Cleaning Beijing

You know when you sometimes as a kid cleaned your room by hiding all the mess in a closet or sweeping your dust under the rug? Well if you get away with it that’s fine I guess. China seems to think that applying this cleaning methodology actually will improve the image of the country, the regime, and Beijing. Houses and shops that would be exposed during the Olympics, and don’t meet the standards aesthetically, are being hidden by brick walls or huge signs. This has of course been observed and published by foreign media, thus the effect is the opposite. Hiding your citizen’s houses and shops doesn’t really boost your image does it? Perhaps they view it differently. On the same note, for some reason the workers in the Olympic press centre can no longer access the site of Amnesty International. The communist party is like a kid, trying to hide away its mess in a closet.

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