here to voice my opinion

hello, rose. As you said Tibet was an independent nation 50 years ago, how do you know it? Yes, we Chinese are told that Tibet is a part of China from a young age. And I suppose you are told a quite different version. Which saying is the fact? People from Tibet have the rights to claim it, I think. Dalai cannot stand for all the people. But as I live in China for these 20 years, I can tell you the government do give them rights to practise their traditional religion and help them to do so. In addition, the government offers them more preferential policies than the Han people. I will search information about the history of Tibet. If you have some evidence to support your opinion, can you share it with me? THANK YOU.

I know this because I can go back to history books from 50 years ago and see it there. I can see Tibet's signature on international treaties that only independent nation's can sign. I can access information. I can go to a Germany and find this same information. I can go to South Africa and find this information. It is only China that says the Tibet was always part of it. And you cannot access any of the information that says otherwise. When a government restricts what information you can receive they are hiding something from the people. As for the religious freedom, this is something else that the government has not tolld you the whoel truth about. yes, they are allowed to practice the Tibetan religion, but only with those appointed by China in charge, not their own choice for religious leaders. They do not have more rights than the Han people either. The Han can travel freely, the Tibetan nationals cannot. I know you love your country. But, you must think for yourself.

hello rosettaresearch! I learn from Chinese history that the central government of China had established close relationship with Tibet ever since TANG Dynasty, that is the 7th centry. In YUAN Dynasty(the 15th centry), Tibet became a province of China. There are numerous history records describe the relationships throughout the thousands of years. I couldn't believe that so many proofs of so long history could be fake! Dalai Lama, whose voice always been heard by Western people, would be the person who enjoy most of the benefits if Tibet is independent, thus we could understand why he asks for independence. But he couldn't represent other Tibet people. Since I was born, our life is getting better and better. We live in bigger house, we buy cars, computers, every kinds of electronic household things. More and more western merchants are trying to do business with China, to share the fruits of the economic development of China. We thank the government for the better life they lead to. Since Tibet people are also Chinese people, they enjoy the benefits from the economic development too. They of course enjoy the cilil rights, and they even enjoy some privilege as the minority such as the lowered standard for entrance to the college and priority of work opportunity in civil service etc. China welcomes friends from all over the world. Come here and you'll find a totally different China from your impression.

i believe the government will agree!!

You can say that Tibet's not a China a hundred times and what's going to happen??? IT'LL STILL BE THERE! Reality doesn't lie mate :D

woah..are you implying that CNN is going to get screwed over by karma? huuummmmmmm

Ok, I can agree with you about the Dalai Lama stuff, which I think China hasn't handled very well at all. I don't know if he really wants to get involved in politics though. However, I can't agree that China, or anyone else 'deserves' negative news. The role of news networks is to provide unbias FACTS to the public, rather than to publish false and/or biased information because China 'deserves' it.

You can humiliate Chinese gov but you can't humiliate Chinese people. The mainland and Tibet are tied tightly and all the people love each other. Don't say that the gov is fooling the people,Chinese people are not fool.They can see clearly. I have to guess you envy China's development and treat China as Tsing dynasty.

There are always two sides of the story. You think that the Chinese have overlooked the facts and history, and they will think likewise about you. I think Tibet is a part of China. Tibet has tried to declare independence several times after British Agents there suggested it, but was never legitamitely recognised, or included into world maps. A Tibetan academic tried to go into America in 1913 (shorlty after Tibet declared independence) carrying Tibetan travel documents, and was rejected by immigration until he returned with a Chinese Passport, because America did not consider Tibetan to be a nationality. Yes, Tibet has been occupied by Communists since 1949, but that's likewise with the rest of China after the civil war which ended that year. Before 1949, Tibet was not under a Communist Government, but still governed by China - simply under a different party, The Chinese Nationalist Party. So to think that Tibet has only been under Chinese rule since 1949 is pretty naiive. I think its a bit too extreme to say that ALL information that China lets access to its and the world are false, for you to make that conclusion (unless you can read Chinese) - I doubt that you know what the Chinese actually ARE being told. You probably need to go to China or do some thorough research in order to make a proper judgement. Although it is most probable that some things that come out of China are not completely truthful, but no one, including the West is perfect either.

It wasn't meant to humiliate anyone or anything,nor was it meant to envy, but the real reason why it was said is that,all that is going on in the Tibet front is certainly not just,and even though no people in any country are responsible for a government's misdeeds,but still,at times,things may not turn out as they want to;With huge respect to every Chinese people itcan still be stated that,even if Chinese people would realize someday what they are into,they may still not make things okay as things have already gone out of their hands,and it's too late to fight or change the government in a democratic way;