On February 3, 180 human rights groups formed a coalition to boycott the Beijing Winter Olympics, protesting the National Security Law in Hong Kong, religious and cultural policies in Tibet and Inner Mongolia, and re-Education camps in Xinjiang, among other things. Chinese Communist tyranny. U.S. and Canadian lawmakers have also issued calls for a boycott. Significantly, on March 4, 188 overseas Chinese from all walks of Life also launched a co-signature echoing the demands of international civil society. At present, the co-signing still continues, and the number is already close to 300.
Some Chinese people do not understand or agree with the call from the international community, including the Chinese people themselves, to boycott the Beijing Winter Olympic Games, believing that holding the Winter Olympic Games is an honor given to China by the international community, and that boycotting the Games is an anti-China and insulting act, that is, tying sports and politics together, and that Chinese people who sign the boycott call are “traitors”. Such a view is completely wrong, and the core problem lies in the failure to separate China from the Chinese Communist Party.
As we all know, it is the Communist regime that has been most active in tying sports to politics and using sports for so-called “patriotic propaganda”. From the promotion of the national women’s volleyball team in the 1980s, which led to the slogan of “revitalizing China,” to the 2008 Olympic Games, which were interpreted entirely as a way to “wash away a century of national shame,” the main purpose behind the Communist Party’s pursuit of the Olympics has never been to bring glory to the Chinese nation and its people. Rather, it was to whitewash its own rule and to consolidate the foundation of its authoritarian system.
I understand and support the nationalist sentiment of the Chinese people who want China to be strong and recognized by the international community, but I also believe that the respect of China and the Chinese people by the world should be based on the preservation of universal values. What Xi Jinping and the Chinese Communist Party are doing today is completely contrary to universal values, and such a regime is actually discrediting China through their policies. Such a regime does not deserve the opportunity to host the Olympics.
What’s more, the global Epidemic, while easing, has caused heavy economic and social damage to China. In today’s polarized Chinese society, the huge expenses for hosting the Olympics would truly have the well-being of the Chinese people at heart if they could be used to protect the people’s livelihood and support small and medium-sized enterprises to resume production. The Olympic Games are another face-saving project of the CCP, and it is the CCP, not China, and not the Chinese people, that will benefit the most. Therefore, our boycott of the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics is not aimed at China and the Chinese people, but at the Chinese Communist Party. To fail to understand this is to unconsciously “consider oneself a member of the Zhao Family,” unable to distinguish between the people and the political party and the government.
What is more, it should be noted that the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics, once held, will certainly be a personal show for Xi Jinping. Xi Jinping hopes to use the success of the Winter Olympics to boost his own popularity, to build momentum for his re-election to the 20th Communist Party Congress, and to create public opinion for his move toward tenure. We all know that Xi Jinping’s big step backwards towards the Cultural Revolution and his expansion of his personal political power and influence is what is harmful to the interests of the Chinese people and the Chinese nation. When Western society connived at Nazi Germany‘s hosting of the Berlin Olympics under Hitler’s rule, it greatly encouraged the self-confidence and ambition of Hitler and the German far-right. Within a few years, they started the Second World War, and eventually Germany itself paid a heavy price.
We certainly don’t want to see such a thing happen, as we have learned from the past. Therefore, a boycott of the Beijing Winter Olympics is actually a boycott of Xi Jinping and of the Chinese Communist Party. This is the reason why many overseas Chinese, although they love their original Home countries, also advocate boycotting the Olympics. There is no need for the nation to tie itself to the CCP and Xi Jinping.
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