nothing new in this NYtimes article (unfortunately), but gut-wrenching to read nonetheless..
as a westerner living in china, one still hopes, despite the record of the CCP - most especially in recent months, that the olympics can bring real change rather than just a bigger, shinier facade. however, it progressively appears to have been a questionable move by the IOC (seemingly with the support of the majority in the international community) to grant a dishonourable autocracy such an honourable privilege, as the parallels to 1938 become too eerily close for anyone to ignore. are we being fooled?
mm
(great photo by diego azubel)
HUANG QI on wikipediaLabels: 2008
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