Karan ponders on what India should do:

The Tibet issue is bound to remain in the headlines given the scrutiny the world has thrown on every aspect of Chinese existence. From levels of pollution, to dealing with dictators in Africa, to poisoned toys being exported, the lack of free speech and media and their crackdown on religious freedoms are all issues that have gained increased space in the public domain in the past year. The Chinese have been quick to dismiss all such claims as Western propaganda and biased international press coverage. The Olympics in August this year will only ensure that the Chinese have to adopt a twin pronged approach.

Sudarshan has a suggestion on what India can do:

Come on, India. We need to support the Tibetans in their quest for freedom. The easiest thing India can do is make a statement by boycotting the Olympics. It is a win-win situation because anyway even if we went would hardly trouble the scorers and finish 22nd out of 21 competitors in most sports. Give the athletes and officials (sometimes we have sent an equal number of officials and athletes) who want to go 15 free lunches to chinese restaurants and a four year supply of fortune cookies. Thus solidarity with the movement and saving ourself from ignominy can become bedfellows.

Liju Philip thinks China is losing the Tibet plot:

Isnt life ironical? After decades of formenting trouble in Kashmir and other parts of India, Pakistan is in deep trouble with their own jehadi brothers bombing the hell out of Pakistan daily. China for decades supplied nuclear technology and weapons to Pakistan to contain and needle India. China never wanted a stable India as it never wanted to see India as any sort of economic, political or military rival to itself in Asia.

Today, China is rocked by riots in Tibet, in the muslim dominated area of Xinjiang, political heat emanating from Taiwan and daily riots by people displaced by growing wealth disparity.

Abhinandan Mishra seems to think the world has lost the Tibet plot:

When it comes to the Third World countries, there are many laws and norms that govern their conduct. But when the greater countries are in question, then the same laws are thrown out of the window. Earlier it was the US who shocked the world community by ignoring the United Nations’ call for not attacking Iraq and now it’s China. The world community too has done its bit by rewarding China with the opportunity to host the Olympics so as to show gratitude to China for its effort in strengthening peace and restraint.

We have the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) and we have the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR) but history has time and again proved that these for the weak and not for the powerful.

Thejas HK finds the Hindu has gone overboard ‘ censoring, blacking out, polishing and giving a spin to everything’, as anticipated by many, perhaps:

Contributing factor number one has been the ridiculous reverence of all things communist: The one-sided coverage of the killings in Nandigram, which even the readers’ editor K. Narayanan noticed; the exaggerated coverage of the affairs of the CPI(M) and AIDWA despite the magnitude of their influence in society; the flip-flop on the nuclear deal.[...] But it is the national paper’s coverage of matters concerning China—be it its claim over Arunachal Pradesh or the uprising of Tibetans in Lhasa last week—that is deeply troubling, and has well and truly turned me off.

Sridhar Kondoji goes overboard with extreme assumptions:

This could have far reaching implications for China, India and Tibet. China is already under radar for its mishandling of Tibet protests and may be under pressure to handle it with patience. Tibet may win some sympathy as a result, but India will be blamed for allegedly allowing incursions into Tibet. The worst thing that could happen is bombing of Tibet’s Government in Exile (which is India). If that happens which will be a highly irresponsible act, war may break out and markets may collapse in Asia especially in China and India.