Stadium designer blasts China Olympics - 12 Aug 07

The man behind China's signature Olympic stadium has criticised next year's games and says he is going to boycott them. Ai WeiWei says Beijing is using pomp and propaganda to hide the true of face of China.

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[banzaidawan]

11501490: China won more gold medals because we work harder. Maybe that should be a lesson to you?

[tomjtucker]

i think among the chinese, a lot of people are still bitter about their history (esp the older generations who lived thru the cultural revolution). This person who spoke out wants change for sure.

[SuperShanghai2010]

Ai Weiwei is one of those border-hoppers (Tan Dun something like another) who talk anti-regime (Tan via the First Emperor, 2009) though they have been greatly enriched by state publicity; then leverage their anti-regime nattering to building a following in the freedom loving US where - guess what - their work gets $ and publicity. All too often this is the trajectory of not-quite-genius class also-rans whose following here depends on ignorance of there and needs rebel-gesture to simplify.

[Noobssuckass300]

This guy gets a free pass...just this one time....He'll need to lay low for a while since he pissed off a hell lot of party members.

[elliotlee13]

Fuck China -

[HumanRightsVideosT]

@fdoca

Falun Gong practitioners don't read Falun Gong books all day long.

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Please do some first hand research rather than repeating second hand @LIES

[HumanRightsVideosT]

@fdoca

Search on False Fire and learn the TRUTH about that incident you are talking about.

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Plenty of people have been taken in by CCP @LIES and repeat them. But they haven't bothered to try the Falun Gong exercises and learn the TRUTH.

[americajordan7]

he designed the stadium in beijing?

he can only expose his ass and call that is "art".

Idiot USA.

[Erverino]

@r215666f Instead of brushing off the criticism of one man, how about you try addressing it? Oh right, you can't.

[risingsun08107]

@r215666f even chinese criticism is western propoganda? good god . . .talk about indoctrination . . .