The Beijing Winter Olympics will be held from February 4 to 20 next year. The leaders of China and the United States held a video summit earlier, but after the meeting, Ma reported that the United States had “diplomatically boycotted” the Beijing Winter Olympics.
In fact, the United States has always intended to boycott the Beijing Winter Olympics, only to postpone the news and announce it after the China-U.S. first video summit. On the one hand, so as not to affect the atmosphere of the summit, and on the other hand, it can spread the message that US President Biden is tough on China, so as to win the support of American anti-China people. The so-called “diplomatic boycott” means that the United States does not send officials to attend the Beijing Winter Olympics, but does not require American athletes not to participate. At the same time, the United States also secretly vigorously mobilized her friendly country to “diplomatically boycott” the Beijing Winter Olympics.
Hua Chunying, Assistant Minister of Foreign Affairs of China, tweeted 3 tweets in a row to attack the United States. Hua Chunying said that she has seen some reports that some people in the United States have called for a “diplomatic boycott” of the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics. She finds it “interesting” and believes that supporters should know and consider a number of things, including 1. Has Washington received an invitation from Beijing? As usual, foreign leaders are invited by their own Olympic Committee to participate in the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games; 2. The so-called human rights issue in Xinjiang is a lie, and the serious violation of human rights by the United States is a fact. 3. Beijing will host a streamlined, safe, and exciting Olympic Games, regardless of the United States. Whether politicians are present.
After reading Hua Chunying’s tweet, he has no face to the United States on the issue of the Winter Olympics.
You can observe the ins and outs of the whole scene of Western countries’ boycott of China’s hosting of the Winter Olympics. The boycott was first launched by the US Congress, the European Parliament, the Canadian Parliament, and Human Rights Watch on the pretext of human rights issues in Tibet, Xinjiang, and Hong Kong.
In fact, Western countries have a long history of playing this kind of political boycott in sports games. In 2014 Russia hosted the Winter Olympics in Sochi. Western human rights organizations also found “reasons” to boycott it. The saying at the time was that Russia passed a law in June 2013 to prohibit public talking about homosexuality in any occasion where minors are present. Things, the United States and the European Union are playing together. The boycott of the Beijing Winter Olympics by Western countries this time is actually just a replay of the old script of 2014.
There is a tradition for political leaders in Western countries to attend the Olympics. For example, the president of the United States will not attend the Olympics hosted by other places, and will send his wife or daughter to attend the opening ceremony of the Olympics, which is regarded as an unofficial form of attendance. The only exception is the 2008 Olympic Games held in Beijing, when US President George W. Bush participated in the opening ceremony of the Beijing Olympics.
The U.S. government has a history of boycotting the Olympic Games hosted by other countries. However, it is the first time that the term “diplomatic boycott” has been used. It has not been targeted against Russia before. CNN of the United States stated that the United States coined the term “diplomatic boycott” with symbolic meaning, saying that “diplomatic boycott will deprive Xi Jinping of some of the glory of entertaining the world’s top leaders at the glorious event. Moreover, diplomatic boycott has the advantage of not harming athletes. The advantages of expressing this attitude under the circumstances.”
The United States really knows how to “self-heel”, create some terms for political propaganda, and then judge for itself how effective its actions are. What is ridiculous is that on the one hand, the United States uses the so-called “diplomatic boycott” to engage China, and on the other hand, it allows American athletes to participate, as if “I am not fully engaging you.” This approach of the United States can be described as a foreign policy of “beating you in half.” The United States wanted to slap its opponent, but for various reasons, did not dare to offend or anger the opponent too much, and said, “Okay, I’ll just slap you and respect you. Just like the Beijing Winter Olympics, I will not boycott it all-out. I will only engage in diplomatic boycott. There is already room for it.”
In any case, the United States’ method of “beating half a bar” only shows its weakness. If the United States is still a superpower, it will either not fight, or if it wants to fight, it will knock down its opponents with one blow. Why should it fight with half? In the face of the declining national power of the United States, China will certainly not take this kind of diplomatic means, and will not buy it at all, but will only fight back hard.
Lu Yongxiong
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