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April 11, 2008

Mount Qomolangma

It belatedly occurred to me to wonder of Beijing is bringing its Nazi torch and Peoples Armed Police escort to Canada. No such luck. The route is to pass through a string of Muslim towns including Dar es Salaam, Islamabad and Kuala Lumpur; do not expect much in the way of protest for that leg of the journey.

But...

... has anyone noticed the ChiComs are planning to run the torch through Tibet? The official stop is Mount Qomolangma, that is to say, Mount Everest. Blaming riots on the "Dalai clique", this Red China propaganda site celebrates the prospect (emphasis added).

Tibetans are eagerly awaiting the arrival of the Olympic flame, lit Monday afternoon in Greece, and welcome its being carried to the top of Mount Qomolangma (Everest) as "an honor equivalent to an Olympic gold."

A highlight of the torch relay will be to take the Olympic flame to the summit of Mount Qomolangma in May.

"The torch relay will be Tibet's biggest contribution to the Beijing Olympics, and should bring us mountaineers honor equivalent to an Olympic gold," Nima Ciren, principal of the Lhasa Mountaineering Guide School.

This, my friends, is what we call taking the piss. Time to set up base camp outside the Chinese consulate.

Update: Many fear that things could get ugly. Pinch of salt with this one but worth the read for the following alone.

What would those Victorian masters of old have made of the fact that Chinese security men were on the streets of London this week, ordering our own police about and fighting running battles with British protesters while bewildered athletes carried the Olympic torch on its relay through the capital?

It was a brazen display of how confident China has become of its new place in the world, just as the British Government's failure to take a firm stand on Chinese abuses of human rights shows how craven we have become.

Posted by Ghost of a flea at April 11, 2008 12:10 PM

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