To horseface and quintus,
Have you ever been to China?Have you ever been a friend to a native Chinese people?Have you been a tourist to Tibet?I' m sure that if you 've done any one above, you will not stand here and yell that China is demon and the boycot thing !Where did you get all your image about China?Don't you know your medium has an alternative choice about what to publish?!
I am, as a Chinese student ,very sorry ,very ashamed about what happened in Tibet !I just hope the fight can stop ,nobody gets hurt.
And If you ask anyone on the street in China,nobody hates Tibet or the people ! We love Them ! We share a strong awe toward Tibetan culture.Many young people have the same dream that one day we can go to Tibet ,to watch the amazing scenery,to kneel down before the the Potala Palace and pray !How can you say we are ruining the culture and environment !You must have heard a lot about the 'damage' news ,but that's not what we want !That's part of development! Haven't you America expirenced all these ?If you say that was history,well ,this will also be history !
I have to admit that many of our officials don't work for the people faithfully.But you must admit that new generations are growing up in China !They are open minded ,humanistic and skillful !You must believe that China has no ambition to occupy the planet or enslave the other nations !And You must believe in the power of the Chinese People,once they wake up ,they are able to create a new ,peaceful world!
And also ,there are millions of volunteers who have been trained to serve,many taxi drivers and Beijing people are learning Enlish in order to have an interesting talk with you people ! But you are here to appeal to disappoint them for political excuse!Should you take religion or cultural events politically!Do you think you are doing a good thing?in a revenge way?
You know that China and Chinese people will never let Tibet separate ,so you encourage Tibetan people to continue fighting ,splashing their blood,is that your HUMANISM ?You have nothing related to the people,but we have !If ,according to your opinion,the Tibetan people have to fight for freedom for another dacade or even more,why don't we just wait ,wait till the new generations who can figure out best ways to solve all these problems in a way all people are satisfied with to get in charge of the large country? That won't be far away ,because the various ideologies have been afouling for MORE THAN 20 years !
Take my advice ,just come to China,to have a look at the people and sniff the air in Beijing ,that will be much more real than the publication! And don't you be afraid ,nobody will burt you ,because racialism is not fashionable in China ,ever and never !

Go to www.olympics.org. It's all about the DOLLARS. The Olympic Committee is pushing China like it's the Shining Golden State of the future. Every American should boycott the Olympics: No TV, No pins, T-shirts, no Olympic crap! No Donations!!!!! The Olympics is so tainted by rigged judging, performance enhancing drugs, bribes and commercialism that it's no loss to sport to ignore it. Write to all the big corporate sponsors that you are boycotting their products AND..... Boycott goods made in China.

I have just received a Breaking News email from the BBC, saying that a spokesman for the Dalai Lama,
puts the death toll at about 80 people. No link yet.

the Italian and other foreign media is reporting over 100 deaths, the much lower deaths toll reported in the US, can attributed by the fact that the US media is owned by the same multinational corporations that operate in China, and flood the US with cheap and unreliable products.

China is really between a rock and a hard place on this one.

The Tibetans are rioting in the streets. Looting and fighting - that is so un-Buddhist.

The Chinese can't just let that go - you need to keep order, but do so and everyone says you are the butchers from Beijing. What they seem to be doing is trying to stop the violence with the minimum of force - but how do you stop someone from lighting themselves on fire?

The Chinese are not going to let Tibet be an independent country - anymore than America would let Texas declare independence (remember we fought a major war over some states deciding they wanted to go it alone.). Most Chinese will not even go to Tibet - the place is at 14,000 feet and half the people who visit get altitude sickness. But it is so fricking big (and unpopulated) that it would make a huge dent in the map. That, as much as anything, drives Chinese sentiment.

What China wants is for Tibet to quietly do its own thing. Agree to let China run the international affairs and the Tibetans can handle their own religous affairs. But the Buddhists are distinctly unBuddhist in this regard, behaving like the religious right in America. They are mixing politics and religion, and when you do that you get politics.

I take advantage of Huffington Post to make a personal appeal to the Dalai Lama that if he is in anyway involved in this uprising, PLEASE STOP IT NOW. The Tibet of now has changed it will never go back to being the Tibet of yesteryears. You are their spiritual Leader , I hope you recognize that your country is going through the stages of 'anicca'. Even Buddhism, practiced in any country is subjected to rise and ebb. If you work against changes you will only bring suffering to your fellow country men. What would Avalokitisravaya do ?

As their Leader it is a disadvantage to you to be born attached with a title. You must lead them by example and not the other way. You must not be taken advantage of by countries which may have their own agenda although they may seem to be helping you. I met a young Buddhist master eleven years ago. He has the ability to see future karma and was preparing to go to US to do Dharmaduta work. Why the US, I asked. He told me a chilling answer. US is a powerful country and they will create alot of suffering to the world. If you help them then you help to reduce suffering.
I hope Hufffington Post will post this message. I also hope the Dalai Lama will get to read this message maybe through one of his followers. My best wishes to the Dalai Lama and the Tibetians.
May you all be well and happy.

