It has now been exactly 2 weeks and 6 days since the Olympic torch was lit with the fire of Olympia in Olympia, Greece. From there it went through Greece and then directly to Beijing. From Beijing around the world, to promote the Olympic Games.

However, where ever it came it face protests, hatred and a huge press coverage. Why that? That is because of Tibet. In the middle of march, hundreds of protesters protested against the control of Tibet by China. China has entered Tibet in the 1950’s and since then the Chinese government is ruling there. During the protests in Tibet, some protesters were killed, which started everything.

So since the protests, thousands of protesters around the world protested against China, for whom that is the worst moment as it wants to present itself at it’s best during the games. Whenever the Olympic torch arrived in another city thousands of protesters tried to stop it and attacked the sport stars carrying the torch.

These protests are mostly organized and attended by exile Tibetans.

They sometimes jumped at it, tried to grab it or other things and the torch had to be secured by several rings of police and Chinese security staff.

So why am I writing all that? Because I want to get my opinion out there. I thing that these protests are as cruel as what China is doing.

How can you get peace by attacking other people who have nothing to do with what China is doing? How can you get peace by misusing the Olympic Games, which have nothing to do with what China is doing? How can you get peace by ignoring the whole purpose of the Olympic Games, a time of peace? How can you get peace by hurting fans of the Olympic Games, who want to watch the torch but can’t because some extremists have to attack it?

At the moment theses protests are hurting only one type of people and that are the fans of the Olympic Games around the world. The Olympic Games have nothing to do with Tibet or so and these protest can’t change anything at the moment.

China is a communist dictated country, the government has the power over it’s people and there is nothing like freedom of speech in China. China is an uprising power, with an extremely fast rising economy. So the people in China have no idea about the protest that are going on in China, because freedom of press doesn’t exist there. So these protests can’t help the Chinese people who want to get ride of their government.

What are the protest then for? International pressure….

However, I think that is totally useless, China has never really cared about how other countries think about it. So China is one of the least countries where international pressure can help, similar to the US. Now, if some countries try to put pressure on China all it will do is cool down their relationship and it is extremely
important to make sure it doesn’t cool down to much as China isn’t a country you can ignore, the Western economy is depending on China and it’s economy.

So I hope you see what I mean, these protest are useless and misusing the Games and hurting it’s fans.

However, don’t think I agree with what China is doing! The total opposite, I am against the Chinese control of Tibet and I think it is good that the world is reacting to that. It would be shocking if not. However, I am against how the world is reacting to that, by misusing the Olympic Games.

Today the Olympic torch will be in Tanzania, Africa. Let’s hope this will face less protests.