Murder at the Border

Though this is not recent news, I feel I should report on the traumatizing video that came out in late September. According to the BBC, it is now understood that a Tibetan nun was shot on the Nepalese border by Chinese soldiers. The nun was part of a group of 25 fleeing Tibet through the Himalayas. An English policeman along with several other mountaineers caught sight of the soldiers rushing to a place where they could make a shot at the refugees.
In case you are unaware, some 2000-3000 refugees per year flee to Tibet-in-exile in India. Nepal passes the refugees on to India and taking a very low bow towards Beijing (I feel as though I have to point out that I was just kidding about the latter).
How can "legitimate" democracies go on dealing with a barbaric authoritarian regime as if they were just one of the club. We have VIDEO (top right corner of BBC site) of this murder, and how can the Western powers deny the similarity between Soviet soldiers shooting dead East Germans trying to cross over the wall? We obviously did not deal with the USSR. How long before we must call on the Chinese government for regime change? How long will we continue our greed at the expense of over a billion people? They need us as much as we need them and certainly we have enough political (maybe not since Iraq) and economic capital to call them on their terrible injustice. Murdering people trying to leave suggests a lot about the conditions in which people are living. North Korea does the same thing with refugees leaving that totalitarian regime.
Now I'm rambling about how much I deplore the treatment of this nonviolent, religious people. It'll probably happen after every blog post so I apologize in advance.