(See BBC news article http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/7744399.stm)

I can't quite get my head around the question whether the Dalai Lama is plainly naive or evilly manipulative. Reaching out to the ordinary Chinese, of which I am a part, is a nice idea, but keep lying to the world about the situation in Tibet, and the root cause of the troubles is not helping. If anyone is using "fear and ruthless suppression" - word the Dalai Lama used to describe the conduct of the Chinese government in Tibet - as a tactic, it is the Dalai Lama himself - by manipulating the fear of China among the western world and the exile Tibetan community, he is suppressing Chinese people's legitimate rights to peace inside the country and friendliness outside.

I am extremely disappointed with the British media. Had it spend a tenth of the resource it spends on over-exposing the darker side of China - which by the way is almost all that it "exposes" about China - on discovering the history of Tibet, the behavioural pattern of the Dalai Lama, the functioning - or dysfunctioning to be more precise - of the Tibetan government-in-exile, and the lives of Tibetans living in exile - with an objective eye - the world would be a much more just and much less depressing place for an ordinary Chinese like myself, who, in order not to upset my friends in the UK, need to put up with much of their well-articulated but ill-conceived view about my homeland.

China is almost living in a witch hunt era. Ideas that have not been thought through with consideration of China's national interest are presented to this young country all the time - expensive ballot boxes (or democracy as some might prefer),abrupt currency appreciation, giving power back to the Tibetan government in exile, more stringent labour law, to name a few. Like for those accused of being witches in the middle-ages, the choice for China is between being downed in premature - and often perilous - idea to prove its innocence, or being burnt alive. Take the labour law issue as an example. After China tightened its labour law regarding hiring, firing, working condition and wage requirements last year, jobs started to  shift to Indonesia, Myanmar, Vietnam, etc where labour laws are less stringent. Now, same number of worker work under poor conditions, but since Chinese workers become jobless, and Chinese economy suffers, everyone's happy - not the Chinese obviously, but to our media and politician friends in the West, that's kind of beside the point.

I do not oppose the idea that China needs to change - on fronts of human rights, political system, economic policy, etc. Changes, however, need to be constructive, well-thought through, and, most-importantly, mutually beneficial. Expecting hard working Chinese people to give jobs away to people in richer countries, or to accept money being squandered on ballot boxes, or to allow one of the country's autonomous regions to become a theocratic kingdom, sprawling its territory well into other provinces, and throw out all non-Tibetan residents in the mean time may not be completely absurd as some of them may sound, but there has to be a good enough reason that goes beyond ideological prejuduce and one-size-fit-all type ideoticity. For now, the Western media and its Barbie dolls - such as the 14th Dalai Lama - has a long way to go before even starting to winning my heart and mind.