This does not portend good things:

China has ordered the last foreign journalists remaining in Tibet to leave the province. It comes amidst reports of China beefing up its security presence in and around the area. Beijing had threatened to withdraw the residence permits of the two German journalists if they failed to comply with the demand. The move has been widely condemned by journalists’ organizations and human rights groups. Georg Blume, a correspondent for the German weekly Die Zeit, and Kristin Kupfer, a reporter for the Austrian weekly Profil and the German news service epd, left the Tibetan capital Lhasa on Thursday, Mar. 20.

Given what the Chi-Comms are willing to do while the world is watching, what do you think they’ll get up to after all the foreign journalists are gone? China hasn’t changed that much. The country’s richer, which is to be celebrated, but its rulers are still beastly.