Glen Mills just forwarded this one:
Olympic nightmare: A red tide in the Yellow Sea
BEIJING: With less than six weeks before it plays host to the Olympic sailing regatta, the city of Qingdao has mobilized thousands of people and an armada of small boats to clean up an algae bloom that is choking large stretches of the coastline and threatening to impede the Olympic competition.
www.iht.com/.../china.php
Then there was this:
Olympics clean-up Chinese style: Inside Beijings shocking death camp for cats
Thousands of pet cats in Beijing are being abandoned by their owners and sent to die in secretive government pounds as China mounts an aggressive drive to clean up the capital in preparation for the Olympic Games.
www.dailymail.co.uk/.../Olympics-clean-Chinese-style-Inside-Beijings-shocking-death-camp-cats.html
This was early on, but it sounds like they will have as much as half the amount of cars on the road by banning all government workers from driving:
Olympians air a gripe about Beijing
March 12, 2008
Matt Reed was 1,500 meters into the last segment of the triathlon when he found himself gasping for oxygen. His legs were still pounding away at the pavement, his body pumped up after cruising through the swimming and cycling contests, but his lungs were shutting down.
The 32-year-old triathlete from Boulder, Colo., blames air pollution for triggering his asthma attack during the September track meet.
articles.latimes.com/.../fg-olyair12
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Tree, where actually are you posting your info from? The reason I ask is I am wondering how you get away with posting things against the government when if we believe all the evils we here about your government, you wouldn't be allowed to say things so openly......
I am typing all those words right from my desk in my company in Beijing. believe it or not, we can complain about the government in internet (but probably better not in newspaper. I do not mean that you would be arrested in you complain in newspaper. It indeed happened in the past but only in very extreme situations. Most of those who complain in newspaper are not living a great life any more, but OK. they are not in the prison), in private, or in semi-public. For instance, I can critisize the government in my office. No problem at all.
I think the reason that you ask this question is that you are influenced by the media who sometimes publish very very extreme cases, sometimes publish fake stories, sometimes publish true stories but deliberately led the analysis into those stories to their direction, or sometimes the journalists report the true situation but only focus on the evil side of communist party while ignoring the whole picture, in particular, I think those journalists ignore the linkage between the government and its numorous predecessors, the fact that it is group-dictatorship political system, also they probably never ask why democracy or capitalism never happened in China.
It is very easy to blame all the faults to the communist party. But based on chinese history that would not change things completely. I remember one saying: if a child does something very very badly we probably need to re-examine the whole society. the same with china. if we get these problems occuring again and again in our history then we need to re looke ourselves as a nation.
Li
Tree, where actually are you posting your info from? The reason I ask is I am wondering how you get away with posting things against the government when if we believe all the evils we here about your government, you wouldn't be allowed to say things so openly......
I am typing all those words right from my desk in my company in Beijing. believe it or not, we can complain about the government in internet (but probably better not in newspaper. I do not mean that you would be arrested in you complain in newspaper. It indeed happened in the past but only in very extreme situations. Most of those who complain in newspaper are not living a great life any more, but OK. they are not in the prison), in private, or in semi-public. For instance, I can critisize the government in my office. No problem at all.
I think the reason that you ask this question is that you are influenced by the media who sometimes publish very very extreme cases, sometimes publish fake stories, sometimes publish true stories but deliberately led the analysis into those stories to their direction, or sometimes the journalists report the true situation but only focus on the evil side of communist party while ignoring the whole picture, in particular, I think those journalists ignore the linkage between the government and its numorous predecessors, the fact that it is group-dictatorship political system, also they probably never ask why democracy or capitalism never happened in China.
It is very easy to blame all the faults to the communist party. But based on chinese history that would not change things completely. I remember one saying: if a child does something very very badly we probably need to re-examine the whole society. the same with china. if we get these problems occuring again and again in our history then we need to re looke ourselves as a nation.
Li
