With the current Olympic controversy brewing amidst fighting and bloody unrest in Tibet and China’s stake in trading with Sudan’s government while a genocide rages on there (Steven Spielberg has already resigned as an artistic advisor for the 2008 Olympics because of China’s silence over Darfur), boycotting the 2008 Beijing Olympics would be the most diplomatic thing for the international community to do.
Not only does China have one of the worst human rights records in the world, 
(it’s consistently grabbed a spot in the Top 10 Human Rights Violators for years according to watch dog groups and the Unites States government, although it’s been mysteriously removed from that list in 2008 by the US State Department), it is also quickly imploding on its own economy’s lightning fast race to the top by becoming a complete environmental disaster. (To read shocking documentation of this, see the New York Times’ “Choking on Growth” series).
History has seen a similar story with the 1936 Olympics in Berlin (and in a way, the Olympics in China have the potential to turnout like the 1968 games in Mexico did). The international community was hesitant then just as it is now. Hitler audaciously and confidently flouted hosting the Olympics as if it was not at all a matter of conscience in a way that only dictators are able to get away with. And to his chagrin, the rest of the world shamefully followed his lead of enthusiasm by welcoming the Olympics to a country who’s leader would very soon reak unimagineable horror onto the entire continent culminating in World War II.
As the world again pauses, this time in its backing of the 2008 Beijing Olympics, The Diplomat is encouraging the international community to unite and employ true diplomatic discipline and courage to say no to the Communist government and leading human rights violator. Supporting such an economically lucrative event for a country that espouses violations of its citizens and the citizens of the world for entertainment purposes, is unworthy of democracy and should be boycotted.
Tags: 2008 Beijing Olympics, Africa, Boycott, China, Sudan, Tibet
