This has already been commented on but, how anything “free” can belong to anyone else, is beyond me. It makes me think of a prison warden who tells his prisoner he is free to do anything he’d like so long as what he would like is what the warden tells him. I lived in China for a year and a half and wait till you get a load of what they think of Mongolia’s right to independence. Did you know that a Chinese king once conquered most of Europe. Thats right, Ghangis Khan was Chinese. Try and tell them that an Indian Empress once conquered parts of China and they will deny it. I guess Queen Victoria wasn’t Indian.
This is all about resisting China and planting the seeds of their government’s downfall. Who knows how the future will play out but China did not follow its obligations to the IOC regarding Human Rights. Just because the IOC and all the businesses that are sponsoring the Olympics aren’t bothered by it doesn’t mean that billions of viewers, world-wide, need to ignore the brutality of the Chinese system. Let the Chinese hold their party but we don’t need to RSVP.
@dougf, The shoe has been on the other foot. We’ve been kicked around by the world ever since W was elected and I’m pleased as punch that the World is kicking around some other, more deserving, nation for the moment.
