At last, Beijing opening ceremony for the Olympic games came, and it was majestic.

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China has already won its personal Olympics.

From many years of preparation (starting from the 2001 China's winning bid process) to its final execution, the end results for the 2008 summer Olympics was an astounding opening scenario. In all the probabilities, this Olympics will be very hard to surpass, or even to be matched by the next 2012 Summer Olympic Games due to be hold in London, as well by many others Olympic Games to be still organized in a future far away. In the China's horizon, these Olympics can very well mark the beginning of a new Chinese's renaissance.


For some detractors, the Olympics' ideals were overshadowed by the fact that there are celebrated inside a nation ruled by an authoritarian one party system, but nobody can deny that these Olympics are one of the most astonishing event humanity has ever witnessed .


The bashing coming from the westerner political leaders, news medias (and I must admit even from myself) on China's decision makers, it could well be counterproductive. Those harsh criticisms can only create sterile confrontation with China, and in the near future these attitudes on China leaderships won't much help in solving current problems such as environment, economic, and political issues which are treating humanity's well being and survival.

Cooperation and not confrontation is the only solution, there are not others alternatives. If we keep fighting on national interests without seeing the big picture, we are condemned this world. We shouldn't forget we are living together in this one world, and no others worlds are waiting for us to fill in. If all the nations won't stick together and find ways to cooperate with solving all the problems which are afflicting humanity today, then tomorrow with all the likelihoods we will perish all together.


Of course, I'm not suggesting to close an eye on China human rights' violations. To ease the tensions with China, I believe there are other ways in helping China's leaders to make the right choices, for the good of their own people, rather than criticizing them. After all, I do not believe the leaders of China are egocentric and bloody thirsty dictators. I don't see them in the roles of Pol Pot figures, or as Stalin kind dictators.

China's leaders are smart people. When they saw the Soviet Empire crumbled and dissolved within itself, consequently they realized that the Soviet Empire's collapse gave away an uncontrollable, and erratic form of democracy. Right that moment the Chinese leaders understood one thing, the danger of a society not used to freedom and economic openness, sliding towards its own downfall. If they had China's people get what they wanted, a democracy without the solid foundations, later the nation of China could had followed the same path of the Russian Federation, "rampant crime and corruptions on any level inside the Russian society" and probably China would had lost any opportunity to become later a great nation.


Today China is communist only on paper. Chinese leaders knew that the communism was dead, and for China the only path left was a new form of leadership if they wanted to become an economic power. Eventually, China's leaders knew that once they had opened the doors to a more open system, soon or later they had to give up their power. A strong nation needs a strong economy and that can be accomplished only in open and free society.

These same leaders are keeping power as long as they can, ultimately to give strong social structures as supports to a fast growing Chinese economy, thus becoming a strong nation in which later could give to the world a possible guidance for the future of the entire humanity. To accomplish this task China's leaderships need stability, and for them to have stability meant to be in control, and unfortunately to be in control for the leaders of China also meant to limit human rights.

They are really conscious that before China could reach the pinnacle of a great power, they needed to maintain a strong economic growth, and to do that China needs to be a real democratic nation. At some point, China's leaders will have only a choice left, they will have to change if they want to be part in a future democratic nation.


China's people must be proud of what they have accomplished in these much awaited Olympics. Many years of hard work has finally paid in a dazzling "2008 summer Olympics' opening".

My congratulation to China, and good luck...Red.eVolution

Four days before the opening of the Olympic Games in China.

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Four days before the opening of the Olympic Games at least sixteen policemen are killed, and 16 more are wounded following an attack against a police station of Kashgar (Kashgar is the capital of the nationalism Uighuro) in the Xinjiang, a nord-occidental region inhabited by the Uiguri with a Muslim majority. According to the Chinese agencies, two men used a truck like a ram in order to penetrate inside the police headquarter to ultimately launch two grenades inside the building.

Eighteen foreign terrorists were arrested the day after the attack occurred in Xinjiang and these (allegedly) terrorists were all connected to al-Qaida. First, I must say that I do not believe the Chinese authorities are telling us all the truth about those arrest, because often the Chinese's authorities have not given any factual evidence in support of their affirmations.


