haiming, Beijing, China

I agree with you. Chinese Govt.is loo lenient in dealing with these terrorists. If one is to follow SUN ZE's art of War, then the extreme leaders should be executed. This will prevent more and unnecessary deaths.

Anyway your Govt has done what it thought best. We shall not harp on this. Let's just hope the situation will fully calm down to enable all to live and work together to a better and brighter future.

I am sure the Chinese people wants to live in peace and harmony not only within itself but with the rest of the world too.

I am confident China will host the most outstanding Olympics the world will ever witness for a long time to come notwithstanding the constant attemps by some quarters to disrupt..

Do stand proud. What ever your Govt. did, does or will do, is in the interest of your Nation and all Chinese including the 55 ethic minority people.

Peace be with you my friend. I also look forward to the day when all Asia will unite.

Lim, Johor Bahru, Malaysia

@ bob - sheffield
your repsonse show the point that was being made,even if you can not understand it.

Geoff, Scotland, UK

Please be fair to China, what else can a country do when ppl r out killing and destroying things... if china sits there and do nothing.. the western media probaly start saying China is unsecure to host the oylimpic.. bla bla bla... wake up! The cold war is OVER...

HH, HK,

For all the comment I sew in this website,
I donot anticipant western people to lay down their prejudice at once.
But I want to appeal all the chinese people abroad who can see the article: return to China, and serve your own country, although she have many shortcomings, but she is our motherland, and you can help to improve it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Andy Qiu, Wuxi, China

The Times online version is not blocked in China ,nor is this article blocked in China.Ordinary people in China can view and comment on this article,and the Chinese commenting here is not paid propagandists as some would believe.Now,there are many chinese students studying in British Universities,they all have relatives living in China,they can tell you whether this is the case.So,for those who really wants to find out the truth,it is a relatively straightforward matter.
I will not discuss the problem of morality,because this has no objective answer.All I want to say is that Chinese people will never allow Tibet to be separated,and there are indeed some,including me, who are not satisfied by the Goverment's response ---it's too lenient,China should really deal those separatists in the way that Putin dealt with Chechenian terrorists:drown them in the stool.
This is not caused by propaganda,it is just natural reaction for a nation who witnessed the tragedy of Russia in 1990's.

haiming, Beijing, China

How is China government truns to support the independance of Scotland and North Ireland? Of cource a broken United Kingdom and a broken United States will make the world better for China.

What a brilliant idea! Hope China seriously consider to start supporting the independance movements in the UK.

Qing Situ, Portsmouth,

@Philip, Oxford, England

No, it isn't justified. But then, neither is stereotyping anyone who is a nationalist of their respective country as mindless minions, wirelessly fed speeches in broken english to a website, which is exactly what you were suggesting.

Howard, Manchester,

Zoe

no idea of what you are saying here although you appear to be criticising anyone who is proud of their nation, despite the challenges it faces.

I'm British and very proud of my country, depsite some of our more questionable actions in the past and present.

I'm sure most Chinese people are very proud of their country, despite the issues in the Tibetan province. Most Chinese (inclusive of Han, Zang, Hui, Zhuang etc) are incredibly pragmatic and appreciate why some things happen "behind closed doors". In many respects, media control avoids adverse propaganda which fuels this kind of internal terrorism we have seen on behalf of this minority of idiots rioting in the streets of Chinese cities and towns.

For most Chinese, being able to work, receive education, earn money and look after their facilities is ahead of the political issues in Tibet, and whether or not they have access to the news becomes irrelevant when you are over 1000 miles away living in peace and prosperity

Bob, Sheffield, UK

If Chinese Government has been blocking internet access in China,how can I read this discussion of The times?

Elton Zeng from Shanghai,China

Elton Zeng, shanghai, China

Zoe, Isle of Wight, Hampshire, Please YOU WAKE UP first. that's the freedom you meant right? Are those with pro-Bin Laden views able to post them on your country's media for free discussion? Stop being naive!!!

Yan, Jinan, China

We dont get paid to write. we are defending ourselves from western idiots who are just sore that the olympics got awarded to a country thats not yours or under your thumbs. also how do you believe a figure made up by a government IN EXILE? and i have noticed some startling inconsistencies with the deaths from chinese occupation. Ranging from thousands to millions. pretty strange considering how there were 1.2 million tibetans to start of with in the first place. we couldnt have killed million could we, considering how there still are tibetans

David, Weymouth, Dorset

some guys said the majority and the minority,and you must not come to China.You only know the number,but you don't know that the minority have the more rights and benefits.They have the excess allowance.
Come to here,and let your eyes tell you the truth.

fes, Beijing, China

To the pro-China brigade:

Thank you for contributing your views on the corruption and 'lies' of the Western media. Please note you have been allowed to discuss your feelings on said media for others to freely view and discuss. This is democracy and freedom of speech and opens the door to dialogue and better understanding.

