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I am not a political person and usually do not meddle into politics.  However, recent Olympic events show the true characters of the Chinese government (Mainland Chinese government, that is).   With the reputation of the nation on the line, the Chinese government and their Olympic committee chose deceptions and frauds to host their first, and probably only, Olympics. 

Now, it does not take a genius to know and realized that many knockoff brand-names and boot-legged CDs and DVDs come from China.  In fact, one may even presume that these knockoffs and piracies are condoned by the Chinese government in the name of growths and profits.  However, it would be hard to imagine that the mainland Chinese government has the audacity and foolishness to fake many of the performances in their Olympics opening ceremony. 

    Anyone who watched the opening ceremony was stunned and marveled over the performances, using the masses, and spectacular fire-works.  However, the world soon realized that much of the performances and the televised broadcast was a series of deceptions.  First, the firework show on TV was partially computer generated, showing a large part of Beijing was lit up of fireworks.  In fact, much of the fanfare was generated by computers.  Second, we also realized that the former Olympian who gracefully pretended to “walk on air” around the bird-nest stadium was also a fake; and that in fact, much of it was also computer generated.  Now, it seems that the voice of the 9 year-old girl singing was also dubbed by another 7 year-old girl’s voice.  The reason, as explained by the General Music Designer, Chen Qigang, was “because we wanted to project the right image, we were thinking about what was best for the nation.”  That’s right!  The reason was because the Chinese committee wanted the world to see a girl that has a “perfect image” and a girl that has a “perfect voice.”  You see, the real singer, Yang Peiyi, is chubby and has crooked teeth; and so, they showed a cute little girl, Lin Miaoke, to “mimic” on stage.  In most parts of the world, it is called “lip-singing” and it would be considered as a deception, a lie, a fraud, a mockery of art, and an insult to the true artist, Yang Peiyi.    To add insult to injury, “Miaoke” is not a common Chinese sur name.  “Miao” (also known as Miao, Miao-tse, Miao-tsze, Meau, Meo, mo, miao-tseu) is a common sur name for a group of indigenous ethnic group of people that lives in Myanma, Thailand, Laos, Vietnam, and China.  So, nationality, she may or may not even be Chinese.  Ethnically, most likely cute little Lin Miaoke is not even Hans (the predominant and majority Chinese ethnic group.)  What does that say?

Does the Chinese’s explanation remind you of another group in the early 90’s?  That’s right; they are called “Milli Vanilli.”  Deceptions and frauds is what the performances were, games in which the Chinese government are so familiar with. “Girl, You Know It’s True!“  What is next?  The 208 drum performers were computer generated to look like there were 2008?  Nothing surprises me anymore!