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Punishing China

Editorial

National Post Published: Thursday, March 27, 2008

So far, world leaders have avoided calling for a full-scale boycott of
this summer's Beijing Olympics. But as Beijing's brutal treatment of
Tibetans becomes more overt, and as the regime's rhetoric becomes more
shrill and paranoid, that may change.

China's violence against Tibetans has spread from Lhasa to neighbouring
Chinese provinces with large Tibetan populations. Most cities are under
martial law. Roadblocks prevent internal travel, and keep Western
journalists from reporting the truth. Police and soldiers are going
house-to-house searching for suspects. Over 100 already have died, and
at least 700 have been arrested. This week, the Chinese government
issued a 53-name "most-wanted" list containing the names of people it
claims incited the deadly mid-March antigovernment protests. Included on
the list were known dissidents whom Beijing has singled out because of
their political views rather than any complicity in the Lhasa uprising.

On Mar 28, 7:26 am, Micky Wong quoted, in
part:

Given their "track record" in the Times article you quoted about the
1936 Berlin Olympics, given their reaction to the boycott in 1980, I
think the world's democracies should just dump the IOC entirely, and
form a new group. If the IOC holds an "official" Olympic games that
involves only dictatorships and small poor countries, year after year,
while the United States and Europe have their own games instead, it
will be the games run by the IOC that will be forgotten.

John Savard

On Mar 28, 10:12 pm, Quadibloc wrote:

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"Micky Wong" wrote in message
news:47ecf1ef@newsgate.x-privat.org...

And they would be NUTS to try it, at least in America. Why? Because
there are far more Olympic hopefuls in America nowk, that are dual
nationals, and possess second passports from another country,
as well as an American one.

On Mar 28, 9:26 pm, Micky Wong wrote: