Boycotting 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics Don’t Be An Outlet for Propaganda: Why You Should Boycott the 2022 Winter Olympics The participation in and viewing of the Beijing-hosted Olympic games are essentially an international seal of approval on communist China’s human rights abuses. The 2022 Winter Olympics will take place from February 4 – February 20 in Beijing, China. Many international voices called for the selection of a new host city, to avoid supporting Beijing without punishing athletes. These efforts have been to no avail. The games are set to go forward as planned. The Biden Administration has announced a diplomatic boycott of the games, meaning that it will not send an official U.S. delegation to Beijing. Americans can build upon this diplomatic boycott by refusing to watch the games at home. Here a few reasons you should consider such a boycott. We Already Know What Happens When China Hosts the Olympics China hosted the 2008 Summer Olympic games, to the detriment of its own people. As the Heritage Foundation reported in 2021: “China came under sharp criticism for systematic human rights violations that occurred amidst its host tenure, including possible exploitation of workers involved in building the Olympic infrastructure and alleged use of child labor in products sold at the games. China’s human rights record has worsened, not improved.” Genocide and Persecution Since 2017, China has forced religious and ethnic minorities including the Uyghur Muslim population in China into internment camps, or “education and training centers.” Over a million are likely currently imprisoned there. A report from the U.S. Holocaust Museum in November of 2021 found that the Uyghurs were likely subject to “forced sterilization, sexual violence, enslavement, torture, and forcible transfer,” and that the Chinese government “may be committing genocide.” According to a 2021 report from The Heritage Foundation, which has long used the term “genocide” to describe China’s actions against the Uyghurs, “The CCP is subjecting Uyghurs and Tibetans to various forms of forced labor.” At the end of 2021, President Joe Biden signed the bipartisan Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act, which bans imports from the Xinjiang region of China where the camps are held. Point of View Radio Talk Show
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Beijing has also effectively taken over Hong Kong, resulting in a widespread clamp down on free speech, a loss of due process for Hong Kongers, and the arrests of thousands who publicly oppose the Communist Chinese Party (CCP). As we reported in our October 2021 issue of Outlook Magazine, “It’s clear the CCP is doing everything in its power to strip Hong Kongers of the freedom, autonomous governance, and human rights they previously enjoyed.” COVID Cover-Up On top of China’s genocide against members of its own population and its seizure of Hong Kongers’ freedoms, the CCP is responsible for a massive cover-up that kept vital information from the rest of the world early on in the COVID-19 pandemic, costing lives. Resist the Propaganda Rather than being forced to answer for genocide, dictatorial repression and lies to the international community, the CCP is being handed a golden opportunity to broadcast its propaganda to the entire world amid the 2022 Winter Olympics. The scandal of this opportunity is reminiscent of the 1936 Berlin Olympic Games, which took place after the antisemitic Nuremburg Race Laws were already in place. Unsurprisingly, Nazi Germany used the Olympic games to promote its propaganda worldwide. Handing China a similar advantage will further bury the truth about the CCP’s gross human rights abuses and will strengthen its regime. It is too late for collective international action opposing Beijing’s hosting of the 2022 Winter Olympics. However, individually, Americans can still choose to do the right thing. Do not give communist propaganda an outlet—boycott the 2022 Winter Olympics. Further Action If you would like to learn more about the ongoing human rights abuses in China and what you can do to help, Point of View recommends the organizations Women’s Rights Without Frontiers, dedicated to ending forced abortion in China; and ChinaAid, which helps persecuted Christians and other groups in China. Both organizations and others have been vocal in opposing Beijing’s hosting of the 2022 Winter Olympics.
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