{"id":406,"date":"2008-08-25T00:19:50","date_gmt":"2008-08-25T04:19:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dandunn.org\/blog\/?p=406"},"modified":"2008-08-25T00:19:50","modified_gmt":"2008-08-25T04:19:50","slug":"what-really-happened-in-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dandunn.org\/blog\/2008\/08\/what-really-happened-in-china\/","title":{"rendered":"What Really Happened in China"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Olymipcs are over, and too many opinion writers and bloggers are feeling all warm and fuzzy about China.\u00c2\u00a0 These writers have managed to ignore what was happening in China while they were busy oohing at the fireworks an aahing at the pomp and sighing at the telegenic smiles of the athletes.\u00c2\u00a0 What really happened:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>China continues to occupy a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.freetibet.org\/\">country<\/a>.\u00c2\u00a0 It continues to violently repress even peaceful opposition.\u00c2\u00a0 (I assure you that if I were treated like the Tibetan, I&#8217;d be far less restrained than they have been).<\/li>\n<li>China continues to threaten <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Republic_of_China\">Taiwan<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>China permitted not a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boston.com\/news\/world\/asia\/articles\/2008\/08\/21\/police_detain_more_foreign_activists_in_beijing\/\">single protest<\/a> in the designated protest areas.\u00c2\u00a0 It notably <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2008\/08\/21\/sports\/olympics\/21protest.html?_r=1&amp;oref=slogin\">jailed a pair of elderly women<\/a> for just asking.<\/li>\n<li>China continues to deny that the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/url?sa=t&amp;ct=res&amp;cd=1&amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FTiananmen_Square_protests_of_1989&amp;ei=dDCySO-PMIfCev2uoJQB&amp;usg=AFQjCNGo7EM0UwmD4LRymGtA5ZaEyE9TeQ&amp;sig2=wKGIh_kLXiupyJ2en9nADQ\">Tiananmen Square protests of 1989<\/a> ever happened (and, shamefullly, Google agrees).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I know that some of you are reading this and thinking that I&#8217;m being unfairly judgmental of a different culture.\u00c2\u00a0 Others are going to tell me that the US has its own civil and human rights problems, and I shouldn&#8217;t get involved.<\/p>\n<p>I have a retort: This blog post, this tiniest of protests, this simple expression of opinion, is grounds for jail in China.\u00c2\u00a0 So long as China prevents honest discussion, it will never be worthy of the Olympics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Olymipcs are over, and too many opinion writers and bloggers are feeling all warm and fuzzy about China.\u00c2\u00a0 These writers have managed to ignore what was happening in China while they were busy oohing at the fireworks an aahing at the pomp and sighing at the telegenic smiles of the athletes.\u00c2\u00a0 What really happened: [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-406","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dandunn.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/406","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dandunn.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dandunn.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dandunn.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dandunn.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=406"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dandunn.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/406\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dandunn.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=406"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dandunn.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=406"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dandunn.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=406"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}