Should China be allowed to host the 2008 Beijing Olympics with such a poor Human Rights Record?

Question

Or are they going to win Gold Medal for Oppression?

By poor human rights I mean, oppression of Tibet and Taiwan. Murdering monks and nuns for talking to non-nationals or for the possesion of a picture of HH Dali Lama.
Destroying monasteries, raping, torture etc.
56 years of oppression!

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Ok....All countries coming together! What about Tibet which is now considered part of China. Can they compete?

But Tibet is not part of China - Tibet belongs to the Tibetans - HH Dali Lama is Temporal and Spiritual Leader of Tibet. The only problem is that every country fears China and will not make a stand!

Answer 1

Excluding them from participating in international events only exacerbates the problems for the people. Inclusion moves forward the political process and they are then more likely to address the issue of Human Rights.

Answer 2

Yes, they should be. the Olympics is a non political event.

Additionally,Taiwan is not suppressed by the Chinese. It is even another country; The Republic of China. Unfortunately, or not, Tibet has already been absorbed into greater China, and the events you are ranting about mostly took place in the '50s.

Finally, the most constructive approach for peaceful evolution within China is to absorb it into the community of nations; not make it an isolated, renegade state. You think we have problems, now?

Answer 3

ya well somebody said it very right while answering your question...What is your defination of Human rights...
believe me there are many powerful nations besides china that have even a poorer record of human rights...
murder,rape.etc is common to almost every country...its not an act of a country but of an individual...(if you have a look at the increase in amount of murder and street violence in other western countries you will be more than suprised..)
besides that...TORTURE...guess you're forgeting numerous atrocities and war crimes done by powerful nations which have already held olympics ..isnt that suppose to be human rights violation....
THE POINT WHICH I AM RAISING HERE IS THAT "OLYMPICS" IS NOT ABOUT HUMAN RIGHTS or VIOLENCE...IT HAS MORE TO DO WITH ALL THE NATIONS OF THE WORLD COMING TOGETHER TO CELEBRATE THE SPIRIT OF SPORTS AND HUMANITY....If you're concerned with chinas human right issue deal it somewhere else...
and then is your question: What about Tibet which is now considered part of China. Can they compete?...Well obviously they can...they can compete as chinese...its as if your asking me "Can red-indians compete"...well obviously they can...but as AMERICANS.. :-)

Answer 4

The IOC isn't attracted to human rights, as evidenced by different alternatives the place previous video games have been held. at present, the undertaking in all probability is taken under consideration one of money and with the intention that the video games are held in a high quality venue. because of the fact of China's time table of wanting to show off their united states of america, they have been prepared to spend approximately $40 5 billion to placed on those video games. For the 2004 video games, the cost rather placed a extensive and unfair burden on the Greece inhabitants. At this element, i'm able to make a great style of valid comments appropriate to the chinese language gov't, yet i visit refrain. somewhat, i think of the question could be appropriate to the video games themselves - are they mandatory of their contemporary style? Have they become too bloated? Why are 2 hundred+ international locations invited, yet perchance purely a hundred international locations will ever get a medal, and perchance the perfect 25 international locations are aggressive. i might dumb the video games down somewhat, and cause them to greater approximately mainstream video games. as an occasion, that's clever to kill softball as a game - as an American perchance it incredibly is a bad element to think of, however the fact is that purely some international locations have that infratstructure. Swimming too - i does no longer kill it perchance, yet decrease it down. if reality be counseled a great style of the swimmers participate contained in the NCAA application right here contained in the U. S., so we are rather gazing a school meet in a fashion. Tennis - is that incredibly mandatory?

Answer 5

well China will definitely host that game.,it was done ,for bad or worse ,and nobody can do anything to change it,right?
china is less advanced with a tooo large population.and therefore
many situations here are so difficult to change very quickly.without having a high living standard,can human rights alone means something to the people,or can human rights alone bring Chinese a high income?come off it,baby!it is a combination of factors have caused current situation
hopefully ,the government could do something to improve the living standard by making adjustments to its policy in many fields.
remember talking about freedom alone is not meaning-full at all.if anyone could give a solution to an reform aiming at improve the economy to an advanced country's level, I'd support that guy.
when a country has an advanced and competitive economy ,its people will have human rights naturally.and hopefully you guys could give more suggestions rather than criticizing , if you want to show your country is so advanced ,please just say :my country is my proud boast ,rather than say useless things--by a chinese

Answer 6

that is such a tricky one, part of me would like to keep sport out of the political arena but then one of the aims of the modern Olympics was to 'provide opportunities through sport for the youth of the world to become better acquainted with the nations and peoples of other countries without regard to sex, race, color or religious beliefs' there's something noble about political enemies fighting it out in the ring so to speak although you need to remember that the atheletes themselves may not necessarily hold the view of their government however, for many countries, participation in, and the ultimate prize of hosting, the Olympics is an important source of national pride and the ideological concept of an 'Olympic truce' gets flung out the window, don't forget countries can always chose to boycott the Games if they don't agree witht the host country's politics then again look at how sport could be used as a powerful tool for change didn't Nadia Comaneci and Olga Korbut change the world's perception of what communists are like? ultimately, for me the Olympics has lost it's original path and has become nothing more than a huge commercial enterprise dominated and manipulated by global sponsors trying to make as much money as they can

Answer 7

Should I answer your question? I think a poor Human Rights Record does not qualify as a standard in hosting an Olympics. Germany under Adolf Hitler, the USA, and many "good" countries have human rights violations that young people like you may not have known. Withholding information in order to deceive is a form of abuse that must qualify as a human and global abuse.

Answer 8

Yes, China is entitled to host the 2008 Beijing Olympics.
As for as Human Rights Record is concern Chinas record is far better than U.S., U.K., Israel.
Every body knows what & how they conspirated and killed millions of people, by conducting, 9/11, London Train Blasts, alleged 'Terrorist Plot', Afghan, Iraq, Plastene and Lebenon invasions and killings of innocent citizens.

Answer 9

What does that mean? Human rights
Chinese economic growth changed global perception of China. But in general I think it is a good idea to host the Olympic because it may create Govt interaction with global value. OR HUMAN RIGHT

Answer 10

Watch as the world kowtows to emerging China!

Before long, they'll control everything and won't have to do a thing to achieve that. Just the sheer hugeness of their market potential has virtually every country either slobbering or cowering.

Right now, they could begin their own version of gladiator games and likely get away with it.