What has happened in Tibet is completely misunderstood in the West.
China is a complex society with many ethnic groups.
The attack of one ethnic group on the local Han Chinese certainly required a response. There is no evidence that China over-reacted.
Minority ethnicities in other parts of China would certainly study how the matter was handled, and fears of separatist movements are always in the minds of China's leaders.
On the other hand, Han Chinese all over the country put pressure on the government for a firm response.
Chinese living abroad, often Cantonese-speaking, jump on every action of the government to say "I told you so!"
They in turn influence the comments of Western governments.
But no one from the United States has any business exercising judgment here.
Not from a country where the National Guard, many times and in a number of cities, shot people down in the streets by the score. Detroit 1967 was only the biggest.
Not from a country where the FBI used tanks and ended by having a group of religious kooks incinerated.
And not from a country that has created a blood-bath in Iraq.
But nothing ever stops self-righteous America from telling others how to do things.
Look at those idiots Spielberg and Farrow blaming China for what goes on in Darfur. It's like a black joke.
They are apparently unaware their own country is the biggest arms merchant in the world as well as the busiest nation on earth intervening in the affairs of other countries, toppling governments and bombing somewhere every couple of years.
