With less than a year to go before the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics are held, the fervor to boycott the games is rising, with human rights groups and politicians in many countries calling for a boycott. But there are also politicians who are pulling the strings and saying soft things. For example, one very prominent American politician is saying that the athletes are working hard and their families are looking forward to it, and that they should not be made to make sacrifices; and that the global boycott of the Beijing Olympics in 2008 did not change the human rights situation in China. This is a clear lie.
It is the same ruse as when the United States granted China permanent MFN status twenty years ago: the interests of some people in the United States cannot be sacrificed for the sake of human rights in China. With the manipulation of the Chinese Communist Party and big American capital, and driven by countless dollars and interests, bills harmful to both the Chinese and American people were passed. It is the usual practice of American politicians to say some specious reasons and play deceptive politics with private goods.
According to the politician, it seems that the 2022 Winter Olympics is the only chance for American athletes. This politician is using sophistry skillfully here. We all know that not only in the United States, but now in China, professional sports have become the main way of income for athletes, and whether or not to participate in the Olympics is only a matter of increasing visibility, not the so-called fate and income of the athletes. To describe participation in the Olympics as an athlete’s only opportunity is to change the concept.
When it comes to visibility, there are now many professional sports associations around the world that have visibility for their professional games, some even more than the Olympics. The absence of Olympic Gold medals affects the visibility of athletes and thus their athletic careers, and how it looks here is sophomoric and poorly justified. If major professional games were held in the U.S. and Europe at the same Time as the Olympics and televised by American and European television stations, there would be no loss of visibility for the athletes, but rather set off the lack of authority and moral credibility of the Beijing Olympics. It is the credit of Beijing and the Olympic Committee that is lost, and the authority and moral credibility of other professional associations is increased, with little loss to the athletes themselves.
Russia is a powerhouse in ice and snow sports, as are the United States, Canada and Europe. If these powers organize together and separate themselves from Beijing and Russia, not to say who will die, but at least it greatly weakens the thunder of Beijing and the IOC. This is how the various committees in international sports compete, and it is common for them to rise and fall. New patterns are always the norm, and no one is always the authority.
What that politician said about the loss of hundreds of athletes is not true. The biggest loss, aside from the propaganda of the authoritarian regime in Beijing, is the sponsors who kiss the Communist Party’s ass and the shameless politicians they sponsor. These sponsors and shameless politicians are used to selling their private goods and taking money secretly under the guise of the suffering of the common people. And the Olympic Committee has long been a notoriously corrupt organization that takes money for its work, and its grand, humane pretensions have long since faded.
The money scandals in international sports are endless, and Western democracies have joined the ranks of corruption in violation of their own laws, following the money diplomacy of the Chinese Communist Party. Not only have sports, journalism, entertainment, Education, etc. fallen into total disrepute, but they have also followed the behavior of authoritarian regimes, which is one of the fundamental reasons for the global democratic regression. What made Deng Xiaoping’s Communist Party superior to the Soviet Union and Mao Zedong was that it caught the soft underbelly of Western capitalism and allowed money to corrupt universal values more effectively than the threat of nuclear weapons.
The social system of democracy and freedom that began in the West was based on a free market economy. But the soft underbelly of the free market economy system is that money controls politics. When the interests of certain capitalists take precedence over basic values, it is not only values that are sacrificed, but also economic and security interests. The global democratic regression is nothing more than a superficial phenomenon.
The Biden administration is very adamant about making values an important fundamental policy. Big things have to be done, but they are often difficult, so it is also worthwhile to start with smaller things that are easier, less difficult and more effective, like playing Go to gather small victories into big ones, which is not a bad measure to restore global democracy and compete for international leadership.
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