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...Today's China may well understand that 1989 was a long time ago. In those days Beijing could literally pull the plug on CNN and Dan Rather. No longer. Security forces have been working overtime to limit the reporting of the scattered Tibetan protests - preventing foreign journalists from entering Lhasa and other protest-hit areas and even, according to one report, seizing the cameras of tourists. But the efforts have had only mixed success. While their authenticity could not be verified, gruesome photos of Tibetans apparently shot in Aba prefecture in Sichuan province were circulating on the Internet...
...amount of academic protest, many professors argued, would have made a difference...
...Once you know what’s going on, it’ll be easier to find out how you can help, whether you can help, or whether you should step back and protest...
...Just how close the two have become can be seen in Nepal's reaction to the flare-up in Tibet. Nepal is home to a sizable Tibetan exile community. Officially, Tibetans are not allowed to organize politically in Nepal or air their anti-China grievances. A series of peaceful protests outside the Chinese embassy and at a United Nations building in Kathmandu over the past week have been broken up, sometimes brutally, by Nepalese police. Activists and journalists claim that, during the embassy protest on March 15, Chinese officials directed the police and also took photos of protestors...
China has every right to negotiate and make deals with foreign governments, of course. Mountaineers may protest, but China and Nepal are also within their rights to take such a decision. But it is probably time for Beijing to stop pretending that it doesn't interfere in other countries affairs. With power comes recognizing your own influence, not denying...