It Could Happen To You

By Anonymous, of Guangzhou, China

I am Italian. I live and work in China. All the news about Tibet is blocked and filtered out, including YouTube. People here are blind.

No one has any interest in politics: This is the way China is; this is not freedom.

Taiwan is one of the most free countries on this planet, according to its Freedom House ranking -- more free than my own nation. In Taiwan, news is not censored and people have the freedom to hold different opinions.

I really hope and wish that before the coming election, Taiwanese realize what Taiwan would become if it moved closer to China.

I really hope Taiwanese will wake up and choose the party farthest from Chinese ideology, because what is happening in Lhasa could one day happen in Taipei, too.

For years, Beijing has been sending hundreds and hundreds of Chinese people to Tibet in order to make Tibetans a minority in their own land. In my country we call this ethnic cleansing and one day that could happen in Taiwan, too.

Identity is very important. Where we're from and who we are -- don't let that ever be erased, because our identity is our DNA. It is all we are about.

People here in China have no identity, no rights and no hope -- just some stupid TV programs to brainwash them.