Boycotts themselves are kinda stupid.  What happens if we boycott China or put economic sanctions on Iran? (Which has been tried but Russia loves their iranian oil.)

I'll tell you what, it sure isn't the guys who have control that are missing meals... and if their country has any good sense of propaganda you can bet all the peoples hate will be directed at "the evil west who deny us food!"

Boycotts only work in places where the people decide the government, or where the government is unstable enough to where there is basically already a fairly strong liberation force going. 

I do agree that the electoral college should go. Which US citizens cannot vote? Are you refering to prisoners? Which classification of government do you propose that we belong to?  Edit: Also, please provide an example of a democracy by your definition.

I'm not for boycotting China at all, in any respect.  I think capitolism in China has had a stablizing effect and has tied them to us.  This keeps them from ever really wanting to do anything to piss us off. 

Yes I was in fact completely wrong. Still that said, I don't belive the skin tones are a million miles apart

http://www.javno.com/slike/slike_3/r1/g2007/m03/x93135202333537155.jpg

http://whoisbarackobama.name/who-is-barack-obama.jpg

Skin tone is a lot different then race...

They should of had it in Toronto instead

Both China and India are forcing oil prices up due to their high demand  for oil. both countries industries have grown 10 fold in the past 10 years where they become more industrialised. Less oil is left for the rest of the world due to increased demand and consumption in both China and India. Global oil prices are forced up due to limited supply of oil.

@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.

kasz216
you might be the face of western apathy to call indians middle-easterns
anyways,it really amazes me to see how the americans just assume that the moral high ground is theirs, in any argument.i mean it is ridiculous, telling a country with 1.3 billion people how to do things. if the people dont like the governance, theyll deal with it(with a revolution if needed).no need for western countries to champion their cause
and i feel that a country with a population as large as that needs some sort of control over the people for functioning properly.well, at the very least china doesnt try to control other countries.
objectively speaking, china is on the right track. working hard now
the human rights can be restored once the country achieves its financial goals

Yes I meant prisoners.

I don´t know what classification your goverment would have some kind of hybrid between democracy and republic but mostly leaning to republic.

There are more then a few European countries that have good examples on a good democracy.