Episode - Politics and the Olympic Games
Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper, German Chancellor Angela Merkel and Britain's Prince Charles are all boycotting the opening of the Beijing Olympics. President Bush will attend, however. The U.S. has long had a policy of constructive engagement with China. Has doing business with China helped improve life in the country? Have preparations for the Olympic games made things better, or worse? Chinese officials point to national reforms, technological advances, and greater freedoms overall, but have the Olympics helped to improve human rights in China? Nobody has called for a boycott of the
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