Beijing 2008 - Games of the XXIX Olympiad - August 8th to the 24th, 2008

Caption: U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon answers student's questions at the China Foreign Affairs University in Beijing, Tuesday, July 1, 2008.(AP Photo/Oded Balilty, Pool)

Caption: China continues recovery efforts after a devastating 7.9-magnitude earthquake hit central China on May 12, 2008, and rendered millions of people homeless.

Caption: In this Sept 17, 2007 file photo Chinese women use mobile phones in Beijing. China's fast-growing number of mobile phone accounts has risen more than 8 percent since the start of the year to 592 million, while demand for traditional fixed-line service is falling, the government reported Thursday, June 26, 2008. (AP Photo/Andy Wong, File)

Caption:  BEIJING (AP) -- China on Thursday denied injecting politics into the Beijing Olympics, despite a rare rebuke from the International Olympic Committee over remarks by a Chinese official about Tibet and the Dalai Lama.

Caption:  BEIJING, China (CNN) -- What's in a name?

Caption: Counterfeit mascots are displayed at Beijing's commerce administration. (By Teh Eng Koon -- Agence France-presse Via Getty Images)

Caption:  BEIJING, China (CNN) -- Police in Tibet have arrested 16 Buddhist monks and are seeking three more for their alleged involvement in one bombing and two attempted bombings, authorities in Tibet told state-run media.

Caption:  BEIJING, China (AP) -- French fashion house Christian Dior said Thursday it has dropped Sharon Stone from its Chinese advertisements and released a statement from the actress apologizing for saying the earthquake that struck China may have been the result of bad "karma" over its treatment of Tibet.

Caption: A woman holds a child outside the Capital Institute of Pediatrics hospital in Beijing Friday May 9, 2008. The hospital is one of a number of hospitals in Beijing which have been designated to treat suspected cases of Authorities in China say the virus that has sickened children by the tens of thousands is ebbing. Here, a woman holds a child outside the Capital Institute of Pediatrics hospital in Beijing on May 9.

Caption: In this photo released by China's Xinhua News Agency, retired badminton player Li Lingwei runs with the torch during the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games torch relay in Hangzhou, capital city of east China's Zhejiang Province, on Sunday, May 18, 2008. The torch relay, a potent symbol of national pride in the countdown to August's much anticipated Beijing games, was suspended on Monday as China began three days of mourning for victims of the country's massive earthquake. (AP Photo/Xinhua, Ding Lin)

Caption:  TOKYO, Japan (AP) -- Chinese President Hu Jintao demanded Wednesday that the Dalai Lama not try to divide China, incite violence or harm the upcoming Olympic Games in Beijing. But he said fledgling talks with representatives of the exiled Tibetan spiritual leader would continue.