your friend got thrown at with a 10th sized shoes recently, I wonder what will happen to you?! Bush, I guess it’s Karma?!

Not sure what could be said or done to get the majority of us Americans so riled up (our own anti-France movement got a lot of press but was very isolated); as a boycotter of Walmart, AT&T, Exxon, etc., I think most of my fellow countrymen see my politically/human rights/environment-influenced (non-)consumption choices as pointless. Of course boycotting efforts are helped by not being able to afford most products.

Calling the exile meeting a joke is pretty disrespectful of Tibetans’ wishes–though credit the CCP for convincing the majority of its citizens that the Tibetans themselves have benefited from the Western Development program. I think most of Han Chinese (in the PRC and including many well-educated ones) really do not understand why the Tibetans want autonomy and believe they already have it, nor does one-sided propaganda allow one to seek it out. There is too often both here (in the past 8 years, though we’ve finally come around) and in the PRC an almost masochistic requirement to criticize one’s own country, opening oneself up to accusations of treason or hating the country.

Thanks for the informative posts and for this space!

Although Dalai clique spares no effort to advocate their proposition to western media, which frequently make an issue on Tibet, hoping to increase their influence, western media reported more that the clique was divided against itself, for each faction voiced its own opinion respectively via western media.

It’s impossible for the disunited meeting of these exiled Tibetans to decide the fate of Tibet. The real goal of it is to put pressure on Chinese government. However, the government has expressed earlier the refusal of concession, so those exiled ones just entertained themselves by holding the meeting.