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George Bush -- Waiting to Inhale in Beijing

Patt Morrison | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Read More: George Bush Human Rights China, US Cyclists, China Human Rights, Olympics, Cyclists Wear Masks, Politics News
Patt Morrison

When Bush steps off Air Force One in Beijing, maybe he should be wearing his own smog mask, if only as a sign of solidarity with this country's athletes.

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The China Question: To Beg or to Blog?

Steve Posner | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Read More: China Communist Party, Chinese Communists, Chinese Workers, Beijing Olympics, Chinese, Mao Zedong, China Censorship, China Poverty, Chinese Peasants, China, Shanghai, China Human Rights, China Boycott, Politics News
Steve Posner

Mao's successors in the Communist Party are offering the Chinese people food but not freedom, and many are happy to take the deal.

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Five Things We Wish George W. Bush Would Read Before His Olympic Visit to China

Jeffrey Wasserstrom and Kate Merkel-Hess | Posted 05.25.2011 | Media
Read More: Tibet Protests, Beijing Olympics, Cnn, Kevin Rudd, George W. Bush, China Olympics, Olympic Torch, Mao Zedong, China, China Tibet, China Human Rights, China Earthquake, Olympics, Media News
Jeffrey Wasserstrom and Kate Merkel-Hess

In recognition of the limited time he has before departing for Beijing, we've put together a brief list of the best recent China writing on the Web.

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Human Rights In China Made Worse By Olympics: Report

Amnesty International | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Read More: Human Rights, Olympics, Amnesty International, Amnesty International China, Beijing Olympics, China Human Rights, China, Politics News

The Chinese authorities have broken their promise to improve the country's human rights situation and betrayed the core values of the Olympics, accord...

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The Silent Olympics

Kavita N. Ramdas | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Read More: Dalai Lama, Beijing Olympics, Olympics, Globalization, Tibet, China Tibet, China Human Rights, China, 2008 Beijing Olympics, Politics News
Kavita N. Ramdas

In this age of globalization, the Chinese government can no longer assume that its whole-hearted embrace of free markets can occur without its own citizens pushing for other kinds of freedoms.

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