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藏人的苦难让我感到震撼，就是从这些具体个人遭遇上开始的。我从来没有想到，都到了1990年代，还有十二三岁的小孩，因为和平游行被关9个月；还有15岁的女尼，因为用唱歌表达对自由的渴望和对达赖的忠诚，被连续判刑达二十多年。在以朋友圈里，我提到这事，好些人第一反应却是怀疑造谣。其实她的名字，自从1996年开始就一直在西方要人提交给阿共的政治犯名单上，其人、其年龄、其刑期都是清楚的。但是作为汉人，我们不关心，不知道，知道了也当造谣。

It is inevitable and right that Clinton will bring up Tibet, human rights and other contentious issues. But all evidence suggests that she would like to do so in the context of a re-formatted US-China relationship that places collaboration at its heart.

"The heavy presence of Chinese (People's) Liberation Army officers throughout the proceedings left many wondering exactly what image the hosts were intending to project to the international community...," the newspaper said. "At a time when Tibet, Darfur and China's broader human rights record are proving delicate issues for Beijing organizers, the move to present thousands of drilled, sobersided army officers ... was surprising for its brazenness; a none too subtle projection of strength," it said. Asked about the military theme, Zhang Jigang, chief of the People's Liberation Army dance troupe, told reporters there were "excellent performers and directors" in the military. "I think this is a Chinese characteristic," he said. "All of the military arms have ... have wonderful acrobats and opera troupes. We should make use of such resources."

As a key element of the revival of Chairman Mao Zedong's "people's warfare," Beijing and a number of other cities have revived the vigilante and spying functions of neighborhood committees. Municipal administrations along the coast -- and in the autonomous regions of Tibet and Xinjiang -- have recently earmarked additional budget to maintain the "spying" functions of neighborhood committees and similar vigilante outfits after the Olympics. Moreover, the Politburo's Central Political and Legal Commission, China's highest law-enforcement agency, has urged the courts and prosecutors to do more in fulfilling the party's priority task of thwarting anti-Beijing conspiracies and upholding sociopolitical stability. That the courts will comply in this is evident from a just-released article by the President of the Supreme People's Court, Wang Shengjun. Writing in this week's edition of the official Seeking Truth journal, Mr. Wang said: "We must pay more attention to maintaining state security and social stability. . . We must boost our consciousness of [safeguarding] the power of the regime . . . and fully develop our functions as a department for [proletarian] dictatorship."

王先生說：「我不知道他們的用意是否在於威攝。但如果他們可以對一個不過是拍攝照片的有名作家做出這種事，你就可以想像普通的藏人每天所面臨的威脅是什麼。」

一、在宗教層面而言，藏方（與西方）期望達賴的宗教權力多少可得到保障，北京則對雙重效忠十分敏感。而目前提出按政治、宗教分別處理問題的具體方案，選擇還相當有限。即使是上述學者，也都是從政治、政制談判的框架出發，但這可以是曠日持久的拉鋸戰。二、在主權層面而言，藏方(與西方)即使認可中國的主權，也希望出現或確立某種全球化時代的「次主權」(Sub-sovereignty)，來維繫西藏的獨特地位。但北京對香港模式應用在西藏亦有所保留，主要是擔心引起境內其他少數民族的骨牌效應，不希望「一國兩制」模型被捲入民族爭議。三、對「大藏區」的問題，事實上，藏方流亡政府和中方政治機關都不可能對現有行政區劃作出任何變更。但如何在文化方式維繫「大藏區」以外將之「半建制化」，除了Sautman等人，提出的很少。四、無論西藏的自治程度去到哪裏，都會涉及漢人，讓北京擔心引入特洛伊木馬，就像擔心香港普選會選出反對派、讓北京陷入兩難一樣。但民主與西藏問題，卻早被西方學界全面掛鹇。

The government now faces a tricky predicament: Having loosened its restraints on information flow this time, a return to its old ways at the next sign of difficulty could backfire. “The government should learn a positive lesson: When it allows freer information flow it is better for its image and legitimacy,” Mr. Xiao said. “But this will not always be a case, especially if the next crisis is man-made

China’s online censors can be merciless in their deletion of blog postings or forum comments that are deemed “too sensitive,” particularly involving anything to do with the so-called “Three T’s”: Tiananmen, Tibet and Taiwan. Post-earthquake negativity, though, has been tolerated. “Nine billion yuan [$1.3 billion] has been raised but how much will actually get to the disaster zone?” one skeptical commenter asked on a forum on Baidu, China’s leading search engine. Discussions focusing on discrepancies between the amount of donations declared by the Chinese Red Cross and the corresponding numbers issued by the Ministry of Civil Affairs also have met with minimal interference, Mr. Kennedy said. However, the government has not turned a blind eye. More than a dozen people have been arrested for “spreading rumors” online, and political blogger Guo Quan was detained for questioning the risks posed by cracked dams and damaged nuclear facilities.

Dr. Yu started his remarks by underlining how Hu Jintao, only a year after he was made vice-president, made his national debut in 1999 following the Belgrade bombing—at the height of anti-American protests—and urged for calm and reason from the angry mobs when then-President Jiang Zemin was at the height of his power. Hu’s show of grace, which stood in strong contrast to the often crass measures descriptive of Jiang’s leadership, has led some notable China watchers to predict that Hu is a visionary leader. However, Dr. Yu argues that Hu is not visionary, and the hysteria against the Dalai Lama is an example of Hu’s pedantry of the traditional Chinese political psyche.

An exception to this is Germany, which gave the most negative of all the European assessments. China, on the other hand, was quite positive towards Germany. It probably isn’t anymore.

Danwei posted on Who is winning the Olympic PR War? Jeremy’s conclusion: In the West, Free Tibet organizers. In China, the Chinese government.

Chinese people are not “brainwashed” by the government but carefully considering Western sources and see them as being just biased as their own sources.

朋友説：我以為過份强調「人權」就是想要絕對自由。我説我的理解不是那樣，我從来沒有認可過「絕對自由」，但我追求「人權」。我眼中最簡單的人權卽是對其作為人的基本尊重：這個尊重應該是允許獄中的病人就醫（GFWed），把他當作人看，而不是「敵人」，戰俘尙可得到的「待遇」，國家「公民」卻得不到！這個尊重應該是對内、對外眞實公布某建築事故中死難人數，這是對死者最最最基本的尊重，而不是虛报和遮掩！這個尊重還能是甚麽？而它現在又是甚麽？