Gupshup Opinions: Anti-China Protesters Need a Reality Check

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Re: Gupshup Opinions: Anti-China Protesters Need a Reality Check

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by LockJaw

Perhaps now Bill O Reilly will hate the French and the liberals a little less. All over the Western world, activists have attempted to protest and even sabotage Olympic processions, expressing their collective outrage at the recent turmoil in Tibet. Not very long ago, in a world where America was still involved in occupying just one Muslim country, millions came out to protest American plans to invade its second terrorist harbouring, nuclear weaponized, chemical weapons on sale to Bin Laden state. Bill was outraged. So was much of America and French fries were renamed to reflect a more palatable ideal. All should be forgiven now, since we now have the collective “how can you kill wee children?” aimed at the Chinese.

Leave aside that China has a territorial claim over Tibet dating back centuries. There are significant numbers of Ethnic Chinese in the region. That the numbers of people killed in the recent events would be a good day in Iraq. Citizens of a country that is currently the occupying power in a country half a planet away, and citizens of a country that has been historically the most brutally aggressive imperial power in recent times, imperialism that was never curbed until the country itself became militarily impotent, feel they have the moral high ground to lecture another country’s handling of its internal affairs. I can understand the French or the Brazilians objecting to Chinese tactics, but not the US and the UK, not the current and historically imperialist powers.

It is ofcourse not enough to try to intimidate and physically harm the Chinese running with the torch. There is talk in the opinion section of papers about boycotting Chinese made products. Hit em where it hurts, right? That magnificent triumph of an idea comes at a time when the US is going into recession, obviously with its vassal states in tow. A time when China is financing America’s debt, to suggest that any economic action against China wouldn’t bring a crushing blow to a debilitated, sterile West is probably only explainable by remembering that these people are still used to thinking that they are the masters of the world.

God help the British when they run with the Olympic torch in 2012. We all know the western world cares as much about Iraq and Afghanistan as it does about Tibet.

Whatever, No Olympics unless Free Tibet