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Listed below are comments made by chronise between Sunday, 24th August 2008 and Monday, 25th August 2008.

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World view of Beijing 1:17pm on 25 Aug 2008 fabulousregas,

Sorry, English is not my native language.

It should be 0.25 billion and 0.8 billion.

As you mentioned I born and lived in China, I definitely know more about China than you. Probably you never been to China yet.

I have a vivid memory about my Childhood and I can see the great change of the past 30 years.
World view of Beijing 12:30pm on 25 Aug 2008 fabulousregas,

Most Chinese are genius in maths.

30.7 % is the percentage of rural population of 2.5 billion people in 1978 (China has a rural population as 8 billion at that time), 3% is the percentage of rural population of 29million (China has a rural population as 9.6 billion in 2004).

Hope this could be clarified.
Beijing, over and out - follow that, London! 11:10am on 25 Aug 2008 benxiongda,

I should say something about the 22 billion. This money is not only spent on a 16-days events, most of this money is spent on long term investments. Most of this money comes from industrial sponsors, not from the government.

We built the forth terminal in Beijing international airport, which is bigger than the total of 5 Terminals in Heathrow. According to the increasing flight traffic in Beijing, this is worthwhile. We built two new subways in Beijing, and this could be very helpful for the city's traffic.

We spent lots of money on plants and help to improve the air quality, and indeed the air quality has great improvement compared two 5 years ago.

We built several new stadiums, and most of these stadiums are built in local universities, and these will to encourage ordinary people to involve into taking sports as well as these universities.

We even have 30 million $ profit after paying 22 billion (10 billion was covered by soling the TV broadcast, and other parts are covered by tickets, and by selling Olympic related commodities) $ on those fundamental investment.

It is a shame on some biasing western medics. They only focusing how much money we spent on the Olympic game while never mention how we spend the money. Probably London has to find an excuse for its 2012 Olympic game.
Beijing, over and out - follow that, London! 10:39am on 25 Aug 2008 pmatson

How many boxing gold medal that the Chinese team has won? It is 2, how about the rest 18 gold medals of your 20 easy gold medals?

When you talk about the diving, you should definitly go back and review the video to see how good the Chinese players have made. They always lead the No.2 by at least 10 points. The Chinese diving team is always performs pretty good no matter the game is hold in China or not. They won 6 gold medals in Athens (7 gold medals this year).

You should also review the gymnastics video to see how good the Chinese player has performed, they dominate the gymnastics not only in Olympic but also in the world champions.

I should say probably there are some human mistakes made by the judges and the host is always taking advantages of home town decisions. But I could not understand how could you draw a conclusion of 20 easy gold medals? Could you clarify this?
Beijing, over and out - follow that, London! 10:37am on 25 Aug 2008 pmatson

How many boxing gold medal that the Chinese team has won? It is 2, how about the rest 18 gold medals of your 20 easy gold medals?

When you talk about the diving, you should definite go back and review the video to see how good the Chinese players have made. They always lead the No.2 by at least 10 points. The Chinese diving team is always performs pretty good no matter the game is hold in China or not. They won 6 gold medals in Athens (7 gold modals these years).

You should also review the gymnastics video to see how good the Chinese player has performed, they dominate the gymnastics not only in Olympic but also in the world champions.

I should say probably there are some human mistakes made by the judges and the host is always taking advantages of home town decisions. But I could know understand how could you draw a conclusion of 20 easy gold medals? Could you clarify this?
Beijing, over and out - follow that, London! 10:25am on 25 Aug 2008 pmatson,

Could you list the 20 easy golds?

Could you at least make sure your comment is based on some facts before you witting it down?

AS FOR THE OLYMPIC SPIRITS, I have to mention a great British player -- David Davies (the British swimmer).

He threw water from his bottle to the body of a lady volunteer, who was trying to tell him the victory ceremony started and ask him to go to the podium for his silver, after several other volunteers failed to persuade him.

