Jacques Rogge, the president of the International Olympic Committee (IOC), said that competitors were free to express their political views but faced sanctions if they indulged in propaganda.

Please pray for President Hu and all of China’s political leaders. Ask that God would reveal Himself to them in real and tangible ways.

In the face of past foreign criticism of Chinese policy over Darfur, Tibet, human rights, journalistic freedom, and all that lingo, the CCP ministers generally just dismissed them all as foreigners trying to tarnish the image of the Olympic games. Now, they have their own people rising up, not just peaceful protests like the Falun Gong in the past, but actually beating up the Chinese, burning things, and fighting the police. The Chinese foreign minister has already made the traditional statement about how the Dalai Lama has masterminded this uprising and the chairman of Tibet has stated that “We will deal harshly with these criminals who are carrying out activities to split the nation”. In these times of such crisis and with so much on the line, the CCP has continued to use the same old rhetoric as if repeating the same statements will eventually convince the rest of the world that they are the good guys and the Dalai Lama is evil. It seems like it’s only a matter of time before they start running over monks with tanks and machine gunning Tibetan citizens.