'Hu' stole the cookie from Bush?

Be careful what you wish for' as Confucius probably said, may soon be coming true for China. After the unfolding of worldwide anti-China protests leading up to the Games, the Chinese leadership must definitely be wondering whether the Beijing Games would bring the communists more accolades (as they had hoped) or garner them worldwide hatred (as is happening).The Games seems to heading back to an old path going back 72 years to the 1936 Berlin Olympics when Hitler tried using the Games as a vehicle to push Nazism only to have a black American athlete Jesse Owens win four gold medals.For Berlin's sake one can argue that the venue had been selected before the Nazis came to power. However no excuse can cover the decision to award this coveted prize to Beijing.1989 Tiananmen Square is what one would probably vividly remember of China when the Chinese government crushed the peaceful protests as the world looked on in horror.Despite this and a host of other human rights violation that China is responsible for, it still managed to secure the Olympics. A propaganda triumph for the Communists one must say and surely a beautiful prize to show off to the world for all its 'charities' on mankind.The question then stands as to why would the world want to look away or beyond China's irreparable past, its unforgiving present or inevitably bleak future? The answer would most definitely lie in China's surging economy and its clout on the world as a huge economic powerhouse.World leaders, no matter who and no matter what their status with China, surely hold this economic mammoth in awe. Like when the British Prime Minister Gordon Brown toured China, he talked of business opportunities.The US has used its muscle to have a world where western values are embraced calling for respect to the rule of the land and reduction in corruption as a basis for trade and aid. China, on the other hand, has extended the hand of friendship to gruesome regimes and has made it clear that its only consideration is natural resources.But then again that could be China's way of entertaining itself by thwarting Americas' liberal values export.So China has every reason to believe that this would be a trouble free Olympics especially with President Sarkozy, whose country is considered as a cradle for Human rights, first threatening to boycott but later agreeing to attend.A total of 104 'national government dignitaries' is what China's guest list boasts of for the Games.The Gandhi family (Sonia and Rahul) will also be in attendance to display solidarity and the strong bond that the leaders of China and India share, even while China eats into India's borders. China's claim of "this land is ours" has always got a meek response from India as if out of fear of angering the "older brother".China has arrived. That was the message when it began its torch relay around the world with disdain and unprecedented grandiosity. The plan of the torch's itinerary must have looked amazingly great on the drawing board. In practice, though, Beijing has managed to secure a rolling programme of anti-Chinese protest circling the globe.It has basically managed to set the Tibet bandwagon rolling at a high speed towards a destination that every democratic politician will very soon be clamouring to find a place in.Beijing's biggest mistake was probably being too anxious for the Games to be a success. China has probably bitten on much more than it can chew, the indigestion of which it should eventually face in the near future."A man who wants something too much makes himself vulnerable". Surely Confucius said something of this sort.