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| Originally Posted by Richard Mason
No argument there but if people around the world are really that bothered about Tibet, then elect a Govt that will send in the troops to do it. Don't expect other people to give up everything they've worked for in a futile gesture just as a salve for your own troubled consciences, as you sit down to watch your cheap Chinese made TV, wearing your cheap Chinese made jeans, T-shirt and trainers, as you reheat a meal in your cheap Chinese made microwave. (And I'm not meaning you Lazlo).
Perhaps the solution is to have the Games in the same venue each time, say in Greece, then they only have to build one lot of facilities and we don't have these ridiculous corrupt bun-fights every 4 years, to host the Games and then to risk boycotts that come with the latest crisis.
The athletes are the meat in the sandwich and individual boycotts will have zero impact - after all while it's news today, really it's just tomorrows chip wrappers.
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Nobody would send troops in - as that would in effect be declaring war on China - and even the US are not that stupid.
Richard - you are of course completely correct about the cheap goods. These are available simply because the chinese have huge material resources and pay slave labour rates to employees - so that they can sell them on at a very attractive price and thereby corner the market.
Athletes boycotting - unless done on mass by multiple countries - would have no real effect - and why should they.. as you say - your son gives much of his life in pursuit of the thing he loves.
Todays news might become tomorrows propaganda as well..