Pompeo speaks at the CPAC conference on Feb. 27.
Following calls from some 200 rights groups and organizations around the world to boycott the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics, nearly 200 more people from all walks of Life joined the global coalition, which was endorsed by former U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo. Pompeo said on May 5 that the Chinese Communist Party is engaged in “vicious” activities and is not fit to host the Olympics.
I want our athletes to have the opportunity to go to the Olympics, and they deserve to be on that big stage,” Pompeo said in an interview with conservative radio show host Hugh Hewitt. But ultimately, we can’t allow American athletes to go to China and encourage the Chinese Communist Party to continue to do the nefarious things that they’re doing.”
Pompeo said, “The Olympics are an expression of freedom and the talent of the athletes, so it is totally inappropriate to have the Olympics in Beijing.”
The day before, between 9 a.m. and 9 p.m. on March 4, a total of 188 people from all walks of life living in the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada, Japan and other countries also participated in a global joint action in solidarity with democracy in Hong Kong and calling for a boycott of the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics.
The drafters of the statement are Wang Dan, Su Xiaokang, Wang Juntao and Hu Ping, four overseas democracy activists. The English version of the statement was sent to officials at the U.S. State Department, the House of Representatives and the White House on March 5, said Wang Dan. A second list of signatories is being collected.
Republican members of the U.S. Congress, including McCaul, Katko and Scott, have also introduced new bills to express the position of the U.S. Congress to boycott the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics.
In the resolution, U.S. Rep. Mike Waltz (R-Fla.) listed four major evils of the Chinese Communist Party, including the mass detention and genocide of Uighurs in Xinjiang, the destruction of Hong Kong’s democratic rights and the “one country, two systems” structure, the control of domestic religious activities, and the concealment of the Epidemic.
Before Pompeo left office, he officially declared that Muslims in Xinjiang had been subjected to “genocide” by the Chinese Communist Party, and his successor, Secretary of State John Blinken, agreed, said Walz. So the Chinese Communist Party should be barred from enjoying the economic benefits and free publicity that come with hosting the Olympics.
Former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley recently wrote to Forsyth News calling on Biden to boycott the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics, saying that the Chinese Communist Party today is more dangerous than Nazi Germany in 1936.
The Beijing Winter Olympics were scheduled to open on February 4, 2022, and since 2020, international human rights organizations, parliamentarians and officials from many countries have called for a boycott of the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics. But until now, no country has announced it will boycott the Beijing Olympics.
The British Prime Minister recently said that the UK does not normally support boycotts of sporting events; a spokesperson for the U.S. White House also said that there are no discussions about changing its position or plans regarding the Beijing Olympics, meaning it will not boycott.
The International Olympic Committee, for its part, said they are an international sports body and are not involved in politics. It even quoted an anonymous spokesman as saying that they “do not have the power or the ability to change the legal or political system of a sovereign country.”
In response, Chen Jiangang, a human rights lawyer in the United States, stressed that politics and sports are inseparable and that the Chinese Communist Party first politicized sports. “The Chinese Communist Party is brutal to the point of genocide. Several governments have now officially recognized it as genocide, and it is still going on today, which is really tragic and unimaginable for civilized countries.”
Chen says that if the international community remains silent in the face of such a brutal regime and cooperates with the Communist tyranny on the pretext of not getting involved in politics, it is tacitly acknowledging its legitimacy and is a form of support for it. Then historically speaking, supporting them, or remaining silent in the face of tyranny. It will surely leave shame for future generations to spit upon.
On February 3, an international coalition of more than 180 rights groups from around the world has joined forces to issue an open letter calling on global leaders to boycott the Beijing Winter Olympics to ensure that the Chinese Communist Party does not use the games to fuel its human rights abuses and repression of dissidents.
The letter says that since Beijing won the bid to host the 2022 Winter Olympics in 2015, the Chinese Communist Party has been relentless in its crackdown on basic human rights and freedoms. For example, more than 1,000 Tibetan political prisoners have faced torture and death; between 1.8 million and 3 million Uighurs have been imprisoned in “concentration camps”; and thousands of Hong Kong people have been arrested for expressing their political demands.
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