Why are they so obsessed with Tibet?

What is the nature of the "question of Tibet"?

Answers vary. But for Xu Mingxu, author of What Happens at the Foot of the Snow-capped Mountain - The Whole Story of Tibet Riots, it is a conflict between the Dalai Lama with his clique, and the Chinese government. The Dalai Lama wants to split the Tibet autonomous region from the motherland, and the government will not allow that to happen.

Having worked as an editor in Tibet for more than three years, the author has not just traveled widely in the region, but also has had a lot of contact with Tibetans since most of them speak very good Putonghua. But to his surprise, what he read about Tibet in the United States was totally different from what he had actually seen and experienced in the region - as different as black is from white.