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10 Sep 08

Isabel Hilton: The Olympics party is over. Now China has to clean up | Comment is free | The Guardian

  • Lavish parties tend to leave a hangover as the problems of daily life, put aside for the celebrations, come crowding back. China's Olympic party is not likely to prove an exception. The full legacy of the extraordinary events of 2008 in the People's Republic of China will take many years to emerge, but in the short term, a number of pressing problems are clear.
  • Planners know China's development model to date, while impressive in its results, is unsustainable: it is too carbon-intensive, too polluting and too inconsistent in its effects. Like every Asian tiger before it, China, the biggest tiger on the planet, has to meet the challenge of moving up the value chain, from T-shirts to hi-tech, from low-end production to high-value innovation, from energy-intensive to climate-friendly production. In recent years the early coastal industrial zones have begun to enter that stage, with waves of factory closures the harbingers of a new phase in the country's development.
13 Aug 08

Slate V - The Chinese Are Coming!

  • On the eve of the 2008 Olympics, Scott Blaszak serves up a parody of the "Did You Know?" video series preying upon fears of a Chinese medal sweep.
09 Aug 08

China: Olympics Harm Key Human Rights (Human Rights Watch, 5-8-2008)

  • Chinese Government, IOC Wasted Historic Opportunity for Reform
  • “The Chinese government and the International Olympic Committee have had seven years to deliver on their pledges that these games would further human rights,” said Sophie Richardson, Asia advocacy director for Human Rights Watch. “Instead, the Beijing Games have prompted a rollback in some of the most basic rights enshrined in China’s constitution and international law.”
     

'I will promise to not watch ONE second of the China Olympics' - PledgeBank

  • "I will promise to not watch ONE second of the China Olympics but only if 50 other people will do the same."
04 Aug 08

For Olympics, The Chinese Use Eyes in the Sky - GigaOM

01 Aug 08

Rings - Senior Official Accuses Olympic Committee of Betrayal - Web Log - NYTimes.com

  • The senior International Olympic Committee member who on Wednesday made the announcement that Chinese government censors were blocking sensitive Internet sites despite assurances that Web access in China would be unfettered has accused the I.O.C. of “betrayal.”
  • “China changed course at some stage,” Gosper told the newspaper. “I don’t know when. I can’t guarantee there won’t be other changes.”
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"A Reporter's Guide to Covering the Olympics" - The China Blog - TIME

  • 1) On arrival, set the scene by saying a few nice things about the infrastructure—the high rises and the multilane highways, the interchanges. Developmenty sort of stuff.
30 Jul 08

Olympic Games show China through a glass, darkly | Jonathan Fenby - Times Online

  • The array of
    venues, the gleaming new buildings, the urban infrastructure installed for
    the Games, will also reflect the genuine pride of a nation that, while still
    far from rich by Western standards, has made more people better off in a
    shorter time than any country in human history.
  • A curfew
    has been slapped on bars; entertainers must submit scripts for advance
    approval; three rings of security checks have been thrown round the capital.
    Sites have been set aside for demonstrations, well away from sporting sites,
    and participants will have to get permission beforehand.
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