David was talking to the media when the ceremony had started. He felt interrupted so he shouted to the officials to shut up then threw bottle water to the lady who urged him for being late for the ceremony.
World view of Beijing 09:58am on 25 Aug 2008 Corvus4u,

I have to say you are a typical anti-Chinese guy. What you need to do is to sit down and read some books or to travel to China, in order to make sure your comments are based on some facts.

It is fair enough for any Olympic host not to show some sad tragedy history during the opening ceremony. Mao culture has been thrown into bin in 30 years ago (rather than 20 years mentioned in your comment). Will you show anything about the colonial history, the opium trade and anti-human right things that the British troop has done in Afghanistan, in London 2012?

If you kinds of British want to make some positive impact on improving the human right in China, you should introduce the Chinese culture, history and the progress that has been made during the past 30 years rather than keep on talking about HR and politics. How will you feel about that someone is shouting outside your windows when you are holding a big party? It amazes me when ever another country is about to host a big event how the British love to make snide comments and going on about human rights violations etc. Britain is not exactly past or present perfect in their human rights violations.

As regarding to Tibet, I think you should at least read some books to understand how dark the slave history in Tibet before 1949. What Dalai Lama wants to do, is just to reverse this kind of inhuman system. Most of Chinese supports the government to suppress riots in recent Tibet accident.

I agree that China still has lots of problems, HR, politic and democracy etc. However, due to China’s huge geography, population and the number ethnic groups (how many of you knows how many ethnic groups that China has?), everything could be extreme complicated. How much time does Britain needs to come into today’s “free” society? How long China does starts to making change?

During the late 18th and 19th, China suffers the invasion of foreign counties (including UK), civil wars, and horrible communist policies. That’s the important reason that why China is still lag behind the west world.

One thing that some of your British or western arrogant people could not understand is that most Chinese are really feel optimistic about their country’s future. I born and lived in China for around 30 years, and I witness the tremendous progress that China has been archived during the past 30 years. The poverty population has been reduced from 2.5 billion (in 1978) to 29million (in 2004), from 30.7% to 3%. This is a great achievement! Although the Chinese government still has some problems in censorship, HR, and democracy, we had already see lots of progress had been made.

What I want to say is that the future of China can only be determined by the Chinese people themselves. If you want to make some positive impact on the Chinese government, you should at least make sure your criticism is based on some facts. More important the western people should lower their arrogant heads, and learn how to persuade a country that has 1.3 billion people and 5000 year’s civilization. Probably what you guys should do is to read some books about Chinese history and culture, to visit China (unlike some of you British people, the Chinese people is very friendly and welcome foreigners), rather than sitting on the computer to write down some nonsense comments.
World view of Beijing 10:57pm on 24 Aug 2008 eirebilly,

Could you point out the exact name of the game that is unfair?

You should look at the over turned in Taekwondo.

The Chinese team accept the reverse result which is not allow to be reversed according to the Taekwondo.

This is a kind of sportsmanship, isn't it?

The human errors cannot be eliminated in current scoring system, this is a part of the sport.
Beijing, over and out - follow that, London! 10:49pm on 24 Aug 2008 As a Chinese, I think one thing that the British should learn is to be passion and friendly. The passion of Chinese people to the game was unbelievable!

I had several really bad experience with some really arrogant British people.

Look at how good the Chinese volunteer is! They are passion and friendly, they always try their best to help everyone. How many British in London would like to point out the way for a foreigner? I had some really bad experiences in asking British in London for pointing me out the way.

Good Luck to London, and wish 2012 Olympic game could be a very successful Olympia
World view of Beijing 10:30pm on 24 Aug 2008 kingslandroar,

I think it is also good to count out some stupid games, such as cycling and sailing to see how many gold medals the team GB still has.

You should learn how to respect and appreciate the efforts that athletes, judges and the host have spent.

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