Spielberg had to look to China's role in the Darfur crisis to find actions by the Chinese state worthy of his moral opprobrium. Certainly China is deserving of said opprobrium, but he could have found issues closer to Beijing on which to voice his disapproval, such as China's one-child policy, or the state-run religious persecution, or the imprisonment and torture of dissidents, or their censorship of the internet, or lack of property rights.
Honestly, it's a good thing that Spielberg has quit his work with the ChiComs, and it is good that he has chosen to point to China's role in the slaughter of hundreds of thousands of innocents, and whatever issue he cited as his reason for quitting his work on the Olympics, it probably wouldn't have had any effect beyond a slight embarrassment for the Chinese government. Still, it would have been better to cast light on China's domestic abuses as public exposure of these systemic abuses calls into question the legitimacy of the Chinese regime and gives encouragement to dissidents who are working to bring about a free China.
Honestly, it's a good thing that Spielberg has quit his work with the ChiComs, and it is good that he has chosen to point to China's role in the slaughter of hundreds of thousands of innocents, and whatever issue he cited as his reason for quitting his work on the Olympics, it probably wouldn't have had any effect beyond a slight embarrassment for the Chinese government. Still, it would have been better to cast light on China's domestic abuses as public exposure of these systemic abuses calls into question the legitimacy of the Chinese regime and gives encouragement to dissidents who are working to bring about a free China.
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