FUCK CHINA

Fuck!, Beijing

Fuck! Beijing

The Chinese Communist Party has consistently asked everyone who has given good reasons to boycott Beijing Olympics by any means not to politicize the Olympics. And yet the Chinese Communist Party has been politicizing the Olympics by calling a Hong Kong legislator who openly does not support Beijing Olympics a "Sneaky Traitor of the Han". Mr. Martin Lee, a very experienced Hong Kong Democratic Party member did nothing but to urge the U.S. to use the Olympics as a strategic device to improve upon the rotten human right conditions in China. Mr. Lee did not even invite anyone to boycott the Olympics. How is this well-respected legislator of Hong Kong a "Sneaky Traitor of the Han"?

So, any Chinese asking the Chinese Communist Party to improve upon its horrific human rights record is a "Sneaky Traitor of the Han"? Does the unelected Chinese Communist Party represent the Han race? Obviously, the Chinese Communist Party is ready to politicize anything in its favor. Anyone who is against its illegitimacy will be labeled as nationalistic sinner. Anyone who is against Beijing Olympics is a sinner! How about the human rights violators? Westerners should be very careful when they are misled to believe that the Chinese Communist Party has had any improvement in the past 10 years given the improved economic environment. After all, the Chinese Communist Party still relies heavily, if not exclusively, on false propaganda to rule China, without being elected!

Reference:
http://www.upiasiaonline.com/Politics/2007/11/15/commentary_putting_the_heat_on_hong_kong_traitors/5206/

Tuesday, October 23, 2007

Will East Turkistan, a Colony of China, become the Karen State of Burma?

The following video shows an interview with the pro-independnce (anti-invasion) leader of East Turkistan, Rebiya Kadeer concerning the current situation of East Turkistanis living in Xin Jiang. East Turkistan is also called Uighur (named by the Chinese Communist Party as Xin Jiang).

The title of this youtube video is: China 'crushing Muslim Uighurs' (Rebiya Kadeer)

The Chinese Communist Party is known to have conducted nuclear bomb tests in East Turkistan creating a lot of cancer cases and cases of malformed children with mutated genes. It is also well-known that the Chinese Communist Party has a bad human rights record and has been suppressing freedom of speech and freedom of religion in East Turkistan.

To know more about Rebiya Kadeer, check out the following article on wikipedia:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rebiya_Kadeer

To learn more about the history of East Turkistan, check out

http://www.uyghurcongress.org/En/AboutET.asp?mid=1107905016

International Burma Awareness on Youtube : Oct. 31 - Nov. 1

Action Name: International Burma Awareness on Youtube

Dates: October 31 - November 1, 2007

Purpose: To raise the awareness of youtubers on the Burma crisis that has been succumbed by the brutal force of the Burmese military dictators.

Goal: 200,000 - 400,000 views for each of the targeted videos to hopefully make the administrators of Youtube to put them onto the front page.

Action:

1. Email all your friends the following message:

Email Title: International Burma Awareness on Youtube: Oct 31 - Nov 1, 2007.

My dearest friends:

I am writing to ask for your compassionate support of the peaceful monks and civilians who have recently been brutality beaten and gunned down in Burma (Myanmar) by the military dictators. The situation in Burma is far worse than you can imagine. Human rights groups have documented serious genocide, raping, and enslaving activities committed by the Burmese military dictators.

Please join the "International Burma Awareness on Youtube" champaign! By simply clicking the following links on either October 31 or November 1, 2007, you can let the world aware of the poor Burmese monks and civilians. The goal is to produce 200,000-400,000 views on each targeted video so that Youtube administrators will put them onto the front page of Youtube.

Targeted videos:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SPSsKcpxJMk (Video from Burma: SHOOT on SIGHT)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NySuaJ2B20E (Jim Carrey - Call to Action on Burma and Aung San Suu Kyi)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1UqQaizM15Q (Inside Myanmar: The Crackdown)

**Remeber to rate the videos 5/5 stars if you have a youtube account. Refresh the videos will increase the number of views.

Other relevant videos:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lPKsm7lmQQE (Missing Monks in Myanmar Burma Dead Body Found)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gONJmADgX88&NR=1 (Rocketboom : Myanmar/Burma)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7WU_DmXp578 (More Deaths in Burma Protests - part 2)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dLnMA5qHGHY (Shootings Monks and Civilians in Burma)

If you have time you can also comment on the videos to let the world know how you feel!

Please forward this important message to as many people you know as possible. Every click counts!

Yours sincerely,

2. If you know of any internet discussion forums, electronic newspapers that allow people to make comments, other video hosts, etc, you may also copy and paste the above message!

3. Send the above message to your friends on facebook or other similar websites.

4. Link the above videos to your blogs (at least the top three) and ask people to go back to your blogs on Oct 31 and Nov 1 to click on them!

5. Tell your co-workers and friends face to face about the "International Burma Awareness on Youtube" champaign.

6. Do a little "legal" and "non-annoying" spam on some websites (such as youtube) that you are familiar with. If the website bans posting links, sometimes you can try some tricks. Send me a message and I will show you!!!!!!!

7. If you have a youtube account, you may want to make one of the targeted videos your "featured video." Remember to log on and make a 5-star rating for each of the targeted vidoes. I believe youtube will look at not only the number of clicks but also the rating!

Friday, October 19, 2007

An Updated List of Detainees After the Monks' Protest in Burma

Assistant Association for Political Prisoners has published an online list of detainees after the monks' protest in Burma:

http://www.aappb.org/

Contrary to what the Chinese Communist Party has claimed, the Burmese dictatorship has stepped up its effort to arrest peaceful monks and civilians in Burma. Behind the apparent peace and quiet in Rangoon, arrested monks and civilians in Burma have been tortured and murdered. Human rights abuse has been non-stop despite that protests have been stopped.

Obviously, the Chinese dictator supports the arrests and the human rights violation in Burma by vetoing any UN Security Council resolution even today. It even claimed that a UN SC visit to Burma was fruitful by ignoring all the monks being capture without any open and fair trial. In other words, if exactly the same event happens in China, the Chinese Communist Party will do exactly the same thing to its people!

It is time for Chinese to stand up to boycott Beijing Olympics, or else they are nothing more than a bunch of cowards who are happy slaves of the dictatorial regime enjoying a little bit of freedom with a little increase in their standard of living.

