IOC and Chinese ideologies. The losers, the Chinese people

The international Olympic Committee is above all a corporate profit making body. Therefore, its size, and  its ruthlessness, in ensuring that  profit projections are realized are paramount.

It is not concerned with the suffering of the poor through higher taxes, nor concerned about those who are forced into compulsory labour gangs instead of paying men and women an equal and decent living wage.

Olympic corporate profits are high, and while the communist Chinese strut in the shadow of the IOC on the world stage it presents the Olympic flame as an International symbol of profit, (or 'peace',  as the IOC would prefer) for the 2010 Olympic Games in Beijing.

So, is there a power struggle between the board members of the IOC to assert its own agenda for desired action in Beijing for profit regardless of the Articles of its own IOC Charter on one hand, while on the other hand there appears to be the communist governments' aggressive determination to follow a different, its own, agenda as to what these Games should represent?

When a money-making business plan was perceived to be going awry the IOC met recently with the Chinese government Olympic representatives to encourage them to assist in maintaining peace (temporary) for a profitable (permanent) Games in Beijing.

A pattern emerges from official Beijing's reaction to international human rights protests by the show of military force by a blinkered Beijing government. When the Chinese government is criticized it makes 'news' by arresting phantom terrorists, or hitting monks in Tibet to justify its grip on those against the communist system of power.

In Chinese occupied Tibet, such violent reaction inevitably rekindles even further contempt by the Tibetan people who have lost their right to live peacefully as Tibetans while practicing their belief in Buddhism.

Moreover, they do not want to be subjugated by the Chinese dressed in either military uniform, or soldiers theatrically running on the streets dressed as Buddhists while demonstrating anti-social behaviour such as smashing store windows, burning vehicles, and  seemingly to be fighting with other baton wielding Chinese soldiers.

The Chinese government insists that human rights is not a sporting event therefor it is of no concern to the world public. However, the IOC who is not about to lose its rights to global profit from income from Olympic crested artifacts: toilet bowls, hand towels, and so on, remains silent about human rights because the purpose of the Olympics is the profit it will generate for the IOC.

Meanwhile the Chinese government wants to demonstrate to the world how control of the population is achieved more effectively by ruthless military interventions.Western control of  people is less effective by a corporate dominated democratic society: here we have two major ideologies wanting to win the ego and power stakes.

Western countries allow activists to demonstrate against the Chinese plan for the Olympic torch to be paraded through Tibet. Whereas the Chinese reaction would immediately shoot at, or imprison such demonstrators.

In the example of the presentation of the Beijing Olympic Games the objectives of the western based IOC are articulated in all manner of ways except they do not use the word  'profit'; or the phrase, 'the hidden agenda'.

Meanwhile the Chinese governments' projected  'profit'  remains uncertain, but peace and human rights would  seen not to be on the any list of social development it might be considering.

Instead, each side, the IOC, and the Chinese government, articulate different ways of addressing how to go about increasing their respective power bases: IOC sets its global power mantra on corporate wealth while China is demonstrating its muscle on a cloned military power. Meanwhile,  little social benefit will trickle down to the poor people of China no matter who 'wins'.