China Law Blog - Qingdao Olympic Update (Live) - Comments http://www.chinalawblog.com/ China Law for Business en Copyright 2011 Fri, 29 Jul 2011 11:43:19 -0800 Fri, 29 Jul 2011 11:43:19 -0800 http://www.sixapart.com/movabletype/?v=4.32-en http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Private Eye Great post! Did the Chinese police had some reinforcements for the Olympics?

]]> http://www.chinalawblog.com/2008/08/qingdao_olympic_update_live.html#11724 http://www.chinalawblog.com/2008/08/qingdao_olympic_update_live.html#11724 Events Mon, 18 Aug 2008 03:17:53 -0800 Dan Kiss of X Well according to the comment scuttlebutt on Chinese sites, there's a rumor that one reason the stands are so empty in Beijing is that blocks of tickets were sold to Party organizations with the instructions not to distribute them.

This, with the way Beijing was ready to respond with choreographed "Cheer Crowds", people conscripted from - closed factories? I can't recall - all would suggest that Beijing does not, in general, want people massing. If you visit any public park in Shanghai (I can't speak for Beijing), you'll find them all broken up with landscaping, with no place one might find that could hold all that many people.

This is all speculation. But MLK at the mall it ain't.

]]> http://www.chinalawblog.com/2008/08/qingdao_olympic_update_live.html#11725 http://www.chinalawblog.com/2008/08/qingdao_olympic_update_live.html#11725 Events Mon, 18 Aug 2008 03:17:53 -0800 Dan Mark Anthony Jones I enjoyed reading this post too, which I found to be a fair, soberly balanced assessment. The idea that the Chinese today are very good when it comes to developing, constructing and managing "hardware", but not yet so good at managing "software", is an interesting one - good food for thought.

]]> http://www.chinalawblog.com/2008/08/qingdao_olympic_update_live.html#11726 http://www.chinalawblog.com/2008/08/qingdao_olympic_update_live.html#11726 Events Mon, 18 Aug 2008 03:17:53 -0800 Dan FOARP As much as I dislike nationalistic displays -

GO TEAM GB: THREE GOLDS IN THE SAILING ALREADY!!!

There, glad I got that out of my system, phew!

]]> http://www.chinalawblog.com/2008/08/qingdao_olympic_update_live.html#11727 http://www.chinalawblog.com/2008/08/qingdao_olympic_update_live.html#11727 Events Mon, 18 Aug 2008 03:17:53 -0800 Dan chriswaugh_bj "For the foreigners who actually made it to Qingdao, who would want to return to a place where your dancing companion in the local night club is a 50 year old policeman?"

Oh, I don't know. I suspect that when they reach that age, both my brother and his wife would be happy to be dancing with a police officer. But then again, they are both cops...

]]> http://www.chinalawblog.com/2008/08/qingdao_olympic_update_live.html#11728 http://www.chinalawblog.com/2008/08/qingdao_olympic_update_live.html#11728 Events Mon, 18 Aug 2008 03:17:53 -0800 Dan Dan Kiss of X,

Guanxi. Same thing with NBA games, at least with respect to our late-great-pitiful Seattle Supersonics.

]]> http://www.chinalawblog.com/2008/08/qingdao_olympic_update_live.html#11729 http://www.chinalawblog.com/2008/08/qingdao_olympic_update_live.html#11729 Events Mon, 18 Aug 2008 03:17:53 -0800 Dan Dan MAJ,

Thanks.

]]> http://www.chinalawblog.com/2008/08/qingdao_olympic_update_live.html#11730 http://www.chinalawblog.com/2008/08/qingdao_olympic_update_live.html#11730 Events Mon, 18 Aug 2008 03:17:53 -0800 Dan Dan FOARP,

Shows how instinctive and innate it really is, doesn't it?

]]> http://www.chinalawblog.com/2008/08/qingdao_olympic_update_live.html#11731 http://www.chinalawblog.com/2008/08/qingdao_olympic_update_live.html#11731 Events Mon, 18 Aug 2008 03:17:53 -0800 Dan Dan chriswaugh_bj,

I have not asked Steve about this, but I am guessing it was meant to be a rhetorical question.

]]> http://www.chinalawblog.com/2008/08/qingdao_olympic_update_live.html#11732 http://www.chinalawblog.com/2008/08/qingdao_olympic_update_live.html#11732 Events Mon, 18 Aug 2008 03:17:53 -0800 Dan FOARP @Kiss of X - I've heard this explanation elsewhere, but it really doesn't scan. For one thing, crowds of many thousands turned out every week in Nanjing whilst I was there to cuss and swear at "The Yo-yos" - Nanjing's (execrable) football team, and the government did not seem particularly concerned about this. More likely the tickets were sold in block to corporations, government departments etc. and not used - just a they are at most Olympic games.

]]> http://www.chinalawblog.com/2008/08/qingdao_olympic_update_live.html#11733 http://www.chinalawblog.com/2008/08/qingdao_olympic_update_live.html#11733 Events Mon, 18 Aug 2008 03:17:53 -0800 Dan Kiss of X FOARP,
I'd prefer if you were right, and not me.

Hacker finds cache spreadsheet revealing Chinese gymnasts' true ages:

http://strydehax.blogspot.com/2008/08/hack-olympics.html

14

Check it out! (while you still can)

]]> http://www.chinalawblog.com/2008/08/qingdao_olympic_update_live.html#11734 http://www.chinalawblog.com/2008/08/qingdao_olympic_update_live.html#11734 Events Mon, 18 Aug 2008 03:17:53 -0800 Dan