Was most interested to read your blog on the New Zealand trade deal with China and the issue of Chinese repression in Tibet. I think you are right that there has to be trade with China, but not at any price, and certainly not at the price of soft-peddling or silence about repression in Tibet – and indeed other parts of China, notably in Xinjiang province.

Michael Randle

you might be interest in viewing this. This was shown on Sunday morning on New Zealand TV

Hope this works

http://www.youtube.com/watch v=CTIiy_VMUeY&feature=email

Best wishes and Tashi Delek

Thuten Kesang [kesang@pl.net]
New Zealand

The website link gives people an opportunity to send a message to President Hu Jintao urging restraint, respect for human rights, and dialogue with the Dalai Lama, and to send a message to Helen Clark urging more pressure on China to talk to the Dalai Lama – something she would appear to be reluctant to do herself.