According to an AP wire story, China isn’t happy with Steven Spielberg:
Hollywood director Steven Spielberg’s decision to quit the Beijing Olympics over the Darfur crisis is drawing condemnation by China’s state-controlled media and a groundswell of criticism from the Chinese public.
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In newspaper commentaries and lively Internet forums, they have expressed outrage, scorn and bewilderment that China’s Olympics have come under international criticism from Spielberg and others.
Welcome to the club. Yeah, they don’t like me either.
I don’t know why the Chinese internet firewall blocks Windypundit. Maybe it’s because I’ve used the T-word. And by “T-word” I mean the Tiananmen Square massacre where the thugs who run China murdered at least 1000 innocent protesters. That T-word.
I tend to think that a policy of engagement has a chance of improving conditions in China—mostly because our policy of isolation has been such a dismal failure in Cuba—so I have nothing in general against people who trade with China.
On the other hand, I see it as a carrot-and-stick approach, so I think it’s great that some people tell the Chinese government to go to hell.
I totally agree with you, Mark. The facist thugs running China want to have the best of both worlds – free trade & no interference in their totalitarian world. Gimme a break. The China Olympics are going to be the biggest political cluster-f**k since the Berlin Olympics. Yeah, that really shut up the Germans, didn’t it? It stopped them from murdering 6 million jews, gypsies and assorted eastern europeans who didn’t fit into their plans.
Free speech? Nah, the chinese don’t need it. What’s worse are the millions of 20-something middle class Chinese citizens who could care less about their shrinking human rights. I think Trotsky or Lenin said of these types “useful idiots”!