1,439 days and counting!

As the countdown gets underway for the beginning of the 2008 Summer Games in China, this website will archive those news reports that show the undemocratic and close-minded side of the Chinese communists, in the hope that by the time the Games begin, maybe, just maybe the great dictatorial bully Red China (some people say it is just Pink China now, Pink Capitalist China), with great babes, by the way, and very nice people. China, reform thyself!

I was once told by a person in Shanghai that if I insisted on saying in my emails that Taiwan was a separate country from China, and that China had a very poor record on human rights, then I was not welcome to visit Beijing for the Olympics of 2008! Imagine that! This imbecile Communist robot in Shanghai, angry because I told him the truth, tells me that I am not welcome in his country if I say things like that! Well, you know what, Bubba, I am NOt going to your country for the Games in 2008, screw you! And screw you Communist masters! And I urge all other peace-loving and freedom-loving people from around the world to boycott Beijing that summer. Unless things change.....and change is in the air. Let's hope for the best. The Chinese people are good people, it's their heartless leaders that are to blame....

1,439 days and counting! It's not so long away!

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China sets the stage for 2008

by Jay Weiner,

Star Tribune

August 29, 2004

As the Athens Olympic Games close today, 1,439 days remain until the Opening Ceremony for the 2008 Beijing Olympics.

China, ahead of schedule in constructing facilities, is already on a methodical mission to win more medals than ever before. Where once there was a Great Leap Forward toward technological modernization, now there is a great run, swim, dive and leap forward toward international sports supremacy.

"Because China is a developing power in the world, sport is quite influential to the people," Xiao Tian, a vice president of the Chinese Olympic Committee. "It brings joy, happiness and encouragement to our people." {IT ALSO TURNS THEM INTO RAVING LUNATIC NATIONALISTIC FANATICAL ZOMBIE MINDCONTROLLED FREAKS! WATCH OUT! - added by website editor.}

In Greece, Chinese athletes have won medals in 20 different sports, including cycling, sailing, tennis and, most important to them, track and field.

There, Liu Xiang, 21, won the 110-meter hurdles and became the first Chinese man to win a track gold.

"I'm very proud for my country, Asia and yellow-skinned people," he said.

[Editor's note: YELLOW SKINNED PEOPLE? THIS IS ABOUT RACE NOW, MR LIU?]

The Beijing Games will have to deal with an assortment of political issues. One is the nation's human rights policies, which delayed the International Olympic Committee's decision to award the Games to Beijing. China had bid for the 2000 Games and was turned down until winning the bid for 2008 three years ago. {WHAT HUMAN RIGHTS POLICIES?}

"I'm sorry to tell you that the understanding of human rights differs, as do our religions, nationalities, history and culture," said the Chinese Olympic Committee's Xiao in response to questions about the issue. "Maybe conflict will arise in discussions of this topic."

[WE'RE SORRY TOO, MR XIAO.]

Another matter is the complex nature of relationships with Hong Kong and Taiwan. Hong Kong is now under China's control but has a separate Olympic team. The Communist government views Taiwan as a renegade province of China,-- although it is NOT a renegade province but rather the first Chinese democracy in world history, -- but Taiwan, too, has its own team.

The notion that a unified Chinese team will compete or march into the Opening Ceremony, as North and South Korea did in Athens, is not in the offing. [NEVER NEVER NEVER~]

"There are two concepts -- the political and the sports sphere," He said. "Taiwan and Hong Kong are inseparable parts of China. [BULLSHIT! MR HE} But in the Olympic movement, we have our own rules. A political concept can't be confused with sports terms."

Then there is the issue of a free press, an International Olympic Committee assumption when awarding Games to cities and nations. [FREE PRESS? WHAT'S THAT?]

An ominous event occurred earlier this year when David Wallechinsky (....son of famous Jewish writer Irving Wallace, and David, author of the BOOK OF LISTS, decided to change his name back to his real grandparents' name Wallechinsky....) , author of "The Complete Book of the Summer Olympics" -- the bible of Olympic history and minutiae -- was told that seven portions of his manual would have be deleted before it could be published in China. [CENSORSHIP? OH NO!]

The sections mentioned China's record on performance-enhancing drugs, some abusive coaching methods and human rights.

Wallechinsky refused to allow the changes, and his book won't be printed in Chinese for the Beijing Games. [FIVE STARS FOR DAVID! HE IS A MAN OF PRINCIPLE!]

One deletion sought was the name of volleyball player Wu Dan from Wallechinsky's catalog of Olympians who have tested positive in drug tests. Wu was caught in 1992. In Athens last week, Wallechinsky said that one reason why the authorities wanted Wu's test deleted is because "they haven't informed their public that 12 years ago it happened. Their public still doesn't know."

[HEY, ALL CHINA IS IN THE DARK, MAN!]




Get ready for a lot more of that in 1,439 days.

Jay Weiner is a reporter and can be reached at jweiner@startribune.com.