Away from a binary approach of the Tibet issue

Image by trexcali via FlickrHoward French opens in the International Herald Tribune fires at the simplifying of the Tibetan issue in many cases:

The onrush of Western sympathy for the cause of Tibet is well-intentioned but often naïve. The way the Tibet story has been reduced to a binary matter, almost literally of Tibetan saints and Han Chinese sinners, is problematic on many levels, not least because of hypocrisy implicit in the West's selective outrage.

I would differ on the comparison of Xinjiang and Tibet. Apart from the fact that both have to deal with Beijing, there are huge differences. Xinjiang has been actively colonized, as a method to stifle resistance. In Tibet it has been a silent economic change that has taken place, involving also many Han Chinese moving to the roof of the world, but not on order of the central government, as has happened in Xinjiang. Otherwise, much agreement with his way of looking at things.