• Whenever Something Goes Wrong, I Blame it on the Beijing
Olympics      Arts & Culture, Environmental Design       From:
http://archpaper.com/e-boardrev.asp?NewsID=2315      07.29.2008
Protest: China's Olympic Syndrome        Recently, however, the
exercise has not gone entirely according to plan. In spite of
their inevitability, the mass protests in Tibet, Xinjiang (the
Muslim part of Western China), and Mongolia still caught the
government off their usually rigid guard. Even more
unpredictable has been the tumultuous time the government has
had trying to control the coverage of these events. And when
widespread public sympathy during the Sichuan Earthquake led to
a huge demand for news, the state could no longer reasonably
control the local and foreign media.      All these
occurrences—and its inability to master them leading up to its
pride and joy, the Olympics—has made the Chinese government
completely paranoid about who it is and is not letting into the
country. The result is that the Really Big Show m