Tibet, Taiwan, and Nancy Pelosi

Nancy Pelosi and a high powered delegation from the US house of representative met with the Dalai Lama in his aerie in the Indian Himalayas. Her mere presence there is a jolt to the Chinese government even though they feign to ignore it and treat her with the gutter language which is endemic in the official press to those unfriendly towards China. Beijing is not stupid enough to ignore that a new wind is blowing in Washington and that a Democratic president with a Democratic Congress spell business done a little differently than under Herr Bush's inept and syncophantic courting of the grey beards in Beijing. China's harsh and brutal repression of Tibet and Tibetans in other provinces simply show the ugly face of China's dictatorial rule. Beijing won't live up to its own constitution which guarantee its citizens and minority people 'democratic rights' which the central government never observes but when it suits the Communist Party. Even its hand picked Panchen Lama refuses to condemn the Dalai Lama lest he lose any credability he might have as a Chinese puppet among his own people. Pelosi's visit it is hoped with embarass Herr Bush so that he won't turn up as promised at the summer Olympics in Beijing.
Tibet has cast a long shadow on elections in Taiwan. Will it send back to power the current government which tilts towards autonomy or even full independence in Taiwan? Will it favour the yea votes in the referendum calling on the government to be seated in the UN's as Taiwan? If so will Beijing show the island with missiles? Will the US send in the sixth fleet to stay its bloody hand?
China is caught in the net of its own politics and what's more the country is bleeding badly from the very weak and weakening dollar and the collapse in world markets, even though the factories in China are foreign dominated for sagging foreign markets and abstinence in foreign buying power.
China is reeling...but like most bullies...who never cry 'Uncle!', they think only in terms of military solutions which will bring in the end the house of China's Communist party crashing down on its own head. China has much to lose by treating shabbily Tibet. Now Obama has thrown his two cents into the debate--he's willing to go to Beijing to negotiate a settlement between the Dalai Lama and the
Communists. That has to stick in the caw of the Beijing tryants. What were they thinking...the whole smiling face to the world is now one of extreme anger and blind range.