skullaria wrote:
The only thing Bush has done that I liked was to receive the Dalai Lama and to encourage China to open talks with him. Looks like that went over like a lead balloon.

Now that the Westerners are gone, they are gonna do the typical Chinese thing and take it out on a whipping boy.

I'm going to do my best to avoid buying anything made in damn China.

I met a monk who was tortured by the Chinese government for protesting the political control of Buddhism in Tibet. In his book, he talks about numerous monks being starved and tortured to death. My feeling is that its a constant thing, and that it only occasionally recieves media attention.