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Historian Wasserstrom explains the historical resonances in the debate over Western boycotts of the Olympics, decision of individual runners not to carry the torch, and Chinese boycotts of the French chain Carrefour, with thoughts on the boycott of CNN.

As Beijing Olympics quickly sink further in the mire of protest, boycotts and childish name-calling from both sides of the globe, I pause for a moment of rantamantation.

All readers of the internet turn with undying devotion and respect to our beloved People’s Daily. Despite the blatantly false lies of a minority of lying liars, those who know anything will agree: The Beijing Olympics are to be the best ever held in Olympic history.

This series of Nike “Anytime” (随时) commercials are all related to the Beijing Olympics. In the advertisements, you are encouraged to do any sports such as fencing, weightlifting, marathon running, discus throwing, basketball, 100m sprinting and judo anytime, even in a classroom or at the school canteen. In a sense of “Just Do It - Anytime”.

We all know Michael Scofield’s famous tattoo in Prison Break but tattooing The Great Wall of China, dragons, Olympic rings, symbols of Olympic sports and Fuwa? on your body sure comes close in some way.

You know it's getting close when they start testing venues. The rundown on Olympic boxing, Chinese style.

US film maker Steven Spielberg said he was abandoning his artistic role in the Beijing Olympics, accusing China of not doing enough to press its ally Sudan to end devastating violence in Darfur.

China now has a new policy of banning Lonely Planet books and is confiscating Lonely Planet books from tourists who are coming in to travel in China. The reason for that is explained to be due to the Lonely Planet's different coloring for China and Taiwan suggesting that they are different countries.

Titan Sports, China’s largest sports publication, on Nov. 18th ran a piece about foreign journalists offering bribe to get doping stories from Liu Xiang’s coach. In a country where general news is now in a large part controlled and censored by the government, it seems sports journalism gets much more freedom than ever before.