlapping directories of micronational projects, but not a single, comprehensive one.
National unity will also be a feature, something aimed at symbolically assuring everyone that the borderland uprisings since 2008 are but the work of a few malcontents in cahoots with international splittist schemers.
Beijing regards Taiwan as a separatist and "splittist" province that should be reunified with the PRC, and they have long held out Hong Kong as an example of the vaunted "One Country, Two Systems" approach where areas are allowed to operate with a framework of better civil and political rights (to say nothing of the long entrenched rule of law, advanced civil society development, et cetera).
Beijing views the Nobel Peace Prize-winner as a "splittist", though he now advocates a "middle way" with China, seeking autonomy but not independence for Tibet.
Mr Zhu is known as a loud public voice of the party's opposition to the exiled Tibetan leader, whom he has denounced as a "splittist", who is "evil" and "deceitful .The party's relationship with religious believers who are not party members is complicated enough.
No deal can ever be struck with the Dalai Lama, they say, until he stops his "splittist" activities, accepts Chinese rule over Tibet and, for good measure, over Taiwan too.
Mr Sarkozy opposed the decision, but Bertrand Delanoë, the mayor of Paris, called the Dalai Lama, reviled by China's government as a "splittist", a "champion of peace".All this has made Carrefour, a French retail chain with more than 100 shops in China, a target for protests and boycott calls.
Beijing considers him a "splittist," though he has long advocated greater autonomy rather than independence.
He has been called a "jackal," a "wolf in sheep's clothing" and, routinely, a "splittist".
