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Originally Posted by Sarah_MaxCash
This may just be the best one in a while for those of us that list politics and current events as our favorite sports.
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BEIJING, China (AP) -- Efforts to link China to the Darfur crisis are "irresponsible and unfair," a government spokesman said in comments published Thursday, following director Steven Spielberg's decision to drop out as a Beijing Olympics adviser on human rights grounds.
The Hollywood heavyweight had been brought in as an artistic adviser to the opening and closing ceremonies of Games, but said he will not participate because he felt China wasn't doing enough to pressure Sudan into ending the humanitarian crisis in the Darfur region.
"The Darfur issue is not China's internal affair and was not started by China. Linking the two is nonsense; it is also irresponsible and unfair," an unidentified spokesman for the Chinese Embassy in the U.S. was quoted as saying in the state-run Global Times newspaper.
"Many people think the Olympics are a sports event but the West wants to bind sports and politics, this is a clumsy trick," said the highly nationalistic daily, published by the Communist Party mouthpiece People's Daily.