This Line is Busy...

There is was too much going on with the protests in Tibet and I haven't been able to really keep up with all of it. Basically I have been totally swamped in the lab trying to get my curent love-child off to the presses. Spiegel had a nice piece about the protests and the Chinese reaction, stating that the only way to settle the disaster is to make concessions for the Dalai Lama to return to Tibet. When I hear the Dalai Lama speak here in Germany last year he made the point of how many Chinese are not settled in the so-called Tibetan Autonomous Region, a point that was echoed by the Spiegel piece. It is clear that China has no interest in diplomacy in the issue and one can only hope that further boycotts of their coveted Olympic games has some impact on the admin. In the end it is a blessing that Toronto lost the bid for the games to Beijing. Not only because the games would bring more trouble than good to Toronto but because they will likely do just that for China.