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BW2/3  #499735  Sat, 12 Apr 08 02:56 PM

I browsed at the report on that website. I've never heard the website before. Presumably, let's just talk what you have written, 7,500 people were excuted. If they weres criminal, don't you think they derseved to be excuted. Did you know how many prisoners in China?

I know enough that China is not a dictatorship country. It is ran by the smartest people in the country. They work for the interest of their country. China has more freedom than you imagine except politic.  Do you think the people ran the country dont know the press things? Do you ever think about consequence if something like that affects the whole country?

I think improving these things take time. I also like to see the country has free press.

  
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Cool Breeze  #499764  Sat, 12 Apr 08 03:47 PM
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I know enough that China is not a dictatorship country.

 

I know that every country that doesn't permit political opposition to exist is a dictatorship. I am sorry but I don't understand some of your questions.

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Dew 2007  #499769  Sat, 12 Apr 08 04:10 PM
But boycotting the Olympic games may look like a dictstorship too. Or perhaps it's an opposition? Why do some people like to dictate other countries what to do, because THEY think it good?
  
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BW2/3  #499786  Sat, 12 Apr 08 05:26 PM

LDOCE defines dicatatorship is a "government by a ruler who has complete power"  or 'a country that is ruled by one person who has complete power' 

 Clearly, China is not ruled by one person. China has a president who can have two five-year terms.

  
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LDOCE defines dicatatorship is a "government by a ruler who has complete power"  or 'a country that is ruled by one person who has complete power' 

 Clearly, China is not ruled by one person. China has a president who can have two five-year terms.

This definition was valid maybe in 19th century. Complete control over the public life performed by one political party is dictatorship as well. It is called totalitarism. This form of dictatorship is even worse-leading authorities are replacable and can die, but the party lives forever...

That was a poor argument against dictatorship.

The more I read this topic, the more I think that it should be moved to the Controversial section 

  
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Dew 2007  #499841  Sat, 12 Apr 08 08:41 PM
The more I read it, the more I think that we have another political topic instead of discussing Olympic problems.
  
Lawyee  #499843  Sat, 12 Apr 08 08:44 PM
Olympic boycott is nothing else than a political topic 
  
Cool Breeze  #499854  Sat, 12 Apr 08 09:20 PM
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LDOCE defines dicatatorship is a "government by a ruler who has complete power"  or 'a country that is ruled by one person who has complete power' 

 Clearly, China is not ruled by one person. China has a president who can have two five-year terms.

 

The president was not elected by the people and China is ruled by one party. This makes torture possible. Censoring the media is also easy in a single-party system. There has been nothing about the anti-olympic demonstrations in the Chinese media.

As I said earlier, I don't favour a boycott of the olympics. I am all for peaceful demonstrations, though, because without them the Chinese leaders might think the free world approves of Chinese politics.

CB 

  
BW2/3  #499864  Sat, 12 Apr 08 09:53 PM

Let's clear. You don't like about human rights or no freedom of press in China,  so you think it is sufficient to boycott the 2008 Olympic. But what you said it is not sufficient to convince me. Moreover, I disagree with you that China is a dictatorship. The goverment don't control the people. They only control the things that harm the goverment. Imagine the goverment represents 1.3 billion people, one little mistake can cause big problems.

Have you ever heard any anthlete saying that he doesn't want to particpate the Olympic?

 You can demonstrate. I'm wondering the people who demonstrate have sufficient reasons to do that.

The people who demonstate outside of China have no effect to the country.

  
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