From ANI, via China National News:
Hollywood’s most visible film director, Steven Spielberg , is considering resigning his position as artistic adviser to the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing unless China does more to distance itself from the genocide in Darfur . Spielberg has been working for several months to help put together the opening ceremony for the Games, which are widely seen as a sort of coming-out party for China’s emergence as a world power, reports The Independent.
Speilberg is under pressure from Darfur activists, who have accused him of cosying up to China, a country most directly involved in trade with Sudan . Spielberg’s spokesman was quoted as saying that the director intended to continue applying pressure on China to change its policies, and is ruling nothing out – including withdrawal from his unpaid position as artistic adviser. [Full Text]
