"The Olympic flame wavers in Europe...
DOSSIER: The Olympic flame wavers in Europe | 08/04/2008
Sunday, April 6th in London and Monday, April 7th in Paris, the Olympic torch relay was disrupted by human rights protesters criticising the Chinese regime. With four months to go before the Olympic Games in Beijing, the European press questions the impact of these protests.
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Today's main front page story in The Washington Post concerns the protests at yesterday's torch run in Paris. The French demonstrations seem to be having a bit larger media impact than the ones in the UK, though that may only be because yesterday was a weekday. On Wednesday the torch comes to San Francisco, and with its large Asian population and liberally inclined demographic, it is a prime protest zone.
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Whose democracy wins?
YOUR correspondent, normally based in Brussels, is in Riga. Taking an off-topic break from Baltic macro-economics, I find myself pondering the European press coverage of the Olympic torch relay through London, Paris and other European cities, and the demonstrations being mounted by pro-Tibet activists. I was living in Beijing as a reporter for a different newspaper in 2001 when China won the Olympics,