Beijing Olympic torch sold at auction for over $37,000
A torch used in the Beijing Olympic torch was auction off in Beijing on Friday and went for 260,000 yuan or around 37,843 U.S. dollars.
The torches were constructed at a cost of yuan 1,500. The Beijing Olympic torch sold for the highest price at the auction, higher even than the one used in the 1936 Berlin Olympics.
BOCOG is not encouraging the resale of the torches, but it is not going to try to stop people from doing so. The torches were a gift from BOCOG to the torch runners. The identity of buyer and seller of the torch was not revealed.
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On July 13th 2001 during the 112th IOC plenary meeting Beijing was entitled to host the Olympic Games. The Chinese authorities promised the IOC and international community concrete improvements in human rights in order to win the 2008 Olympics for Beijing.
How has Beijing demonstrated their concrete improvements such as:
1. The Falun Gong spiritual movement by harvesting organs of living Falun Gong practitioners?
2. Tibet and the Dalai Lama?
3. Taiwan Independence?
4. Uyghurs in Xinjiang province?
5. The repression of Journalists and the Media?
6. Censorship, filtering, blocking information on the Internet by China?
Illegal arrests, forced labor camps, brainwashing centers, organ harvesting, torture, murder, forced abortions, child labor, no freedom of press, internet blockades, widespread corruption and nepotism. This is Beijing 2008.
Xu Kangang recommended that the Committee members of the Unites States Congressional-Executive Commission on China to read the book “Nine Commentaries on the Communist party” to fully understand the Communist Party?s history of deception and persecution.
Anyone who wants to make money in China has to surrender to the political power of the Chinese Communist Party.
Clearly, the all-pervading aim of the Chinese regime is not the conversion of the PRC into a pluralistic political system with a free market economy modeled after, and integrated with, Western institutions. Rather, its purpose is to perpetuate the Communist Party’s rule.
What difference does it make if older authoritarians are replaced by younger, technically trained or even capitalist authoritarians?
The truth is the American economy has become as dependent on import of Chinese products as it has on Saudi oil. As with Saudi oil, it only makes sense to see that near exclusive dependence on import of Chinese products (no matter how cheap), is not a healthy habit, and that America should in both cases start looking for alternate sources for such products. And it further makes sense to ensure that such sources should, as far as possible, not originate from, and not financially benefit, countries that are openly or furtively working to undermine democracy and open society.
The Communist Party counts on rapid economic growth as the main source of its legitimacy. Red China, Inc. it’s Politburo is the all-powerful board of directors.
Does it matter if we present China to the West the way the Party leadership must like us to present China, providing narrow answers to our self-censored research questions and offering a sanitized picture of China’s political system?
At what point, and through what channels, will the Party leadership with its different views of human rights and the citizens’ rights affect our choices of political organization and political freedoms in the West?
At whose expense will China’s rise come?
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