[NormsRevenge]

will not intervene to pressure China on Tibet or other political issues in the countdown to the Beijing Games

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IOW ,, the Games are on!

[Man50D]

The only push will be at the grassroots level.

[mnehring]

Bump

[illiac]

It he French?

[WilliamofCarmichael]

This could be germane. An American friend originally from Viet Nam sent me the link. It's not in English but the photos speak for themselves. I guess it's a kind of "sport" in the PRC.

China expressed indignation at a U.S. congressional resolution calling on Beijing to stop cracking down on Tibetan dissent and talk to the Dalai Lama, Tibet's exiled spiritual leader.

"What? We can't practice for the Olympics?" asks a Chinese official.

"Free traders'" business partners go wild?

(Some photos have been posted here in the past.)

Could be to show American partners that there's no need to worry about labor organizing here in the freedom loving, peaceful, capitalist free market, democratic People's Republic of China.

Could be -- but personally, I'd rather pay more (or do without) than see this. But.. I'm not that kind of "free trader."

Free trade, yes! But, this kind of "free trade," no!

Mr. and Mrs. Richard Blum, are you going to the Olympics as guests of your good friends?

[rod1]

Yeah so all those promises China made about human rights in order to be awarded the games are-—to be forgotten.

One wonders if the IOC members got a nice pre-holday bonus from China in their bank account stockings?

Maybe the Head IOC Organizer is right about one thing. Zero media coverage of the games is now in order.

[Proud_USA_Republican]

The only push the IOC likes is when it involves a briefcase of money underneth their desks.