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Originally Posted by AkbarGulag
I don't know if anyone has noticed, but China is a rapidly changing place. It is certainly changing faster than many 'old democracies'.
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The old song of defending soft policy on China: that it is changing, or will chnage at least in the future, well, hopefully. Well, economically it does in many regions, and in many others it does not at all, and since it also produced a lot of problems (demographics, environment, poisoned food), there is a chance that centralist power will become strengthened from this change in a reation of "crisis management". And regarding Olympics, when looking at how they behave with it, and the Tibet issue, then it seems that some things haven't changed at all. It's the same brutal tyranny that it ever has been in past decades.
I'm a bit tired of hearing about Chinese change will come. Call again when it is there. And for the better, which includes "our better".
Oh, and every Western government still doing so: please stop paying foreign aid to this poor, poor third world country (insane Germany still does, can you believe it). Western taxes get wasted that way - while the Chinese economy munches up Western jobs in return, what again is a nice change indeed, thank you. Next we get a tax for job-loosing, or what?
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It may also stop the distracting protesters who try and steal the Olympic thunder for their own purposes.
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Ah, very nice 180^distortion of what is happening. Not that China is stealing the olympic thunder for it'S own purpüoses, nooo... cannot be what should not be. Chinese dictatorship is cute, humane and friendly. But the elemental fact is that China in every way disqualifies by the Olympic ideals and the old rule that all participants (and the host) should hold peace during the competititons. And if that peace in Chinese interpretation means to continue with annihilating a complete culture and killing and torturing it'S people, then this makes mockery of the Olympic spirit in every way.
Today, it is all avout business, and commerce, and business advertizing, anbd last but not least, it is about the IOC which no longer sees itself as the servant of the athletes, but sees the athletes as servers to the IOC business interests. It's all a farce. Holding the games in Greece every time will just lead to a new corporation being raised that controls these sites and according regulations, and cooperates with the IOC - the business component of Olympics will become even more dominant. It all will become even more business-profitable and criterions will shift even more from sport interests to profit interests. It all will become an even greater violation of the Olympic idea of sportsmanship and honest humane competition.