Nancy Polosi you have done a couragous act. I applaud your leadership. Our present administration has done nothing;as usual. I suppose there no oil in Tibet. Destruction of Tibet and its Buddhist cultue is one of the greatest horrors commited by a big power against a small country. Destruction of Tibetian culture is a great loss to the world. China must get out of Tibet!

So Republicans want freedom for Iraqis, but not for Tibetans? Or has their irrational hatred of Nacy Pelosi blinded them to the reality of the situation? Bunch of hypocrites.

Pelosi thinks if she sticks her nose in everything that she might have a shot at becoming the president.. I just hope it is the president of the stupid of California.. and not the US..

Headline should be: "Pelosi looks for international photo-op". Here closer, in our hemisphere we have Colombia,an ally which has been fighting a narco-guerrilla movement for decades, which now receives millions in aid from Venezuela, and the Democrats give the cold shoulder to Uribe its president.

Pelosi needs to stop interfering in the politics of other countries and use her (elected) time to work on our own country's issues, of which there are sufficient number to keep her occupied 24/7 365 days a year

Hey leftandproud - Pelosi is (unfortunately) a Representative not a Senator. People might take you a bit more serious if you knew what you were talking about.

Moral authority? How arrogant! If you really care about the people in Tibet, help Dalai stop the violence. Oh you won't, because you just want more riots in China, in the name of "LIBERTY" ><

Im a Republican and I think we should take a STRONG stand against China if these Bastards are allowed to continue flexing their power without any response they will only think they can do what ever they want- wake up people they are our enemy and an enmey of all free people- our grand-children ill have to fight the Bastards someday-

Senator Pelosi is to be commended for not bowing to China's thuggish attempts to demonize the Dalai Lama. China's leaders seem unable to understand that no one outside of China will believe such silly lies. Funny, China thinks that outright lying is a diplomacy tool! Of course we have to add Bush/Cheney to that category as well.

Doesnt she have anything better to do than going to India and talk rubbish about independent Tibet? If she really cares so much about freedom of other people, why not call for the independence of Palestine or Northern Ireland or breaking up Spain, Belgium and a host of other western countries. Leave China alone. And for the record, I am not Chinese.

Such vile bile from the Pelosi haters. Relax. If you go back and actually read this article, you’d see this meeting with the Dalai Lama was set up prior to the protests in Tibet – there is no subversive plot to take over Republican diplomacy. Even your beloved George W. Bush recently met with the Dalai Lama, enraging China’s leadership. Freedom is so inconvenient.

i think all of you should learn the actual situation before your comment!
can you put up with the killers,rioter and arsonist? why the innocent were killed? your US is trying to protect the criminal instead of denoncing them?
for thousands of years,tibet is a part of China,as all can learn from history.
can the abruption be connived?

human rights is good for anyone!

Dalai Lama? Talking heads can't even spell. I had a Lama named Dollie. Best galfriend I ever had. Better than a sheep. I ain't sure what Karma is, but if Pelosi likes it, it can't be something I want. Is it some kind of douch or just the gay answer to the redneck bunny hop?
Sure seems to be a bunch of Cali libs here. Is this one of those gay web sites? Cool. Would love to swap pictures of me and Dollie with some of you limp wristed folks. Ya know something to hang in the outhouse right next to the picture of John K with his head bouncing off the front seat in Dallas. Toothless grin.

Hey Anna --
Mitch is talking about the Logan act -- signed in 1799, making it a felony for any citizen without the proper authority, to represent US policy abroad. "Fact finding" missions, like Charlie Wilson going to Afghanistan, are not the same as this. Had Wilson gone to the grand dirka-dirka of Afghanistan and claimed, "We will support you." He would have found himself in hot water, too. Pelosi needs to cut the grand-standing and focus on domestic issues... which is funny because I'm pretty sure that's written somewhere in her job description (ref. US Constitution)

Although, politically inconvenient and perhaps not well thought out, U.S. representatives have the right to meet with anyone they wished and provide an opinion. Unfortunately, our government is not standing unified in its overall position on China.

While Congress makes ill-timed and meaningless grandstand gestures, the entire G.W. Bush Administration has gone out of its way to accommodate Beijing and its Communist Regime... [something I also blame Clinton for] I'm certain Reagan wouldn't have done so much so.

Beijing has demanded the world remain quiet in its opinions and threats of condemnation for China's actions... Mainly because of its current economic might- which may not last long after this. In the East, it's all about putting on a front and keeping up appearances- something old school Britain is keenly aware of.

Beijing is modernizing its military and attacking the Western powers in cyberspace now. They're aiming to rival the U.S. and E.U. in space. They're bribing non-aligned nations to diplomatically isolate Taiwan as if it's a prelude to events similar to that just before the 1962 Sino-Indian War.

Tibet, [much like outer China], are not made up of cultures of indigenous Chinese [e.g. the Han]. China is held together by force more than anything under the Communist regime. Tibet would be willing to be incorporated into a federal republic with China proper- not subjegated under them.

Beijing is attempting to conduct 'cultural genocide' within its closed borders and pull in all of Asia under its dominion not to dissimilar to that of Imperial Japan of World War II. We would be wise to look deeper into the eyes of the dragon- unfortunately, both the Congress and the President are not that deep.

Hey anna --
Cause McCain is a SENATOR. He has the authority to represent the US, as it's his primary function as a SENATOR. You may want to consider boning up on your Constitution, before you start throwing out your 25 cent, bumper-sticker cliches.

Pelosi should stay home and do the job she was elected to. She's not qualified for this international grandstanding and she's going to create more problems for us at a time when we can hardly afford them.

Ask Tibetans if we should trust China

What do the Tibetan people and the American people have in common? They trusted China.

In 1950 the Chinese began an invasion of Tibet under the orders of Mao Tse-tung. The Tibetans were told they were free to govern themselves. The Chinese took nine years to build roads and occupy the country with Chinese soldiers. All resistance was crushed in 1959 and the Dalai Lama fled to India.

China today is still a totalitarian government that rules with an iron fist. There is no room in China for dissent and human rights violations are common.

Today you can’t go shopping without buying products made in China. In fact it seems that just about everything we buy is made in China. All the big box stores are a direct pipeline into your home from China.

Dollars, jobs and our economic independence are going, going and gone into the vast land of China.

Our government treats China like a good neighbor, but in fact it is not a democratic society, has no unions, uses slave labor, child labor, prison labor to make all that stuff and ships poison toys, food and drugs to the the United States.

Did you know that our government is run on credit from China?

Lots of American businessmen are makings billions from this relationship, but is our standard of living and quality of life improving?

Do you trust China? The Tibetans don’t trust China. They were fooled. Are we now going to be fooled?

Not finding Solutions is a lack of good intentions and imagination.

All this talk coming from the Dems on how they will cut back on spending and Pelosi is taking a vacation to Tibet on taxpayer dollars.Now we know why she wanted the biggest plane in the fleet when she took office.So she could take all her phoney Dem friends on vacation with her.Look out Slick Hilly,Slick Nancy wants to take your place as head liar and theif.