(Xinhua)
Updated: 2008-04-11 21:35

There are no more serfs in Tibet, the article said, and the Buddhist monasteries have lost any interest in robbing people as they get enough money from tourists, develop traditional crafts and enjoying subsidies from the regional and central authorities, the article said.

Some westerners tried to become "holier than the Pope" and linked politics to the Beijing Olympics. Regretfully, the Chairman of the European Parliament Hans-Gert Pottering shares the opinion of boycotting the games with some Hollywood stars.

Nancy Pelosi, speaker of the US House of Representatives, was even cynical while commenting on the situation in Tibet. Indeed, before delivering her speech, she could have remembered the results of the US invasion in Iraq in 2003 and the number of victims among Iraqi civilians.

"It is clear that the recent unrest in Tibet was directed from abroad," the article noted.

It also was not by chance that US President George W. Bush had talks with the Dalai Lama during the 17th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, and the March riots were organized exactly during the first session of 11th National People's Congress.

The article said political performances never brought any positive results and caused only annoyance among those who had at least a rough idea of the real state of affairs.

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