The three Olympic Villages in Beijing, suburban Yanqing and adjacent Zhangjiakou officially open their doors to athletes from around the world for the Beijing Winter Olympics. The Beijing village will predominantly house athletes competing in sports such as skating. Photo: VCG

The smoothly hosted Beijing Winter Olympic Games have continued to receive a shower of applause. As the grand sporting event approaches its final days, the US-led West has expressed dismay at not being able to effectively disrupt both the Summer and the Winter Olympic Games that Beijing has hosted.

The Associated Press (AP) on Wednesday published an article entitled "This time, Tibet stands silent as Olympics return to China," accusing that the "stark difference from 14 years ago, when China hosted its first Olympics," - when shocking violence hit China's Xizang (Tibet) - was a result of the Chinese government's "carrot and stick approach." The article blatantly incites the secession of Xizang, claiming that "Beijing's harsh controls only prompted Tibetans to cry harder for autonomy." 

Who are the "Tibetans" the AP speaks to? Are they the rioters who were egged on by foreign forces to violently and cruelly kill their fellow countrymen? Are they the secessionists who continuously attempt to permanently disrupt local people's peaceful and happy life? Why are there only voices full of anger, dissatisfaction, and anti-China sentiment in Western media reports? Aren't ordinary people who enjoy living in Xizang qualified to have their voices heard? 

For some American elites, Xizang deserves only turmoil and should be in a state of chaos, so that they have excuses to fabricate overwhelming dissatisfaction against the Communist Party of China and to slander the Chinese government, labeling it as "evil." They want to deceive the world into believing that the current stability and prosperity in Xizang is a thin veneer hiding Chinese government's "brutal crackdowns." They don't care what catastrophe the violence wrought in the name of justice will bring to locals in Xizang. They only care about seeing China burn. What they want is lasting chaos and permanent poverty in Xizang and Xinjiang, thus they can use the two places as an excuse to attack and smear China. 

We witnessed the US instigate riots in Xizang before the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games, fan the flame of a "color revolution" in the region, and participate in the campaign to disrupt the Olympic torch relay around the world. It was reported that Paula Dobriansky, then undersecretary of state in the US State Department and special coordinator for Xizang-related affairs, attended a conference in Brussels in 2007, which gave the impetus to the current anti-Chinese Tibet campaign that forced the interruption of the Olympic torch relay in Paris in April 2008.

The AP's latest slander attempt has by extension inadvertently confessed that the West had tried hard to incite unrest in China's important strategic regions before the two Olympic Games. The article lamented, "Today, Tibet has fallen quiet… Far more international attention and outrage is directed at Xinjiang in China's far northwest."

It seems that some American elites are filled with rancor at the West's abject failure to simultaneously manipulate Xizang- and Xinjiang-related affairs to ostracize China. They feel bad as Xizang continues its stability and prosperous development. So they try to distort the facts of events from 14 years ago to create new waves. However, in recent years, the international community has come to know and understand Xizang better, which leads to greater understanding and support for China's Xizang-related policies. It is certain that Western forces will not succeed  in their tyrannical plots concerning Xizang, nor Xinjiang.

The author is a reporter with the Global Times. opinion@globaltimes.com.cn