Yale Daily News

There are plenty of for Tibet and against Tibet info on the web. Judge objectively for yourselves.

Hahaha. I spilled my coffee over my keyboard. This is the funniest piece I've read in weeks. Great satire!

Pelosi talking about moral authority - pray tell us why you have let the biggest mass murderer of the 21st century(Dubya) off the hook when he continues lying, fear-mongering, torturing and destroying America's international image.

The US has killed a million Iraqis just to steal their oil, has made refugees out of over two million of them and now has the guts to tell the world that China is the problem.

A year or two from now, the US will be synonymous with false-flag terrorism, genocide, illegal wars and resource theft.

Get a second citizenship if you're smart!

Google "patriots question 9/11" so you can start understand the fire that is beginning to ignite old glory.

Thanks for a good one. Glad somebody at Yale still cares.

@ Jose:

Ever heard of Mao Zedong? Try to keep your rant in perspective.

@ No way Jose

Ever hear about Prescott Bush, our president's grandfather, being indicted for bankrolling Nazi Germany?

While I agree that Tibet deserves at least the moderate autonomy sought by the Dalai Lama, it would send entirely the wrong message if either the United States or the President of Yale chose to apply pressure to China because of this riot. As it happens, The Economist had been granted a press pass to Lhasa for the week of the riots, and it was strangely not revoked when they broke out. The correspondent reports that the Tibetans burned nearly every Han-owned shop in Lhasa, destroying the livelihoods and in several cases the lives (the correspondent supported the government reported figure of at least 13 Chinese civilian deaths) of innocent Chinese civilians. The Chinese crackdown (due largely to the increased media scrutiny occasioned by the Beijing Olympics) has been more moderate than it has in the past. If we take this occasion to apply pressure we tell the Tibetans that violence against civilians is the best way to win international sympathy and the Chinese government that a relaxing of oppressive measures will garner even more international outrage, so why not just apply full force. Yale should support the Dalai Lama's message of moderate Tibetan autonomy achieved through nonviolent means, and it should denounce any instances of unwarranted violence by both the Chinese authorities and the Tibetan rioters.

I really disagree with the idea that it is Yale's job to tell the Chinese government how to run their own country. I'm sure that Nancy Pelosi wouldn't appreciate it if the presidents of Tsinghua and Beida started giving her daily policy recommendations on how to appease her union constituency.

Oh boy. People in civilized world tend to pretend they know everything and have the "moral authority" to interpret everything in their settings for their purposes. Keep lecturing. Keep whining. Way to go.

thank you for your article. doubt your president will "speak out" for us but your article means a lot for us to know that there are people who still care.