A Rant – Blogs -Olympics 2008 –China

Article in The New York Times   

Some of us might take this privilege of posting as nothing much but to some other it might mean life or death. Or at least in the case of Hu Jia it meant arrest and charges for subverting power of the state. You might wonder the reasoning presented by the state or the trail procedures, but unfortunately communist China does not really have to explain its action to anyone else. This article might present one of the many stories that lies hidden behind the great wall of communism that keeps the nation secret behind closed doors, but thankfully to the bold human activist and other group stories such as this are once in a while heard of.

The question that I don’t really understand is although the rest of the world does not really support or think highly of communism why are the 2008 Olympic Games held there? Obviously I knot that a certain portion of the selection process is done by random and also agreed upon by a board of directors, yet why is the whole world bringing the biggest tourist attraction the world to the one and only powerful communist country that is on the verge of becoming a gigantic economical power. I personally wish the world games would be held somewhere else instead of China.

What this is about ?

As a group we are going to take the look of how outsourcing in the United States and the rest of the world has effected the economy of both America and the Rest of the World.

 

My partner will go into further details with a brief summery paragraph.

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Germany 1995-2000

Living in Nuremburgh, Germany as a political asylum.

How IR affects me and how I affect IR.

One way that i am affected by international relations, is by the outsourcing of American jobs to India. In the field of information technology, jobs are being sent overseas because of the lower in labor cost in developing countries. My dad is in the IT field and his job may be in jeopardy because of the financial move of big IT business.

 I have affected International Relations when I purchase my soccer equipment. My cleats come straight from Germany and my uniform from other parts of the world. I also affected International Relations when i hosted an exchange student from France.