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Fair enough. Though I have been to tibet (immediately before the attempted uprising) and have seen first-hand the effect of the chinese immigration policy. I've read a little, and talked to tibetans about some of the issues. Almost all of the Han chinese in tibet are from extremely poor villages in rural china. They are given a large grant to resettle in tibet. Today more than 75% of Lhasa is Han chinese. The difference between the chinese section and the tibetan quarter of Lhasa is incredible, like night and day.
whilst it's true that few of us in the west (including myself) are knowledgable enought to know what's best for tibet, this question is the wrong question to be asking. What we should be asking is why have Tibetans not been able to decide what is best for Tibet. It's my understanding that the purpose of this ride is to highlight the fact that peaceful tibetan buddhist monks have been locked up and tortured / killed for asking this very question.
Right now they can't ask, and we choose not to. Dark times.