Political tangent

[tanithryudo]

Did some circumspect questioning of my relatives. My grandfather, despite religiously following the CCTV news every night, has no recollection of news regarding political demonstrations in several major countries using the Olympics as an excuse to protest the thing with Tibet.

There was also a short snippet mentioned on the news tonight about some French government representative expressing that the Olympics shouldn't be politicised and France has nothing against China blahblahblah... From the words used by the TV announcer, it sounds like the whole shebang has been marginallized to the Chinese public as a few unruly disruptions of the Olympic torch ceremony by random kooks and radicals.

Something quite different from the news I was seeing in the US, where even the morning radio would often have something to say about the demonstrations on SF, France, etc. in conjunction with the typical American media view of the situation in Tibet.

Comments

[cashew.insanejournal.com]

Well, the biggest reason for concern is whether or not going back during Olympics would be troublesome for when I try to come back. If it is...ugh, that would suck horribly. But from the sounds of things, it shouldn't be that big of a kerfluffle to go back and forth.