I don’t know why China is blamed when the monks started this round.
Their leader talks about peaceful means, but that should include speeches at the UN and not mobs in the streets.
Do you feel the same way about the recent abortive “Saffron Revolution” in Burma/Myanmar?
Leaders don’t always have total control over what their followers, supporters, or sympathizers say or do. What can the Dalai Lama really do to stop mobs from doing what they want to? He can’t physically stop them- he’s not there. He can tell them that he doesn’t like what they’re doing, and even threaten to step down if they don’t stop (as he did), and that what they’re doing goes against the principles of Tibetan Buddhism, but that’s not always enough to stop a riot.
Now I’m imagining them invading the Vatican by having a Running of the Bulls through it (though I suppose the Spanish would be more likely than the Italians to do that)…
I guess they could have some of the crazier Roman drivers go through. That would be frightening.
There is nobody currently in a position to show either mercy or firmness to the ChiCom regime, so your hope is irrelevant.