But...but...but...the Bush administration gave the Chinese a squeaky clean human rights rating so we could all go to Beijing for the Olympics!

Surely, the Bush administration knows!

Yeah...my brother studied in China about 2 decades back...horror stories of him and his Polish wife (then fiance) trying to get out of China together, and the British refusing to let them come out together through Hong Kong. So it was overland, a really incredible life journey that is the stuff of film legends, really.

Out surreptiously overland they went, through Nepal, stranded in Kathmandu for six months, sicker than dogs with all sorts of funky shit, and dodging the Hindu/Buddhist divide and many worthy sons of worthy fathers, trying to 'find their way home' as Steve Winwood sang...

Between Nepal, Tibet & China there are no guiltless or guileless.