China's Beijing Olympics is an Olympic Mistake

The idea behind the Beijing Olympics was that it was suppose to be a coming out party, a debutante ball if you will, for China to put itself on the world stage.

China wanted these Olympics because it would show the world that China was not only a world power, but the emerging global hegemon. China, like any most nations is extremely prideful on the edge of arrogant. They believe that they have a superior culture that is destined to rule the world, must like most Americans believe now and English, French, Romans and Greeks before America.

The problem for China was that the Beijing Olympics was a bridge too far.

After China's Beijing was awarded the 2008 Olympics most analysts immediately thought of Taiwan. The experts expected Taiwan to take this opportunity to declare independence from China. The thinking is that China couldn't react to any declaration of independence Taiwan made because China wouldn't jeopardize its Beijing Olympics.

The experts and analysts misjudged Taiwan, which instead of rattled for independence has rolled over to be Beijing's lapdog.

Tibet and Nepal on the other hand have given  Beijing all it can handle. The best part is Beijing doesn't know how to react to the rioting going on in Nepal and Tibet because they would like to give the impression that there are no problems in China.

Now, China has started to complain that the foreign press is blowing all demonstrations out of proportion, and is lambasting the press with a full frontal propaganda attack. The truth is China is just not ready for primetime as they had thought.