Activists demand return to "normalcy" in Tibet

markApr 27th, 2008 - 09:36:58

people should pay a attention to what are happening about the talking topic,the fact is that Dalai lama want to talk with China government ( some west countries are also striving to force China offices to talk with the person) rather than China is keen to talk with the dalai lama.So no matter what the guy is saying, no one in china cares whether tibetans in overseas are willing to talk or not because they can not change anything in Tibet in china except for their noises in the overseas.

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rock n roll fan .Apr 27th, 2008 - 11:05:43

with so many people clamoring for attonamy in Tibet ,China (who ever you Are), should give it to them !

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ChinaApr 27th, 2008 - 12:35:11

Here's a country that is waiting and wanting to go to war with the U.S. It is only a matter of time.

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ZephonApr 27th, 2008 - 13:48:05

Actually it is the military planner in the USA that are desperately looking for another conflict to start up as the Iraq war is soon coming to closure. How else will all those defense contractors in the USA keep their flow of money from the taxpayer coming in. When the USA is funding the military at a level of the next 20 countries combined we are talking quite a bit of money and lobbyist have there work to do. Like the middle east when I was a military officer, we planned for war there starting in the 70s. By the 90s we were willing and ready to go to war in the middle east. Just had to lure somebody in. Saddam took the bait. Here is a good article on our war planning for China

blog.washingtonpost.com/earlywarning/2006/05/americas_new_china_war_pla n.html

China has no ambition for war with anyone. But with the heated war rhetoric I expect they will have to start arming themselves more for the defense of their country from countries like the USA.

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JonhwongApr 27th, 2008 - 19:00:21

An important issue related to the recent events around the Olympic torch and riots in Tibet is the journalism.
The youth in China got angry because, very much like in the West, they, as human being, concern the human rights.
When Chinese citizen's burned to death, killed in open streets in Lhasa, they surely concerned. When the West media decided to cheer the murders and condemned the victims, they got angry.
We condemn the Chinese government for the human right abuse in China,
its environment policy and unregulated working condition for millions of workers and many other things which are well
documented.
To make up, or create a situation, and then blame and condemn the Chinese government for something they did not do or have not yet done does not help the just course, in fact, make things worse.

We people live in the west assume that if there is a riot in Tibet, it must be a terrible act by the Chinese government.
To show to the world, west media just need to show some pictures. CNN found one in Youtube. A militarily looking
truck in a corner of the picture with riots in most of other part of the photo. Cut 60\% of the picture. One saw a military truck driving which at least suggested a heavy presence of Chinese military. Several European news services wanted
to show a picture of Chinese police beating protesters. They could not find one, so instead they showed a photo
of Nepalese police beating Tibetan protesters and they said this was what happened in Lhasa. Who would care the authenticity of the photo? or who would even notice anyway?

We also assume, or make ourselves to believe, that Chinese have no access to the west media. It turns out that while Chinese government blocks many websites, over two hundred millions netizens in China do have access to the west media, one way or another. A few among these two hundred millions were suspicious about the uniforms these police wear. A couple of hundred among two hundred millions of them figured out these were Nepalese police and the origin of the picture (from CNN which showed it happened in Nepal). It was true that Youtube were blocked by Chinese government from time to time, but it did not prevent millions of Chinese netizens from using Youtube.
So they located the origin of the infamous photo used by CNN and showed not only the rest of the picture but the rest of the tape which included ugly scene of the violent riot. These news spread in the internet inside and outside China.
CNN were forced to defend itself by releasing the whole photo and claimed that the only reason that the whole picture did not show is that the photo was too wide. It hardly convinced these angry netizens. It argued why CNN did not cover the truck and showed the other part of picture first? That would not be politically correct, would it? Or, why CNN did not
show the entire tape or part of tape which showed the killing of innocent people? Some of European news services on the other hand continued to used the Nepali pictures and either ignoring the complains or claimed that the complains were just a bunch of brainwashed Chinese who blindly support their evil government.

There are plenty evidence and well-documented cases showing Chinese government's human rights abuses.
But in this case, the West reacted on a misinformed event (sounds familiar ?).
China is changing very quickly.
Pretending that Chinese are 'basically the same bunch of goons and thugs they've been for the last 50 years'
(quote from Jack Cafferty of CNN) would not help anybody. The west media could use their courage to condemn some of these lama monks who burned children alive and killed by-standers in the open streets in Lhasa and show the sympathy to the victims. In that
way, it would have support from over billion Chinese to oppose their government's abuse of human rights.

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