一直沒有怎樣注意這則新聞。因早已對部份親中人士的敏感與嘩眾取寵見怪不怪。到這天早上發現泛民人士竟不敢撐李大狀，而民主黨甚至要登報紙「澄清」，才頓覺事態真的嚴重 -- 嚴重在於不是別人怎樣亂扣帽子，嚴重乃在於自己人的「獨善其身」。
China's Olympic Opportunity
By MARTIN LEE
October 17, 2007; Page A18
When President George W. Bush accepted President Hu Jintao's invitation to attend the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, Mr. Bush's press secretary said that he was going to the Games as "a sports fan, not to make any political statement." I too am a great sports fan -- especially of the Soccer World Cup -- but I would encourage President Bush to take a broader vision of the possibilities for the Beijing Games. He should use the next 10 months to press for a significant improvement of basic human rights in my country, including press, assembly and religious freedoms.
This should be possible, since Chinese leaders have promised to make these improvements anyway. In their pledges to the International Olympic Committee while bidding for the Games and since, China's leaders at all levels repeatedly assured the world that they would use the Games to go beyond improving the country's physical infrastructure.
"By applying for the Olympics, we want to promote not just the city's development, but the development of society, including democracy and human rights," one of China's key Olympic figures, Deputy Mayor Liu Jingmin, told the Washington Post in 2001. Then, Mr. Liu said, "If people have a target like the Olympics to strive for, it will help us establish a more just and harmonious society, a more democratic society, and help integrate China into the world."
I couldn't agree more. But instead of the hoped-for reforms, the Chinese government appears to be backsliding on its promises, including in Hong Kong where we have near total political paralysis, not the promised road to full democracy. That is no reason to give up on the prospects for reform in China. But it is reason to step up the direct engagement on these pressing issues.
In accepting the invitation to attend China's Games, President Bush said this would be "a moment where China's leaders can use the opportunity to show confidence by demonstrating a commitment to greater openness and tolerance." Instead of a "moment" of change, China needs structural and long-term reforms: placing the Communist Party under the rule of law, unshackling the media and Internet, allowing religious adherents to freely practice their faiths, ceasing harassment of civil-society groups that work on AIDS and the environment, and addressing modest calls for accountability in the political system. Mr. Bush and other world leaders planning to attend the Olympics should not wait for the opening ceremony, but must start now with sustained efforts to achieve this agenda.
One reason for optimism about the possibilities for progress in China is recent Olympic history. When South Korea bid for the 1988 Games, the country was a military dictatorship. Due in good part to the prospects for embarrassment and international engagement, the Olympics helped kick off an overdue peaceful political transformation in South Korea just six months before the launch of the Seoul Games. Since then, South Korea has endured as one of Asia's most stable and vital democracies. The parallels between South Korea and China are not exact, but the lesson is that the Olympics certainly present an opening to raise these issues in the context of the Chinese government's own promises.
In the U.S. and elsewhere, there are campaigns to boycott the Beijing Games over the Chinese government's trade with and support for regimes in Sudan and Burma. As a Chinese person, I would encourage backers of these efforts to consider the positive effects Olympic exposure could still have in China, including scrutiny by the world's journalists. (李柱銘又說，「有些人正以中國政府支持蘇丹和緬甸政權為由，推動杯葛北京奧運。身為中國人，我會鼓勵支持此一想法的人考慮一下，主辦奧運在餘下日子能給中國帶來的正面影響，包括讓世界各地記者監察」。) This is certainly the time for Chinese leaders to step up and constructively use their clout in Asia and Africa. In so doing, Beijing should open a new chapter of responsible foreign policy and convince the world it is not oblivious to these issues.
Chinese people around the world are proud that China will host the Games. China has the world's fastest growing economy, and may indeed put on history's most impressive Olympic Games next August. But how does it profit our nation if it wins gold medals but suffers from the continued absence of democracy, human rights and the rule of law?
It is my hope that the Games could have a catalytic effect on the domestic and foreign policies of the Chinese government, and that the Chinese people will remember the Games long after they are held -- not merely for medals won, but also because they were a turning point for human rights and the rule of law in China. That would be something worth cheering.
Mr. Lee is a democratically elected legislator and the founding chairman of Hong Kong's Democratic Party.
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Defending Martin Lee (by WSJ)
Hong Kong’s government boasts that the territory shares Western freedoms, though the lack of universal suffrage has long been a glaring exception. Now comes a concerted media attack on Hong Kong’s most prominent democrat, suggesting that freedom of speech may be under threat, too.
The assault, which has the flavor of a Cultural Revolution struggle session, stems from an op-ed entitled “China’s Olympic Opportunity” published in the U.S. edition of this newspaper on Oct. 17, and in this edition the day after. In the article, Hong Kong legislator and Democratic Party founder Martin Lee called on President Bush and other world leaders to “press for a significant improvement of basic human rights. . . including press, assembly and religious freedoms” and to use “direct engagement,” rather than listen to calls from some quarters for an Olympic boycott. Mr. Lee was abroad when the op-ed was published.
