Posts tagged “china”

The Olympic torch controversy is messy but meaningful. China's willingness to engage with the world stage, despite the protests it invites, reflects an internal struggle between openness and the status quo. Let the protests happen, let the Olympics proceed. We have to start learning to coexist somewhere.

Beijing just jumped from 37 to 402 SARS cases. China's massive, the disease is spreading far from Hong Kong, mortality is climbing past 9%, and it can spread through water and waste. I'm not leaving my house for the foreseeable future.