Report: China facing serious image threat - UPI.com
Protesting on the eve of the Olympics...talk about PR genius. The Chinese government, on the other hand, is overplaying its hand. On top of the violence it is using to quell the protests, it is overestimating its ability to control the media exposure of the struggle. Civic journalism (videos on YouTube, etc.) is slowly eroding the regime's ability to control what information its people sees, and what information the world sees of its people. Technological and social advances are actually (let's hope) helping improve people's political lives.
Let's just hope the international community is bold enough to respond to the matter.