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按说，龙先生是在说台湾的事情，我本来不应该插嘴，特别是如果他用这文章为国民党马英九站台的话，我就当它是竞选宣传，更不会理睬。然而，这文章既然在大陆的报纸上全文刊登，我就不能不写几句了。我理解龙先生对于台湾民主暂时无法选出一个政治家当“总统”的沮丧，但她可能没有考虑到，她的文章会给那些根本不知道民主是何物的国民造成多大的混乱和误导！

早在两年之前，中银国际分析师吴维克便提出重组不能解决中国电信业的问题。对于五合三方案，吴维克对FT中文网强调说:“解决中国电信业问题首要解决监管架构的问题。我不认为要通过重组才能改善监管架构。”

What I saw was calculated targeted violence against an ethnic group, or I should say two ethnic groups, primarily ethnic Han Chinese living in Lhasa, but also members of the Muslim Hui minority in Lhasa.

Well we didn't see any evidence of any organized activity, at least there was nothing in what I sensed and saw during those couple of days of unrest in Lhasa, there was anything organized behind it.

Now numerous Hans that I spoke to say that they are so afraid they may leave the city, which may have very damaging consequences for Lhasa's economy, Tibet's economy.

But their fear now is that Tibetans will blow up the railway line. That it is now actually safer to fly out of Tibet than to go by railway.

And also many troops there whose uniforms were distinctly lacking in the usual insignia of either the police or the riot police. So my very, very strong suspicion is that the army is out there and is in control in Lhasa. A

I've been a journalist in China now for 15 years altogether. This is the first time that I've ever got official approval to go to Tibet. And it's remarkable I think that they decided to let me stay there and probably they felt that it was a bit of a gamble. But as the protests went on I think they also probably felt that having me there would help to get across the scale of the ethnically-targeted violence that the Chinese themselves have also been trying to highlight.

And the authorities were responding to these occasional clashes with Tibetans not by moving forward rapidly with either riot police and truncheons and shields, or indeed troops with rifles. But for a long time, just with occasional, with the very occasional round of tear gas