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I am probably not the most informed nor adapt person to talk about this, but living in China at the moment I seriously want to spend a few lines on this. The tibetan disorders of the past few days have, once again, put China and Tibet under the international spotlight. People are now debating about boycotting the Olyimpics, that same people that in Italy, a few months back, even refused to meet the Dalai Lama during his visit. The same old tired bullshit from the same old rascal politicians that doesn’t surprise nor impress me. And now they talk about boycotting the Games just because the fire of protest is getting closer and closer to their fat asses… this is just utterly revolting.

I am living in China and, as a resident, what I can say is: information is seriously crypted, hidden and nobody wants to raise an eyebrow about all this. To the Chinese, Tibet is and will always be part of China, and no more questioning about this. The riottous tibetans are just seen as the same old deviant cells of many protests, past or present, happened everywhere in the world. Nothing new, nothing less. What is also clear is that Tibet is not the same as it used to be; in my recent trip to Zhongdian, one of the tibetans town of Northern Yunnan Province, I saw young monks eating chips and wearing Nike shoes strolling around the temples. I don’t want to raise an issue, but I want to express my point of view: Beijing says the victims have been just 13, and killed in the demonstrants’ outbursts of rage, while Dharamshala says the number of victims already reached the double zeros of a hundred, maybe more… where is the truth?? It’s hard to tell in a country where, starting sunday 15th of march, YouTube has been obscured to prevent the Chinese from getting visual information about the facts. We are still left with proxy servers to try to jump the firewall, but can we call this freedom? Can we call this a modern, up to the times society where those Games should be held in a totally unreal climate of global friendship and mutual collaboration? I say, please get real. It’s not just about Tibet and their effort to bring the world’s eyes on their cause again, this is about a governemnet that can do whatever it wants because too many nations are investing their bloody bucks to make an even more bloody profit. Well, this money smells like blood, riot and lies. Please consider this when you hear about China. This is not a joke, people here don’t really know what this is all about… freedom of expression is not allowed here, never has, and probably never will if what I read from the various international magazines keep on being carried on. They just carry on the lies. Boycotting or not, this is not the issue, is like a game between kids that want to segregate somebody else just because it’s not cool enough. No one will ever boycott, this is my idea, too much money has been already spent, and too many people just don’t care about Tibet, or any other place with such enormous problems. Sadly, this is the real world, and this is China. Enough said.   

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