Thursday, October 18, 2007

Facebook Discussion Group "Support the Monks"

The Facebook.com discussion group "Support the Monks' Protest in Burma" currently has a total membership of over 420,000 Facebook users.

This discussion group has been organized many international activities, including protests in many different countries.

The following photos are posted by a member of the group in Facebook, showing some horrible scene of monks murdered possibly by the Burmese dictator:

More pictures related to the Burma crisis are available here:

http://www.facebook.com/photo_search.php?oid=24957770200&view=all

Tuesday, October 16, 2007

The Coalition for Regime Change in Burma calls for Boycott of Beijing Olympics

The Coalition for Regime Change in Burma calls for Boycott of Beijing Olympics on their website:

http://www.regimechangeinburma.org/blog/

The following are some of the actions taken by the coalition:

According to the description written for the videos, the Coalition for Regime Change in Burma is calling for a boycott of the 2008 Olympics in Beijing.

The Chinese government actively supports Burma's brutal military dictatorship through arms sales, economic cooperation and political cover.

On Friday, October 5th, Burmese people and supporters gathered outside the Chinese mission to the UN to call for China to stop supporting the violent military regime in Burma.

Friday, October 12, 2007

Olympics Host's Indifference Toward the Brutality of the Burmese Dictator

The following is an abstract of the record of speech made by the representative of China during the UN Security Council Meeting held on October 5, 2007:

http://daccessdds.un.org/doc/UNDOC/PRO/N07/529/95/PDF/N0752995.pdf?OpenElement

The current situation does not pose any threat to international or regional peace and security. The future of Myanmar lies in the hands of its people and its Government, and their problems will be addressed properly through consultations. In our view, it is quite understandable for the outside world to express concern or expectations regarding the situation on the ground. However,pressure would not serve any purpose and would only lead to confrontation or even the loss of dialogue and cooperation between Myanmar and the international community, including the United Nations.Therefore, the Security Council should adopt a prudent and responsible approach in handling the issue of Myanmar.

The international community can help the country achieve national reconciliation and democratic progress by offering constructive engagement and mediation. The key is to take the right approach.Yet, if the situation in Myanmar takes a turn for the worse because of external intervention, it will be the people of the country who bear the brunt.That is the last thing that China, as well as other neighbours of Myanmar and other regional countries, wish to see. We look forward to continued constructive engagement and cooperation between the international community and the Myanmar Government, which, we hope, will help the country move in a positive direction.

1. The Chinese Communist Party has never mentioned anything about the wrongful act committed by the Burmese dictator!

2. The Chinese Communist Party actually indirectly condemned the rest of the world as being responsible for the brutal crackdown in Burma! It also warned the world that any reaction against the Burmese dictator may trigger another round of evil crackdown against Burmese civilians and monks. And the world will be fully responsible for the consequence.

3. It has also argued that the UN Security Council is fully responsible in the future, not the Burmese dictator, as it is the responsibility of the UN SC to "HELP" the Burmese dictator maintain stability in Burma.

By not condemning the brutality of the Burmese dictator, the Chinese Communist Party has already violated the Charter of the UN Security Council!

Under the Charter, the functions and powers of the Security Council are:

* to maintain international peace and security in accordance with "the principles and purposes of the United Nations; "

* to determine the existence of a threat to the peace or "act of aggression" and to recommend what action should be taken;

Also, on the front page of the UN Charter:

WE THE PEOPLES OF THE UNITED NATIONS DETERMINED

2. to reaffirm faith in fundamental human rights, in the dignity and worth of the human person, in the equal rights of men and women and of nations large and small, and

At the Oct 5 meeting, China purposely ignored point #2!!!

China tried to distract people's attention by pointing only at the regional stability!

BTW, the UN is not supposed to only handle "international" dispute; it is also required to oversee individual countries in the case of human rights violation! This is why the UN has set up the so-called "Human Rights Council"!

So is it the responsibility of the Human Rights Council then? Not necessarily! Cause the UN Security Council has to follow the mission of the UN Charter, that is, all of the above functions, including HUMAN RIGHTS violation! To oversee the use of aggression of the Burmese dictator to its own people is within the scope of the UN Charter and is one of the functions of the UN Security Council.

The following video from CNN expresses concern about the missing monks in Burma after the brutal crackdown by the Burmese dictator:

http://edition.cnn.com/video/#/video/world/2007/10/11/chance.myanmar.missing.monks.cnn

The so-called restoration of peace within Burma is a disguise of more EVIL acts that is still conducted by the Burmese dictator!

Wednesday, October 10, 2007

Scene of Death of a Civilian and a Monk during the Burma Crackdown

Radio Free Asia's page covering Burma

http://www.rfa.org/english/news/social/2007/09/26/burma_fuelprotest/

A recent video on the effect of the crackdown on Karen State and Thailand (from AFPTV)

http://www.rfa.org/english/images/2007/10/04/burmese-video_3.html

A recent video showing a civilian and a monk killed during the crackdown (from AFP)

http://www.rfa.org/english/images/2007/10/02/burmese-video_2.html

Inside Myanmar: The Crackdown

The following is an extremely important video available on youtube that has documented the inside view of the brutal crackdown of the peaceful demonstration of monks and civilians by the Burmese dictator:

Boycotting Olympics not only for Burmese, Darfuris, and North Koreans, but also for Chinese!

This article has been posted in the "Support the Monks' protest in Burma Discussions" Facebook group:
http://www.facebook.com/board.php?uid=24957770200

I urge all of you, Bo supporters, to go to youtube to see what is actually happening to many Chinese citizens in China.

The so-called economic development in China has benefited only a small bunch of elite class Chinese, many of whom are directly related to the Chinese Communist Party.

One will be naive to believe that continuing economic development in China will eventually make China a free country. The economic development in China is NOT sustainable under the fake corrupt communist regime! It is only a matter of time for the time bomb to explode!

Yeah, boycotting China products will hurt Chinese in general. However, most Chinese are still farmers! They are the ones who are suffering from the so-called economic development.

BTW, any economy has economic down turns anyway. I believe the affluent small group of Chinese should not be that selfish! Remember most big corporations in China are now run by Chinese Communist Party members or their relatives. Let them suffer the most!

Boycott Olympics not only for Burmese, Darfuris, and North Koreans, but also for Chinese!

Boycotting products from China can also be good because many Chinese are suffering from seriously low quality products produced by many heartless corrupt businesses in China. The majority of Chinese consumers actually suffer from the so-called economic development, though many of them may not realize how bad it is (they will know it soon when they have cancer).

