[indcons]

Boycott the Peiping 2008 Genocide Olympics.

Hit China where it hurts by minimizing trade with the ChiComs and by avoiding PLA-manufactured Chinese products.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

I'm going to do my part to completely ignore the Olympics.

Just like I usually do.

[clamper1797]

Almost all of China is offended that foreigners are so keen to lecture them and to encourage the petty boycotts that could spoil the Olympic party.

Hey China .... tough

[indcons]

Ping

[Redbob]

"Almost all of China is offended that foreigners are so keen to lecture them and to encourage the petty boycotts that could spoil the Olympic party. It genuinely infuriates the Chinese that they are blamed for Darfur..."

P!ss on 'em!

[Snickering Hound]

[colorado tanker]

This conflict is going to go on for a long time, until it explodes IMHO. One of the historical trends of the 20th Century that is continuing into the 21st is the breaking down of empires and polyglot states into smaller states, e.g., the breakup of the Austrian Empire, Russian/Soviet Empire, Yugoslavia, Czechoslovakia, etc. Places are being given autonomy nearly equal to independence, like Catalonia and Scotland.

China is swimming against this tide in trying to piece back together the Chinese Empire and it will continue to cause unrest.

[hosepipe]

No doubt about it.. China is looking at the world thru squinty eyes..

[17th Miss Regt]

Almost all of China is offended that foreigners are so keen to lecture them and to encourage the petty boycotts that could spoil the Olympic party.

The other part of China, the 100,000,000 Chinese murdered by their own communist government, had no comment on this matter.

[jpl]

I won’t be watching the Olympics (I never do), but I’m less concerned that China has the Olympics than I am that we’re selling off the future of our country to them.

[RightWhale]

China is this, China is that. There is no China, it is all in our minds. Learned that from ‘Network.’ There is General Motors, General Electric, General Foods.

[gridlock]

We have to go to the Berlin Olympics or the Germans will be offended, and then who knows what they will do!!!

I am tired of people making excuses about why we should knuckle under to China. They should just admit that they are bought and paid for, and leave it at that.

[steel_resolve]

It genuinely infuriates the Chinese that they are blamed for Darfur while their Western critics occupy Iraq.

Which just goes to show you that the Chinese people are about as clueless as to what we are doing in Iraq as the mainstream media. Not only that, but how do they draw a moral equivalence of one country paying for another's stabilization in blood and treasure (Blood for No Oil) and the systematic economic rape and blind eye turning of China's efforts in Darfur? Screw China

[The Toll]

If we took them out with a “first strike”. Would ANYONE complain?

[KC_Conspirator]

Nice to see that the author, Phil Bowring, is following in the footsteps of the lying Walter Duranty of the NY Slimes by white washing China’s communist crimes against humanity.

[I. M. Trenchant]

The behaviour of China in this situation is no different from what it would be if it existed under precisely the same Constitution as the one that the U.S. aspires to adhere to. The notion of American exceptionalism, often wrongly thought to have been coined by de Tocqueville during his examination of America in The Age of Jackson, had existed in analgous form in China for tens of centuries, when the only human inhabitants of the Americas were the New World Indians. Chinese exceptionalism is no different in quality from American exceptionalism, is independent of political systems, and as this columnist correctly notes, it is rooted in nationalism. Just as the rest of the globe has had to 'live with' the concept (and reality) of American exceptionalism, so it will have do the same with Chinese exceptionalism, which is no less justified and justfiable than American exceptionalism now that it has shaken its colonial past, before which, Tibet always was and will forever in the future, subject to China's dominance. As that old Nazi, Valter Kronkite, used to remind us on a regular basis, "That's the way it is."

[Brilliant]

“The Chinese leadership faces a difficult balancing act.”

If China wants respect of the West, it should get out of Tibet and allow its people to vote in free elections.

[JoJo Gunn]

A transcript from Radio China?

[Travis McGee]

How many “extra” Chinese males are there in the military age group, as a result of the one-child policy?

[Candor7]

Boycott the Beijing 2008 Olympics !

Yes!

Hoo Flungdung?

China did. Now they wear it.

Who cares how angry they are.

[GunnyHartman]

The last Olympics I ever watched.