China and the Olympics

China and the Olympics

Even though China has human rights violations, loads of pollution, and restrictions on the press/media, I believe that China should still be able to host the 2008 Olympics. I think that they should because China is a major world power. They have been for a while and still are. They are one of the most highly populated nations in the world as well as one of the largest. I think that all great nations should have the opportunity. Also, I think that this is good for China to host the Olympics because it is allowing them to open up more to the rest of the world, which is something that it has had major problems with in the past. China has been a nation that was private and stayed away from the rest of the world. China hosting the 2008 Olympics shines some light on this situation and may help improve China’s relationships with other countries that it may not have communicated well with in the past. I think that all nations have problems and that these three problems should not be the reasons why China should not be able to host the Olympics.
I do not think that any nation has any moral high ground to criticize the Chinese government, especially the United States. I say this because the United States has pollution problems of its own that need to be resolved. Even if the United States’ pollution problem is not as bad as the Chinese pollution problem that is going on right now, it still has no right to look down on and criticize the Chinese government for pollution problems because it has its own pollutions issues. Also, the United States definitely has no right to look down on the Chinese government for its human rights violations. I say this because of all of the years of slavery and discrimination that African Americans and women had to go through. Just because the United States’ human rights issues are not nearly as bad as they used to be that give it no right at all to criticize the Chinese government. The United States still faces problems with human rights and racial and well as gender discrimination. The United States had to work through its human rights problems (and still is). So, it has no reason to criticize the Chinese government when it has its own issues in the same area even if the may be a little different. Other nations certainly have no reason to look down on the Chinese government for there restriction on the press/media because I am sure that almost every nation has tried to hide something from other nations at one time or another. What I am basically saying is that other nations have no reason and no right to look down on and criticize China for its problems when they have problems of their own. Even if their problems may not be the same, they still have issues that need to be fixed. People are really realizing and paying attention to China’s problems right now because they are hosting the Olympics. If it was not for them hosting the Olympics, several people probably would not even know about these problems that China is facing right now. In my opinion, nations should attend to their own business and deal with their own problems. Once they have dealt with them then maybe, just maybe, they can talk about other nation’s problems. Those are my thoughts on China and its issues.