This is really turning out to be a black eye for China. The repression, the censorship, the growing calls for boycotts and the disruption of the flame lighting ceremony.  China seems to insist on handling this the wrong way.

Actually, it’s good in a way that the Chinese are manifesting their true colours as a repressive totalitarian (Communist) régime!  Firstly, people will realise what consumerism can entail.  If things went right, we could even start thinking about morality as a civilisationa and as a people (even if those in our legislatures all too often, influenced especially by Communist-oriented lobbies, are anything but)…

Of course, I can’t but deplore and loathe the brutality, extreme immorality and actual hatred of ethics - not to mention Communism’s innate contempt for Mankind! - that the Han-Chinese government is manifesting!!!

No news here other then evil showing its true colors. Communism/Marxism is anti-human and the Chinese regime is one of the most anti-human regimes that has ever existed. Nieve, amoral western idiots believed that they could change China; no they just made China richer,more dangerous and morally tarnished and indicted themselves.  I will not watch these filthy ,vile Olympics. As for Chinese products I don’t buy them and if I can’t find an alternative, I simply guess, I don’t need said item after all. Recently when I bought I electric razor, I shopped around, until I found one made in the Netherlands,with all other purchases I do likewise. I know of some tool companies that have moved production to China in the last,couple of years and the quality has gone down markedly. Westerners who apologize,grovel and scrape for China are traitors to their own culture and to humane values ; but beyond that I would also question their salvation. For Easter +++Rowan Williams noted that being greedy and corrupt harms your soul and +Nasser Ali, noted that being economically corrupt could damn one to eternal perdition and seperation from God; I agree. Those westerners in love with the Chinese monster, reconsider, for your soul may be in the balance. Maybe I am wrong, but I don’t think the Christian God, being a God of justice is a China backer or is inclined towards solicitude and good will towards the evil machinations of those who outsource jobs and grovel to China of the love of Mammon. The Bible has over 600 verses about justice, so I think perhaps God does give a damn about workers rights, and the rest. China and her western pimps are as wicked as the 18th century merchants and slave traders William Wilberforce stood up too. God bless the Tibetans, the Uigars, regular Chinese workers and peasants, the people of Darfur and Burma/Myanmar,consumers hurt by bad and tainted products and food and all the rest of the victims of these vile monsters.

Here’s a link the Buddhists missed:
China: Protests? What protests?
According to Chinese state-run media, Tibet freedom protests that marred the Olympic torch-lighting ceremony simply didn’t happen.
The Rabbit.

Outstanding, Jihadi!!!  I couldn’t have said it better myself:  the Chinese have taken over the worst features of Communism and combined it with the most brutal parts of what capitalism ever was!  Simultaneously, their contempt for life in itself is past ALL computation!

I admire you for your stance against even buying goods where there are no non-Chinese substitutes; the only trouble, I’m puzzled about, is when there are Chinese components we don’t know about within a complex item like a computer or telephone.  If it’s incumbent on us to research to that extreme, how and where can we get data on what pieces are non-Chinese (personally, I’d favour not only Japan but also South Korea, Taiwan, India and Thailand if the goods have to be South-East Asian - best if one can buy domestic...)?  [I only wish that I had gone non-Chinese earlier than what I did...]