Watching China and Burma guard each others' backs this week is something I'm finding amusing. I shouldn't, because people die for it, but they pretend like their word has any weight in the world of human rights. I'm sure that SPDC's advice regarding the Chinese Olympics and human rights is being taken very seriously by the IOC, but probably not quite as seriously as how much money China has.
Another interesting development, and one I applaud, is the IOC demanding that China has open internet access during the Olympics. This is a clever way to circumvent the argument China uses which states that the Olympics are blind to politics. IOC says that journalists need to be able to freely cover the Beijing Olympics as they've been able to do in years past, so in this way politics isn't being given attention, but at the same time, if the internet is open in China, you can bet that quite a few cats will be let out of quite a few bags.
I'm sure that China will create some sort of local network connected to unlimited internet in the area around the stadium, thus allowing nobody but reporters open access, thus beating any hope for those who live in China having access to the outside world. Still it is humorous to think of the stress that's probably causing in Beijing right now.
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