Could you please stop bending over backwards for China?

So unless you live in isolation or just returned from an expedition to the Amazon, you must know what is currently going on in Tibet. To put in mildly, Tibetans had enough of their Chinese oppressors and demand independence. Apparently, China invaded Tibet 50 years ago and claimed it as part of China. It seems that Chinese always thought that Tibet is part of their country. However, Tibetans for some bizarre and unexplained reason never quite agreed with that claim. They must be bonkers. I mean why wouldn't somebody want to be part of the great People's Republic of China? After all, China is such a democratic place where human rights take uppermost priority, NOT.

It seems that the poor Tibetans, after years of suffering, decided to make the rest of the world aware by staging an uprising. They had this idea that since the Olympics will take place in a few months in China, the rest of the world including China may actually listen to their plea for more freedom. Already several people have been killed and the intifada is ongoing.

UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon has called on both Chinese forces and demonstrators in Tibet to show restraint after days of rioting, according to the BBC. I honestly hope that we won't see images like the ones from Tiananmen Square protests but I won't be surprised if the worst is yet to come. You can always count on China to violate human rights.

What pisses me off even more than the Chinese government (who let's face it, we know that they don't believe in democracy) is the rest of the so-called democratic world who pretend nothing is going on. They are too scared to annoy the Chinese. The president of the Olympic Committee said that major governments were "almost unanimously" against a possible boycott of the Olympics, according to the BBC. Oh no, we don't want to 'damage' the Olympic Games in the name of pointless politics. I can understand this argument up to a point. However, here we have gross violations of human rights and the West simply turns away because it is, probable, in their best interest to do so. At the end of the day, who cares about Tibet? There is nothing there. No oil, no natural resources for the West to take.

At the same time, the West heavily depends on China's exports. We all know that even the condoms we buy to fak are most probably made in China. We don't really want to piss off the Chinese, now, do we? Otherwise we may run out of condoms and all of a sudden we'll have a bunch of unwanted pregnancies. And, of course, we don't want to touch the Olympic Games since there are a few billion dollars at stake (or Euros since the dollar is going down faster than Niagara Falls).

Well, let me tell you something. I am Greek and proud that both the Olympic Games and democracy started in Greece. (Sorry to disappoint our fellow American readers here, but democracy was invented in Athens, Greece and not Athens, Georgia). Anyway, how is it possible that the Olympic flame will be lit in Beijing given China's human rights violations, not only in regards to Tibet but everywhere in the country including the support of Sudan's and Burma's regimes?

How is it possible for the so-called democratic countries like USA, UK and France to shut up and bend over backwards for China? How can they turn a blind eye? Isn't it the same countries which bombed the crap out of Serbia and recognized Kosovo as an independent state? If those countries are so 'worried' about freedom and justice why don't they do the same with Tibet and Taiwan?