Therefore, boycott made in China, not only for Burmese, Darfuris, and North Koreans, but also for Chinese!

It is time to give dictators and heartless producers a wake up call!

2008 is the best and perhaps the ONLY chance for us, Chinese, to stand up and do something, not only for ourselves, but also for the world of third world dictatorial countries!

We can only live once. If there is any meaning to life at all, it would be to live to see that there is at least some justice and human dignity that we can pursue. We don't just go to work, eat, sleep, and die like other animals. But that's what the Chinese Communist Party wants you to do!

Thursday, October 4, 2007

Tu Tu May Boycott Beijing Olympics, if Situations in Burma and Darfur Do Not Improve

The following is a message from the Nobel Peace Prize Winner, Demond Tu Tu, on the possibility of Boycotting Beijing Olympics which is available on youtube:

Tuesday, August 28, 2007

Human Rights Torch Counters Communist Torch

The Global Human Rights Torch Relay launched by the CIPFG has started in Athen since August 9, 2007. Reportedly, the Human Rights Torch arrived in Berlin on August 25. According to the mission stated on the CIPFG.org website, the Global Human Rights Torch Relay aims at telling the Chinese Communist Party, a dictator in China, to stop the persecution of Falun Gong practitioners. Through the Global Human Rights Torch Relay, CIPFG calls on the international community to boycott the Olympic Games in Beijing as long as the crimes against humanity persists.

The following is a series of videos about the progress of the Human Rights Torch Relay:

Monday, August 27, 2007

South Koreans Say "No Human Rigths, No Olympics"

On August 18, 2007, some North Korean human rights activists held a protest denouncing Beijing Olympics in light of China's human rights violations as well as its repatriation of North Korean refugee's back to North Korea.

The following is a video on youtube showing how some North Korean human rights activities shouted "no human rights, no Olympics!" in Soeul, Korea.

Wednesday, August 15, 2007

China: Politicizing Product Safety but Not the Olympics

To the Chinese Communist Party, human rights are politics. In most advanced civilized nations, however, human rights are part of human principles and human value.

The Chinese Communist Party continually warns the world that no one should politicize the Olympics based on its major human rights violation in China. However, human rights groups all over the world believe the Olympics promotes human values and human principles and, therefore, the dismal human rights condition in china should be seriously considered in determining whether the Chinese Communist Party, a dictator in China, is legitimate to host the Olympics.

What is ironic is, the Chinese Communist Party has tried its best to politicize its own food and product safety problems in its exports to the world. Instead of trying to improve on its poor inspection and high corruption that have led to tainted food, exploding tires, and unsafe toys, the Chinese Communist Party has tried to unreasonably tighten its import standards for goods importing from Japan, Korea, Indonesia, and the U.S. Instead of admitting its negligence and liability, the Chinese Communist Party has tried to frame others countries as if they have been purposely using product safety to deter China's export growth.

Politicizing product safety, but not the Olympics, is certainly a strategy that the Chinese Communist Party has adopted. Unfortunately, whereas the Chinese Communist Party is a monopoly of all politics in China, it has no right to victimize conscious consumers in the world by selling them unsafe products. This is pure consumerism, not politics, when it comes to consumption of unsafe products.

Perhaps, the Chinese Communist Party should change their vocabularies as soon as possible before it is sanctioned by all the consumers all over the world. This is NOT politics, but conscious consumers' rational decision -- stop buying any suspicious products from China.

The following are two videos from the CNN News available on youtube about the problems of China unsafety products:

Reference:

http://www.azcentral.com/arizonarepublic/news/articles/
0815chinatrade0815.html

http://www.lawyersandsettlements.com/articles/01278/
chinese-defective-tires.html

http://www.indystar.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070814/
BUSINESS/708140334/1003/BUSINESS

http://www.forbes.com/feeds/ap/2007/08/04/ap3987697.html

http://www.denverpost.com/ci_6624636?source=poll

http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?alias=
china-suspends-some-us-po&chanId=sa003&modsrc=reuters_box

http://www.atimes.com/atimes/China_Business/HJ14Cb01.html

Monday, August 13, 2007

Designer of Olympics Bird Nest Criticizes Beijing Olympics

Ai WeiWei, a designer for Beijing Olympics stadiums, said Beijing was using pomp and propaganda to hide the true face of China. He cited many human rights violation cases in Beijing resulted from the Olympics. An example is labor exploitation of constructions workers at the Beijing Olympics sites. He also criticized the Chinese Communist Party that its effort to stop air pollution in Beijing just for the Olympics was pathetic.

The following is a video available on youtube posted by "AlJazeeraEnglish" containing an interview with Ai WeiWei:

Saturday, August 11, 2007

Beijing Olympics Renamed as Animal Olympics by Simon Clegg?

To defend against any boycott of Beijing Olympics, Simon Clegg, the British Olympic Association chief executive, has submissively agreed to the Chinese Communist Party propaganda that no one should "politicize" the Olympics. He has also implied that Human Rights problems in China is some "politics" that he and his association will not consider because they are "apolitical"!

If the Olympics no longer respects human rights and human value, should it be considered as an event for human beings at all? Can we call the Olympics "Animal Olympics" from now on? I suppose we may add to it events such as pig racing and cockroach racing! Why would the Olympics be restricted to human beings anyway?

I believe the committee members of the International Olympics Committee would not really mind after all. In their minds, human rights and human value are nothing compared to the sports event itself.

By treating human rights issues as political issues and by maintaining itself "apolitical", the International Olympics Committee may as well be called "International Animal Olympics Committee". Why would any of these apolitical members of the committee care anyway if they are indifferent to human rights. Calling their association an "animal organization" or calling the Olympics the "Animal Olympics" should not be a problem. I believe these apolitical people will accept the new name "peacefully"!

In any case, since Simon Clegg, the British Olympic Association chief executive, has openly declared that he is apolitical towards Human Rights issues, we can safely call him an "animal" and the British Olympic Association "the British Animal Olympic Association"! A person being apolitical on any human rights issues should certain be indifferent to being called an "animal" anyway! The Chinese Communist Party which has never respected much human rights in China can be called the "Chinese Animal Communist Party"! And no complain please cause we should keep everything "apolitical"!

