I've seen some right wingers going on about this and as much as I find Beijing to be a repressive regime and this was a bad idea, I don't get the sudden anger by the right. Corporate America hitched its wagon to China years ago and Americans (or Europeans) don't complain much about the cheap prices as a result. Billions upon billions (trillions in total) in trade has been promoted by US governments for years. George Bush even went to Beijing for the Olympics and nobody on the right cared. (They do, of course, care that Obama is traveling to Copenhagen to win the Olympics for the US. Go figure.) Again, I get the point by the human rights protesters, but why now is the right upset?
Red and yellow lights shone from the top of the Empire State Building at dusk Wednesday, a tribute to communist China's 60th anniversary that protesters labeled "blatant approval" of totalitarianism and criticized as inappropriate for an icon in the land of the free.
The building is routinely lit with different colors to mark holidays and big events, but opponents questioned whether it's right to commemorate a sensitive political issue, particularly when China has such a poor human rights record.
