Gov. Matt Blunt is still feeling good about China and the Beijing Olympics.

Blunt is in China this week along with several other Missouri politicians and business leaders working on forging business ties with the country.

The St. Louis Post-Dispatch’s Political Fix Blog is reporting Blunt was asked about calls to boycott the Beijing Olympics this summer in a conference cal with the press.

Blunt is cool with the Olympics despite the controversy surrounding China’s crackdown on protesters in Tibet.

“I have not seen anything that has given me pause - obviously, Beijing is a long way from Tibet,” Blunt said.

While Blunt said the Olympics should be treated separately from the political, he gave one exception, citing if Americans had known about Germany’s actions, the U.S. might have skipped out on the 1936 Olympics in Munich which were hosted by the Nazis.

In other non-Human Rights abuses in China news, the Missouri delegation in China is closer to making St. Louis a business hub for freight and passenger flights from China. Blunt, et al, were able to warm the Chinese up to the idea because of St. Louis’ central location with the United States.

Currently China routes its cargo through West Coast airports like LAX.

The Political Fix says the U.S. envoy and the Chinese are promising to set up a joint study within the next six months to look at the possibilities.

This comes after Blunt signed a separate agreement with Chinese officials regarding St. Louis as a trade hub with China.