- Countries:
- China
- Topics:
- Freedom of Speech, Disaster, Humanitarian, Sport
- Languages:
- Chinese
Xueyong wonders what the Beijing Olympics will look like after the disaster as people are still in the mourning mood. He suggests that the government should not take the lead in framing the Olympics but leave space for the people to express their emotions and feelings[zh].
2 comments
Join the Conversation
Recent Articles also in East Asia
- › China: Urumqi mass incident and beyond
- › Japan: Eight endangered languages in the Japanese archipelago
- › Taiwan: Dell, Caught in the Web
- › Mexico: The Campaign to Protect the Vote
- › Japan: On How to Perceive the Japanese Web (Part Three)
Recent Links also in East Asia
Lawyer and blogger raymiyatake expresses his doubts [ja] over the election of Japanese diplomat Yukiya Amano as director-general of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA). First, he says, Amano was supported by only 23 nations out of 35. Second, he points out the difficult situation that the Agency is dealing with, at present, and the “unfairness” of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT), which should be applied also to the five members already recognized as possessing nuclear power. Lastly, he suggests that instead of promoting a “pacific use” of nuclear energy, this should be replaced with clean energy sources (such as the geothermal or the aeolian ones).
This year is Mobile Suit Gundam's 30th birthday.
While a giant statue of the robot stands in Odaiba's park (in the Tokyo bay area), in a theatre of northern Tokyo, blogger/actress Rie Takahashi [ja] and her crew pay tribute to the animated television series in stage play Robot.
Funding drive
Global Voices Email Updates
Get summaries of new stories from Global Voices in your inbox daily, weekly, or just sign up for important announcements.
Our Other Sites
Special Projects
This site is licensed under a
Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License
Please read our attribution policy.
Bernardo Parrella7 posts 
Amira Al Hussaini3936 posts 
Gayle Pescud3 posts 
Kevin Rennie9 posts 
Hyejin Kim226 posts 
Jorge Gobbi32 posts 
Muna Annahas9 posts 
Renata Avila62 posts 
Vilhelm Konnander369 posts 
Jude Chia2 posts 
Celeste Calvet2 posts 
Clara Onofre21 posts
If the Beijing Olympics are to look like anything the Chinese are to be proud of, then the government must address the issues surrounding Tibet and hold meaninful discussion on Tibetan autonomy with HH the Dalai Lama.
THANK YOU DENNIS for dictating the terms and conditions as to how us Chinese would be proud.
If you are Chinese, a big THANK YOU for speaking for ALL of us.
If you are not Chinese, still a big THANK YOU for speaking for ALL of us.
Talking to HHDL shouldn’t be a precondition to anything! And it definitely shouldn’t be tied to the Olympics. I am sick and tired of political opportunists taking advantage of the Olympic, the 5.12 earthquake, and whatever they can to advance their political agenda. Freaking bunch of jackals.
As a Chinese, I don’t need the f**king Olympics to make me proud.
I am already proud!!!
I am proud our cultural and ethnic pluralism;
I am proud of our national history;
Most of all, I am proud not because I am Han, Miao, Manchu, Mongolian or Tibetan, but simply just because that I am Chinese.
People can screw with the Olympic all they want. If London, Paris, SF, etc. had show us anything is that it will only draw us closer and more united. Ultimately, that’s the only thing that counts.
Sino-Solidarity!
Kain