China warns U.S., allies will pay a price for diplomatic boycott of Winter Olympics 2022

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[–][deleted] 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Oh wow, all the white countries jumped on board. I didn't think China would even care.

[–][deleted] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

On board are countries that buy the most from China, which is a much bigger bargaining chip than China could have. So any comments from China - or from the other countries - are mere political posturing. We saw a lot of this when Trump was in office, whereas Chinese imports to the US increased dramatically during this period, as well as corruption.

[–]BravoVictor 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

Wang continued: "China never invited the relevant countries in the first place. The Beijing Winter Olympics will be a success regardless of whether their officials come or not."

He's not wrong. I guess a "diplomatic boycott" is better than nothing, but it's still a fairly limb wristed to response to what might amount to a modern day holocaust.

[–]Prathet 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Except it's not real, not that you put any effort investing it before you believed the fake news. I'm sure Assad was gassing his people and Saddam had WMDs.

[–]BravoVictor 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Fair point. I don't live in China, and our news sources are shit, so I'm not sure what the truth is.

However, in general, large governments aren't usually shy about killing people, especially minority groups that buck national trends. And China's not exactly going out of their way to show us how well treated their minority groups are.

Compare that to Assad. He made a some pretty convincing denials, and was on record saying he'd given up his chemical weapons, and let investigators inspect the ground, finding evidence that proved Assad didn't gas anyone, evidence that ironically would be censored by the west who desperately wanted a pretext for war.

Is the Chinese government letting western journalists interviews Uyghurs? I'm honestly asking. To me, that's the dog that isn't barking, but that could be intentional. If China has and our garbage media isn't reporting it because they're again trying to foment war, we might not hear about it.

[–]iDontShift 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

modern day bolshevik holocaust

66 Million > 6 Million

oh, look satan's calling card ..

[–]rakwar 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

There are major conflicts abroad right now and this is a small part of it. Personally, a total athlete boycott to me is the only thing that makes sense... but on the other hand, why should athletes have to suffer for to many times senseless politics...not that what China is doing, in this case, is senseless. Keep athletes and politics separate IMO

[–]aaarrgh 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

The 'officials' can stay away, it's about sport, right?