Reference:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/08/11/wolym111.xml

Tibetans protesting in China

The "Students for a Free Tibet", an international organization has sent its members to China to protest against China's invasion and occupation of Tibet several times this year. They protested at least three times within China this year. Its members put up signs protesting against the communist Olympics to be hosted in Beijing and the invasion of Tibet by the Chinese Communist Party once in Beijing, once on the top of Mount Everest, and once at the Great Wall of China. Each time members of the Students for a Free Tibet were arrested and detained. The lastest episode was the arresting of the director of the Students for a Free Tibet in Beijing, who was writing her blog about the things happening there.

Reportedly, some of the members involved in these protests were released.

A banner put up in Beijing:

A banner put up on the top of Mount Everest:

A banner put up at the Great Wall of China:

Students of a Free Tibet Director, Lhadon Tethong, before Her Arrest:

Reference:

http://www.insidebayarea.com/trivalleyherald/ci_6600484

http://www.canada.com/topics/news/story.html?id=64827ead-77e4-45ed-8dac-b83c05b98830&k=71094

http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20070807/china_protest_070807/20070807?hub=TopStories

Monday, August 6, 2007

Hormone-free Pigs for Olympics, not for Chinese!

The Chinese Communist Party has suddenly realized that China with a high rate of economic growth has so many unsolvable problems, ranging from deaths of Chinese due to pollution to tainted food that kills foreign citizens and pets.

Despite lagging far behind the WWII losing country, Japan, in its economic and scientific development for more than a few decades, the Chinese Communist Party is trying its very best to showcase its "great achievements" through the hosting of the Olympics in 2008. With all the unsolvable problems that it has created in the name of economic development, the Chinese Communist Party has to defend its legitimacy as a government of China by covering up all these serious problems.

About a month ago, the Chinese Communist Party has started to move highly polluting industries away from Beijing. Now, it declares to supply Olympics athletes with hormone-free pork. Instead of promising Chinese citizens that it will provide long-term solutions to these obvious problems to save lives of Chinese and non-Chinese, the Chinese Communist Party has chosen to cover up these problems temporarily. No wonder this once-civilized and powerful country, China, has become a poor country with a per capita GDP less than one-tenth of that of the WWII loser Japan!

So, what will happen after the Olympics? Everything will be back to normal. Air pollution in Beijing will rise at around 20% a year, not to mention its sandstorm that is created by the colonization of Chinese in Inner Mongolia; tainted food will continue to kill Chinese and non-Chinese as usual without any serious control by the Chinese Communist Party.

What then is the meaning of the Olympics to be hosted in China in 2008? A big show that tells the world that no matter how corrupt a country is, it will still receive support from athletes and non-athletes all over the world in the name of sports! Don't mix up politics and sports. This is what the Chinese Communist Party tries to preach. One of these days, some Mafia organizations will be hosting some sports events too. Should we support them too? Someone will come out and tell us not to mix up public security and sports! Just watch out!

Reference:
http://sport.guardian.co.uk/breakingnews/feedstory/0,,-6830086,00.html

Saturday, August 4, 2007

Olympics Host Engages in Burmese Missile Race

A recent article by a Burmese human rights group, Human Dictator Watch, suggests that Russia and China might have helped the Burmese dictatorship in developing a new missile site which may create serious regional arms imbalance. The missiles alleged supplied by the North Korean dictatorship represent that target the airbases in Thailand represent a major threat not only to Thailand but its surrounding small countries.

Some research done by the BBC inside Burma has also suggested that there is evidence of uranium refinery in Burma. Will Burma turn into a second North Korea that receives consultation from Russia and China, eventually allowing it to come up with some evil intention of becoming a nuclear weapon possessing country?

The lack of weapon sale control and nuclear technology transfer makes the Olympics host, China, a dangerous and likely irresponsible power in the next ten years. Instead of invading Afghanistan, this new power is now well-known for imposing major threats to the world indirectly! From indirectly encouraging Iran and North Korea to maintain nuclear facilities without being sanctioned, to selling arms to Sudan and Burma, this Olympics host is certainly totally unprepared to become the world's number 3 economy.

Perhaps, it is time for the world to let this 2008 Olympics host understand the Spiderman philosophy, namely, "With great power, comes great responsibility."

World peace first, Olympics second!

What is the purpose for allowing a country that fails to keep up its responsibility of maintaining world peace to host the Olympics? There are so many human-right-respecting free countries in the world. Why should anyone, except for some irresponsible corporations, support the Olympics to hosted by a human-right-violating, world-peace-disrespecting communist dictatorship? Why should a global citizen spend even a penny on Olympics related commercial products which will eventually be used to strengthen the power of an irresponsible and dangerous dictatorship?

Reference:

http://www.dictatorwatch.org/articles/missilethreat2.html

Thursday, July 12, 2007

Limiting Foreigner Transplants Just For Olympics

The Chinese Communist Party has been seriously criticized by many human right advocates in some advanced nations for conducting internationally unacceptable practice of organ harvest. A study by two Canadian renowned politicians has shown solid evidence that the Chinese Communist Party has harvested internal organs from prisoners and Falun Gong practitioners without obtaining their consents. Some of the organs may even have been removed from these victims while they were still alive.

To avoid another boycott (besides the boycott due to Darfur genocide) of Beijing Olympics, the Chinese Communist Party has finally decided to cover up the organ harvest case by making organ transplants illegal for foreigners temporarily. The problem with the seemingly compromising action is that despite the restriction on foreigner transplants, there is no guarantee that prisoners and Falun Gong practitioners will not be executed without receiving fair trials.

The action also cannot guarantee that organs removed from prisoners will not be stored for future usage or even for exports. Still another problem is that the new restriction may be temporary and will be removed soon after Beijing Olympics is over.

The following are two videos uploaded by youtubers "GeorgiaY" and "pfict" about organ harvest conducted by the Chinese Communist Party:

References

http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,,-6754526,00.html

http://organharvestinvestigation.net/

http://www.hrw.org/reports/1994/china1/china_948.htm

http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO0706/S00288.htm

http://www.state.gov/g/drl/rls/rm/2001/3792.htm

Monday, July 9, 2007

"We Want Human Rights, Not Olympics" Champaign in China

Two Chinese dissidents who launched the "We Want Human Rights, Not Olympics" champaign were arrested. Reportedly, the champaign has successfully collected over 10,000 signatures from different parts of China. Supporters range from farmers and miners to students and professors.

