[04.September 2010] Sydney Morning Herald

Thirty years have passed since the reformist Communist Party general secretary Hu Yaobang - the most important mentor of the present party boss, Hu Jintao - climbed to the roof of the Dalai Lama’s Potala Palace, looked out at lavish government buildings in poverty-stricken Lhasa and resolved to turn his government’s hardline policies upside down.

In the nearly three decades since Hu Yaobang’s extraordinary mea culpa, and 21 years since his death, Tibetan living standards have improved but the political situation remains at crisis point. Read more