Jim，

How do you know that we don't?! Just cos we have different ideas with your guys?! So why don't you think of those Han Chinese in Tibet, who suffered from the "freedom, human rights" issue supported by you?!

Megan, Beijing, China

What irony ! Mandy of New Zealand writes, "Blind Chinese - your country INVADED Tibet 50 years ago - so so your protestations of "our country" is a FARCE indeed." So invaded and took over New Zealand, Mandy? When was that? Your ancestors, hey? few hundred years ago? does that make a difference?

Pete, Stockport, UK

Oh yes the CCP must be shaking in their bots now! NOT ! congrats protester rats. youve achieved nothing! Why should my government give in to you people? Tibetans are exempt from taxes and one child rule. Their children have the requirements for university lowered. Talk about ingratitude

David, Weyymouth, UK

Most of the people who are talking about China being a brutal dicatorship have never been there. I think China gets way too much bad press. The media seems to jump onto anything to criticise China. People should resepct the laws of the countries that they are in, even if they dont agree with them.

mark, dublin, Ireland

Anyone else see the irony in 'CCTV' being the government's mouthpiece? Come on Chinese people take a more critical stance towards your government, you know you want to!

Tim O'Toole, London, UK

Hm should Chinese in 2012 raise banners in the likes of ''Apologise for British Imperialism'', ''Compensate Billions to Millions For Imperialism'', ''Free Scotland'', ''Free Ireland'', ''Trial of British for Iraq War Crimes'' ? I think yes!!!

andreas andreou, Nottingham,

What a load of rubbish !

Who cares about their little protest, it's not going to change anything so what's the point ?

John, Preston,

White interventionists, as usual fanning the flames of ethnic and religious tensions in a situation they are largely ignorant about.

I do not admire those who put other people's lives at risk, from their secure comfortable places in rich developed countries.

yin, Sydney,

okey,Dalai Lama just incited his people to kill the innocent residents in Tibet, set fire to dozens of building,destroied the historical relique just for the freedom of his so-called people .And our goverment did not have the right to stop it ?

Hendry, Shanghai, china

FREE TIBET - keep the protests going wherever and whenever !!!! This is one of the reasons I am refusing to watch the Olympics on TV or listen to it on the radio !!!!!

ian payne, walsall,

Foreiners who plan to enjoy the Olympic Games in China are welcomed. Not who'd like to bother the peace and harmony.
If the similar thing was done in America or UK, will the government indulge?

Bessy, Shanghai, China

All the Chinese posters on this site seem to either work for the Chinese government or else have swallowed the garbage propagated in the CCTV building

GL, Cape Town , South Africa

Blind Chinese - your country INVADED Tibet 50 years ago - so so your protestations of "our country" is a FARCE indeed.

Mandy Halse, Whangarei, New Zealand

Do we question our own government? Yes, every day, read it in the papers!! Can Wales become independent freely? Most likely, Scotland succeeded, with no blood (in recent times). China needs to change, faster then it is. Stop being the bully over people that want freedom!!

Rob, Cambridge,

How do you find the truth, only from the Times?

Jane, WUXI, China

i am very angry after hearing what happened during olympic games. i think those people who claim "free tibet" are very ignorant and ridiculous. i advise them to read chinese history and they will discover Dalai Lama's mask of benevolence and the real man was revealed.

Sunny, Chongqing, China

i do not think the tibet people can not get the free under the rule of chinese governance. i saw that the old rules in tibet have had given the tibetans too much pain. i really hope our county is a whole ,not separate.

yuanwu, hangzhou, chinese mainland

Tibet is Country it self is NOT a part of China, as Lituania, Letonia and Estonia never were part of Russia.
We have to remember and resolve as a global comunity all situations like that, araound the world.

Eduardo Breton, Tlaxcala, Mexico

'Losing face' is important to the Chinese and so they are sensitive about it, sure. But protestors will be deported if they are foreign; jailed and re-educated if they are domestic. The repression will continue.

Solution: stop buying Chinese goods. Nothing like the old hip-pocket nerve.

Duncan, Melbourne, Australia

People always stick with their stupid idea without realizing their ignorance. Maybe it is not polite, but i have to say do some objective research before doing anything stupid or mind your own business

Yin, Beijing, China

i am sorry what had happened.i know there are some inadequacies about Democracy in china,but you must relise that our chinese party are doning their best to make china better.
good luck ,china,good luck,olympic.

tang yuan, xiaogan, china

I don't know Why Western media showed much interests in Tibet issues from China.If the Wales people want to seek independence,i don't think Times showed interests.It's possilbe to make this issue as headlines.

simon shun, Dongguan, China

Megan and Zhou,

Do you find it weird that you never question your government and every other country does?

Jim , Taipei , TAIWAN

'repressive rule in Tibet, rights abuses and religious restrictions':
1.Tibetans don't need to pay tax.2.extra score for the university entrance exam in China.3 dont need to obey the one-child policy.
If these are 'rights abuses and repressive rule',give them to me. Enough to change my life.

Ran, York, UK

maybe the protectors are trying to help Tibetans. However, in the meanwhile, they are putting the rest of Han Chinese in danger and making more people losing their peace, properties, and even life. As Americans, to be the real terriorism, instead of the international policemen.

Megan, Beijing, China

Please respect others when you want to get the respect from others,foreign friends!
It is necessary for everyone of us to bey the country’s law where you lived in.

Zhou Chenfei, Beijing, China

Excellent! Well done! This is a brutal dictatorship that has made (as we can now all see) its citizens into robots mouthing platitudes.

Martyn, London ,