The Lhasa riots and the military crackdown thereafter which left many dead the exact figure of which will remain unknown for obvious reasons raised questions against the legitimacy of giving China to host Olympics. It left the Chinese fuming with anger for spoiling what could otherwise have been a perfect ground on which to base that China has always uphold human rights which is a blatant lie. There has been an outpouring of anti-Western sentiments on the internet after the Chinese state media focused on the alleged pro-Tibet bias of the Western press on the coverage of violence in Lhasa. Lately I have been trying to keep track of articles on Tibet issues and I came across an Chinese infesting the Net to lambaste the Tibet cause and spew baseless accusations.
They see us the exiled Tibetans as enemy factions attempting to divide their nation which they claim to have always been a “multinational state” and never to have been an empire. It is something they have been made to believe and given the belligerent distortion of history by the Chinese authorities, they shall never know the truth. The internet I believe if it truly becomes an interactive space can unveil these distortions, shed light upon what the truth is, but unfortunately the Chinese government has imposed such a sturdy lock down of internet, anything remotely pertinent to Tibet is censored. The Chinese are as always resorting to ‘propaganda’ tactics, claiming Tibet to have always been an integral part of China, that under Chinese occupation Tibet has made tremendous progress and that few factions outside Tibet are perpetrating riots inside Tibet to hunker down China. It infuriates me to read some of these comments which are nothing short of flagrancy.
I came across this article in Time which touches on "the increasing signs of fracturing as younger Tibetans push for an approach different from the Dalai Lama's middle way" Read a response to this article by Reverend Danny Fisher.