However, my understanding is that the Chinese Government has been blocking internet access in China and preventing free discussion of the Tibet issue. Are those with pro-Tibetan views able to post them on Chinese media for free discussion?

WAKE UP!!!

Zoe, Isle of Wight, Hampshire

It is easy from the comfort of ones home to suggest a minorty group in China is disrupting the lives of the majority. Why doen't the majorty speak up? Maybe because the majority of Chinese ordinary people have been lied to consistently for decades even centuries by their rulers. GET REAL Whatever your personal beliefs NOBODY has the right to do what the Chinese authorities in Beijing are doing both to Tibetans, the other ethnic groupings, and true blood Chinese who collectively make up the country now known as China

Rose, Bradford

Rose Purple, Bradford,

ahhhhhhhhhhh, to Howard of Manchester, so its quite correct to supress a whole people, destroy their culture, outbreed the indigenous population, supress religous rights etc etc. its really not justified is it?? China is a bully, fact.

Philip, Oxford, England

amazing how a minority if idiots think they have the right to ruin something for 1.3 billion people

David, Weymouth, Dorset

Why is it that everytime someone responds to a pro-chinese comment it's "paid for by their brainwashing Commie Government"? Perhaps some people - shock horror - actually disagree with you.

But no, it's far easier to demonise the country.

Howard, Manchester,

Please ensure that the TIBET AND BURMA news remain in the fore front of your media highlights so that optimum pressure is exerted on CHINA.
THANKS

Tun, huddersfield,

Countries have always dominated others rightly or wrongly but it always ends in tears unless you rule for the benefit of the people you seek to control,communism isn't bad it's the people who run it that are bad, if you want to rule a country listen to it's people what harm would it do if the Chinese said fine worship Buddhism speak your language but we will control your economic growth etc...when you are too strict with your people you will always create resentment...

Simon Harrison, Nottingham, England

To all those people replyng from china, come on guys were not fools, how much are you getting paid to write, Its almost embarrassing.

Philip, Oxford, England

Whatever it is right or wrong in some west politicians's eyes,Iibet is a part of China in Chinese people's eyes. This statement is out of central government control.
I think if the westmedia insist real justice, they should to raise a poll about how much tibetans eager for go back the absolute lama time, and make sure how much Chinese will support the protesters.
IF, you don't want do the great program, and go on criticize China Central government, please comdemn 99% of Chinese and 98% tibetans!

dongshuang, beijing, china

Boycot the opening ceremony, not the games itself! Today our prime minister as a first european leader made a statement not ot come to the opening ceremony to show solidarity with Tibetan victims of communist regime of China. Congratulations!

Marek Poller, Krakow, Poland

The prejudice from the west root in your ignorance about non-western civilization, when tens of millions of Chinese student now learning English and other Latins, when millions of Chinese student study abroad, how many westerners can really mastery non-Latin language, can understand the history of Eastern, Arab, Africa, or even Latin America?
The hegemony of west media, in the long run, will hurt themselves which bring them ignorance and haughty. Today as long as any Chinese want, he can get abundance information and report about western word, but as to westerner, for lack of sufficient media cover (donot mention those report about China that always see from only one angle, always hackneyed, and full of western point of view ) , how hard of you to know china roundly in this century?

Andy Qiu, Wuxi, China

west media:
i respect the spirit of pursuing of freedom, and your religional tradition. but, you respect our willing of pursuing peace and development interactively, please!
all of you forgot the fact tibet is a absolute monarchy before 1959, and the there no any protesters in backward tibet.
tibetan should't and would't go back to be slavery times

dongshuang, beijing, china

TIME really make me know what is hypocrites and double standards. I express my opinion here but they did not it to be published. just because I criticize your hypocrites? REALLY SHAME YOUR SO CALLED "FREEDOM"!!!!

changsheng, Jinan, China

no violence! we need peace!

dongshuang, beijing, china

wellcome all of u guys come to China.Seeing is believing.No matter what is the truth, be calm and rational. The information you got and I got is all come from the media and goverment. Let the time prove what is the truth.

Be honest and don't tell ties is a basic moral guild line for humans."R Tanson, C'ville, VA, USA" said "Over 1 million of an original 6 million ethnic Tibetan have been exterminated since the 1950's. ",please prove that . Now the population of Tibetan is amost 7.5 million.How dare you say 80% of them were exterminated by our government?

arthur, Beijing, China

1.3 billion Chinese deserve to have an uninterupted Olympics. Those who suggest a boycott of the Beijing game are likely revealing their long-held prejudice against the Chinese people. The symathy for Dala Lama from some westerners is nothing but a way to relieve their own feeling of guilty of instigating the uprising in the early 1950's that led to the flee of Dala Lama. Some people are just too inclined to claim a moral higher ground over other people, only find later that how hypocritic themselves are. Unfortunatly, in this case, such an action to feel good may not serve the long-term interest of these hypocrites, nor the interest of the Tibetians. Look at what happend to the Iraqi people? Did many people support the invasion initially because they thought the US action will benefit the Iraqis? The world is complex, and should deal with with that complexity in mind.

