Governments around the world have issued measured responses to China's crackdown on Tibetan protesters, despite an outcry from human-rights groups and calls to use this summer's Olympic Games as a forum to condemn Beijing.
"I think this [push to boycott the opening ceremonies] will gain some momentum. The Tibet situation is not going to go away," said Michael Green of Washington's Center for Strategic and International Studies, who served as Mr. Bush's chief Asia adviser in 2004 and 2005.
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