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So any friendship with China is a false friendship from

does such a real friend thing exist at all in global affair?like in real life personal friendship? everybody is driven by benefit.will japan serve u.s. if u.s.do not give japan enough benefit?

china has been the country tortured for centries, thank to the west democratic nations and japan.there has been numerous various never-ending war/invasion since 1840s.when i was in high school studying that period of history, even our school teacher got all bitter and weepy.Olympic has been a sort of thing our grandfather or greatgrandfather's generation could only dream. chinese has been self-depreciating and self-pitying for years.yet when we did have a chance not only take part in the Olympics but really host one,look how the world welcomed us!humiliation, insult, snort.Olympics do not just belong to the CCP,it belongs to all our chinese, the people,whether they live in mainland, hk, or oversea.it is a ceremony for us to really say goodbye to our painful past and look at the bright sight in the future.

OssanULTRA, china has been beaten hard by French in the history,French troops invaded china and burned down chinese imperial palace to ashes,robbed its wealth,killed its people.to some chinese,their anger towards french was not because they are nationalist or pride being wounded,they are angry because the violance happened in the torch relay evokes the memory of the war,happened two hundred years ago,leaving many dead.oh yes, french people are sympathetic,but only for the Tibetan i guess.

blue tiger,for your information,it's not only red CCP who seems obessesed about ruling

tibet,even the ex-chinese ruling party,the democratic kuomindang(the one right now ruling

taiwan) has never ceased the authority of tibet,even at its most critical war time in 1930s

-1940s. If Tibet was not part of China, why had the Chinese emperor been the one to give the

Dalai Lama his title? and apart from the Dalai Lama,why there is so many ruling Lama

centries ago had to have the ancient Chinese emperor's permission(some by marrying chinese

princess to the Tibetan leader) to execute its authority.you propably have not known much

about ancient chinese history or you don't seem to care.china have been very influencial in

the ancient time.if you call what happened in 1951 a evil communist's invasion of an

independent country,well,Tibet must be a country of continous invasion of all time

throughout numerous chinese dynasty. i don't want to take on behalf of the CCP,what they've done in tibet was cruel.and some

of their conduct did destroy the Tibetan's culture,especially during the culture revolution

period, and they should be ashamed of that.but you can't change the history by saying it has

never been part of china,cos it's simply not the truth.if you know tibetan language,you can

go for a research in various museums displaying the ancient treaty/agreement between chinese

emperor and tibetan leaders of how tibetan would accept the chinese emperor's supreme

authority(most of these museums locates in mainland china) Some want to punish China for its association with the Sudanese government, which is

perpetrating atrocities in Darfur. But to boycott Beijing's Games and disrupt its torch

relay because it buys oil from Sudan carries the notion of responsibility too far. After

all, the United States has much closer ties to Saudi Arabia, a medieval monarchy that has

funded Islamic terror. Should the world boycott America for this relationship? China's attitude toward Tibet is wrong and cruel, but, alas, not that unusual. Other

nations, especially developing countries, have taken tough stands against what they perceive

as separatist forces. A flourishing democracy like India has often responded to such

movements by imposing martial law and suspending political and civil rights. The Turks for

many decades crushed all Kurdish pleas for linguistic and ethnic autonomy. The

democratically elected Russian government of Boris Yeltsin responded brutally to Chechen

demands. Under Yeltsin and his successor, Vladimir Putin, also elected, the Russian Army

killed about 75,000 civilians in Chechnya, and leveled its capital. These actions were

enthusiastically supported within Russia. It is particularly strange to see countries that

launched no boycotts while Chechnya was being destroyed—and indeed welcomed Russia into the

G8—now so outraged about the persecution of minorities. blue tiger, i can see how much you are still excited about the last-time cold war's

victory on democratic side, but thinking that there is still a need to rekindle a new one

and therefore boycott the red china's Olympic was old-fashioned and ridiculous.hey,there

will be some of your nation's hardtraining athlete performing for your national pride,are

you really not going to watch the game and wish them good luck?

seriously,i don't think this kind of boycott would achieve anything at all.business relationship is mutual beneficial,you boycott french goods and there will be some french boycott chinese goods and a highly profitable relationship would be destroyed.

IndyInJapan, CCP did not organize anti-western demonstrations,anti-western kind of feeling is pervasive these days amid ordinary chinese citizens.and i believe CCP do not favor any type of demonstrations whether it is pro-china or anti-china.cos once protestation goes on,somehow things are easily going out of control.