受昭君的启发，我也给地方报纸写了一封读者来信。

Dear Editor,
There have been quite a lot of headlines lately around Beijing Olympics and Pro-Tibet Olympic torch relay turbulence.
I would like to commend your article this past Sunday titled: \"PROTESTS OVER TIBET - When politics, Olympics collide
Demonstrations are forbidden but can be subject to interpretation\" by STEPHEN WADE. This article explained clearly the Olympic history and the Rule 51.3 of the Olympic Charter which states: \"No kind of demonstration or political, religious or racial propaganda is permitted in any Olympic sites, venues or other areas.\"
This article is fact based, drew a significant contrast from most of the major news organizations such as ABC, NBC, CBS and CNN.

I was born and raised in China, came to the US about 10 years ago. I am a US citizen now and have learned a lot since I have been here and during the process of naturalization about American history. I have deep respect for the democracy we have here and I am very proud of this country I now call home. A lot of my friends and coworkers ask me this question: \"If you agree that China has human rights issues, how come you don\'t agree with boycotting Olympic opening ceremony?\"

I told them that I certainly agree that China still has a long way to go to improve its political system and human rights issues. But I have went back to China last summer and I have seen an unimaginable improvements in China over the past ten years. China has opened up since late 1970s and it is quite a different country now. With a country of 1.3 billion people, I could not even express how huge this is. To make further improvements with China\'s political system and human rights, the right thing to do is not to push them away but to engage them more. Everybody I talked with during my China trip was very excited about the Beijing Olympics and was very interested in learning more about the world.

So, I told my friends: \"I don\'t think boycotting Olympic opening ceremony is sending a message to Chinese government. I think it will be viewed by most of the Chinese people as sending a message to the Chinese people that the people here don\'t care about them and would like to push them away. Is this the message you have in mind and is this the message you would like to send? Isn\'t Olympics about bringing people with various backgrounds, religion and races together?\"

Thanks for reading this letter,

Troubled by most of the major media channels