Pro-Tibet, Anti-China

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If Olympic sponsors think people have forgotten about the recent turmoil in Tibet (and the resulting protests elsewhere), they need to get a grip. In a new Financial Times/Harris Poll, pluralities of respondents in the U.S., Europe and Japan said they don’t want their own nation’s leader to attend the opening of the Games.

In the U.S., 43 percent opposed their president’s attendance at the opening, vs. 36 percent supporting it. (The rest were unsure.) In France, an outright majority (54 percent) said they don’t want their leader to attend.

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