Here are two perspectives on recent events in Tîbet:
On the China Matters blog:
Amidst the horrific violence of the last few days, somebody’s been working overtime to marginalize the Dålai Låma and undercut him as the leader of the worldwide Tîbetan movement.
Not just the Chinese.
This long post looks at the increasing militancy of the exile movement the Tîbetan Youth Congress and its president Tséwang Rîgzin, and how this will effect the situation in the Himalayan former kingdom. There’s another informative post on the same blog called Tibetan Intifada that examines why the world may come to regard “direct action in Tibet as a Buddhist intifada led by confrontational hotheads, with monasteries and nunneries filling the role of extremist madrassahs”. The blog is on Blogspot, which is blocked in China.
China and India: Oh to be different
An opinion piece by The Hindu‘s Beijing correspondent Pallavi Aiyar contrasting China’s economic achievements with her native India’s political achievements.
Update: There is another blog post displaying alternative views on the subject, with plenty of links and sources at Moon of Alabama. Excerpt:
The current protests by Tibetian exiles and in Tibet are at least partly financed with U.S. government money and have similarities with the color revolutions. Unlike those they are likely to fail. The Indian government stopped the exile-march and the Chinese will make sure that any protest in Tibet will be supresses.
Found via a comment on Peking Duck.