We at SFT have said for some time that China’s occupation of Tibet makes it unworthy to host the Olympic Games. For people uninterested in Tibet per se, the Chinese government’s brutal actions there serve as a useful proxy: if it is capable of such crimes in Tibet, what does this say about its overall […]
SFT has always said that the Chinese government is using the Beijing Olympics to whitewash its image. Now China scholar Ross Terrill has analyzed the Chinese government’s Olympics strategy in the context of its Orwellian desire to sanitize the “truth.”
In an op-ed in the New York Times (also carried in the International Herald Tribune), Mr. Terrill […]
To see Lhadon’s amazing video of the barbaric “Racist Park,” please click here or read more on her blog. It’s enough to leave one speechless and nauseated.
Lhadon wrote a heart-wrenching blog post about her visit to the “Racist Park” in Beijing (now called the “National Ethnic Minorities Park”). She described the sickening, imperialist, and, yes, racist attitude that the Chinese government takes toward Tibetans and other “minority” peoples (check out Lhadon’s video and photos):
Seeing this twisted place firsthand has only stoked […]
Bird’s nest soup is an expensive delicacy in China. It uses the nest of a swiftlet, a swallow-like bird that builds its home out of its own hardned saliva. To a Tibetan used to a diet of yak meat and tsampa (roasted barley), eating avian spittle sounds funny to say the least. But no one […]
James Fallows of The Atlantic has a post up about Beijing’s air quality and the Olympics that is making the rounds in the blogosphere. It has some scary photos of the near-toxic levels of air pollution that the citizens of Beijing have to contend with.
Mr. Fallows asks: “To the obvious question — how could you possibly have a […]
In the dark sea of international espionage, China’s preparations for the Beijing Olympics keep making waves. We previously discussed China’s spying and infiltration efforts against groups it considers hostile to its interests, as well as China’s widespread economic espionage. Today’s Taipei Times carried a piece by J. Michael Cole, who was involved with […]
Yesterday we wrote about China’s efforts to spy upon and infiltrate organizations supporting human rights, Tibet, Darfur, etc. in the run-up to the Beijing Olympics. Of course, there is also the case of Chen Yonglin, a recent Chinese embassy defector who described covert efforts by the Chinese government to spy upon and infiltrate Falun […]
A columnist for the Boston Globe tried an experiment for personal reasons that many of us have done as a political statement:
For all of 2005, my family swore off Chinese imports. People figured we were standing up for Tibet or protesting lost American jobs, but our reason was personal, not political. It was an experiment. […]
Carcinogenic shrimp? Lead-laced children’s toys? Toxic toothpaste? Defective car tires? We are shocked, shocked to see that “Made in China” goods turn out to be substandard, dangerous, or even deadly. Yet the stories keep coming, unraveling like the end of a “Made in China” sweater.
Who knew that Chinese goods are […]
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