China covers itself in Olympic glory?

In The Telegraph, London

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/opinion/main.jhtml?xml=/opinion/2008/04/12/do...

The one good thing about China's Olympic triumphalism is that it exposes its own defects. One looks forward to the protests on the way, which will probably be most vigorous in Delhi. Between now and August, the media should give us an overdue education about the biggest tyranny in the world.

We have spent much time in recent years complaining about America's abuse of power. Sometimes the criticism is justified, but we have hardly begun to consider the alternative, and how appalling it would be.

Whenever we attack America, we do so in the knowledge that it has a visible system of self-correction that might listen to us. It has a constitutional structure which is built to accommodate differing views. China has nothing of the sort, and never has had.