1) No-one else here will know what I'm talking about, but did you see the Cathal O Searchaigh documentary and all the fuss over it? That happened across the border in Tibet. I rest my case.
Fair point. (I didn't see the documentary but obviously couldn't avoid the ensuing media hubbub.)
2) Neither do I; except only to note that it was somewhat of an unpleasant theocracy (which is why Mao invaded it in first case; it certainly wasn't Economics. China has no benefited from owning Tibet.)
3) They are. But I wonder what many of them are for. But I said that about Iraq aswell.
4) I concur.
Btw it's hard to find a country - especially if you dig hard enough - which hasn't abused human rights to a degree in the past quarter century even. (No protests about Greek Occupation of Southern Cyprus, The treatment of Aborigines, the myraid things the US did under Clinton oohhh.. say, the Haiti Intervention, The Gwanghou massarce though I think South Korea had a different government then but not when awarded the games... and so on.)
True. But what sets China apart is the scale of the abuses; the motivations for the abuses; and the fact that China's influence in the rest of the world (which clearly is less than positive, see Darfur, Burma...) is so significant and continuing to grow.
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