Posted on 02/03/2022 10:44:24 AM PST by Kaslin
Tune out the Winter Olympics, don't reward Communist China's scheme
At their best, the Olympics are a celebration of the human spirit. We saw this last year when Japan, a country where I served as U.S. ambassador from 2017 to 2019, demonstrated the strength of its recovery from the devastating 2011 Fukushima disaster by hosting over 15,000 international athletes for the Summer Games despite a yearlong delay caused by the COVID pandemic.
In a jarring contrast, the 2022 Winter Olympics will soon be hosted by China, a country whose Marxist-Leninist dictatorship is perpetrating ongoing genocide against Uyghur Muslims and other minorities, in addition to committing other major human rights violations in Tibet and Hong Kong. The Communist regime there is actively staging international provocations, and aggressively exporting its authoritarian model through its Belt and Road Initiative.
The Chinese Communist Party, with the complicity of the International Olympic Committee and the corporate media, is already using the Winter Games as an international propaganda exercise to bolster its legitimacy while silencing criticism.
Witness Yang Shu, the Beijing Organizing Committee’s deputy director general of international relations, who recently threatened foreign athletes with "certain punishment" for "[a]ny behavior or speech that is against the Olympic spirit, especially against the Chinese laws and regulations." It is unconscionable that an international competition intended to promote peaceful relations and celebrate human dignity was awarded to a totalitarian human rights abuser that will use the event to launder its image on the world stage.
That’s why Americans should turn off their televisions rather than reward the CCP’s manipulative scheme and inhumane behavior.
Sadly, China’s threats against athletes are having their intended effect. Noah Hoffman, a former two-time U.S. Olympian cross-country skier, said athletes are "nervous" and "not speaking to the media about anything related to human rights."
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It’s ok to watch as long as you aren’t influenced by the advertisements!
You’d have to pay me a lot to watch that crap.
Won’t be watching the Wokelympics.
I must’ve missed something.. I thought we were boycotting the China Olympics.
Or, was that just a Trump idea that got overturned by Biden’s handlers?
I haven’t followed the Olympics since 1972.
That’s because I have a life.
I havent watched the Olympics this century, and at least a decade into the last without any Olympic glory.
Its easy.
Too late, Im watching curling, its already started
I love the winter games, dont care where they are
Already missed the curling......
What if it were held in North Korea?
The only sports I watch are America’s Cup races. Hard to make those political.
The Olympics are not being televised in our household. As it is, I rarely if ever watch a broadcast TV channel. Woke scripts, woke news, and woke commercials.
COMMUNIST CRAP IT IS. NOT ONE MINUTE
‘The Big Guy’ has already got his cut of CCP money so China is going to expect him to play nice and not screw up the Olympics.
Ever since NBC started carrying the games, the Olympics have become a tawdry imitation of what they once were. I don’t know when I last watched them.
The what?
Now if Taiwan would hold them, that would be a different story
We didn’t send diplomats over for the “courtesy visit” that’s really just an attaboy for the diplomat. That’s the whole boycott and Biden put it in place.
Everyone seems focused on boycotting the olympics because of china’s political views/actions.
I am MUCH more concerned with sending thousands of people to a compressed area within 30 miles of an unknown sickness that has prompted the CCP to literally lockdown 30,000,000 people to stop the spread of this undisclosed sickness.
Does anyone not realize that all of the foreigners there for the olympics returning to their respective countries will likely be carrying whatever the CCP has whipped up?
Oh, I know - everyone is vaccinated - nothing to worry about.
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