Letters to the Editor
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overstated Olympics
I believe the media and average people make too much of Olympics' importance to China. True, the Olympics is very expensive party to be hosted by China, it is still very expendable. Only weeks ago, China was preparing a war against US over Taiwan should the election go awry, which means much more bloodshed and money loss.
The game is just a party, if you are willing to participate,fine, if not, it's all right.
Many people reckon 2008 Olympics as a gold opportunity to press China government to improve its behavior, in a sense, it is. However, when you push too hard, when you threat it with a boycott of the game, you also paint the average Chinese into a corner, they will push back more defiantly.
Don't underestimate the hostility and grudge against western powers, one and a half century's plunder, humiliation inflicted by Britain, France, US, Germany, Japan,etc maybe be easily forgotten by the perpetrators, not by the victims.