Daniel, Boulder, CO

Time will tell us the truth about Tibei.
I will be back.

chai, WuHan, China

If the riot happened in your country, your friends and brethren were injured, the stores were fired,the banks were robbed, what would you say??? Please tell me why so many media in west ignored the victim???why so many media in west didnot condemn the mob??? Is it just the so-called "FREE"?

Lysino, Beijing, China

Boycott the Olympics! Ask former US President
Jimmy Carter about the results - not - of our boycott
of the Olympics.
Strictly 'feel good' nothing more.

I feel sorry for the people for the people of Tibet and
have since since China swooped down on Tibet years ago.

Also, I would dread to have to go through the 'education'
program that will be inflicted on the protesters.
Talk about being bored out of your skull. To me that
is a form of torture.

J erry Scriggin, Phoenix, Arizona/USA

"Accept the ground reality that every tibetan regardless of thier age & walks of life pledge thier loyalty to thier own leader the Dalai Lama"

This sounds pretty backward to me, like Europe medieval where everyone pledge their loyalty to the Pope.

Are we in the West supposed to promote "democracy" and "rule of law", _not_ theocracy. Why in the case of Iran and Middle East, we are so upset with their theocratic government, but in the case of Tibet, we are cheering on? Why do you fall so much in love with Dalai Lama? Is that because Richard Gere and other liberals love him?
Wait until he or his followers turn against the "Western Civilization". We are now making China in the mold of West, trying to push materialism in Tibet.

Aaron O'Brien, St. Paul, MN USA

Why are people giving so much credibility to a guy who claims to be reincarnated from the previous Dalai Lama? It is a fact that the monks turned violent and went on a rampage. This betrays Buddhism, betrays the Tibetan freedom movement, and violates law and order in any country. All the former colonial powers, with your past and on-going human rights abuses, please get down from your high horses, and face the fact that Tibet will never be free, even if the Tibetans resort to terrorist activities.

Plama, Temasek, Singapore

The Chinese government and people will not surrender to the terrorists. This is a critical moment for both China and the world. Dalai Lama should take full responsibility of the violence and apologize to the world. Such a shame many wish to use the Olympic Games as a tool to suppress China’s growth. Unfortunately the Chinese people will never allow this to happen.

Meng, London, UK

It would be a shame if American or European officials will take part in openning ceremony of Olympics. After all this Chinese Communist regime brutality.

gene, fremont, CA

I think it is all about proper control on your colonies. In example USA either escaped from GB control or gained control under Mexican territories. That is successful policy benchmark they now teach perspective countries to implement.

Alexey, Novosibirsk, Russia

The way I feel today is that there should be an Olympic boycot until there is a peaceful solution - I hope China starts to talk with honesty to the Dali Lama as he has consistantly asked for peaceful dialogue towards future progress. Hopefully over the next few weeks China will loose it's fears and start dialogue and we will again enjoy the true spirit of the Olympics

M Bailey, Birmingham , uk

Shame on China! Boycott Chinese goods as much as possible and boycott the Chinese Olympics. Tibetans deserve to have their country back. It was never really Chinese--read history, not China's propaganda.

The Chinese masses have no idea what's going on in their COLONIZED countryside; the only news they get is first approved by the Chinese Communist Party, a party that, to be accurate, should call itself the Chinese Capitalist Party. Money is the name of their game.

Kandroma , New York,

It seems to me that if you cause a riot, you ought to expect that the police will control it, even if that means the use of violence such as teargas, batons, etc.

That's the way they do it in Western countries. Why not in China?

Martin Morley, Townsville, Nebraska

Tibet will emerge out from the decades of dark age. long live the Dalai Lama.We shall overcome someday. Truth always prevails no matter how long it takes. Chinese ancient method of cruel and lie simply won't work. High time for China gracefully engage humanely with the Dalai Lama. Accept the ground reality that every tibetan regardless of thier age & walks of life pledge thier loyalty to thier own leader the Dalai Lama

jamphel, new york,

The Chinese have been responsible for a holocaust in Tibet to rival the Nazis. Over 1 million of an original 6 million ethnic Tibetan have been exterminated since the 1950's. The monasteries, Tibet's sets of learning and repositories for the complete canon of Buddhism, nearly 6,000 were raised to the grounds, the artifacts stolen by the Chinese. Now more Han Chinese occupy the Tibetan plateau than Tibetans, their land despoiled and used as dumping grounds for China's waste. After decades of concentration camps, rape and killing of monks and nuns, it is time to cut through the Chinese propaganda and speak truth to evil.

R Tanson, C'ville, VA, USA