Olympic boycott?

No, I think you've misunderstoodly completely. I was asking you that you heard any anthlete said they did not want to particpate the Olympic.  What you had written was in the first post about human rights or nonexistence freedom of press that made you boycott the Olympic. I also asked you few questions that gave you hint that you did not have sufficient grounds to back up what you said about boycotting.

I also aware that several presidents that do not particpate the ceremony but, I think, not because of human rights or freedom of press issue.  Honestly, as far as I read newspaper that I never heard the free world said China policies were despicable. That is a very harsh word if you were thinking the world was such as a nice place.

If you keep resisitng that China is a dictatorship, there is nothing to agrue about that because what I think is different from you. If you look at the whole picture  of China, one does not think that Chinese goverment is a dictatorship. Of course, there is something autochratic in some way , I mean, even President Bush does that too for national security issues.  

Dew 2007

I think we should ask our Chinese friends about the Chinese press. I think your information is about 10 years old...
Respect to everyone.

Some links I posted at another forum to show one Chinese person in China the two sides of this protest story and he/she couldn't see all of them. It seems like he/she could see the video clips made by Chinese students who study abroad that Western media are against them, yet the ones about Chinese government has announced to the world about Dalai Lama about this protest are blocked. 

Check out  articles below:

 http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/13/world/13china.html?_r=1&ref=world&oref=slogin

Eberhard Sandschneider, a China expert at the German Council on Foreign Relations in Berlin, said that the protests around the Games had created an uncomfortable moral dilemma for Western democracies even as Chinese leaders dug in their heels.

“The country is economically so attractive and by now so powerful that any measures we take will be met with painful countermeasures,” he said. “The Olympics are important to the Chinese, but not as important as Tibet. Sovereignty and stability will always outweigh public relations.”

On the contrary, Chinese are blaming foreigners for the tensions. Mr. Sarkozy’s decision to leave the door open to a partial boycott of the Games prompted a populist appeal in China to boycott French goods, circulated on the Internet. Chinese users also circulated a photograph of a protester, in a cap with Tibetan colors, trying to grab the torch from a Chinese woman in a wheelchair, who was praised in Beijing for protecting the flame.

China’s fierce pride also covers a deeper defensiveness, a sense that China’s rise has made it the target for the hypocritical anger of a wounded West, especially the United States and Europe, that resents such a successful new rival for global trade and influence.

The reaction suggests that the governing Communist Party will probably respond if protests and boycott threats continue to escalate. “If any country takes actions that are seen as harming the dignity of the Chinese people, it will have to act,” predicted Shi Yinhong, professor of international relations at People’s University in Beijing.

Mr. Shi said any boycott would not influence China’s overall foreign policy. But he predicted Beijing may take a harder line in trade talks with European partners, especially France. “People are very unhappy with the French president,” he added.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/13/opinion/13bissinger.html?ref=opinion

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cb 

Of course, there is something autochratic in some way , I mean, even President Bush does that too for national security issues.  

I can't see why President Bush should be involved here! As a result of his illegal war, tens of thousands of innocent people have died in Iraq but the US constitution makes it impossible for him to torture and kill prisoners to the extent that happens in China. China is the leading executor of people whose only "crime" is an opinion the rulers of China don't like. In my opinion people should not boycott the Olympics because of that, but the world should let the Chinese torturers know that executions are not approved of. This what Olympic Watch writes about it:

- Media freedom is nowhere in sight. Independent monitors, such as Reporters Without Borders (RSF) and Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ), register at least 30 Chinese journalists and 50 bloggers and internet activists in jail. Chinese domestic media face a policy of systematic censorship and the reporting of international media into China is blocked.
- China continues to execute several times more people than the rest of the world combined. According to Amnesty International estimates, this is 8,000-10,000 people each year.
- Torture continues to be widespread, according to the UN Special Rapporteur on Torture.
- As Human Rights Watch recently reported again, human rights violations are taking place in direct relation to the Olympic Games themselves: hundreds of thousands of Beijing residents have been evicted without proper compensation. A leader of their peaceful protests, Ye Guozhu, has been imprisoned for four years and reportedly tortured.

CB