Tibet now closed to foreigners

[CantikFotos]

Just saw this in the Taipei Times:

China has closed Tibet to foreigners ahead of the 90th anniversary of the Chinese Communist Party on July 1, travel agents said yesterday.

“It’s a new rule because of the 90th anniversary celebration,” a travel agent at a major Western hotel in Tibet’s capital, Lhasa, said, requesting anonymity. “Even with a tour group, foreigners cannot come.”

http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/worl.../17/2003506010

[Richard M. Coda]

Is it because of that Aussie journalist and the pizza joke? ;^)

[Michael Wynd]

At least it was Carl and not Kochie from the Australian Sunrise program. His jokes are even worse.
Mike

[RJC]

It should have been something like "Make me one with everything but leave out the Chinese mushrooms" ...

[Drew Wiley]

Just talked to a buddie who had a long-awaited photo trip cancelled. It's simply a matter of safety. Protests in both both Tibet and neighboring provinces are getting more heated, and this is predictable spark to a particularly nasty one.

[Steven Tribe]

The "foreigners" don't include the Chinese themselves, I suppose?

[Drew Wiley]

The Chinese might themselves be more regulated than outside visitors. That last thing
they want is some kind of incident happening or someone recording a heavy-handed
presence of the Chinese miliatary and this getting widely circulated by either Chinese or Tibetan dissidents. The Han Chinese and the Tibetans have been at war off and on for centuries, and it hasn't always been the Chinese who have been on top in overlapping districts. They don't forget their history every fifteen minutes like we do.

[Songyun]

Ha... finally my passport is useful... I am taking the train to Tibet tomorrow, will shoot some ULF (maybe in wet plate) in Tibet.

[FlashThat]

Oh! Do they think foreigners cause trouble in their place? Good Luck Songyun. Hope you could get good captures and share with us here.