Aug 14
minipost-(Letter) Are the Protest Parks Being Used?
Written by: MutantJedi | Filed under:-mini-posts, Analysis | Tags:olympics, Parks, Protesters
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From the BBC, Protests still unwelcome in Beijing: Continue reading »
Aug 14
(Letter) Chinese gymnasts age controversy
Written by: guest | Filed under:culture, Letters, News | Tags:age fixing, gymnastics, olympics
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Last night after the women’s gymnastics team final, NBC announcer Bella Caroli commented that the Chinese team cheated with underage athletes, and their passports were doctored by the Chinese government.
After some digging, it seems the age allegation had surfaced some time ago, but was quelled after passports and birth certificates where produced to the satisfaction of the gymnasts federation in charge.
Have not seen much of this since, except the NBC commentator and some 2nd tier reporting from NYT.
The reporter mentioned that there were some government documents on this, so I set out to find them. Here’s what I found while searching the gov.cn domain:
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Aug 14
minipost-From the Beijing Olympics, Come the Drums of Change
Written by: bianxiangbianqiao | Filed under:-mini-posts | Tags:China, olympics
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Harold Meyerson at the Washington Post compares the Beijing Olympics with Russian involvement in Georgia and believes that the Olympics are a game-changing event in world history while Russia’s Georgian adventure is not. The theme of the Chinese model of development offering an alternative to Western democracy has been repeated by many in Western media. Continue reading »
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