In reply to TarlSS, If History is to be any guide, it would show that successful grassroots protests and passive resistance is the exception rather than the rule. History seems to show that lands are conquered, peoples subjugated and nations made thus. Revolutions, coup-detats and rebellions split and form new nations. Most of the world was made that way, and the Chinese "occupation" of Tibet is just that.
The rest of the world will do well to look back at parts of their country which they took by force, which now seems inseparable.
China was not persuaded by the humanity of liberty to become what it is, but cold hard economic necessity. TarlSS is right about Chinese infrastructure in Tibet, but in recent times, Tibetans have come to see it as more of a neo-colonial apparatus bringing in non-Tibetan peoples who dominate the local economies, while they live in comparative poverty. This was a major reason for the recent riots where non-Tibetan business owners have been the target of mob violence.
The anti religious aspect of the PRC is overplayed and China is not anti-religious for atheisms sake. Religious movements as pervasive as Tibetan Buddhism is seen to be, a threat to the integrity of the nation, as separatist movements have always been based around the exiled Lamas, who were ousted from power by the communists. Couple that with culturally insensitive officials looking to reduce the influence of the exiled buddhists and you get something that looks like an atheist inquisition.
People seem to think China is simply "being mean and oppressive" to Tibetans. This is not the case. China is equally mean and oppressive to all those who are poor, and Tibetans, being poor, unsurprisingly get shafted, which western hypocrites then go on to say is the result of the "occupation" and FREE TIBET!!FREE TIBET!! bullshit.
Tibet is part of China. China is not free, therefore Tibet is not free. All that FREE TIBET!! idiocy is based on the idea that slogan shouting can win the freedom of a million people, whereas a free Tibet really requires that a billion be freed, something the banner wavers aren't so optimistic on.
If someone were to carefully consider the precedent set by a "liberated Tibet", it would give momentum to the Xinjang separatist movements in the west, then the mongolians in the north and before you know it, China is split into a dozen small squabbling states. In this perspective, you can see why China will fight tooth and claw to keep Tibet, boycotts, embargoes and wars be damned.
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What can we do about it? Who are we (non-chinese people) to dictate what China's goverment should do about Tibet? Boycot the olimpics, trade embargos, war? That's all bad for everybody.

As already said, China is a superpower, rapidly rising in power, it already has enough power to challenge the US economy directly. They also have a strong army and have nuclear capabilities. Plus, any confrotation between the West and China, Russia will most probably side with China. On a side note, don't underestimate Russia, in all it's history, Russia have never been occupied by another country, Romans, Napoleon, Hitler, they all tried and failed. And the US lost the arms race against Russia during the Cold War, Russia had a stronger military than the US, but that same military suffocated Russia's economy, thus leaving the US as the technical winner of the Cold War. I believe any form of confrotation between Nato and China could elevate into WW3.

Thus what we all should do is follow with peaceful protests and disobedience, India is prove enough that peaceful protests can win independence.

Lol, ironic, but its makes sense. where would they have made the olympics during those years? Europe was a war zone, North Africa was a war zone, Middle east was mostly sands, Russia was a war zone, China/Korea/Japan was a war zone, South America was undeveloped by that time, lots of small conflicts there also. North America? Well there were no battles in there, but all the men were enlisted/drafted and away, the women were in the factories, who would be left to go see a Olympic game?

Besides, were not the ahtletes also drafted for the army? Baseball had some hard time during those years, imagine what would have happen to the Olympics!!!

As a fellow communist and a personal friend of Mao Ce Tung, I support our Chinese comrades, and hope that soon the whole world will realize that "Free Tibet" is nothing more than a American propaganda... You see, everytime some country grew powerful enough to challege the American Empire, they did what? They destroyed that country, tore it to small powerless pieces! They did it to the USSR, to my Yugoslavia (don't worry, it's coming back...soon), and now they are doing it to China...

They know that we are stronger when we are together, so UNITE my brothers, unite and we will crush those evil Imperialist bastards!

Sorry to disappoint comrade, but Communism is dead in China. They killed it and replaced it with free-for-all capitalism. The gap between rich and poor grow wider every day, and we are right now witnessing the most ruthless, cut-throat behaviour in pursuit of material wealth. We were never meant to be nice to each other, thats why Communism will never work.

Good post, The Great Emperor.

People are quitting the Chinese Communist Party in droves after the release of the nine commentaries by the CCP. Over 35 million Chinese citizens have quit the CCP in the last few years alone. This is a regime that is bound to fall and any event that shows the true nature of the CCP will only hasten its demise. The recent crackdown in Tibet is exposing the CCP which calls the Dalai Lama a seperatist and is behind the uprising. People know better and I don't think those Tibetans died in vain.
There are other groups of people too, like Falun Dafa practitioners who are being persecuted in China that are using non-violence as well. They are behind the big movement to quit the CCP. I have a blog page dedicated to the Human rights issues in China if you want to have a look.

here is the link:

http://chinahumanrights.blogspot.com/

i agree with you about a country grows too strong US wil do just about everything
what about the lies about iraq [chemical weapons ehh where??] the many questions about 9/11 were it really terrorists? well i am not so sure after the research ive done
i dont really think they going to invade/attack china though because its no easy target they got the largest airforce in the world for example, dont get me wrong i like US
i just dont like the goverment
and about china its better they stay whole because they could be dangerous
if it fell apart hell they are dangerous now