State of Affairs

The 2022 Beijing Olympics were shaping up to be one of the most anticipated sporting events of the early decade, until the world realized the atrocities of China. Sporting events are not meant to be political, but because China is actively engaging in a genocide against the Uyghur people, a group of Muslims living in the Xinjiang (pronounced Shin – Jong) region of China, the United States responded with a political boycott of the games. The International Olympics Committee knows about the genocide, but they are insistent that there is nothing wrong in having the games hosted by Beijing. The United States is a bastion for freedom, which is why no American athlete should compete in these games; if the Chinese government cannot have respect for human rights, then we shouldn’t shower them with money, praise, and accolades like the honor of hosting the Olympics.

Imagine a child intentionally breaks a window, and instead of punishing them and then fixing the window, you leave the window shattered and give the kid a slice of cake. This fantasy is an example of bad parenting, it rewards negative attitudes and gratifies the wrong-doing process. Unfortunately for people of Islamic faith in Xinjiang, this is what the rest of the world is doing with China. Instead of punishing and correcting their human rights abuses – by which, I do mean genocide – the international community is rewarding China’s human rights violations by allowing them to host the Olympics.

The 2022 Beijing Genocide Games are shaping up to be one to be one of the most problematic events of the 21st Century, and is reminiscent of the 1936 Berlin Olympics, in which the Nazi Party of Germany swept away competition. Back then, however, the world did not know Nazi Germany was committing evil atrocities by way of genocide, the Nazi Games were at least partly excusable, but there is nothing excusable about an Olympic Committee that willfully supports and gives money to a genocidal regime that denies basic human rights to most of its citizens.

Have you ever visited a Holocaust memorial or museum? If you have then you’ve seen the following poem. After World War II, a Holocaust Survivor named Martin Niemöller wrote these words:

“First they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out— because I was not a socialist.

“Then they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out—because I was not a trade unionist.

“Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out— because I was not a Jew.

“Then they came for me— and there was no one left to speak for me.”

If we do not speak up for the people losing their rights, then we will be the next to lose our rights – and we will deserve to lose them. I recently heard a saying, “You may not be interested in war; War is interested in you” this is something we need to start thinking about as a society.

I am not a war hawk, I do not want war with China, Russia, or anybody. War would be devastating and decimate the globalized economy our great-grandparents helped cultivate, it would destroy not just the US but the entire world economically. War must be prevented, which is why the US has a host of tools it can use to counter evil in the world in a much less violent way than war. While keeping all of this in mind, we must also remember that Chinese people and people of Asian descent are not our enemy, they are the people subjugated and punished by the Communist Chinese government, people yearning to be free.

The United States Congress recently sent a series of counterkleptocracy bills to President Joe Biden, which he gladly signed. These new initiatives did not receive any major media attention, but they will pave the way for the United States to target foreign companies and individuals who partake in evil acts like genocide. It’s a comfortable first step but will not end Chinese imperialist ambitions. The Paper Dragon of the East, China, is threatening free and democratic societies across the globe in Asia, Europe, Africa, and even the Americas. They want to invade and subjugate the people of Taiwan, a lit match with the potential to set off the powder keg of Asian politics.

White House’s response to the Genocide Games

“When we met with the [International Olympic Committee] in October, we asked them to listen to our voices but instead they completely dismissed our experiences and sufferings,” White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki said. “They conveniently hedge behind political neutrality when it comes to China… They also repeatedly told us that the IOC’s mission was to create a better world – a world with absolutely no discrimination based on race, religion, gender, sexual orientation,” she added. “A better world to us means a free and democratic world where there are no camps, no forced labor, no cultural and religious repression, no arbitrary arrest, no police brutality. A better world is a world without genocide.”

Int’l Olympic Committee response to the Genocide Games

“We are taking this very seriously,” Thomas Bock, IOC President said. “But we are not a super world government where the IOC can solve or even address issues for which the UN security council, G7 and G20 has no solution… We have to fulfil our role and to live up to our responsibilities within our area of responsibilities, and the governments have to live up to their responsibilities in their remits… Human rights and labour rights and others will be part of the host city contract. And on this, we are working very closely with the organising committee that we are also monitoring. This includes, for instance, supply chains or labour rights, and their freedom of press and many other issues.” (sic.) What this statement by the

IOC misses is that the committee actually does have control and the ability to help solve this issue. By denying Communist, Genocidal China the high honor of hosting the Olympic Games on grounds of human rights abuses, it punishes them. Political neutrality is fine, genocidal neutrality is not.