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Originally Posted by Ashen  In my mind boycotting the games is not the answer at all. There are and were and will be far better ways to press China into cooperating in regards to the human rights issue... |
Ashen, there have been numerous studies done showing that all attempts to "humanize" Mainland China's approach to human rights have dismally failed. Instead, the Chinese play a shell game of releasing one or two human rights prisoners with a great deal of fanfare, all the while cracking down elsewhere and imprisoning more. If anything, the numbers have shown that human rights are getting worse in China, and economic development, with its natural tendency to separate into the haves and have-nots, certainly isn't helping matters.
So what methods do you suggest that work? And why not a boycott of the Beijing Olympics?