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I believe they will but sustaining this after the Olympics is what China needs to address and maintain to achieve some of the aims they need to address
I think that they will try. China wants to be seen as a "nice" nation. That's why they block all internet access to places where they are not doing nice things. They don't want the world to see them doing things that are not "nice." Like Tibet.
China wants to be viewed as progressive and industrialised, not neccessarily humanitarian. And Tibet is really controversial, depending on the respective bias of the reports. Perhaps what you're demonstrating is the suppression of the Beef candlelight demonstrations in Seoul recently, where the CCTV cameras were turned off in the city before police started suppressing the protests to US high BSE risk beef.
The olympics will highlight China's anti-humanitarian practices due to the increased media exposure. Many throughout the world ignorant of China's oppressive policies will become enlightened.
If we look at China's history, it's hardly ever listened to outside opinions, and even when it has, it has either been for self improvement, which ultimately leads to the degration of the original foreign voice, or for an individual's ambition, which still ultimately warps the imported ideology. Mao personally considered Stalin a barbaric upstart. Because I don't see much of an advantage, other than humanitarian, for China to change it's image as an industrial powerhouse, it doesn't strike me that there is much imperiative to change
Then perhaps you should check up on your history. The peasantry have always been disposable. Even to Mao. China is eleitist, it couldn't care less what the barbarians think.
But to appear to change, you either have to intiate massive global propaganda, or actually change, in which case it may not be reported. Since china has not yet the resources for such campaigns, i would suggest that the only feasible way to appear to change is to actually change. And this will not occur.
The Olympics is a big spectacle. The media will cover it. The media doesn't do in depth reviews on China's human rights violations. The media is for entertainment. The Olympics is supposed to be a happy time, so the media will show the happy setting. The masses will eat it up.
The world governments don't care about China's human rights violations. Otherwise they would do something about it. All they seem to care about is showing the masses how good they are and how bad China is and then it's back to business as usual.
Aside from that, I think that China's changing.... slowly, but changing. I think they are coming around to understanding that communism isn't working as expected.
So obviously it doesn't matter what China Presents, it is what the world media Covers. So China,if we assume the leadership to be intelligent enough to realise this, will NOT present a more compassionate profile because of the Olympics.
China's changed drastically since Hu Jintao took office. Jiang Zemin was a Shanghainese industrialist, whereas Jintao is much more of a greenie. If you've been there recently you'll know what I'm talking about. And China hasnt been ideologically communist since the 70's, they maintain the old regulations because it's default government ownership of land, much more convenient for development. China's about as communist as America is Democratic.
Note, incase you don't realise, America is actually a Constitutional Republic
