The Genocide Olympics
The 2008 Olympic Games are just around the corner and we’re beginning to see an increase in news and stories associated with those Olympics.
While most of us can read stories about Chinese working conditions and pollution and move on without seeing China in too negative a light there is one story that’s beginning to emerge that will impact on your possibly positive view of China. As that story emerges you will begin to see China in a totally different … and very negative light.
You see China is heavily involved with Sudan - it’s where they are sourcing their oil needs - and it’s also where the Sudanese government are involved in the genocide of the people trapped in Darfur. As the Olympic Games come closer you will hear more and more about China and Sudan and you will see the label - the Genocide Olympics - gain traction.
You might think that China is too powerful to be bothered by a title like that but the Olympics are big business and much of that business comes through sponsorship from companies that don’t want to be associated with anything that people associate with genocide.
That opens up a whole range of problems for China that not even a powerful country like China would want to try and overcome.
So expect to see more references to the Genocide Olympics in the months ahead and to gain further insight into the problems this brings for China read ‘Did the “Genocide Olympics” Influence China?‘ - it will really open your eyes to what the Olympic Games are all about.
