China’s Olympic Image Trap
The events of the last week in Tibet, in which truckloads of Chinese police cracked down on thousands of rioters on the streets of the capital of Lhasa and other Tibetan population centers, could be just the start of the trouble Beijing faces in the run-up to the 2008 Olympic Games, which begin in the Chinese capital in August.
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