Free Tibet. FREE TIBET. Popular cause celeb right now but lunch today with my Chinese colleagues gave me a different slant on the whole debacle. Of course oppression of nations, countries and people is A Bad Thing but there seems to be a lot of attention, nay obsession, about this issue. Kashmir anyone? No, not sexy enough thanks. Georgia? Ukraine? Northern Ireland? Anyone? Nope let’s just dwell on China China China Olympic Year all the time. Is the Western Press trying to say China is bad by any chance? One of my colleagues on a visit to Hong Kong noted that the western press were carrying shots also of Nepal in their stories. Tibet is a mess, of course it is, but so are many, many other situations but I guess Ukraine won’t get Richard Gere in a T-Shirt. It’s all bollocks. Free Tibet yes but Free Georgia and Iraq as well.