
Anti-China protests in Tibet have brought a harsh crackdown.
Should the China Olympics be boycotted?
It was hoped that the prospect of hosting the 2008 Olympics would force China to clean up its human rights act. Instead, that country remains deeply enmeshed in the tragedy of Darfur, supports the junta in Burma and, most recently, has been cracking down on protesters in Tibet. Now, a top-ranking French official has suggested that a boycott of the Olympics would be appropriate.
Should free nations boycott the China Olympics?















Thoughts
BOYCOTT
Submitted on March 26th, 2008 by AnonymousNC CNN!
Funny
Submitted on March 26th, 2008 by Anonymousso you call it repression??
funny again
do you know the real situation there?? Tibetan terrorist set fire, and destory the city,and hurt the people there. it is so-called freedom?? funny, you are just narrow-minded!!!
you guys know nothing, ok
we Chinese here, standing in this land, can know, see, feel what happen actually
china
Submitted on March 25th, 2008 by AnonymousAmerican media report is so impudicity,Dalailama is your son??He is a gangster!Don't be fooled by any of his cunning tricks.Maybe our government left us with a feeling of deep hurt.,but we also don't permit other bully our country !
Remember the Moscow
Submitted on March 25th, 2008 by AnonymousRemember the Moscow Olympics? Double standard? It was OK then to boycott Russia for their involvement in Afghanistan, but not now with China's repression of the Tibetans? I guess the mighty dollar wins again! Hypocrites!
???
Submitted on March 25th, 2008 by Anonymouscan you ask your friend the name of the city???
please don't do the same things as your country's media!!!!!!
Chinese
Submitted on March 25th, 2008 by Anonymousyes, today china still has many problems about human rights, but one thing we can sure is we are trying to make thing better. the Olympics is a chance to show the whole world what china really looks like now. here are some questions for those "democratic people": do you guys ever know anything about china's history or the fact of tibet riot???from where??? the "famous" CNN??? who only shows half of the images about the riot just because other half tells the truth??? what a big joke!!!!
so which city your friend
Submitted on March 25th, 2008 by Anonymousso which city your friend visit?
you should miss some picturesque one, anyway, guys like you will never kind the real beauty
go on
Submitted on March 25th, 2008 by AnonymousIf you boycott the game, the world people will lose the chance to see the most splendid palace in the world
and China will lose the chance to show its real face
what a pity
i don't think prejudice can solve problem, but communication,
how can you guys know sth truely by even never penetrating it? only by your imagination?? so funny
Most Chinese are friendly and kind
we also consider most of you are educated enough to reveal the true China.
Welcome to China ^^
from china
Submitted on March 25th, 2008 by AnonymousOlympic spirit NO.1
No politics!!!
Firstly CNN even took Indian
Submitted on March 25th, 2008 by AnonymousFirstly
CNN even took Indian troops pic as Chinese one. so it is the truth that you guys fail to distinguish Chinese and India??so funny
Secondly
We Chinese give comment on CNN, then CNN reported that all Chinese guests are secret agents controlled by gov. so funny
Thirdly
Foreigner tries to tell a Chinese the real Chinese history, so funny. i could honestly tell you that Chinese history has been maintained for 5000 years, not by the gov, not you foreigner,but our ancestors. Do you understand??
Fourthly
Olympic game tries to tell the world the real Chinese nowaways, which is totally different what you guys thought, but you are just narrowed-minded, instead of accepting extensive true opinon from China, is is the democracy you call??
Narrow-minded
Submitted on March 25th, 2008 by AnonymousSo do you guys really know the real Chinese, merely according to your media??
Chinese people can read english from your media, but most of you can not read Chinese
so who is the brainwashed??
There is only one way
Submitted on March 25th, 2008 by AnonymousThe thing to do is boycott the sponsors, and make sure they know you are doing it. The only "customer feedback" and "public interest" a corporation cares about is dollars and cents. In a market where the only real difference between most competing products is image, reputation attacks can have a deep impact.
Viral marketing through "corrected" corporate logos and advertising images, funny or outrageous YouTube videos, feature articles on top tier blog pages, etc., can do the job. The IOC is a profitable corporation dependent on other profitable corporations; hit them in the market and you hit them in the ONLY place where it hurts.
You're Wrong
Submitted on March 22nd, 2008 by AnonymousYou're wrong if you think any of those corporate sponsors give a hoot about china's human rights' laws. You're wrong if you think china will change. You're wrong if you think America doesn't cheat and lie to further its own god fearing agenda. China is their own country. There will be no boycott, there will be no revolution, people are too caught up in the almighty dollar. As lame as the olympics have become, they are still big money and in todays world money rules with an iron fist, just like the billions of chinese. Get over tibet.
China
Submitted on March 20th, 2008 by AnonymousI don't understand why any democratic county would have any sort of relationship with the Chinese.
A communist country, where slavery is practiced. A country with an abysmal human rights record. A country that has zero respect for international patent and copy write law. A country that cheats and lies, at every opportunity to further its own agenda. A country that keeps its currency artificially undervalued, so as to facilitate its continued strip mining of western technology.
I won't be going to the Olympics, nor will I be watching them, on TV.
China
Submitted on March 19th, 2008 by CORNFINGER66Why would any athelete go and compete in China any way. The air pollution is so bad, they would have to be on oxygen during the intire event.
I have had friends visist China with in the last year, they have said you can not even see down one city block. The smog is so bad.