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A reaction to ideological pressure

However, they now find that they had been too naive to think that way. Some people in the West seem not too pleased with anything to do with the People's Republic of China. They always try to find fault with goods from China; they raise various issues to boycott the Beijing Olympic Games; they ignore the facts to denounce the Chinese government's move to stop violence in Lhasa.

They forget that the former Tibetan local government, as represented by the Dalai clique, was an extremely cruel regime that would gouge the eyes out of slaves, or skin them to make human-skin handicrafts. Yet the Western politicians regard the Dalai Lama and his followers as fighters for democracy.

They forget that the rioters in Lhasa beat and killed innocent people, set fire to houses, looted shops, and that unarmed policemen tried to stop the violence. But some Western politicians insist that the Chinese government had used armed forces to suppress "peaceful protesters".

Why was this denial of facts? Why the barefaced lies? Chinese people do not understand why some Western politicians are always so hard on China. The Chinese people are puzzled and angered.

A Western columnist (and a former politician) provides an answer. In an issue of The Sunday Times, Michael Portillo wrote an article titled "Tibet: the West can use the Olympics as a weapon against Beijing." The article parallels China with Nazi Germany at the time of the Berlin Olympic Games in 1936 and takes delight in talking about a boycott of the Beijing Games.