He finally gets one right

[dgriffin]

Olympics boycott if China mishandles Tibet: Gere

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - China should suffer a boycott of its cherished Beijing Olympics if it mishandles protests in restive Tibet, Hollywood actor and Tibetan activist Richard Gere said on Friday.

Gere, a close follower of the Dalai Lama and chairman of the International Campaign for Tibet, stressed that neither the exiled Tibetan spiritual leader nor the ICT advocates a boycott of the Summer Olympics.

But he said it was his personal opinion that it would be "unconscionable" to attend the Beijing Games if China failed to deal peacefully with unrest in the Himalayan region -- protests that have turned to riots and already claimed several lives.
www.reuters.com/article/sportsNews/idUSN1444309320080315
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After tiananmen square I refused to buy anything from China. Today,of course, I'd be naked and starving if I were to maintain that stance.

[rrogers40]

After tiananmen square I refused to by anything from China. Today,of course, I'd be naked and starving if I were to maintain that stance.

Give it a few years and everything will be made in Vietnam or India- business are finding more and more regulation being put on them in China- and a demand for higher wages.

[dgriffin]

Yes, I recently saw a news report of a town decimated by the loss of its manufacturing plant. Government was not stepping up to the problem of jobs leaving for somewhere else and residents were quite distraught. The jobs had come from North Carolina some years before, but were now on their way to somewhere in Asia. The report was from a town in Mexico.