Radio Free Asia (RFA) tried to confirm the incident with local police but did not receive any confirmation. A supporting miner told RFA that mine owners have consistently failed to pay them salaries. Complaint made to local Chinese Communist Party officials has so far been ineffective. This is one of the major reasons why he has supported the "We Want Human Rights, Not Olympics" champaign.

References
http://www.rfa.org/cantonese/xinwen/2007/07/09/china_petition/index.html?simple=1 (in Chinese)
http://www.rfa.org/cantonese/xinwen/2007/07/09/c0709sw.mp3?simple=1 (audio in Cantonese)

Bring Tibet to the 2008 Games

Nine Tibetan exciles living in Switzerland announced that they planned to form the Tibetan Team to participate in Beijing Olympics 2008. These Tibetans are now seeking moral support from the Swiss public, through offering training facility and sponsoring.

References
http://www.phayul.com/news/article.aspx?id=17107
http://supportteamtibet.org/

Sunday, July 8, 2007

Slavery Olympics and Slavery World Wonder

Slavery 2000 years ago and slavery 2000 years later!

This was China in the Chin Dynasty 2000 years ago and this is China under the communist regime 2000 years later. Anyone knows and anyone cares about the Great Wall of China being built by slaves back in the Chin Dynasty? The name China originated from the word "Chin" which was the name of an empire built by the barbaric Chin/Han race originally resided in the northwestern part of Asian Mainland around the Yellow River region.

Chin was initially a small barbaric country which was not civilized despite its advancement in warfare strategy and weapons 2000 years ago. After invading the eastern and the southern parts of Asia Mainland, it declared "unification" of a great nation when in fact it was nothing more than "invasion" of the more civilized countries in the eastern and in the southern parts of Asian Mainland.

The so-called "Chinese" history (official history written by the Chin Dynasty) recorded that after the invasion, the king of Chin had killed many scholars (perhaps civilized citizens in the southern nation) and burned many books (perhaps books and historical records written by the civilized race in the south, the Yuet race).

The king of Chin then enslaved many citizens from the southern nation and ordered them to build the so-called Great Wall of China which served to block any attacks from the even more barbaric race further north (the Huns).

The story of slavery did not end there! Recently, there was real slavery (as opposed to economic slavery) found in Shanxi province in China. Reportedly, local Chinese Communist officials ganged up with gangsters to abduct out-of-province laborers and children. They then sold them to kiln owners as slaves. From the media of Henan, 1000 children were missing. However, only about 100 were rescued. There was no further progress of the rescue being reported.

What is ironic is that in the name of stopping slavery, the Chinese Communist Party invaded Tibet, claiming that Tibetan monks were practicing slavery. What is more ironic is that the true slavery practitioner will be hosting the Olympic Games in 2008. What is even more ironic is that the symbol of slavery, the Great Wall of China, has just been elected as the number 1 World Wonder!

References
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601080&sid=aZfkR9j8L2i0&refer=asia

http://www.mnsu.edu/emuseum/prehistory/china/early_imperial_china/chin.html

http://www.languagehat.com/archives/000484.php

http://library.thinkquest.org/06aug/00396/china1.html

http://www.chinaembassy.org.in/eng/jy/t189018.htm

Saturday, July 7, 2007

"What Ifs" of Beijing Olympics

1. What if air pollution in Beijing is not getting better? It has been known that every year, some professional athletes going to the Hong Kong Standard Chartered Bank Marathon end up with some health problems, ranging from fainting to heart attacks. Will international athletes die at the Beijing Olympics or at least have their performance negatively affected due to severe air pollution?

2. What if tap water gets polluted? It is known that China under the so-called "communist regime" does not have any good public health care system. Where would international athletes receive medical treatment and at what costs?

3. What if the victims of forced eviction in the name of Olympics protest on the street blocking Marathon runners from finishing their race?

4. What if Taiwan declares itself an independent state permanently departing from Mainland China? Will Beijing Olympics turn out to be the first War Olympics or Invasion Olympics in human history?

5. What if North Korea and Iran announce that they will speed up their nuclear weapon development programs and the U.S. would like China to vote at the UN Security Council for immediate sanction against these countries? Will the U.S. boycott Beijing Olympics at the middle of the game when China declines the sanction proposal?

6. What if reporters from all over the world who go to China insist in reporting news related to Tibet, East Turkistan, and other even more sensitive issues? Will reporters boycott all forms of coverage of Beijing Olympics when some of them are arrested reporting the sensitive issues?

7. What if Olympics catering carelessly feeds international athletes with poisonous food which leads to the death of some of them?

8. What if some of the Olympics constructions collapse due the use of fake or substandard construction materials?

9. What if human right groups march to the street in Beijing protesting against the human right violation by the Chinese Communist Party in China? What if the majority of Chinese demand immediate political reform towards democracy at the middle of the Olympics?

10. What if severe sandstorm continue non-stop for a week?

11. What if college students in Beijing repeat what happened on June 4, 1989?

12. What if the People's Liberation Army officials press a wrong button and launch a missile carrying a nuclear warhead that eventually hits Japan?

13. What if the Chinese Patriotic Catholic Church accuses the Pope of provoking Chinese Catholics to revolt against the Chinese Communist Party? Will the Pope announce a world-wide boycott of the Olympics by all Catholics right at the middle of the Olympics?

14. Will the numerous riots and protests in China get even bigger and more frequent during the Olympic Games? Will the Chinese Communist Party declare Martial Law and impose curfew on all people, including international athletes, in Beijing?

Well, the possibilities seem endless! Perhaps, any imaginative being will be able to create another list that is much longer and much more likely to happen than mine!

Thursday, July 5, 2007

Global Protest by Activists Against Beijing Olympics on August 8

Reportedly, some right groups have planned to protest against Beijing Olympics 2008 on Aug. 8, exactly one year prior to the opening ceremonies.

Amnesty International is considering a demonstration at the Chinese embassy in Washington. Dictator Watch (www.dictatorwatch.org) a watchdog of Burma genocide has also announced at its website that it has set Aug. 8 as the "Worldwide Day of Action". Tibetans have also planned for actions at Major League Baseball Games and will formally launch a Web site focusing on the Olympics.

The recent face saving actions taken to improve human right conditions in China by the Chinese Communist Party have been seen as superficial. Reportedly, 1000 child slaves were abducted by local gangsters and Chinese Communist Party members in Shanxi. So far, however, only a hundred or so have been rescued and 12 only people have being prosecuted.

