Posted on 12/09/2021 9:33:32 AM PST by SeekAndFind
This February will see U.S. participation in the winter Olympics in Beijing. The games will occur amid the knowledge that Xi Jinping is committing some of the most appalling human rights abuses on the planet. A million Uighurs are being persecuted, as are Falun Gong practitioners. Hongkongers have had their liberties crushed. Since Joe Biden’s election, Xi is increasingly menacing Taiwan.
In 2018, Xi named himself “president for life,” and has been busy returning China -- an authoritarian state as-is -- to totalitarianism. Xi continues to make unwarranted claims on the South and East China Seas, militarizing these international waters. Both are vital to U.S. and global trade. Imagine Mexico or the U.S. claiming the Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean as territorial waters. Xi is growing more bellicose, threatening Asia Pacific nations, including U.S. allies Australia, Japan, and South Korea, among others.
The Biden administration’s diplomatic boycott of the Beijing Olympics is an empty gesture. It signals weakness, not strength. An apex predator like Xi only respects actions that have real teeth.
Withdrawing American athletes from the games is the only way to impress Xi with U.S. seriousness and resolve in the face of his growing militancy and tyranny. U.S. government officials' lack of presence in Beijing doesn’t scratch. However, America’s conspicuous absence from the games would reverberate across China and the world.
Xi and the Chinese Communist Party are evil. History will judge us harshly for sending our athletes to Beijing.
Shuai publicly accused a top Communist Party leader of sexual assault and has gone missing since. To its credit, in retaliation, the international Women's Tennis Association declared that it would end all play in China.
Among various statements about PRC human rights abuses, Kanter Freedom has spoken out boldly about Uighurs’ treatment.
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Russia didn’t threaten us with “grave” consequences either.
The 1980 boycott was one of Carter’s many dumb decisions. What did it accomplish? Did the Soviet’s pull out of Afghanistan?
In 1980 France didn’t pull out of the Olympics but, they protested every chance they got—They made themselves pains in the arse (as only the French can do). The Russians were adverse to putting them on TV because there were signs and protests (covered by the west). Maybe we should do the same! When the Chinese play their anthem (The East is Red) our people should drop to their knees in prayer for the victims of the CCP. Or better yet bow to Mecca to honor Muslims held in camps! Make the Chinese lose face in the eyes of the world. We Americans can be right Bastards when we want to be.
Very good idea. There will be hundreds of American media there. They should have the courage to do visit concentration camps and expose the CCP while there.
What are the ChiComs going to do? Are they going to shoot Bob Costas?
We commonly mention the Uighyurs and Falun Gong but Christians are being terribly persecuted to. See for example Early Rain Church and Pastor Wang Yi.
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