Meet Liu Qi. Liu has many hobbies, not the least of which is being the current president of Beijing’s Olympic Organizing Committee, being the former Chinese Minister of Commerce and torturing people (from Truthdig):
In an extensive legal opinion, the U.S. District Court in San Francisco determined that Liu was responsible for the illegal detention […]
by Alejandro de los Rios
First impressions are hard. Usually forced, awkward, with all parties just wishing they could somehow just skip getting to know each other and just know each other. You know? Some first impressions are perfect, most are awkward, while some are just completely disasterous. With that in mind, what better way to […]
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The Olympic Torch arrived in San Francisco yesterday. As expected, there were a bunch of protesters. The torch was rerouted to avoid anti-China hordes. Many of the protesters waved Tibetan flags, even one of the torch-carriers had a Tibetan flag on […]
This year is make-or-break for China’s international image, or at least it appears so. The Chinese government is going to great lengths — sometimes even hilarious, super-villain lengths — to make China’s formal introduction to popular consciousness the best it possibly can be. China’s can’t change all its problems with bizarre technology however. Its ties to […]
I will say one good thing about Comcast — or rather, two, the other being that the Joel Zumaya commercial is still awesome — during the Olympics, I get to watch live Olympic events, mostly thanks to CBC. Ah yes, Canada, our delightful neighbors to the north. You see, they actually show the Olympic events […]
The IOC has ruled double-amputee sprinter Oscar Pistorius in ineligible for the Olympics because his artificial limbs give him an unfair advantage. Considering their terrible track record on steroids, they figured this is the only sort of unfair advantage they’d be able to notice, so might as well ban the guy, which they essentially have […]
The United States beat Mexico by 27 in some international basketball game that was in no way affiliated with the Olympics. This is not news. The only reason I mention it is because only after America beat Mexico by 27 points did I become aware that Team Mexico is coached by Nolan Richardson. Yes, the […]
This is one of the odder stories involving the Chinese Olympics, but it’s an archetype we will probably be seeing more of as the ‘08 Olympics approach. Sometimes, with all the charm of Chinglish, Yao Ming and Pandas, we forget that sometimes China isn’t exactly the best behaved nation. And sometimes we forget that Steven […]
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Written by Alejandro de los Rios [email], and Cherie Lampley for b5media.
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