On the issue of Darfur Genocide, the Chinese Communist Party has finally agreed that the UN may send peacemaking troops to Sudan to avoid massive genocide to take place. However, the Chinese Communist Party is still strongly against any form of economic sanction against the Sudanese dictatorship.

On organ harvesting, instead of seriously arresting Party members involved in organ harvesting, the Chinese Communist Party has set restrictions on foreigners for obtaining organs possibly harvested from unwilling prisoners and Falun Gong practitioners.

On other international issues such as violation of human rights, jailing dissidents with fair trials, suppression of religion, suppression of freedom of expression, invasion of Tibet, copyright violation, etc, the Chinese Communist Party has been known to be firm for ignoring any international pressure.

References
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/07/05/AR2007070501145_2.html

http://dictatorwatch.org

http://www.notonourwatchproject.org/

http://www.racefortibet.org/

Tuesday, July 3, 2007

A World Bank Report Indicates a Clean Beijing Olympics Unlikely

Whereas the Chinese Communist Party has become more sensitive to its environment record, a study conducted by the World Bank has indicated that more than 750,000 Chinese die of air-pollution related diseases prematurely every year. This report certainly smacks on the face of the Environmental Department in China which just declared that the Chinese Communist Party would dedicate its full effort to make Beijing Olympics a "Green Olympics".

Ironically, the Chinese Communist Party had just warned the World Bank that the report should cut off the intimidating figure to avoid any panic. The final version of the World Bank air pollution report, therefore, may not contain the important figure about the horrifying truth about the severity of China air pollution. However, that does not mean the Chinese Communist Party will be able to control air pollution. It only shows once again that the Chinese Communist Party is able to control media as usual.

References
http://marketplace.publicradio.org/shows/2007/07/03/PM200707033.html

http://www.commentarymagazine.com/contentions/index.php/chang/605

Monday, July 2, 2007

A Video on the March of July 1 in Hong Kong

63,000 Hong Kongers participated in the march of July 1 to protest against the blockage of universal suffrage by the Chinese Communist Party. The following is a video available on youtube:

Sunday, July 1, 2007

68,000 People March in Hong Kong Showing Dissatisfaction of the Communist Regime

There were about 68,000 protesters in Hong Kong who joined the July 1 March to voice their dissatisfaction about the Chinese Communist Regime.

Under the Basic Law, an agreement set up jointly by the U.K. government and the Chinese Communist Party in China, Hong Kong has been entitled the unconditional right to elect its own governor and members of its Legislative Council. The Chinese Communist Party has continually argued unilaterally without fundamental justification that the Basic Law is a "subset" of the Constitution of China under the communist regime. Therefore, the right of Universal Suffrage can only been granted by the Chinese Communist Party.

Dissatisfaction and mistrust amongst the people in Hong Kong towards the Chinese Communist Party has been growing since the outbreak of SARS in 2003. This continues to be the case despite the tighter control exerted by the Chinese Communist Party over the media in Hong Kong and Hong Kong's booming economy.

Most protesters are angry about the continual obstruction of the Universal Suffrage by the Chinese Communist Party which has been the basic right of Hong Kong people granted by the Basic Law. As of today, the Chief Executive of Hong Kong who was appointed by the Chinese Communist Party has refused to state a clear road map or a timetable for when Universal Suffrage will actually occur.

The Universal Suffrage in Hong Kong is believed by most of the people in Hong Kong as an good example which will eventually guide the political reform in China.

The Chinese Communist Party has been a dictatorship in China since 1949.

References
http://www.itv.com/news/index_08115b57f934beada26151b2f8d6864f.html

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20070701.whongkong0701/BNStory/Front/home

http://www.kansascity.com/451/story/172774.html

http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/nationworld/bal-te.hongkong01jul01,0,620049.story?coll=bal-nationworld-headlines

Saturday, June 30, 2007

Olympic Freedom T-Shirt Movement

Mr. Kai Chen, an Los Angeles resident, has printed up 500 T-shirts with his own money and has begun a campaign asking athletes and tourists to wear his T-shirt when they take part in the 2008 Beijing Olympics.

Reportedly, the front of the white cotton shirt bears the words "Beijing 1989 Tiananmen," with the red font dripping down onto "2008 Olympics".

Reference
http://www.youpai.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=2830

Thursday, June 28, 2007

Rise of East Turkestan Militants and Beijing Olympics

The Chinese Communist Party has invaded East Turkistan since the end of WWII. East Turkistanis have been suppressed in many aspects, such as no regligious freedom, strict population control, isolation from the world, deprivation of education opportunities, racial discrimination, colonization by Mainland Chinese, etc.

Normal East Turkistanis have remained rather neutral and wish to receive more religious freedom. They still represent the majority of East Turkistanis in the so-call "Xinjiang/Uighur" region (formally known as East Turkistan/East Turkestan in history). Reportedly, however, Uighur militant groups (such as the East Turkestan Islamic Movement) have grown larger and have developed some linkage with al-Qaida. These militants receive training from the al-Qaida and desperately want East Turkestan to regain its previous status as an independent state.

Human rights group, such as Amnesty International, have repeatedly suggested to the Chinese Communist Party that its suppression of human rights in the region is not a solution to the East Turkistan problem. In fact, such suppression only turns a normal East Turkistani into an aggressive militant.

Some other sources (such as the Council of Foreign Relations), however, do not believe the claim by the Chinese Communist Party that Xinjiang separatist groups, including the ETIM, really threaten Chinese control of the region. The potential for the Uighur conflict to radicalize certainly, on the other hand, makes the Beijing Olympics much more unsafe than most people would expect.

The above photo is from http://www.uygur.org

Reference

http://www.isn.ethz.ch/news/sw/details.cfm?ID=17802

http://www.cfr.org/publication/9179/#7

Sunday, June 24, 2007

Invading Taiwan using Olympics Torch

The Beijing Olympics organizers have warned Taiwan, a virtually independent state that could not get a UN membership because of political reasons, that if it does not allow the Olympics Torch to pass through, then Taiwanese atheletes will not be able to participate in Beijing Olympics in 2008.

The organizer proposed that the torch should arrive in Taiwan from Vietnam on April 30, 2008. Then the torch will go to Hong Kong and Macau, two cities occupied by China since 1997 and 1999. Many Taiwanese have pushed for a route that passes Taiwan via Asian countries other than China.

According to the Olympics Charter, the Olympic Games are hosted by cities and participants are individual athletes, instead of individual nations. Using the Olympics torch as a political threat to force individual athletes out of the Olympics is a major violation of the Olympics Charter!

