As I write this I must emphasise that I am an individual and not the official spokesman for the London chamber group. This is surely based upon my observations of the world and the problems that are now facing Tibet and China.

Many people are not aware that China's population is about one quarter Tibetan, the Dalai Lama himself was born in China and had to be very discreetly taken across the border into Tibet as a young man be confirmed as the reincarnation of previous Dalai Lama. Increasingly in the West under the influence of the so-called superpowers responds to all situations has been one of policing, which basically means sending our young soldiers in to shoot and in many cases be shot at. The consequence of this so-called police action has been deaths on all sides. I do see a logic in not buying Chinese goods and as expression goes voting with one's wallet I think that actively engaged the Chinese in rhetoric and accusation is probably one of the most negative things that our society can achieve, Chinese culture and view of the world is radically different to our own. We must not forget that the Chinese government does not represent the views of the Chinese people, the government is elected a group of highly politically motivated elite who in turn had been elected by the politically motivated. There is no mass democracy as we understand it in China, the human rights abuses that we are now seeing sadly have been going on for many years. It's just the West's interest in Tibet, who they very sadly let down 50 years ago, has brought this reign of terror and abuse that mass consciousness.

So its check the labels time and do not purchase Chinese goods with the hope that financial pressure that it places on Chinese manufacturing will actually make this group of diehard communists acknowledge the view of the population.