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The Telegraph - [CENSORED]’s losing game over [CENSORED] Olympics

[CENSORED] is increasingly finding that the Olympic Games are a double-edged sword. On the one hand, they will celebrate the country’s astonishing economic transformation and, no doubt, the prowess of its athletes. On the other, they are drawing attention to its repressive political system and the disaster it has inflicted on the environment. …

Now, the demonstrations are taking place nearer home, both in India, where police yesterday broke up a march by Tibetan exiles on their homeland, and in Lhasa, where Buddhist monks protested against rule from [CENSORED] on the anniversary of the failed uprising of 1959.

Meanwhile, the Ethiopian world record-holder Haile Gebrselassie, an asthma-sufferer, has indicated that poor air quality in [CENSORED] may make him pull out of the marathon.

Foreign governments, including Britain’s, are notoriously reluctant to put pressure on [CENSORED] for its abysmal human rights record, whether it be excessive recourse to the death penalty, labour camps, torture, harassment of lawyers, journalists and trades unionists, internet censorship or persecution of Falun Gong adherents.

Yeah, none of those things.

The Games are redressing that failure by throwing light on the Chinese Communist Party’s support for repressive regimes overseas and its grave shortcomings at home.

You know, liberal world leaders, you’re being outshone by a bunch of guys in tight shorts.

Meanwhile, let’s hope my clever censorship will prevent you-know-where-business-traveling reader Brett McS from being turned into jail as a political prisoner. Or depriving him of anything to read by getting ninme banned in [CENSORED]. Whichever’s worse.