Those terrorists which made that attack in Xinjiang are in all probability Uiguries separatists, and they are not connected to any international Islamic terrorism. Probably the China's authorities are using the terrorists's attack as an excuse, for intimidating any possible act of discontent toward the authoritarian hold of the Chineses upon those lands.

The autonomous region of the Xinjiang at one time was known as the oriental Turkestan, the Chinese Turkestan, the Uyghuristan, or the Sinkiang. It was annexed by different Chinese dynasties during the course of history, and for some brief periods in its history it was independent. Eventually in 1949, this region was overwhelmed by the People's Liberation Army of China and since then it has been a stable part of China. Nowadays, the Xinjiang's region is composed by different ethnic groups, many of them Turkic, the largest of which are the Uyghurs.

Anyway, I believe there are hopes with the Olympic games. Afterward China would be forced to be a bit more open to the rest of the world-wide communities. Even tough, my impression is only a meager consideration, " the Olympic Games are the only chance inside the one-party ruled China, for any prospect of some real form of democracy in the future".

Latest news:


Four activists from the U.S. and Britain have been detained in Beijing after staging a protest outside the main Olympic stadium. Two of the protesters climbed electrical poles to unfurl pro-Tibetan banners. It's the first such demonstration at a venue for the games.

Latest from: news.bbc.co.uk.

Olympic relay in Beijing climax

Cheering, flag-waving crowds in the Chinese capital, Beijing, have been watching the Olympic torch on the final leg of its global relay......Earlier, four activists from the UK and the US were arrested after unfurling banners close to the Olympic stadium.

A Red...Red.eVolution

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Tibet, a land in which with all the probabilities Tibetans will never get back!

Beijing 2008 - Before the games begin.

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With the Olympics just around the corner, China has not kept the promises made of improving its human rights record.

August 8, is approaching really fast, and all the promises made by China (during the Olympic Games' bids for this upcoming 2008 summer's Olympics Games), for improvements on its human rights record when to it was granted the honor of hosting the Olympic Games, have not been met. On the contrary, China has step up its repressive attitudes with crackdowns on the Internet access and ongoing human rights violations.

The Olympic's spirit is not bestowed upon a recipient to be used later as a political's tool for its personal agenda. But, that's what is happening right now with the Beijing's regime: the Olympics' stage been used has a theatrical's platform to show to the world, "how great and magnificent is China".



China has not clean up its acts. Instead, the only thing that Beijing is cleaning up right now is: any possible dissent before the upcoming event. Before, many analysts thought that by allowing China to be part of the, "World Trade Organization" like any other democratic nations, and now by rewarding it with the holding of the, "Summer's Olympics" would have enforced China to a turn around on its national and international policies, but were they all wrong?

Yet, China has not become more of a free and open society.

The XXIX Olympic Games of Beijing.

The Olympic Motto,"Citius, Altius, Fortius," which means "Swifter, Higher, Stronger.



The Beijing motto, "Curb, Control, deny," which for Beijing they mean: curbing any access to the free Internet, controlling every decisive aspect on the level of personal life, and (lastly) denying any civilian liberties.


Ye Guozhu must be released immediately

23 July 2008


Amnesty International today demanded the immediate release of housing rights activist Ye Guozhu, who was arrested and sentenced in December 2004, after he applied for permission to hold a demonstration against forced evictions in Beijing. The Chinese authorities say they will now not free Ye Guozhu when his four-year prison sentence expires on 26 July. Instead he will remain imprisoned until at least 1 October, after the end of the 2008 Olympic Games. "Ye Guozhu is being kept in prison to prevent him from speaking out about the people, like himself, who were forcibly evicted from their homes in Beijing to make room for the Olympics," said Amnesty International. "This is in complete contradiction of the promises China made to improve human rights before the start of the Games."

