Comments on: Ban Ki-moon may skip the Olympics opening ceremony

By: Railwaycharm

Railwaycharm — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 06:10:10 +0000

#11 Smoke and mirrors. The day China becomes a market economy you can start to worry. China routinely steals monies from the people to make the state owned industries payroll. Forget about their Muslim problem, internal economic disparities will un-do China before it is ever a threat to the west.

By: hitest

hitest — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 05:48:09 +0000

#8 China is already well on it’s way to buying up many American companies, and yes, the sh*t will hit the fan once American policies conflict with China’s.

Wonder what is behind American reluctance to be more hardline over China’s human right violations? Count the number of banks/financual institutes recently(say within the last year) that have been bailed out through Chinese investment.

By: stacked

stacked — Sun, 13 Apr 2008 06:57:00 +0000

China never had suzerainty, it was the Manchurians after they invaded China. Tributes during the 16th century and on were sent to Manchuria not China.

By: Leguwan

Leguwan — Sat, 12 Apr 2008 13:00:06 +0000

Oh shit no!!!!!….there goes the last hope of injecting some excitement and pizazz into the Games! Maybe they can persuade him to send the kimchi astronaut in his place?

By: cm

cm — Sat, 12 Apr 2008 11:31:15 +0000

Westerners…lol.. have no ideal what the Chinese have in mind once their dream of overtaking their former colonizers come to fruit. If you read some of the Chinese netizens, you’d realize there’s a lot of pent up frustrations against Western countries to say the least. You think Korea is the only one facing China rise? Chinese target is not Korea, it’s US and EU. By the looks of things, they pretty much got you guys by the legs. Just look at the sheer amount of US debt owed to China. I shutter to think what’s going to happen once the Chinese start buying up bankrupt US companies and assets.

By: Andy Jackson

Andy Jackson — Sat, 12 Apr 2008 09:49:32 +0000

4-4-4 could just be a strait play on 8-8-8. The Chinses wanted to start the games on 08-08-2008 because it is a lucky number.

By: Weltsmertz

Weltsmertz — Sat, 12 Apr 2008 08:13:35 +0000

The 4 corresponds with the similar sounding Chinese word for death. They began their protest 444 days before the start of the Olympics.

By: Janus

Janus — Sat, 12 Apr 2008 06:49:21 +0000

Any idea what the numbers in the 4-4-4 campaign stand for? I imagine at least one of them is a word play on 死, but I’ve no idea what the other ones could be.

Maybe “4 decades until China has suzerainty over us again”

By: R. Elgin

R. Elgin — Sat, 12 Apr 2008 04:12:31 +0000

Wishful thinking is always fun and cheap . . . guiding principles are not so though, unless they aid one for making excuses for their lack of good judgment and foresight.

By: user-81

user-81 — Sat, 12 Apr 2008 01:56:48 +0000

“It was a perfect ideal letting China host the games in hindsight.”

IOC head Rogge thought so:

But departing from past reluctance to criticize the Olympic host nation, Rogge noted: “The representatives of the bid have said, and I quote freely because I do not know it by heart, that awarding the games to China would advance the social agenda of China, including human rights. …We definitely ask China to respect this moral engagement.”

http://www.kansascity.com/news.....70861.html