I am sure all of you are very surprised by this. A repressive, autocratic regime not changing? OMG!
China has already broken several of it's promises to the IOC....not that the IOC cares. Bullying, bullying and more bullying topped with bullying = China
But with the tone-deaf thoroughness shared by the masters of most oppressive regimes, China's leaders are making frantic efforts to assure that nothing goes wrong to mar their nation's moment in the sun. And as so often happens in these cases, the more they flail about, the worse they make things.
The regime in Beijing has already broken many of the promises it made to the International Olympic Committee to win these the Games. Its notion of enhancing human rights, for example, appears to consist of setting up a couple of carefully monitored "protest pens" far from the Games venues, where dissidents (properly licensed, of course) will be able to air their views - as long as they don't talk about Tibet or Darfur, that is.
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