A Bunch of Hypocrites

Now that the Olympic Games is about to start there are lots of documentaries and TV news painting the many other situations in China. Not far from the agenda always is about human rights abuse. Western journalists especially the Brits are trying to highlight human right abuses as much as possible in this incredibly fast transformed economic giant. The journalists would go around interviewing specific individuals particularly to talk about Tiananmen Square incident, human rights and so on. Imagine somebody doing this during London Olympic 2012, filming the pathetic part of London or foul of the British Government or asking human right abuses committed in the colonial period. The irony is more often than not law breakers like the two British and two American protestors who climbed a pole and put on a Free Tibet banner seems to be painted as good citizen, and were doing the right thing. Imagine a Chinese guy doing that at the Olympic game in London protesting the expansion of Heathrow airport. Or Brazilians protesting in front of the Olympic village the wrong shooting of fellow citizen by police in London a year ago.

One Chinese official said that there are still human right abuses in China but China has also changed. It cannot transform everything overnight. It’s like a super tanker; you cannot just turn around just like that. It takes quite a while. Saying that, China actually had achieved by providing one of the basic human rights – taking 300 million people out of poverty in the last 20 years. That was a massive achievement. The other good sign is that Chinese who left the country years ago, in disgust at the lack of opportunity, lack of freedom, official red tapes and so on are coming back in droves.