Idrott och politik: Taiwan, Kina och OS, del 2
Läste i dagens Liberty Times (kinesiska) att bråket om "Kinesiska Taipei" eller "Taipei, Kina/Kina, Taipei" redan är på gång, tidigare än jag hade trott.
Premiärminister Su Tseng-chang sa i går inder en riksdagsinterpellation att Taiwan kommer att bojkotta Beijing-OS om Kina forstätter att nonchalera de olympiska bestämmelsena och envisas med att hänvisa till Taiwan som "Taipei, Kina" snarare än "Kinesiska Taipei" eftersom det innebär att Taiwan behandlas som en lokal regering/myndighet snarare än en nationell regering.
Dagens ledare i Liberty Times (Taiwans största eller näst största dagstidning berorende på vem man ska tro på och grön, dvs för taiwanesisk självständighet) säger också att Taiwan måste förbereda sig för möjligheten att Taiwan kommer att bojkotta OS.
Dessutom krigar nu ordförandena i Kinas och Taiwans IOK, Jiang Xiaoyu och Tsai Chen-wei. Jiang säger att Tsai skrivit under ett avtal som förbinder Taiwan att acceptera OS-facklans färdväg, medan Tsai säger att det rör sig om ett mötesprotokoll och inte är ett bindande avtal.
Dagens ledare i Taipei Times och gårdagens ledare i China Post.
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Egentligen tycker jag att allt jippo omrking OS facklan aer ganska oeverdrivit, saerskilt med taenke paa hur mycket pengar och natur resurser kommer att gaa aat foer att den daer symbolen ska faerdas oeverallt, t.o.m. till Mt. Everest i Tibet.
The worst part is that the IOC allows China to ignore and change the rules of the organization, and that allowing China to do this is apparently not seen as any cause for shame on the part of those responsible for running the organization.
If China is going to inject political propaganda into every aspect of the Olympics and the torch, then I think Taiwan is right in saying, "forget it".
On the other hand, don't you think having the torch inside Taiwan might present interesting opportunities for people to demonstrate some of the things that makes Taiwanese democracy unique?
What do you think would happen if the torch was somehow held here until Beijing agreed to allow Taiwan to participate as Tawain, instead of as Chinese Taipei?? Would Beijing simply produce a spare back-up torch and continue the route as if nothing happened?
Scott | 18:21, 29 april, 2007
Well, you know the old adage about separating sports and politics. It's never been any more than a beautiful saying. Berlin 1936, the US boycott of the Moscow games and the Moscow bocycott of the LA games. If that ain't proof that sports and politics are as unseparable as economics and politics or politics and politics...
Having the torch in Taiwan would of course be good, and like the TT editorial said the other day, it could have gone to Kaohsiung or another city rather than the capital, an Aboriginal community or been used somehow to highlight Taiwan's incredible democratic progress over the past two decades.
On the other hand, Ican fully appreciate the reasons for the government nixing the current route. The torch passes over Taiwan twice on the way to Japan (I think) and on the way back to Vietnam from the Koreas, so the fact that China does not let it land in Taiwan on any of those legs is of course an obvious political statement.
They would have to keep the torch forever, since in the eyes of Beijing, letting Taiwan participate as Taiwan would mean accepting Taiwan independence. I think Taiwan would be asking for it if they did. It would be seen as the ultimate insult and an attempt to ruin China's proudest moment, and Chinese nationalism would demand retaliation: don't play with (my) fire unless you want war.
tff | 12:39, 30 april, 2007