I am intigued by the Free Tibet movement. It is typical liberal feel good activism! After not seeing the bumper sticker for many years, I actually saw one last week. After all this time, Tibet is not free. There is no plan, only rhetoric. If George Bush said, "Free Tibet," it would happen inside of a year. The liberals worry about Tibet but 300,000 victims in Iraq mean (meant) nothing to them. The loony left talks and talks but does absolutely nothing!
It is going to drive the Western Left mad. (I'm ethnically Chinese BTW) On the one hand you have the biggest hopeful fighting Uncle Sam on your behalf, but on the other hand, their domestic message of economic developments, the famous words of Deng Xiaoping like "To be rich is to be glorious", and intense nationalist unity would have driven them off.
They would be even more embarrassed if the "Occidentalists" in universities start the logical extension that Chinese have a legitimate grievance against the West over their imperialist motive in supporting Tibetan independence (regardless to say, it is the right view and that Tibetans including Dalai Lama only want autonomy and not independence). In this case hell would break loose and I await the day when Noam Chomsky come out and say he supports Chinese national unity and Tibet in China.