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Controversial olympics

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2008-08-08
| La Opinión

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The controversy emerged just as soon as Beijing was designated as the site for the Olympic Games. The great sports event begins today, and the controversy is more heated than ever.

China organized a huge party to welcome the ten thousand athletes from 200 countries who have come to seek glory and make a good impression before the eyes of the world. What is terrible is that this celebration is being put on at the cost of a worsening of internal repression and violation of human rights.

At the same time, the press has no freedom of movement, not even on the Internet, and tens of thousands of agents make sure there are no demonstrations or expressions of protest against the government. This has not a trace of the olympic spirit.

Nevertheless, this does nothing to obstruct holding the games. China is a special case; pragmatism is needed. This is a regime which promotes economic openness in a political dictatorship; at the same time it is a key trading partner and the main creditor of the US. The Chinese government knows what an international attraction its internal market is, and the power of its economy allows it to make the rules in this case, disagreeable though they be for the rest of the world.

For sure, athletic feats will draw attention away from concerns unrelated to sports. This is the time for which those competitors have been preparing for four years.

And yet the setting for the competition cannot be ignored, either. Preparing for the games has done nothing for the cause of freedom, and it is hard to predict what the effect will be afterwards. At any rate, the games will raise the world’s awareness of the political situation in this Asian nation.

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