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[mises]

I don't like it when China is being dragged through the rhetorical coals for legitimate reasons and people then bring up what a totally unrelated other (usually the US) did in the past as a conversation-killer.

China will have to find an appropriate way to deal with her ethnic minorities. Right now, the Han majority is riding a wave of racist superiority emotions. That will not help the situation. The Tibetans are in fact the least likely of the major groups to cause serious problems during the Olympics. China should be looking at the problems that nations like Canada, NZ, Oz, Bolivia, Chile, Brazil and the US have with the colonial and indigenous populations and trying at all costs to avoid the problems that those states now face.

And Canada is going to get the international smack-down for the Vancouver Olympics. I wonder if any Canadians will say "Look at what China did in Tibet" to justify what Europeans did in the past.

[Cheonmunka]

[mises]

Yes, many nations do this. But right now two of the biggest political crises on earth are in Zimbabwe and in Sudan. Both have Chinese fingerprints all over them.

Moreover, this weapons shipment is coming at a time when Mugabe won't release electoral results and is likely preparing to just toss aside the whole process and shoot down his opposition. I strongly doubt that the timing of this arms shipment with the strongest threat to Mugabe's power is entirely coincidental.

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[Cheonmunka]

Source:
Was Ross Meurant who brokered it. Search it in the Herald if so inclined ...

[Julius]

[Summer Wine]

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Gopher wrote: The major problem in China and China's relations with the outside world is its ethnocentrism, the Chinese belief that China represents the universe's center and those of us who fall outside of it are barbarians, partly from which its nationalism emerges. One sees this to a lesser degree in South Korea, too, especially regards Koreans' use of the word "foreigner."

Gopher, you made an intelligent and valid point here.

I never really had an issue against China Olympics before, but when you read a number of statements like "Chinese students were bused and paid to attend and fly the Chinese flag". You really have to question the issue of a non political olympics.

Plus, my Boss ran with the torch in 2000 and I had to pick him up after the race. I watched him run and the security was minimal, (personally I never saw the crowds of security surrounding him) and today I see all the Chinese security surrounding the torch.

They made that decison to have that security before the first torch was lit. Plus they seem to be rubbing it in thier neighbors face by making sure the torch is held in all of thier neighbors houses and yet the security seems to watch the relay and the population seems to hear about it.

I do feel that China is making it look worse than it is and I understand the Chinese nationalism, but it isn't working in other countries. The Chinese attitude makes us more concerned of China and less supportive of the Olympics held in China.

So if China feels its making a good presentation why does it feel like its rubbing salt in the wound?[/quote]

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About a week ago I was looking up some information on past Olympic games on Wikpedia, and the site had the following to say about the Seoul Olympics:

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