BEIJING 2008: CHINA REFUSES TO REMOVE INTERNET CENSORSHIP

(AGI) - Beijing, 31 July - Protest from human rights and journalistic organizations has proved in vain: censorship of on-line sites deemed "sensitive" by the Chinese regime will stay put, even as far as the upcoming 2008 Olympic Games are concerned. The announcement was made by the Olympic organizing committee, justifying the crackdown on unrestricted internet access to the internet with the violations of the law that the sites targeted would allow. "A limited number of internet sites have been blocked, fundamentally because they violate Chinese laws," said Sun Weide, spokesman for the Olympic Games organizers, when asked whether the ban would be lifted. "We hope," he added, "that the foreign mass media will respect our regulations."

China: Olympic terror plot foiled

BEIJING, China (CNN) -- Police in China have "cracked" an international terrorist group that was planning to attack Olympic venues in Shanghai, state media reported Thursday.

.....A Human Rights Watch analyst raised concerns that China may be using the Olympics as an excuse to crack down on dissidents. "It's clear that the police are simply adding cases of people who they think are engaging in activities that are critical of Chinese rule," Nicholas Bequelin told CNN. The government has not produced any evidence of terror plots, and nearly all of the arrests are based on the confessions -- sometimes forced -- of those detained, he said. "What the government appears to be doing is to conflate terrorism with criminal acts and other cases of dissent," he said.

I have been always contrary to to boycott China, but should we forget all this, for the sake of the Olympics? No, we can't.

And we cannot for sure, forget Tibet either.

Let (for now) the Games begin...Red.eVolution

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One World One Dream "Welcome to Beijing 2008".

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I found these videos in YouTube, and I wanted to share with all of you.

Welcome to Beijing.



Leehom's Olympic song: One World One Dream.



The lyrics of these songs are transpiring hopes of a better future for mankind. Yeaph... everything it's fine, everything it's perfect, but it is? Both lyrics and music are enchanting and inspiring as I said, but unfortunately we shouldn't forget about Tibet.

China people deserves to held the Olympics, not questions about it! What I'm questioning it's the communist party on power! Ultimately, they shouldn't benefit from this worldwide event, because they will transcend from the real meaning of the modern Olympic Games. These Olympics in all probability will be, the most contested Olympics in the modern Olympics' history, but in the other hand it will be the most magnificent Olympics ever held, if anythings goes smoothly as planned by the Beijing's regime. During the Olympics torch traveling around the world, the torch itself has met many protesters with their persisting voices of boycotting China's Olympics, but Beijing hasn't wavered an inch from reaching its final destination: to take the Olympics torch into the city of Lhasa (capital of Tibet), and in the very end Beijing made with this this symbolic gesture a proclamation to the entire world "Tibet is and will be part of China forever"

What sad conclusion for Tibetans ...their hopes have been crushed by the Olympic' spirit and by nationals' economic interests! All end here? No, I don't think so! Humanity has always rebounded (in a way or in an other) back from injustices, and Tibet with its people will too. Maybe, it will take time, a lots time, but eventually they will (see human's history). In the end, all kind of dictatorships have been defeated and Beijing's communist party won't be less...They will be crashed by humanity's history and judgment. Nothing is forever, no empire has lasted for good, and Beijing's despotical regime will met at last the same fate as the Soviet Empire, ostracized from history.

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A bit of the Olympics' history from wikipedia.org:

The International Olympic Committee was founded in 1894 on the initiative of a French nobleman, Pierre Frédy, Baron de Coubertin. The first of the IOC's Olympic Games were the 1896 Summer Olympics, held in Athens, Greece.


The 5 rings Olympic's logo was designed by Baron Pierre de Coubertin, founder of the modern Olympic Games, in 1913, and it represent the continents of the Americas (North and South), Australia, Europe, Africa, and Asia. The rings are interlaced to show the coming together or meeting of the continents at the Olympics.

Let the games begin...Red.eVolution

P.S. On a personal note, I want once more to stress out: I have nothing personal with the Chinese people, I admire their culture and their history. China is a great nation with great people that has contributed to the human's history a lot. My quarrel is with those on charge of China's destiny which are hampering ideas and progress of a proud nation.


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Tibet, a land in which with all the probabilities Tibetans will never get back!
Tibet news, from the past days violences.
Tibet on fire.

