My thoughts... personally I'd have liked to have seen the bid go to Toronto but I'm not disappointed that the Olympics went to China.

The international media and public focus on a "closed" society will continue to raise the pressure on the Chinese government for reforms as well as highlight all of it's failings - all in all a good thing.

As for the Torch Relay - well Vancouver has just announced that it won't be doing an international relay, instead focusing on a cross-country national relay showing off the torch. They cited the security issues of course, as well as a distaste for the torch relay being used as a political tool... but really that shouldn't be a surprise since the whole modern torch relay was concocted by the Nazis for the Berlin Olympics.

Why not give Tibet the same special administrative status as Hong Kong and Macau?

(it's also the question of the week for my blogzine)

People also have known for years what China was doing so I really don't know why NOW people are just starting to et a clue.

Quote of the day....love it....