Reference
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/O/OLY_BEIJING_TORCH_RELAY?SITE=PAGRE&SECTION=SPORTS&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2007-06-23-11-11-06

Saturday, June 23, 2007

Green Games Turn Grey

To prepare for Beijing Olympics 2008, the Chinese Communist Party has set some pollution target for Beijing.

It turns out that Beijing was unable to meet the target in May. In fact, the month of May turned out to be the most pollution month of the year!

By moving polluting industries out of Beijing, the Chinese Communist Party has been hoping to reduce the level of air pollution in Beijing to an acceptable level so that Beijing can host Olympics 2008 in a "glamorous" way! As usual, the Chinese Communist Party has overlooked many factors. The Northwestern region is the culprit for producing the smog in Beijing. Moving a bunch of substandard powerplants or factories in Beijing cannot solve the air pollution problem in Beijing because the pollutants are produced in areas close to Beijing but not in Beijing itself.

Now, the Chinese Communist Party must be worried about their dreams in their own world because their so-called "Green Games" will turn grey!

Reference
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB118256486878245550.html?mod=googlenews_wsj

Boycott Beijing Olympics 2008 for Burma

In seek of more natural resources that can fuel its high caliber of economic growth, China has been aligning with third world Asian and African countries, regardless of whether these countries have extremely poor human rights records.

In 2005, for instance, PetroChina signed an agreement with the Burmese dictatorship to obtain 6.5 trillion cubic feet of natural gas. In addition, China imported timber, gems, marbles, and other national resources from Burma. In exchange, China provided medicine, facilities, chemical products, agricultural technology, ... and above all, tanks, missiles, fighter planes, machine guns, ...

The current Burma is a military-state and a dictatorship. China is now the major supplier providing the Burmese dictatorship with 90% of its arms and amunition.

Human right reports indicate with photos and other solid evidence that the Burmese Army burns down villages, beats up children, and kills civilians. Some civilians become slaves working without any wages.

The Burmese Army also gang rapes women throughout Shan, Karen, Chin, and other states in Burma. To date, it is estimated that there are 2 million Burmese refugees. A huge number of people have been killed or died from disease and malnutrition with their homes destroyed.

The following video is dedicated to the boycott of Beijing Olympics 2008 for those Burmese who are suffering from the genocide committed by the Burmese dictatorship.

References

http://www.hrsolidarity.net/mainfile.php/1998vol08no07/1571/

http://www.christiantoday.com/article/report.documents.persecution.rape.atrocities.in.burma/10137.htm

Dictator Watch www.dictatorwatch.org

Free Burma Rangers www.freeburmarangers.org

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Fuck!, Beijing still favored to land 2008 Olympics

Fuck! Beijing still favored to land 2008 Olympics

By Vicki Michaelis and Bill Nichols, USA TODAY

Angry members of Congress are trying to make China pay for detaining a U.S. reconnaissance plane and its 24 crewmembers. One increasingly popular option: blocking Beijing's bid for the 2008 Summer Olympics. Don't count on it working. For reasons ranging from the International Olympic Committee's voting habits to the pressure from U.S. corporations eager to gain access to the world's most populous country, all signs point toward Beijing's landing the 2008 Summer Games.

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It's not a done deal, of course. But Olympic experts say that only China's record on human rights could derail Beijing's candidacy, as it did in 1993 when Beijing lost by two votes to Sydney for the 2000 Games. It's also clear that saber rattling by Congress, either over the plane standoff or China's human-rights record, won't help defeat China's bid. In fact, congressional resolutions condemning Beijing actually could stoke anti-U.S. sentiment and end up building support for Beijing.

"They can pass resolutions," says South Korea's Un Yong Kim, the IOC's most influential Asian and a candidate to become the IOC's next president, "but I don't think it will affect secret votes."

The 126 voting members of the IOC will cast their secret ballots for the 2008 host July 13 at a meeting in Moscow. They will choose among Beijing, Istanbul, Paris, Toronto and Osaka, Japan.

Beijing's front-runner status can be traced to the loss to Sydney and IOC selections that encourage runners-up to try again. Salt Lake City, the 2002 Winter host, finished second to Nagano, Japan, for the 1998 Games. Athens, Greece, the 2004 host, finished second to Atlanta for the 1996 Summer Games. China earned points before the Sydney Olympics by answering the IOC call to eliminate drug use. China suspended more than a dozen of its star athletes because of positive drug tests.

"All five cities are good," Kim says of the 2008 contenders. "But I think Beijing is very strong."

Members of Congress also are aware of the likelihood that Beijing will host the Games. The State Department is mum on the topic of China and the Olympics. White House officials say President Bush will take no position on China's bid.

But the growing likelihood that Beijing will win the right to host the Games probably isn't going to diminish the rising chorus of anti-Beijing rhetoric that's sure to come in the weeks leading up to the vote in Moscow.

Other measures Congress could take against China, such as repealing its most-favored trade status or pushing for upgraded U.S. weapons sales to Taiwan, could have negative political consequences for legislators or harm U.S. business interests.

Opposing Beijing's Olympic bid, on the other hand, is seen as a political free kick. In the House of Representatives, a sense-of-Congress resolution urging the IOC not to award the Games to Beijing unless China improves its human-rights record is seen as likely to pass. A similar bill is pending in the Senate.

House Majority Whip Tom DeLay, R-Texas, says he won't have to even rev up his legendary vote-getting machine to work for the resolution, which passed the House International Relations Committee by a 27-8 vote last month. "I won't have to. That'll pass overwhelmingly," DeLay says.

Sen. Fred Thompson, R-Tenn., says he hasn't made up his mind whether he'll support a resolution opposing Beijing's bid, but he doesn't rule it out. "In terms of political atmosphere, I think they've hurt themselves," he says of China. "They're almost forcing Congress to react."

Human-rights activists already are incensed at China's crackdown on the Falun Gong spiritual movement and detention of three U.S.-based scholars. So they cringe at the proposal from Beijing to stage the 2008 marathon, triathlon and cycling events in and around Tiananmen Square, the site of armed reprisals against student demonstrators in 1989.

Human Rights Watch insists that China should host the Games only if it takes the unlikely step of formally agreeing to improve its human-rights record.