Protesters disrupt the ceremony of the Olympic torch, held in the ancient Olympia.

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China isn't embarrassed at all for yesterday incident, when an activist of 'Reporter Without Frontiere' has disturbed the Olympia's ceremony. At the contrary China's representative from the ministry of the foreign countries, Qin Gang has asserted, that those who had sabotaged the ceremony should feel embarrassed for violating the Olympic spirit. The spokesperson has also added, that China is confident of a regular development of the torch's race that will get through 135 localities all over the world and 31 Chinese's provinces.



According to the tradition, in the ancient city of Olympia the sun's rays has once again ignited the Olympic flame. In the course of the official ceremony, in which have assisted the president of the organizing Committee of the Beijing's Games Ling Qi and the president of the Olympic Committee International Jacques Rogge, three activists pertaining to the group Reportèrs sans Frontières have succeeded to unfold, while Ling Qi was speaking, a flag on which were represented, in place of the Olympic circles, five handcuffs on black background. The protesters have been readily stopped from some representatives of the police enforcements, present on the place. The Chinese television has censured the images of the protest.

"the Olympic flame is sacred and the human rights are even more"

a representative of Reportèrs sans Frontières has explained,

"we cannot allow that the Chinese government to make use of this symbol of peace without denouncing the dramatic situation of the human rights in China and Tibet".

Also arrested, some Tibetans with Swiss, German and American passports for having tried to wave some banners and Tibetans flags along the streets of Olympia. The president of the CIO, Jacques Rogge, after asserting that "it is not the case" to speak about the boycotting of the Games, has also let he know that the Olympic Committee is cautiously operating with Beijing for a pacific solution of the Tibetan's problem.



Of a different tone, the position taken from the president of the European Parliament, Hans-Gert Poettering. In the course of an interview released to a German daily newspaper, Hans-Gert Poettering has declared to be favorable at the hypothesis of the Games' boycott. "Beijing must take a decision and open negotiations immediately", he has asserted. "In the contrary case the boycotting can be justified.

"We desire only the full success over the Games, but not at the cost of the Tibetans' cultural genocide ".

While Beijing, in spite the protests which are coming from all around the world, has not renounced to include Tibet and the Everest's mountain on the Olympic torch crossing them.

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Protests at the Olympia's ceremony.

Here some videos from: reuters.com

Tibet on fire.

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Tibet is in turmoil since, the Tibetan monks started protesting against the Chinese regime. The exiled Dalai Lama denounced a “cultural genocide” toward the Tibetan people coming from the Chinese occupation, but in the same time he's contrary to boycott the Chinese Olympiad because as he said, "China's people deserve it". The Dalai Lama (the spiritual and political leader of Tibet) has declared in the past that, he doesn't seek full independence anymore, but he would accept for his people an autonomy and in the same time, the respect for Tibetan's human rights.


Meanwhile in Lhasa, the situation seem more quite since the Chinese police forces has managed to crackdown the demonstrations. The Tibetan exiled government in Dharamsala has declared that, at least 80 people had died following the Tibetan turmoils, while Chinese authorities said that only 10 civilians have died.

Right now, the Chinese police and military forces are refraining themselves for more strong actions because, the Chinese authority are afraid that crackdown on demonstrators could lead to more bloodshed and consequently China have some implications for, the holding of the Summer Olympics.


In my humble opinion, an authoritarian government which treads on human rights so despicably even on his own people, doesn't deserves it the privilege of holding the Summer Olympics anyway, and because of this authoritarian regime which defeats the spirit of the Olympics, by holding it. Therefore, democratic Nations should boycott it. I know, that many Chinese people are counting in this big event but, they should reflect that nothing is going to change for the people of China in the near future even with, the upcoming Olympiad. Until China is ruled by an authoritarian regime such as the Beijing Communist party, very little hope have left the Chinese people for, the so much gasped freedom they deserve. In the very end, the Olympics are just a palliative administered by the "Chinese Communist Party" for, the real needs of a -Free and Just- Chinese society, nothing more!