Let’s Talk About Steroids Instead
I’m a little late to this story, but wow this incident with Hu Ziwei was really intense! Apparently at a CCTV event to announce the new Olympics sports channel, Hu Ziwei got on stage and let the world know that her famous husband was cheating on her. Ah, the Olympics… where you just never know who is cheating.
Hu continued, citing the words of an unnamed French diplomat, saying: “Until China is able to start exporting its values, it won’t be able to become a great power. For us to appear so prim and proper, yet Zhang Bin can’t even be brought to face his own - he won’t even face his hurt wife. I think China, as a - to succeed as a great power - don’t any of you have a conscience at all?” The men in suits approached yet again attempting to remove her, but the diminutive lady was having none of it. “You let me go,” she exclaimed, pulling herself free. “We’re so far from being a great country.”
Since censorship in the US is more subtle, most of you can check out the video and another telling of the tale here. She picked the right venue, as the muscle was forced to deal with her in a non-aggressive manner (instead of tackling her or shocking her with a taser). One can only imagine the TV producer’s mouth dropping in shock and then opening back up again to start ranting and raving. The image that comes to my mind is Aragorn at the battle of Helm’s Deep shouting frantically to Legolas to take out the Uruk-hai with the explosives.
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By Velius, 01/16/2008 @ 11:52 am
I totally agree with what most people are saying. This whole Olympics being used as a political springboard for China. My worst fear is that something bad will go wrong during the games and when criticized, the leaders of China will resort to force because they have “lost face”. Hopefully, this won’t turn into something like the 1936 Berlin games which Germany used as a springboard for the Nazi party, ultimately leading to another World War.
By Catnip, 01/17/2008 @ 5:16 pm
I think maybe you are a little paranoid. Yes, Chinese government is afraid of losing face, but they are hardly going on a world conquering, new Chinese “aryan” race route. The Chinese government is worried more about “stabilization” than anything else so they can grow economy steadily and war is hardly good for economical growth (unless you are America).
I heard about this news as well. It seems just like some publicity stunt with an angry wive. Even if her husband is a cheating bastard, it is hardly appropriate to accuse him in a press conference, and I don’t think it reflects on anything olympic, unless somehow holding the Olympic game in a country means that there are no more cheating bastards.
By Kabitzin, 01/17/2008 @ 5:34 pm
My favorite part of the video is the part when you hear someone politely say please don’t take pictures and the camera-man and photographers don’t even pause for a second.
The Olympic message was don’t cheat or you will be embarrassed publicly.