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Originally Posted by pug_ster
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Thank you for your reply, and for the link to the article. I went trough it, and personally don't think it is that sympathetic towards Tibetans. It just states basic facts, without giving any opinion. It doesn't condone the violence, and doesn't condemn Beijing for this situation. It quotes a few people; it's just journalism.
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Actually GW Bush was the only person who said that he is going to go to the opening ceremonies. The presidential candidates, Clinton, Obama and McCain asked Bush not to go. The Leader of UK, France, Germany, Canada said that they are not going because of China's Human Rights record.
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I don't know about all of them (Anya provided us with a link in her/his post above mine ~ thanks); but I don't think the leader of France said he will not attend the Olympics. From what I've heard, he said he's still thinking about it. If you want to know, I wish he would join Bush and other leaders at the opening ceremony in Beijing, in August. We'll see; but it's not that important. Most important is that French Athletes win as much medals as they can.
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Actually I don't read much of the PRC stuff because I lived here in the US for 25+ years. So most of the observances are based what I read from Western Media. Like what was mentioned in the cbs article above, I saw these protests from Lhasa, yet they are saying that China are the bad guys.
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That's definitely not what I've read about in your article. It neither says that Chinese are bad guys, nor that Tibetans are; it just states facts. I can see that you live in Brooklyn next to your avatar. I didn't know you've been a US resident for +25 years. That's a long time; you must be loving it!
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The PRC propaganda couldn't rally the Chinese nationals abroad. Much of protesters are Netroots and there were plenty of Chinese nationals and foreign expatriates looking at this kind of BS from this re-hashed Western Media as I did. Why wouldn't they protest?
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They have absolutely every right to protest; that's not what I mean. I'm just saying that nationalistic feelings pinch on a particular string of the human soul, and that can bring about much discord to the entire world.
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My guess is that these Lhasa protestors wanted to be victimized in this situation (ie beat down or shot by the Chinese police.) It did not happen. Instead, the Tibetan protestors were the bad guys and this information domininance against China wasn't very effective.
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You may be right; but I really doubt Tibetans protesters were looking forward to being caught by the police, especially in PR China. My guess is they took the first opportunity to let the world hear their complaint.