Scooby5
Active Member
Personally I don't know enough about what it's like over there, causes etc and I suspect the vast majority of protestors don't either because hey it's "cool" to protest
Agreed.
I do think Tibet is better off, economically now than it would have been if left to fend by itself. I also think that if completely independant, they wouldn't have enough income to pay for everything...... tourism just won't cover it all.
Western governments were telling the Chinese government not to be harsh when putting down the recent protests but two things come from this 1) It was started by "Free Tibet" / Monks and 2) Start a riot in the US/UK and see how authorites (police / swat) treat the troublemakers there. Okay, maybe not the UK anymore given the namby pamby nature of the police these days but you get the picture.
I told the BBC the same thing a few weeks ago...... comments and critisism of the Chinese government is made almost exclusively by people that have never been. I've been going in and out for more than 12-yrs and have seen huge improvements and if you consider what the starting point was just 20-yrs ago, the progress and rate of progress is better than it was in the West before.