The Olympic stadium in Beijing won’t be the only thing covered in a cloud of smog next year. Chinese authorities also seem to be doing their best to create a smokescreen over other issues in the country, ranging from spitting in public to major human rights abuses. While lifting the cloud of smog which hangs over the stadium and stopping locals from spitting may be pleasant for visitors in 2008, it won’t do much to help the many Chinese who are imprisoned or executed every year in blatant violation of their human rights.

BBC stories about the locals’ spitting, here; the smog problem, here; but more importantly the human rights abuses, here and here.

Posted Thursday, August 9th, 2007 @ 2:04 am
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