Search results

OK, not squashed. But punished severely albeit unofficially.

In the US protest can get you squashed too even if the government isn't the one doing it. Hence Brock Osweiller has a job and Colin Kaepdrnik doesn't. Apologies to non-American readers for whom that statement makes no sense. Colin Kaepernick is an African-American quarterback who last year was...

My wife's take is that the whole thing from top down is business as usual in China, and happens there daily. Except that in this case Ma Long, XX, and FZD are young elite popular professional athletes who travel a lot. Somebody expected that as usual they would obey and go along with the...

We haven't reached the end of this yet. Until we see things unfold a bit longer, I for one conclude nothing. People can dig in their heels and with outrage spreading there is involvement of people who dont know or care about sports but wbo care about party control. This is now beyond the...

One thing that is ironic is that we dont know how LGL manages his team. He may be a terrible "head coach" even if he is geat at handling some of the players in matches. (I mention this as a possibility, not something I know). Head coaches have a whole range of responsibilities we don't see...

Interesting. I wondered who would blink first. CTTA is looking over their shoulder now. I am guessing there will be punishments of some sort for everyone, a reminder to never ever rock the boat. And don't let your boat be rocked. No matter what, LGL will be toast professionally. Shocked if...

To pezon who asked about accessing Google in China (or Wikipedia), I couldnt access it my last trip there in December 2016. See tbis too. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Websites_blocked_in_mainland_China

The Black Power salute of 1968 came to my mind too Tropical. Interesting that the guy who won the Bronze medal to John Carlos and Tommie Smith was an Australian named Peter Norman, who was vocally supportive of their protest. He actually had a particularly hard time after that, and was denied...

And cutting their pay, blocking their endorsement oportunities, reducing their travel....

Thans worko for a lot more background. Byzantine stuff.

Failed in method perhaps. We will see. Maybe underestimated what they were up against, like the students at Tienanmen square. As to what is really behind all this, maybe it is KLH, it depends I suppose on what they think LGL may have done to enable him, which case this is actually part of a...

Your posts are really interesting! Thanks for keeping us informed. Really wish I could read Chinese right about now.

I can see that perspective too. I guess we need a little more time to see what he says and does.

He has a lot to lose in this. I would not be so willing to judge.

Yep. F you Weikert! You could have just kept your mouth shut. Instead you are like the guys who stripped Muhammad Ali of his boxing title.

I worry for these reasons also. You don't get to protest an injustice in China, even when your complaint is legitimate. They will punish you, and maybe your lawyers if they are too strident -- often more than the people who messed things up in the first place. The one thing that gives me some...

I think we owe it to these players to translate their protest comments here.

I don't think it is quite accurate to say that Chinese regime is "almost at the same level as North Korean regime". But it is not like anyplace that most of us live, either. People are much freer to live more or less ordinary lives in China these days, although they control access to media...

When you travel there, you can't connect to either Wikipedia or Google (among many other sites that you pretty much take for granted everywhere in the west). The government blocks it.

Everybody who goes to Sichuan should do this. So much incredible food there.