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Informed Comment: Global Affairs: LET ONE HUNDRED BOYCOTTS BLOOM!: Apr 21, 9:05am 1 review •http://icga.blogspot.com/2008/04/let-...; LET ONE HUNDRED BOYCOTTS BLOOM!
in Informed Comment: Global Affairs by PHILIP J CUNNINGHAM

Boycotts are a blunt instrument, albeit drawn from the trusty democratic toolbox. That boycott fever seems to be the mood on the streets of China these days is a testament to how discontent with domestic problems has been eclipsed by disappointment with the West.

LET ONE HUNDRED BOYCOTTS BLOOM!

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Excellent article.

The beneficiaries of the recent demonstrations against the Olympic Torch Relay in Britain, France and the US are clearly the Chinese authorities, indeed, "discontent with domestic problems has been eclipsed by disappointment with the West."

25% of the world population are staying up, with their leaders, against the hypocrisy of the West. And let's not forget that the biggest losers are the Tibetans. Their case has indeed been eclipsed by something a lot bigger and to make matters even worse the Dalai Lama himself comes out of this story as a wounded leader whose Tibetan following appears to desert his middle of the road course. And, for the first time, the feudal past of Tibet has erupted in the Western public sight thus shedding doubts on what the Dalai Lama and Tibetan Buddhism really stand for.

How to say?
The only thing that comes to my mind is "how naive and dumb" the activist lesson-givers now appear to be.

On manipulation of Western Public opinion about facts in Tibet:
On Tibet and Propaganda: Follow the "Information" by Zwoof in the Daily Kos