Tibetan Issues
Quick show of hands. Who wants to go to the Beijing Olympics?
Put another way, who’s looking forward to the PRC’s big PR moment? EU is afraid opposing the suppression of Tibetans will hurt sports. How about opposing a corrupt, oppressive dictatorship? The Australian Olympic Committee thinks it shatters dreams. Not like a slave labor camp does. Don’t look to your own government to squawk much. China’s had a free pass ever since 1972. But what is it with the IOC and their love of dictatorships, anyway? Munich, 1936. Moscow, 1980. Beijing, 2008. Howzabout Pyongyang and Tehran? When do they get their Olympics? IOC discriminates against second-rate dictatorships.
Gateway: Chinese parade Tibetan prisoners. (thanks for the photo, Jim)
Belmont Club: Tibet = Burma.
SMH: 1000s of troops mobilized, house raids. (Art of a Chinese cop/soldier wacking a monk with a stick)
Topics: China
Posted by Jules Crittenden at 12:04 pm on Monday, March 17, 2008
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March 17th, 2008 at 1:05 pm
I recall a PRC propagandist on the (now defunct) NYTimes Asia forum who used to argue how delighted the Tibetans were (and how fortunate) that the Chicoms had enlightened their country by invading it and taking over.
And how grateful and lucky the Tibetans were to have that giant, butt ugly statue of Mao erected outside Lhasa.
From the Three Rivers Dam (screwing up the Yangtze) to all sorts of other huge construction (and reconstruction) plans to absorbing other countries in the region into China to working long and hard to “get” the Olympics, it is China’s goal to be grandiose, whatever it takes, at whatever human cost.
March 17th, 2008 at 1:43 pm
Stop buying crap Made in China. It is the only way to hurt them.
March 17th, 2008 at 5:17 pm
Any day now some Hollywood grandee will be making a suckup visit, extolling the virtues of Communism, telling us how the Tibetans were lucky to be influenced by such a noble endeavor, and how wise the Chinese are not to succumb to the messy discord and uncertainty of democracy. Look for it in the New York Times.
Free Tibet? Just a bumper sticker to cover the rust spot on the Volvo.
March 18th, 2008 at 2:51 am
I have long hated the immoral stances of the Olympic Committee. But I hate the fawning sportscasters as well, those who extol the Chinese methods of training — taking a small child from his parents (remember they’re only allowed to have one in the first place) and raising it as an athlete in a dormitory with other like children. In the last two Olympics I heard these methods referred to as just another way of doing things. It’s a cultural thing, not child theft by the government and slavery all around.