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'Olympic Business Opportunities' Are Illusions

By Tong Wenxun
The Epoch Times
Jul 12, 2008

The Beijing Olympic Games flags fly outside the National Stadium, known as the 'Bird's Nest' July 6, 2008 in Beijing, China. Despite the regime claiming the Olympics would benefit businesses, many factories have been forced to shut down before the games. (Feng Li/Getty Images)
The Beijing Olympic Games flags fly outside the National Stadium, known as the 'Bird's Nest' July 6, 2008 in Beijing, China. Despite the regime claiming the Olympics would benefit businesses, many factories have been forced to shut down before the games. (Feng Li/Getty Images)


Civil right violations committed by the Chinese communist regime in the name of the Beijing Olympic Games have been reported one after another.

According to Hong Kong Sing Tao Daily, 267 steel and cement plants in Tangsan City, Hebei Province, an important industrial hub in China, were forced to shut down by Chinese authorities in an attempt to improve the worsening air pollution in the Beijing area. One plant operator said that the termination wasn't just limited to steel plants, but also included contracted plants of cement and steel manufacturers, and small electricity generating plants. Since the shutdown order takes effect from July until the end of the Olympic Games, these plants have to be closed for two months, which may reduce their annual earnings by one sixth. To plant operators, the so-called "Olympic business opportunities" have become business losses. Like the farmers whose land was unlawfully appropriated in Fujin City, Heilongjiang Province, who demanded human rights instead of the Beijing Olympic Games, it is very clear what these plant operators would think of the Olympic Games.

Foreigners are also victims. With the fast approach of the Olympics Games, many foreigners are suddenly forced to leave China. Not only are foreign students asked to leave the country, but additional employees working in foreign embassies, those who came to work in China temporarily, foreign freelancers, artists, etc. are also subjected to forced departure. As to foreign nationals who are in the process of applying for visas, their requests are denied extensively without decent grounds. As a result, many foreigners who plan on visiting China for the Beijing Games, or business, are also affected.

As to the operators of hotels, restaurants, night clubs, and concerts, their dreams of profiting from the Beijing Olympics are shattered. The hotel business in Beijing is now more sluggish than that of the same period in past years, and night clubs are forced to close earlier. All the large-scale international activities, regardless of whether they are business functions or entertainment events, are not allowed to be held during the Games. Moreover, even postal parcels and express consignments are subject to intensive inspections. Electronic products are entirely prohibited from being delivered by mail.

According to the Japanese daily Sankei, on the eve of the opening ceremony of the Olympics on August 8, the Beijing International Airport will be closed. Furthermore, the Chinese regime has deployed ballistic land-to-air missile launchers inside Beijing City, about one kilometer away from the Bird's Nest Stadium, the main stadium of the Olympics, and the Water Cube Swimming Center. In addition, another batch of land-to-air missiles has been deployed at Haidian Park.

However, in the run-up to the Olympics, social security incidents are unabated. After the arson of the Wengan County Public Security Building and the city hall in Quizhou Province on June 28, the Shanghai Public Security Building was also set fire and assaulted. On July 2, some farmers in Zhangjiajie City, Hunan Province, set off liquefied petroleum gas in an attempt to attack the city hall. This recent lineup of incidents has confirmed my year-long prediction that the Beijing Olympics might be a fatal blow to the Chinese Communist Party (CCP).

The Diamond Sutra says, "All conditioned phenomena are like dreams, illusions, bubbles, shadows, dew, and lightning; such is how one should reflect and observe." The 2008 Olympic business opportunities were once widely regarded as "Asia's economic engine." However, all this proactive propaganda have become "dreams, illusions, bubbles, and shadows." The CCP has done its utmost to maintain its autocratic rule, but the regime established solely on armed forces is nothing but "dew and lightning," which will soon be dissipated. When reviewing the calamities that happened in 2008 from the future, what is mentioned in the Diamond Sutra will clearly attest to the finale of the CCP in the wake of the various atrocities it has committed.

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