If China is not in the news enough with the Olympics, with its environmental problems, with its human rights problems, its trade and economic growth, it seems insane that it could be in the news even MORE. Yet, now that the Olympic torch parade, which lasts a number of months, has started, and is attracting major protests in every city through which is pasts, it seems that China will be in the news on a (literally) daily basis. Although this parade was supposed to be a positive PR tool (the longest Olympic parade ever), it is now a constant, ongoing PR disaster!
That means every day there is now an opportunity for protesters to raise any issues, be it Tibet, Burma, Sudan, Falun Gong or anything else...regardless of the truth of what many of these protesters say (honestly the Tibetan rioters probably injured more local Chinese living in Tibet, than the Chinese police injured Tibetans), everyone will be bombarded with more and more about China. This will mostly be negative (what is not negative in the media nowadays?), and everyone, from politicians, to business people, to celebrities, seems to be being affected by this.
It seems like it will be an interesting 4 months until the Olympics; and no-one seems to really actually care much about the Olympics, outside of China!
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