In Germany, NGOs' proportions of government financial support could be as much as 68 percent, while in France 60 percent.

These NGOs can only be regarded as internationally oriented national organizations (IONO).

As there are always anti-China voices in their domestic political arena, IONO are also inclined to target China.

Hence it's hard to expect the IONO to really speak for their people, not to mention the people in other countries.

The international journalists' organization Reporters Without Borders (RSF) is a case in point.

Set up in France in 1979, the RSF claims "to safeguard journalists' rights without any political bias".

However, according to a Guardian report on May 19, 2005, "Jeff Julliard of RSF confirmed that it had received a grant of $40,000 from the conservative National Endowment for Democracy (NED). The NED's website states that it receives annual funding from 'the US Congress through the state department'."

RSF has also received money from the Center for a Free Cuba.

"RSF believed that this was a legitimate tactic to put pressure on the authorities While RSF was very critical of Cuba, it had published more reports about abuses in China," the Guardian reported.

Therefore we could see why RSF played the role of a "hero" to support Tibetan secessionists.

If RSF did so because of the erosion of its independence, the other two organizations that support Tibet's independence - the US NED and the German Friedrich Naumann Foundation (FNF) - are still in the Cold War mindset.

As an important diplomatic tool during the Cold War, the NED, set up in 1983, was closely related with US State Department and Central Intelligence Agency.