Graeme Mills

I have read your articles many times. Most of people here won't listen your suggestion at all. If they could open their eyes, they may tell something different from current reaction from overseas Chinese. I feel the Chinese Government gets stronger support than before. In 1989, the majority of Chinese were unhappy and urged a change. Today the place and the focus are changed. The westerners push them together to protect the current Chinese government.

People here want to improve the human rights and other things of China. It is appreciated. But right now they won't get support from majority of Chinese, except some groups like Fa LunDong.

Olympic spirit besmirched?

Who cares! The Olympic Games is a boring event relevant only to the Ancients who had nothing better to do.

The Olympic Games has already had its 'spirit' comprimised by cheats, drugs, drama queens and countries who bitch and moan about each other, thinking that high-minded bullswool about an pointless event somehow makes up for what goes on the rest of the time.

As much as we like to take the high moral ground on this one, we still love our trade with China more than we care for the plight of the Tibetans.

In this case we make more of a political stand to protect whales than we do to protect fellow humans.

We're probably gonna keep on protesting all the way to the bank. Nobody has ever mentioned the prospect of a trade embargo have they?

A poll in the Australian Newspaper showed that around 50% of the respondants wanted a boycott and 50% didn't.

Maybe my questions were wrong or people thought it was just another G Mills lecture, but I am surprised at the lack of response.

Something to consider from the ABC News

Winery seals China export deal

Posted Mon Nov 12, 2007 1:26pm AEDT - ABC News

A Pemberton winery has signed a multi-million dollar deal with China to begin exporting its wines to Shanghai and Beijing.

Salitage Wines has been working for two years to get its wines into five star hotels in major cities and out to newly developed regional cities.

Owner John Horgan says the south-west Western Australian business will have to grow to meet the demand.

He says he may have to outsource grapes to fill the extra 10,000 cases Salitage will be producing each year.

"We're going to try and grow ... organically internally to meet the demands of China," he said.

"I think, as they say in China, even a march of a thousand miles starts with one step, and we believe strongly in the principle that you start modestly and build upon it, but it looks really promising."
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2007/11/12/2088294.htm

DB = Love it. Now, where is the remote?

Personally, I couldn't give a 'tinkers cuss' about the Olympics !

Since they allowed professional athletes to strut their stuff, instead of strictly maintaining the Games as the exclusive preserve of ONLY elite AMATEUR athletes, the whole ethos of the Event has been substantially sullied with organised corruption.

Further, one of the contributors herein, suggested that many of those involved in demonstrating along the route of the Torch, would probably not be able to articulate, as to what issues exactly, they were attempting to expostulate about!

As a retired copper, we'd simply call these ne'er do wells, 'rent-a-crowd'!

Also, notwithstanding what our Mr Rudd had decreed - Be under no illusion, the Olympic authorities of the PRC will (covertly) have many security/police personnel (involved on route security) on hand, in order to manifestly 'assist' in the smooth carriage of the Torch, on it's way.

I reckon it's simply a joke.

I totally agree with Vanilla on this one.

The Olympic torch relay is an opportunity for the Tibetan issue to attract world-wide attention.

Hopefully something good will come out of all this.