CHINA IS a great country,we love deeply the
nation which the western country afraid of it's rising,TIBET should not be western country's tool of anti-CHINA,for such many population in China ,more and no limited freedom is terrible thing,maybe 50millions person had a lot of
unsatisfied thing every day ,they wanted to
protest in every city every day ,for 1.3billion people's country,strong power gov is ok for every thing which chinese economic success had certificated

linmingzong, beijing, China

Can some one tell me why Tibet want to separate form China?
Is there anything more important than territory's integrity?
What's their reason for separteing form it's mother land ?
Now in China more and more families have two children.
also Chinese can choose to have only one child.
I donot think one chlid is a bad policy .For our Chinese parents
will dedicate amost all his energy to bring up a child.
And our Chiese child is reward his parents with all their heart.
Nothing can be more precious than this deeply ,sincere ,love.
I'm so lucky to taste this love.For I'm only child in my family.And I love my parents I'll do all I can to make them have a good agedness period.

Cynthia, China,

Bravo to all those who have refused to part of the "obstacle race". It is nice to know that on this god foresaken earth, we still have human beings (even if they are a TINY minority.

Subramaniam, Paris,

Cricket is hardly even played in the USA, China and Russia, so it'll be a case of:

Sachin who?

Pete, Cov,

>a regime that has compulsory abortion after one child

Nonsense. China has many problems, and deserves criticism on many issues, but that simply isn't true.

Pete, China,

Yet another example of a country's domestic security forces doing dirty work for the Communist Part of China. And at what expense!? Won't some national leader have the political will to ban these thugs?

Shaun Smith, Toronto, Canada

If you understand China, please study the history of your country to know what have been done by your country in the past and now?

Justice, Beijing, China

I do not know why so many people enthusiastically relate the Olympics and the politics. The Torch does not only solely belong to China, but the IOC, and the whole world. To treat the torch like this is a humiliation to those people themselves.

I hope you can also read some reports from another side-not only those revealing the seemingly darkest side. Have you been to Tibet and learnt the story yourself? Can you really confirm that every word of the reports you have read are true? A pertinent comment can only be obtained and published once you've been there and witnessed circumstances. Be cautious for being overwhelmed by some one-sided news bombard!

Yes China differs from the West in values. But would you appreciate that countries have various conditions and traditions? eg. in the past when we were poor and the education level was low, women , especially women in rural areas used to raise so many children that the family could not raise them. Many children might starve to die.

Rach, Sichuan , China

If one just leave those children in that condition, would you say it is another violation? Now China is also re-considering this policy. As education is improved a lot , abortion has reduced.
You do not see the progress.

Personally, I am proud of our civilization, and always admiring British civilization. With a broader mind and more understanding to the culture, history and tradition of each other, I believe you will not be so adverse to China and the Beijing Olympics.

Rach, Sichuan , China

I am a Tibetan student studying in great NYC. My parents live in Tibet. I have lost contact with them since March 10 this year after the Tibetan freedom protests took out in Lhasa, Amdo and Kham of Tibet.
I wish China's heavy handed crackdown on Tibetans would stop soon and respect human rights. We all are human beings. Personally i am now struggling with my classes since March 10th. I think i am losing my mind or something. I can't concentrate on studies as i used to be.
Maybe this truamatic and humiliating condition i am in right now is one of the reasons why people in other groups take extreme measures to express themselves.
I am close to that and more and more i can empathize with their feelings. Why China with 1.3 billion people has to attack Tibetans with less than 6 million people? What they are afraid of?
If all these Chinese are behind their brutal govt, then I wouldn't need to distinguish civilians from millitary and evil govt officials in China when i express myself.

Jamphel, NYC,

George from Bolton - I would suggest that the answer to your question is that we (or rather, our Government on our behalf) deals with the Chinese regime because we believe that in doing so, our enlightenment will shower upon the 1bn plus Chinese, an economic prosperity and individual freedom long overdue and long deserved to a people of fine and impressive history. Plus, we quite like the cheap plastic toys they make and they outnumber us, so we should probably be nicer to them.

On the issue of human rights, though - fear not! We (or rather, our Government on our behalf) have re-balanced that particularly thorny equation by eroding our own human rights and liberties.

We're not so different after all. Soon, the policy to manage the over-population of our isles will be made clear once a memo on the true reasons for NHS' own poor state of health is revealed to be actively pursued as a means to thin our our top-heavy age distribution.

PB, London, UK

Wow!! Sachin Tendulkar. The top man in the top Indian sport. That should send a ripple. The IOC should reclaim the Olympics from the disgraceful political disfigurement of the Chinese Communist Party by cancelling this disastrous Torch Relay immediately.

Colin, Carmarthen, UK

Compulsory abortion after one child? Why don't people get their facts right before making these comments? Yes China has a one child policy. Couples with more than one child are subject to fines and the second child is not entitled to free education. Couples in rural areas can have a second child if the first one is a girl. Ethnic minorities (including Tibetans) can have up to 3 children and some can have as many as they like. Yes the system isn't perfect. Bearing in mind that the current population of China is 1.3billion, if they didn't have this system in place you would all be complaining about the chinese taking over the world.

Just so you know, China has the highest number of executions. However contrary to popular belief, it does not have the highest per capita rate.

Maybe you should read up on your Chinese-Tibet history to find out why China is in Tibet.

http://www.michaelparenti.org/Tibet.html

Ken Chung, Manchester, UK

Well done Tendulkar! Can someone remind me why China is in Tibet in the first place? Can someone remind me why we deal with a regime that has compulsory abortion after one child and has the highest rate of capital punishment in the world?

George, Bolton, England