I hate to make comment on this controversial argument, and we almost ended up fighting.

Politics are controversial, and there is no absolute right or wrong.

1.Most westerner believe China invaded Tibet in 1950s, and we know Tibet is always part of china back to the tang dynasty.

2.I still don't think most tibetans want to independence, and since china has liberated Tibet, we built railway, provided them education, health care, billions of dollar goes into tibet, and i do believe Tibetan appreciate our effort , we respect their culture and believe, and give them autonomy, and try to interfere with their inner politics as little as possible. I believe most tibetan do get well along with us,  and those 100 rioter, they dont represent anything, they are just used by Dailai to make such "protest" at the right time before olympic to pressure on China, and use "human right" as their excuse, to spread propaganda all over the world. No doubt most "protester" oversee are "paid", as one of protester for independence of tibet said in paris that he was paid 300 Euro. Shame on you.

If anyone would dare to make a survery or vote, to see if majority tibetan really want independence, the result could be surprising.

3.Human right is always a problem in CHina, but I wouldn't call it a problem. I don't think China the majority will be better off if they get their "human right". In the perspective of social economics view, the most efficient and fair political regime is dictatorship, given the dictator represents what most people wants. Democry is not socially efficient althought it may be socially desirable. I don't think the chinese will appreciate human right, and I think they will abuse it. If you are given the right to vote, you are supposed to be responsible for yourself and for the sociaty. If 300 Euro could change a person's political stand and belief, no wonder they will sell their 
human rights" are a tiny amount of money, and there will be more manipulation, and things will get more ugly. Chinese doesn't need and doesn't deserve human rights, so i think it is better to keep the way things are right now. 

4.there is really no point to argue, it only hurt the friendship. I and  my western friends get different information from different resources, and i believe as a Chinese I knows better about China than they do, and am more qualified to make comment, but still I would just shut up, otherwise they will think i am  ruthless, abusive, and unciviliazed just as their prejudice of chinese government.

5. lastly, I wish these rioter stop killing innocent people, and best luck to Beijing olympic 2008.

"Human Rights" is a political term, an excuse used to attack China. I found it it satirical, that today, there were french high school students protest, and the solider even used weapons e.g teargas in Paris. In France, a democratic country, this still happens, on these " innocent students" or "rioter" if you call them that way, People in paris has no right to protest? and there were 250,000 protesters across france, such big revoluntion!!! but medians just talked very briefly, then keep on talking the "human right abuse" in china. Shut up, we didn't even use teargas , and i am telling you, these rioter in tibet are much more violent than the student protesters in Paris. another fact is, CCTV4 has program on Tibet, and explain the truth of Tibet which is on the CBC too, but now some people go appealing to CBC and said CBC should suspend these program, come on, in a country with free speech, you don't want to see what you don't like to see? if this is a country with free speech and human rights, then we should have both voices, for and against. I am sorry, but those protesters are brain-washed the other way around and believe what they want to believe. How ironic! http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2006/03/17/wparis17.xml