The White House announced a “diplomatic boycott” today on the Winter Olympics and the Paralympics being held in China in 2022.
Jen Psaki confirmed that the United States would engage in a diplomatic boycott against the Beijing Olympics. pic.twitter.com/ifzZ90C2ev
— Townhall.com (@townhallcom) December 6, 2021
“The Biden Administration will not send any diplomatic or official representation to the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics and Paralympic games, given the PRC’s ongoing genocide and crimes against humanity in Xinjiang and other human rights abuses,” White House press secretary Jen Psaki declared. “The athletes on team USA have our full support. As they cheer on the athletes from home, we will support them 100%. We will not be contributing to the fanfare of the games.”
So, the White House roughly made a statement that has the equivalent value of the “strongly worded letter.” It means effectively nothing.
Was the White House considering pulling the U.S. Olympic athletes out of the Games to make a statement? Psaki was asked.
REPORTER : “Did The White House Consider Going a Step Further and Barring U.S. REPORTER: “Did the White House consider preventing U.S. athletes from taking part in these games?”@PressSec: “I am not going to get into additional considerations…”
REPORTER – “Why not take it further and ban U.S. athletes form the games?” pic.twitter.com/JOdHP5RTLU
— Townhall.com (@townhallcom) December 6, 2021
Sorry, we’re upset with the human rights abuses but we’re not going to take a serious step to isolate China, Psaki says. We’re not going to take a serious step to isolate China because of the human rights violations. If you ask today, how did the concentration camps go on under the Germans while some in the world knew and did nothing, it’s because of cowardly decisions like this.
Or you refuse to take the actions of these people seriously. It isn’t just the concentration camps, the oppression of the Uyghurs and the folks in Hong Kong, and China’s threatening behavior toward Taiwan. What point will the Biden administration take serious what they did with regard to the Wuhan coronavirus. What lies? And what cover-ups? While the Biden administration is falling like a cheap suit to China’s control, China is expanding its reach around the world. China already holds a significant amount of power in this area.
So what was China’s response to the Biden weak-kneed pronouncement? Here’s the shot from the state-affiliated media arm, the Global Times.
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To be honest, Chinese are relieved to hear the news, because the fewer US officials come, the fewer viruses will be brought in.😌 https://t.co/a780Xr3oUV— Global Times (@globaltimesnews) December 6, 2021
“To be honest, Chinese are relieved to hear the news, because the fewer US officials come, the fewer viruses will be brought in,” the Global Times said, mocking the Biden announcement.
After all they did for the world, it is a complete irony that this comment was made. But they haven’t been held to account for anything and they know they won’t be by Joe Biden. Because they don’t know how to be so snobby and receive no reply from Joe Biden and have no consequences, they just know it. They’ve mocked Biden before, including on his disastrous pull-out from Afghanistan, saying that Taiwan could not count on America being an ally if needed.
In general, I’m not a fan of Olympic boycotts exactly because it hurts the people who have been training their whole lives to compete and it isn’t supposed to be about politics.
But we’re at a point with China where it’s time for the rubber to meet the road if we ever hope to hold them to account. It’s time to end the Chinese hold on media and supply. It is necessary to eliminate them. Only then do we have the possibility of a change in behavior — if it isn’t already too late. We need to get a different behavior from them.
Unfortunately, that’s not just a problem with the Biden administration; that’s a problem across a lot of industries in this country, including the media.
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