Chinese-American views on the Olympics protests
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Hema Easley reports today on Chinese-American perspectives on the protests over China’s Olympic Games. She discovers a feeling among many that China’s potentially proud moment is being hijacked by political groups.
Franklin Chu, who heads the Chinese School in Scarsdale, says the mixing of politics with the Olympics has tapped into a certain “China-bashing sentiment” in the United States. Bryan Dai, a Harvard freshman from New City, sees a moment “where the world has finally become frightened of Chinese influence, and this backlash no doubt has gone to fuel some of the protests we’ve seen.”
In a New York Times story today, Chinese college students in the United States also describe what they see as an anti-Chinese bias here, along with blind support for Tibet.
Dai, who is American-born, gave Easley this assessment:
“The most egregious acts I’m seeing are protesters who have joined simply because it has become the ‘it’ issue of this year, and when the Beijing Olympics are over, I ask you to go back and see just how much attention Tibet and human rights in China will be getting then.”
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