The Chinese government has been cracking down on freedom protests in Tibet, and nobody seems to really know the death toll or how many people have been injured and detained. Shades of Tianamen Square?
Hong Kong Cable has been sending out images, but China's government is famous for interupting signals when they want and blocking any feeds they may not want the outside world to see. Police are said to be going house to house in riot gear, but no images of any real violence have been captured...that we may know of.
Casualty reports range from 10 to over 100, with the latter being put forth by Tibetan exiles.
Funny how American politicians go on and on about human rights violations in specific countries and how communism is evil, yet the best they can do in situations involving China is 'urge' the government to respect the rights of the people. Meanwhile, they'll continue to do business with Beijing.
What else can they say? They're borrowing so much money from China to fund the Iraq war that they don't dare tick the Red Giant off. Look at how they handled the deadly toy debacle.
Time will tell if America puts any real pressure on the Chinese to cool it, but it seems unlikely. Tibet is poor, there aren't many Tibetan-American voters to pander to, and China has got cash.
Looks like we'll have to settle for more anti-Cuban dictatorship rhetoric. Of course, when Batista was dictator, then it was okay to deny people free elections. He was pro-America and turned a blind eye to organised crime. The U.S loved their little Fulgencio.
So what if he is rumoured to have tortured and killed about 20, 000 people?
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