Posted on 08/09/2012 8:06:20 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
BEIJING — China may lead the Olympic gold medal tally in London, but some Chinese still apparently believe the rest of the world is ganging up on their country.
Several Chinese state-run media outlets alleged Wednesday that a conspiracy may be afoot in London following a string of controversies involving Chinese athletes. The latest incident to infuriate the Chinese occurred this week when judges awarded a Brazilian gymnast gold over the largely favored Chinese competitor Chen Yibing, known in China as the “King of Rings.”
“Anger grows over alleged Olympic bias,” blared the front page of China’s government-owned Global Times on Wednesday. The People’s Daily blamed such results on a “hysterical” and “paranoid” fear of China.
It may seem like sour grapes to the West, but the conspiracy theories reflect an increasingly common line taken by Chinese leaders that Western powers are trying to contain China even as its status as a world power rises.
“This is not an overreaction, because those abroad keep saying things about China, so China has a right to say something back,” said Tao Wenzhao, a U.S.-China relations expert at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, who said many foreign commentators, including those in the United States, have been biased against China.
If China makes it back atop the Olympic medal table, it would be the first country to defeat the United States at the Summer Olympics since 1992. But its rising tally has only seemed to feed suspicions among Chinese officials.
Because of China’s growing worldwide dominance, their theory goes, other countries are forced to resort to unfair tactics to knock the country down a peg.
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All we have to do is stop buying Chinese stuff and that country would be in deep trouble. They are getting way too big for their britches in a nation where few have flush toilets.
Our state-run media repeats their state-run media’s slurs, character assassinations and insinuations.
Looks more and more like Blade Runner/Stand on Zanzibar times to me.
China dominates in table tennis, badminton, gymnastics, and diving. Yawn, and half of those sports depend on judges to determine the outcome. Not exactly a superior ‘sports’ outcome.
Chinese gold medals don’t make money for NBC, and their beach volleyball team isn’t that great in bikinis.
QED.
Apparently they haven’t been listening to NBC coverage. They’ve missed the applause and the love affair the announcers seem to be having with chinese olympians.
They must have also missed seeing pics of obamas WH Christmas where a Chairman Mao ornament was hung on our tree.
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/12/23/white-house-christmas-decor-featuring-mao-zedong-comes/
Yea since when did Ping Pong, Badminton and jumping on a trampoline become Olympic competitive sports??? These are things we all do in the back yard during the summer holidays. Whats next horseshoes cornhole and lawn darts??
I will admit that Chinese gymnast got rooked.
If they would stop lying about the age of their female gymnasts, that would be a ... “nice start”.
China ? go take your metals home, and go pound sand and worry about the big problems in your own country.
Few have flush toilets? What are we, in 1980s?
Few have flush toilets? What are we, in 1980s?
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