Too Many Tourists in Tibet?

I will be linking here to some of the information I find and read as we prepare to visit China in March 2008.

The relationship of the Chinese government and people to Tibet and Tibetans is ambiguous. Many people consider Tibet to be a separate country, while China insists and the world officially accepts that Tobet is merely a region of China. With the completion of a railroad connecting Lhasa, the capital of Tibet, with the rest of China, there are new concerns that the specific cultural distinctiveness of Tibet may be diluted; This USA Today article addresses some of that change and those issues.