[Tibet lover]

The West has never stopped interfering in "Tibet and Xinjiang issues" ever since the founding of the People's Republic of China despite its overall positive relations with China after China's reform and opening-up. Under special condition, such interference could even suddenly be intensified, which caused the bilateral relations to stagnate and even retrograde within a certain period of time. It has not only made trouble to China but also done no less harm to the West.

Then why has the West been unwilling or unable to give up these acts harmful to both China and itself?

http://eng.tibet.cn/2012sy/xw/201402/t20140219_1973827.html

[Potemkin]

Then why has the West been unwilling or unable to give up these acts harmful to both China and itself?

Because Western policy is driven by public opinion, and public opinion is driven by Hollywood movie stars, among whom a vulgarised form of Buddhism is currently fashionable. These people support Tibetan independence because Tibet is (or rather was) a Buddhist theocracy, and because they know nothing about the actual history of either Tibet or China.

[benpenguin]

Because Western policy is driven by public opinion, and public opinion is driven by Hollywood movie stars, among whom a vulgarised form of Buddhism is currently fashionable. These people support Tibetan independence because Tibet is (or rather was) a Buddhist theocracy, and because they know nothing about the actual history of either Tibet or China.

Can't agree more!