I noticed on maps in two separate issues of National Geographic that the Nation Of Tibet no longer exists!

In correspondence with them they said:

"Thank you for your letter to the National Geographic Society regarding the portrayal of Tibet in our recent map of the world.

The United States recognizes the Tibet Autonomous Region (TAR) and Tibetan autonomous prefectures and counties in other provinces to be a part of the People's Republic of China. We follow these designations in our reporting. The fact is that Tibet does not enjoy sovereignty at this time, and we doubt we would be serving the best interests of our readers if we gave them anything other than a realistic picture. This means that we show the world as it is, with current de facto conditions, and therefore include Tibet within the boundaries of China."

Tibet does not enjoy sovereignty at this time. Like a child might "enjoy" a toy?

With institutionalized double talk like this, is it any wonder that Tibet still suffers under the repressive domination of the Red Chinese? Perhaps Natl Geog needs occasional access to China for stories and so must make nice with the genocidal regime. Or perhaps they just don't want to piss off Bush and this regime's most favored nation status and coming Olympic games business deals--especially since China is our Largest Creditor and we wouldn't want them asking for all those loans they've made us to be repaid all at once, would we?

So, while China is certainly a demon on the world stage, we have our own demons right here in America, and, as usual, they aren't often apparent until their economic interests push up against the humanitarian rights of a formerly free and peaceful people.

My hope is that this story receives the coverage it so rightly deserves. Why the tragedy of Tibet has all but been forgotten by the world is truly a mystery to me. China's invasion of Tibet back in 1959 resulted in 1 million Tibetan dead and every single monastery (all 10,000) destroyed. Since then, Tibetans have suffered horribly under Chinese rule. Their illegal forced occupation amounts to nothing short of cultural genocide. And yet, the world remains silent.

The Chinese want the world to believe Tibet has always been a part of China but this is a monstrous lie; ethnic Tibetans are in no way related to the Han Chinese. Those who bother to read tan unbiased history of China and Tibet can not possibly say that Tibet has always been a part of China.

The world has an opportunity to finally put pressure on China to do the right thing regarding Tibet. China wants to present itself to the world as a great world power by hosting the Olympics, but they should be held accountable for the ongoing horrific abuses taking place in tibet each and every day.

Any and all countries that has any respect for human rights, would just say NO when it comes to participation in the upcoming Olympics. "hell no we won.t go"

What needs to be emphasized is that Tibet was not merely not part of China for significant amounts of time, it was in fact during extended periods of time an independent kingdom. The Chinese invasion of 1948-1949 was nothing more than a brutal takeover to gain lebensraum for the Han Chinese.

Nice of Huffington Post to set aside all the space for usually reserved for political whores and lifestyles to mention the trouble in Tibet. As the Chinese inhabit Tibet they absolutely forbid the practice of the traditional culture of the people of Tibet. As the Olympics approach, there is no more glaring example of the brutal denial of human rights by a communist government than the situation In Tibet. The Bush administration has shown that it does not care two cents for human rights unless there is some oil or political prestige involved. Even Huffington Post has ignored these many days of trouble. I guess the death count has to be pretty high to compete with the other incredibly important stories appearing in these pages. The coming Olympics are the best time ever to agitate the Chinese over this issue. They think they can keep everybody quiet but I hope that is not the case. I have many Tibetian friends I have not seen in many years. they are very good people on the whole with a rich culture to which they were devoted. It is a disgrace how the world community ignores this situation...yet all our policy decries our support for freedom and democracy in the world.

My heart goes out to all those people. The only weapon the west has at this moment is information. The Chinese are livid that photos and stories will go out on this. I hope the world press will try to keep the heat on and continue to report on this situation.

The long sad story of China's bloody invasion and occupation of Tibet is a true outrage for the whole civilized world. The countless murders, imprisonment and torture of Buddhist monks and nuns by the Chinese occupation forces is a shame that will shadow China for a long time.

Where have all the Comments gone?

Are the Chinese murderers now in control of this site?

Maybe Wal-Mart??

Despite all the negative, anti-America news about China on an almost daily basis, the trade deficit soars. Wal Mart, Home Depot and others prosper and there customers undermine our security with every naive purchase of Chinese goods. Pet food, tooth paste and now pharmaceuticals from China are poisoning and killing Americans and their pets and we hear the FDA only inspects 1 in 1000 importers. We have relinquished our manufacturing base and are now sending much of our service industries off shore in the name of profit. Greed and short sightedness has mortgaged our present to the hilt and is now flushing our future down the drain. HR

So long as we are in Iraq, it seems awfully hypocritical of us to make a big fuss over China's actions in Tibet. Word on the street is that the Tibetans were turning over cars, burning Chinese shops and beating Chinese locals with iron bars.