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2008-08-04 China-Japan-Koreas

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Posted by Steve White 2008-08-04 00:00|| || Front Page|| [2 views ] Top

#1 Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao promised to maintain a clean, green and beautiful Beijing during and after the Olympic Games.

Careful, the locals may start to like it. Then what are you going to do? Closing the factories and restricting traffic does not sound like a permanent solution.

Posted by SteveS 2008-08-04 01:16|| 2008-08-04 01:16|| Front Page Top

#2 Painting the sky blue, ya say? You cannot cram for a clean environment, no matter what the top Politicos demand.

Posted by Alaska Paul 2008-08-04 02:19|| 2008-08-04 02:19|| Front Page Top

#3 Allowing the Chinese to have the Olympics will probably do more to diminish the Olympic spirit and credibility then doping, corruption and politics ever did. It only shows how out of touch with reality and world events the Olympic committee really is.

Posted by Jack is Back!">Jack is Back! 2008-08-04 02:26|| 2008-08-04 02:26|| Front Page Top

#4 many factory workers are out of work.
Sad all around.

Posted by Jan 2008-08-04 02:51|| 2008-08-04 02:51|| Front Page Top

#5 the plan was to have political prisoners remove the pollution one molecule at a time

remarkably, there weren't enough political prisoners to make this work

Posted by mhw 2008-08-04 06:47|| 2008-08-04 06:47|| Front Page Top

#6 It's sad when the Chinese government cares more about looking good to the outside world than it cares for the health of its own people.

Posted by gromky 2008-08-04 06:57|| 2008-08-04 06:57|| Front Page Top

#7 So Nancy Pelosi is Chinese?

Posted by Bobby 2008-08-04 08:59|| 2008-08-04 08:59|| Front Page Top

#8 Great news! Factories are running once again which means our Wal-Mart shortages will soon end.

Posted by Besoeker 2008-08-04 09:00|| 2008-08-04 09:00|| Front Page Top

#9 National Geographic had a remarkable issue on China in May 2008. Also, this week's Economist has some good articles about the Games' impact on freedom in China.

Posted by mom ">mom 2008-08-04 10:39|| http://idontknowbut.blogspot.com]">[http://idontknowbut.blogspot.com] 2008-08-04 10:39|| Front Page Top

#10 Maybe they should have 'the One' over for a tour and a speak to 'clear the skies'...

Posted by logi_cal 2008-08-04 10:44|| 2008-08-04 10:44|| Front Page Top

#11 So Nancy Pelosi is Chinese?

In that only [communist] party members way of getting and holding power.

However, the Chinese party has figured out to toss orthodoxy over the side of the boat, if it ends up alienating Ma and Pa Lee. The Chinese party doesn't need to please big donors, it already is corrupt enough to fund itself.

Posted by Procopius2k 2008-08-04 12:34|| 2008-08-04 12:34|| Front Page Top

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