A confrontation. The protestors are definitely badly outnumbered. I feel sorry for them. They picked the wrong city. Should have gone to Paris, where they could prey on crippled girls. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iKtvJukQBWo&eurl=http://club.backchina.com/main/viewthread.php?tid=652089&extra=page%3D1
Looks like getting the olympics is going to result in China looking terrible in the global press. That's too bad, because I like China
to be honest, we don't really care anymore. please tell me ONE thing from the press in US that has been positive to china? if we are getting bad mouthed anyways, why da **** do we care about it now? bring it on. for more than a decaded living here, i don't recall a damn single positive news about china. all the good things we've done, no one gives a ****. they only look on the bad side and b**** about it. even with economy, rocket science, art, culture, they always mention the political side of it. so bring it on then.
Better change "global press" to "western press". The West is NOT the world. This Olympic torch run is like a litmus test for China of "who is with us and who is against us". So far, London, Paris, SF, big protests, but in Russia, Greece, Turkey, Kazakstan, big welcomes. Greece had a few outside agitators, but no local protestors. Looking forward, we may see more protests in Australia and India (big concentration of Tibetan exiles), but everywhere else, in a long string of Asian, African, and South American countries, there won't be any big trouble at all. China is always negatively portrayed in the western press anyway, and China doesn't really give a crap. You don't become a great power without stepping on a few toes. The country with THE most negative image in the world in the United States. Enough said.
What's with the hate for the United States? Just because a few hundred protesters are against the Beijing Olympics doesn't mean it's the United States protesting.
No hate at all, I am an American myself and proud of it. And I am proud of San Francisco, even the protestors. Compared with the violence and anarchy in Paris, America is showing what real democracy is like. I was just stating a fact, proven by multiple polls. And like I said, we shouldn't really give a damn.
The Bush administration has actually been quite surprisingly steadfast in its support of the Beijing Olympics. So OK, I will make sure to say a few nice things about GWB in the future.
like i've said many times before, chinese don't don't really have any beef with US at all. we were allies in WWII and we appriciate what yall did. BUT, a few people here are actively looking for trouble with china. i think yall should nuture the good relationship instead finding differences. again, we are cool with americans period. unless yall attack us, we will always work with yall. but all these hating by some people (including government officials) are pissing people off in china. edit: criticism is fine, but when you are over doing it and doing it for ulterior motives, it aint cool no mo.
Americans are smart and the French are dumb. The biggest loser out of this mess might be BAE as China will cancel the B$ contract to buy airbus after the game and give it to Boeing. So if you can, buy Boeing stock now. Profit from it !
ya, **** those european losers. edit: ok, i'm not having a good day at work. so i'm venting via something else.
You shouldn't give a damn about China because it isn't your country. If you spazed out freaks love it so much you would have never of left it. But China sucks so you had to come here and we were nice enough to let you in. But now you bad mouth "the west" because China's brainwashing was brutal and you still have to tow the line. America and true Americans are against China's polices towards Tibet. We despise communists and those who support them. If you do support them, get ready to have your ass thoroughly kicked. It will not be tolerated.
I think part of the problem is the Americans have no concept of Chinese history. Nor do they care for the most part. If they did, they mightat the very least, understand the concept of Chinese nationalism and an orderly society. I definitely don't condone everything the PRC does, but given China's near-annihilation by the Western powers and the Taiping rebellion one might at least see the reasons for national pride and more authoritarian society. Imagine if the population of the US was quadrupled. I thinks laws and society would definitely be different.
you are basically contradicting yourself. if as you claimed that US is all about freedom of everything, then you should allow communism. people here have the rights to beleive whatever they believe in. if you want to ban communism, then don't claim you have freedom of whatever. i don't believe communism at all, but it doesn't mean that you can't let some one else who wants to believe it.
LOL so i was born here but because i disagree with you i should leave? I know you're white and thus more "American" than me but can i still visit from time to time?
