Kooyanisqatsi6:14PMJun 26th 2008

China has wonderful people and culture and a lot to offer the world, however...if they are forcing people not to drive and such, just for the pollution, and the 'image' of things...perhaps they are not yet ready to host the games.
May God bless the wonderful people of China.

Mauitunes8:06PMJun 26th 2008

While I have spent a great deal of time in China, spent time teaching there (English as a second languange at Shanghai Second Medical University), love its people, its glorious beauty and traditions, rewarding China with the Games amounts to tacit approval of its ongoing repression of the Tibetans, whose sovereignty was stolen from them by Mao Zedong more than a half-century ago.

The Dalai Lama, Tenzin Gyatso, is Tibet's rightful political and spiritual leader. This gentle man preaches--and genuinely believes--that peace is the only manner to bring about change, including that of the nation which occupies his own homeland. Still, he must live in exile in India while he suffers as he watches his fellow Tibets leave their homeland and cross either into India or Nepal.

The Nepalese monarchy had been growing more hostile to accepting Tibetan refugees, and now that Nepal's king has deposed by Maoist rebels, refugees will surely be turned away by force, and it is only a matter of time before Nepal is "absorbed" into China as another of its provinces and loses its own identity, just as China forced Tibet to do in the 1950s, destroying Buddhist temples and forbidding religious worship of any kind.

Further, nearly 60 years after the Communist revolution in China, Beijing continues to insist that Taiwan is a "renegade province" and is not deserving of its own independence. It's truly unfortunate that so many nations in the world--including our world--must take the "one China" view and dismisses Taiwan, as least diplomatically.

The island nation, with its capital of Taipei, deserves to be acknowledged by the entire world as a legitimate, sovereign nation. But apparently the much larger red dragon that lies across the Formosa Strait blows far too much fire (i.e. huge exports and an enormously fast-rising economy) to risk angering.

Wouldn't it have been a marvelous idea to have awarded the games to Taipei instead of Beijing? Now THAT would have really caused a ruckus!

diaann19489:58PMJun 26th 2008

will this improve our relation ship with china or make us look like fools ,china thinks americans or stupid any way just rumors i've heard.

Kathy4:00PMJun 29th 2008

That's all moot now. The Games are in China. Get used to it. As a past Olympian, I am so sick of people politicizing the one event left that everyone should just let be! This is perhaps the one thing left in the world that is a peaceful gathering celebrating excellence. All this posturing and opinions has NO PLACE here.

FRANK4:45PMJul 1st 2008

THE OLYMPICS ARE POLITICAL, HAVE ALWAYS BEEN POLITICAL AND WILL ALWAYS BE POLITICAL ... UTOPIAN, ALTRUISTIC PHILOSOPHIES WILL NOT CHANGE THAT FACT!!!

Join the movement12:20AMJul 11th 2008

For Americans that do not want Obama!

Hillary Clinton is our candidate and she can win without the Democratic Party. Can the Democratic Party win without her? Help make a statement to the DNC

Petition Hillary to run as an Independent for President. Let's show Hillary that we support her all the way!


http://www.thepetitionsite.com/1/We-Want-Hillary-In-The-White-House