http://www.cmonitor.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080723/OPINION/807230331/10...
July 23, 2008 - 7:06 am
China's official motto for
the 2008 Olympics in Beijing,
"One World, One Dream,"
is beginning to seem like one big joke.
To secure the Games and all the
prestige that comes with them,
China's government promised that
it would do more to respect human
rights and that the media covering
the Games would be free of censorship.
With just weeks to go
before the Games begin,
neither has proven true.
Isolation only hardens totalitarian regimes,
so the gamble the International Olympic
Committee took when it awarded the Games
to China was worthwhile.