Riots in Tibet

[BeautifulBurnout]

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I seem to recall the US pulling out of the 1980 Olympics in Moscow because the USSR had invaded Afghanistan - oh the irony! - so I am pretty much staggered that the only person who is pulling out of the Beijing so far seems to be a film producer.

It is interesting to see how far our governments will go to protect China's image, and play down the apalling human rights breaches that are inflicted on the chinese and tibetan people on a daily basis. As long ago as 1999, Londoners were banned from protesting in our own city during the state visit of Jiang Zemin (which preceded any legislation requiring permission to protest - they relied on some obscure by-law preventing protests in Royal parks.)

Still, access to the Chinese market is far more important than any of this stuff.