I live in China, ,and I am constantly amazed at the level of China hate coming out of the US. When the Soviet Union fell, and the cold war was over, we needed someone to fill the hate vacuum and there was China. yes, CNN has been blacked out periodically for the past few days. But they can't block everything and i have found lots of info on Huffington (not blocked) and MSNBC (sometimes blocked.)
But do you really, truly believe the US doesn't do some of the same things? Do you really believe our human rights record (see Guantanamo) give us the right to point fingers?
I agree totally that the US has given China way too much economic power over us. We have mortgaged our country for cheap flip flops, and we have done it voluntarily. China did not force us. But think of this. We have absolutely nothing to fear from China, because they depend economically on their biggest customer. Walmart accounts for 2% of the entire economy here.
There is so much good in this country, but from across the ocean you only see the government. Many Chinese are the same way; they've never been to the US either, and they can only judge us by our government's actions. But the US should clean its own house before pointing fingers.

China needs to be boycotted beyond the Olympics, which they should never have been given. What that country did to Tibet was shameful, as are the ways that they are trying to stamp out the Tibetan language in culture and having Chinese come and colonize it.

Of course the US did nothing to China then or now, because Tibet is too poor for them to care about. No oil or natural resources for us to care about.

And now of course, we can't and won't do anything because we owe too much money to the Chinese, our economy is in trouble as it is and course, we need to ship all our manufacturing over there to support bussinessmen here make larger profits.

But if the US actually did care about Justice, we would have gotten off our asses years ago and tried to get the Chinese out of Tibet. Of course we can't talk anymore about invading sovereign nations for no reason anymore, can we. Or about human right abuses with Gitmo and Abu Ghraib to our names.

Yeah, Dubya is the gift that just keeps on giving. Sorry people of Tibet. The world won't have your back. They're too worried about kissing China's ass.

I feel sure our lame president will do nothing to support the Tibetan people

China's changing very rapidly and despite the crackdown there is more cause overall for optimism than pessimism. Look at where things were 10 years ago, 20 years ago, and 30 years ago, when China was comparable to North Korea. I visited China first in the 80's and things are so very different today, largely because of the openness China has shown. China has come a long, long way since then in opening up to ideas and people from outside, and has changed in many ways for the better. There are now more internet users in China than in the U.S. (http://www.forbes.com/2006/03/31/china-internet-usage-cx_nwp_0403china.html) and this for a country that ranks 104th in the world per capita income. If China is preparing itself to be more open, what will happen if no one attends its coming out party? Do you think the reaction from China will be, "oh-oh, we really goofed. The outside world was right and we were wrong. We so apologize. We promise to change." I don't think so. Embarrassments to China will cause hardliners to mistrust the outside world even more (the roots of such mistrust being the century-long foreign imperialist occupations beginning with the Opium War in the 1840s and ending only with the birth of the PRC in 1949) and slow progress. Peace follows understanding.

If all this depresses you, read:

http://www.slate.com/id/2186753/

W could not take a stand even if he were able to. Thanks to Bush the US is indebted to China for financing the Iraq War (10 billion/month) and mutual turn of the head regarding each country's actions in the 'war on terror." If the Bush administration will not act to prevent poisoned imports (food, phamaceuticals, toys), then it is unlikely anything but cheerleading will go on for the Olympics. Selling out America's values for short term, short-sighted gain.

Forget the olympics. Every thoughtful INDIVIDUAL in the western world should boycott China. That means digging in our little pocketbooks and paying more for products from other countries. I will avoid a Chinese product every time I can, as I have done for the past decade, in protest over the horride human rights violations. If I can't find it, I usually do without.

The trouble with today's activists is they want to scribble endlessly on blogs, without committing to the smallest sacrifice. Carbon exchanges come to mind--what a bunch of bs.

More proof that China is a totalitarian state and that we should never have let them get so close to our government or to our economy.

That Chinese government is so nice I guess we should move more of our factories over there.

China's pathetic "finger in the dike while inserting head up butt" censorship efforts.

Twenty-eight years ago Jimmy Carter pulled the U.S. out of the Moscow Olympics over the invasion of Afghanistan. Will this President take a stand on our participation in the Beijing Olympics? George W. Bush?