Today Margot Wallström wrote a post about Tibet, China and the Games. This is my reply (added some formal corrections) which I posted to her blog.

It’s time to start asking China to become a really democratic country, this is the first point: freedom of thought (and so religion), freedom of speech and press, freedom of association and peaceful manifestation, freedom of choosing the government__just for citing the basics.

This is what the so called Western Countries must start asking to China. Chinese government said that you cannot make economic and democratic reforms at the same time, I do not believe to much in this principle but even if we admit it to be true, anyway there are already 300′000′000 Chinese as much rich as west Europeans or Americans are and for these people its time to have the freedom we already enjoy. If Chinese government fears to fall into chaos as happened to Russia during the 90s they can just start with limited democratic areas as they started with limited free trade areas in the 80s on the base of the intuition of Deng Xiao Ping.

About Tibet (and Xinjian and Inner Mongolia and Taiwan), the actual solution is an actual federation as USA are (and as EU is going to be) and this will be a natural consequence of a really democratic reform.

So this is what to ask to China and this is what a real democratic government (at any level: region, State or Union, both European or American) must ask, without fear.

About Olympic Games, if Western governments are trapped into fear, I am not: I will not follow this Games on TV or every other mass media, it’s my freedom and freedom has no price.