Upon his return to Hong Kong last week, the political assault started. On Friday, a raft of pro-Beijing newspapers—including Hong Kong’s largest-circulation daily, the Oriental Daily News, as well as the Ming Pao Daily News and Sing Tao Daily—simultaneously ran leading stories attacking Mr. Lee. (Oriental Daily’s subtle headline was “Martin Lee: A Crazy Traitor.”) The biggest English-language daily, the South China Morning Post, also took up the cudgel, saying Mr. Lee’s comments would “fuel Beijing’s worst fears about Hong Kong being used as a base for foreign interference.”
Hong Kong’s Beijing-controlled legislature added its criticism, while the chairman of the pro-Beijing Democratic Alliance for the Betterment and Progress of Hong Kong called for Mr. Lee to apologize. Several dozen people waited outside of the legislature to jeer at Mr. Lee when he left the building. The Hong Kong government didn’t muster a defense of Mr. Lee’s right to free speech. Hong Kong’s second-highest ranking official, Henry Tang, told reporters Friday that the Olympics shouldn’t be “politicized.”
This incident is extraordinary, and not only because it’s the first time that a Hong Kong democracy advocate has been targeted so ferociously. In this case, the campaign was organized against something Mr. Lee didn’t even say. Many of the articles suggested that he had called for an Olympic boycott, though he expressly didn’t. Chinese translations also changed Mr. Lee’s words, so that his call for “direct engagement” became “intervention” and “press for” became “pressurize.” (Mr. Lee’s original op-ed can be found at WSJ.com/opinion.)
The pro-Beijing camp has many reasons for assailing Mr. Lee. Because he is Hong Kong’s most eloquent and famous democracy advocate, his words carry weight in Western capitals, at a time when China has come under intense pressure to improve its human-rights record. Many of the attacks also linked Mr. Lee’s “unhelpful” comments with local pro-democracy advocate Anson Chan, who is running for legislative office in a December by-election against a proBeijing candidate.
China’s efforts to demonize Mr. Lee may backfire. Hong Kong citizens are sophisticated, educated people who treasure their freedoms and will recognize a mainland-style smear campaign for what it is. The attacks on the democracy advocate have also been widely reported in Taiwan, further undermining any Beijing hope that that island’s people will accept Hong Kong’s “one country, two systems” as a model for unification.
When reached by telephone yesterday, Mr. Lee said he was “flabbergasted” by the attacks. True to form, he’s fighting back by telling the truth about what he really wrote and believes. And that is the spirit that will ultimately protect Hong Kong’s freedoms.
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勇敢走出去我懶，所以只能東拼西貼出自己的感受： 我並不完美 也並不特別 而你卻是為我捨棄生命的主 「祂就稍往前走，俯伏在地，禱告說：『我父阿，倘若可行，求你叫這杯離開我；然而不要照我的意思，只要照你的意思。』」馬太福音 26: 39 這是這天我讀到讓我感受甚深的一段。 我們遇到問題時，大概會求神保守。若事情往好方向發展，我們未必會記得感恩；但假若未能如願，我們則必會責怪神沒有聆聽我們的禱告。只是，神真的沒有在聽嗎？還是祂用了別的一種方式來解決我的狀況？也許我們所希望的根本不是最好的？為什麼我們就是如此少信呢？ 然而，不要照我的意思，只要照祢的意思。 祂的愛聽來聽去，最終還是選了這首歌來紀念我決志的一天：
想要感謝 Nikki 和他上司 Annie 送給我的 CD，喚醒了我。也要感謝 Yvette 的「犧牲」、鼓勵、聆聽與禱告，沒有她的支持 (威迫？)，我相信我不會這麼「勤力」，這麼快便願意接受主的救恩。也要感謝傳道人穎莊的分享和解說，讓我明白。(對不起，我今天下午打瞌睡了~ 有點睏~) 當然還要感謝主。 "神愛世人，甚至將祂的獨生子賜給他們，叫一切信祂的，不至滅亡，反得永生。" - 約翰福音 3:26 花言巧語
Love-Lies-Bleeding ........ 愛上了謊話與欺騙，換成了流血不止的痛... 多麼可怕的花。 排球 #1南華會排球訓練班第一堂，喜出望外是阿 sir 原來是港隊的教練 (wah~)! 讀 CSC 的好處讀 CSC 的好處是 - 你的同學嫌現在的股票報價系統不好用，然後自己編寫了一個兼開埋 A/C 俾你用埋一份~ ^_^ 風不知道你有沒有聽過風吹過樹葉的聲音，很像海浪聲。 It's back!
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