"We do think the human-rights record of any country should be taken into consideration by the International Olympic Committee," says Mike Jendrzejczyk, Washington director of Human Rights Watch's Asia division. "We think the IOC should minimally insist on assurances that if Beijing is chosen, the international media would have unrestricted access to the country ... and there would be no one arrested or punished for staging peaceful demonstrations."

A vow to stay out of politics

Even the four IOC members from the USA say they cannot let U.S. government officials influence their vote. IOC members take an oath to keep themselves free from political or commercial influence.

"We're walking kind of a fine line," says U.S. member Bob Ctvrtlik, a former Olympic volleyball player. "Of course, I'm an American. After competing for the U.S. for 14 years, I feel very strongly about that. But you counterbalance that with the fact that I took an oath that I would try to keep politics out of my decision-making."

Ctvrtlik, referring to the Olympic boycotts by the USA and the former Soviet Union in 1980 and 1984, adds, "If you look at Olympic history, some of the darkest periods have been when politics get too closely intertwined."

Anita DeFrantz, the highest-ranking American in the IOC, in 1980 was a rower caught between following her Olympic dream and the Carter administration's boycott of the Moscow Games over the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan.

DeFrantz opposed the decision, organized fellow athletes and served as the named plaintiff in a class-action lawsuit that alleged U.S. athletes deserved to go to the Games. "I have stood up to the most powerful man on the face of the Earth on behalf of the Olympic movement," she says of her actions from that time, and she appears ready to stand just as firm now.

DeFrantz also is trying to win the respect and support of IOC members as one of the five candidates campaigning to succeed IOC President Juan Antonio Samaranch, who will step down July 16. Any stance that would offer the appearance she is putting U.S. government concerns ahead of IOC guidelines would hurt her campaign.

One of her rivals in the race, and a man considered by many the favorite to win it, is Jacques Rogge of Belgium. Rogge also was an Olympic athlete in 1980, in sailing, and also opposed the Moscow boycott. He is similarly opposed to allowing U.S.-China tensions to have an impact on the 2008 decision.

"This is a political issue, and it has nothing to do with the election, which is basically to make a choice on a sports event," he says.

Rogge's view seems to be a popular one among his IOC peers, especially in Europe, which is the home continent of nearly half the IOC members (59 of 126).

"It's between two superpowers," says Johann Olav Koss, an IOC member and former Olympic speedskater from Norway, of the surveillance plane standoff. "This incident should not be the issue of the Olympic Games."

In this election for the 2008 Games, human rights, as Canadian IOC member Dick Pound said earlier this year, is "the issue," just as it was in 1993.

"That's what people talk about: Can the Olympics help (China) open up, or will the Olympics be used as a message saying it is OK?" Koss says.

A number of leading human-rights groups believe that awarding the 2008 Games to Beijing actually could help improve China's human-rights record. "We see it as a chance to push the Chinese government to change its image. They really want this. And they're willing to give things up for it," says Andrew Wells-Dang, program director at the Asia-Pacific Center for Justice and Peace.

Lingering anti-American feeling

Another problem facing opponents of Beijing's bid is lingering anti-U.S. feeling within the IOC. Some members are likely to turn a particularly deaf ear to the United States in the wake of the Salt Lake scandal.

The scandal, in which bid committee officials gave $1 million in cash, gifts, scholarships and other inducements to IOC members to vote for Salt Lake City, strained relations between the USA and IOC. Ten IOC members resigned or were expelled as a result. Members took umbrage at the U.S. government's investigations into the vote-buying scheme.

IOC members "don't care what the U.S. has to say," says Ed Hula, editor ofAround the Rings, a newsletter that covers the Olympic movement and the IOC. "Their attitude is, 'We'll be damned if they try to tell us how to think.' "

The IOC might not heed the U.S. government, but in the money-talks tally, the USA has more influence. Among all member countries of the IOC, the USA is the biggest contributor by far to IOC revenue. U.S.-based companies hold the majority of Olympic sponsorships, and NBC has paid the IOC $3.5 billion for Olympic broadcast rights through the 2008 Games.

NBC officially denies having any preference in the 2008 bid election. "We have nothing to do with the selection process," says Kevin Sullivan, a spokesman for NBC Sports.

An Olympics in Toronto rather than Beijing, however, likely would reduce NBC's travel costs and problems with dealing with time differences, which the network felt hurt its ratings in the Sydney Games.

A more important factor, when it comes to the commercial and corporate pressures on the IOC, is that Olympic sponsors salivate at the thought of gaining access to Beijing's burgeoning marketplace.

U.S. business leaders invested in China hope leaders in Beijing are correct in thinking that the plane standoff won't affect the IOC decision. But they're still worried. "It concerns me that it could have an impact on an area where it shouldn't have an impact," says American Chamber of Commerce in China board member Emory Williams, president of Chicago-based construction materials maker Sureblock Co. Sureblock has 200 employees in China. "Politics and sports need to be kept apart."

The Chamber, with about 1,300 members, issued several statements of support for Beijing's bid before the plane incident. Business officials such as Williams want the Olympics in China for the same reason the Chinese government does: They believe it will blast away remaining economic barriers and lead to potentially huge profits for investors in China.

The IOC has 10 top-level sponsors, including U.S.-based companies such as Coca-Cola, John Hancock and McDonald's, signed for at least $50 million each through 2004. Olympic sponsorships for 2005-08 could be worth close to $100 million each to the IOC.

The power of the Games

Many IOC watchers believe that Samaranch, the aging patriarch of the Olympics, also will wield influence over the 2008 decision — although quietly. "I'm sure he will not get involved,"says Kim, one of Samaranch's closest confidantes on the IOC's executive board, hastening to add: "But I'm sure he hopes 1.2 billion people (the population of China) will get the Olympics."

Says Rogge: "I think generally the IOC would want some day to have the Games in China. It's the biggest country in the world."

Samaranch promotes the universality of the Games and fashions them as a path to political truce.

Before the Sydney Olympics, he wrote to the leaders of South Korea and North Korea to suggest their delegations march together in the opening ceremony. When an agreement to do so was struck, Samaranch called it "a sign to all the world that the desire of the two Koreas is to unify the country."

Samaranch and many other IOC members also tout the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul as contributing to South Korea's transition from dictatorship to democracy.

"The Olympics changed a lot," Kim says of the effect the 1988 Games had on his country. "That's what Olympics do."

Contributing: Steve Friess in Beijing; Kathy Kiely, Jessica Lee and Michael Hiestand in Washington.

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