2008 Beijing Olympic Games should be boycotted.

[Profcrab]

Rock_on_2008 said:

hsrob said:
@Rock_on_2008: How dare China and India try and expand their economies, it's a damned disgrace.

@Profcrab: good point about boycotts and ELECTED governments.

Let's say we boycott the Olympics, then what? China loses face and a bit of money on tourism which is not exactly a large part of the GDP anyway and then......... China gets bad press in WESTERN newspapers (Chinese papers will say that the west boycotted because they are afraid of China's strength and are racist). In this regard you are playing right into the governments hand and feeding the propaganda machine and promoting ignorant nationalism. The human rights record will be brought into the spotlight for a few days or weeks and then what, business continues as usual? It doesn't make any sense.

China are terrible abusers of human rights. China is run by a Communist military dictatorship

While the Western world slides into a recession. India and China, economies grow and prosper at the expense of the Western world. For there to be a winner there must always be a loser. Such is life.

 

China is very far from a communism at this point. They are now simply an authoritarian government. With big business growing in China, their government will be eventually forced to change by a new class of people, powerful business owners. Some people demand that China to change now, I'm simply happy that they are on different road that will lead to a different China in the future. I understand that everyone wants the world to be "Shinny Happy People" but it just will never be that way. Sometimes you just have to be happy when some places get less crappy than they were before.