Wei Jingsheng Foundation News and Article: A1366-W977

魏京生基金会新闻与文章发布号：A1366-W977

Release Date: March 18, 2021

发布日：2021年3月18日

Topic: Boycott the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics -- Wei Jingsheng

标题：抵制2022北京冬奥会 -- 魏京生

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Boycott the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics

-- Wei Jingsheng

There is less than a year before the scheduled 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics. The calls to boycott the Beijing Winter Olympics are on the rise from human rights groups and politicians in many countries. But there were also politicians who came out to speak the other way. For example, a well-known American politician said that athletes are working hard and their families are looking forward to it, and they should not be made to make a sacrifice. He also said that the 2008 global boycott of the Beijing Olympics did not change the human rights situation in China. This is an obvious lie.

This is the same routine as when the United States granted China permanent most-favored-nation status twenty years ago: You cannot sacrifice the interests of some people in the United States for the sake of China's human rights. Under the manipulation of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and the large capital of the United States, with the drive of countless dollars and interests, a resolution in the US Congress which was harmful to both the Chinese and the American people was passed. With some specious excuses, it is the usual practice of American politicians to play deceptive politics for their own gain.

According to that politician, it seems that the 2022 Winter Olympics is the only opportunity for American athletes. This politician used sophistry skillfully here. The Olympics Games are supposed to be competitions between the amateur athletes. Yet China and the former USSR always sent professionals to participate. Now not only in the United States, but in China, professional sports have become the main means of income for athletes. Whether to participate as amateurs in the Olympics is only related to the issue of increasing popularity, not the so-called fate and income of the athletes. To describe participating in the Olympics as the only opportunity for those athletes is to change the concept.

Speaking of popularity, there are now many professional sports associations in the world. Some of their events meet the popularity and even surpass the Olympic Games. The excuse of an absence of an Olympic gold medal affecting the popularity of athletes and thus their sports career seems to be sophistry here, and the reason is very inadequate. If large-scale professional competitions are held in the United States and Europe at the same time as the Olympics, and they are broadcast by television stations in the United States and Europe, the athletes’ popularity will not be lost, but the authority and lack of moral credit of the Beijing Olympics will be highlighted. The loss will be the credibility of the CCP government and the International Olympic Committee, and meanwhile it will improve the authority and moral credibility of other professional associations. The athletes themselves will not lose much.

Russia is a powerful country in the sports of ice and snow. But the United States, Canada and Europe are also powerful countries in these events. If these powerful countries organize together to fight against Beijing and Russia, it is hard to say who will win, but at least it will greatly weaken the limelight of Beijing and the International Olympic Committee. The various committees in the international sports world compete in this way, and one after another competition is also the norm. The emergence of a new pattern has always been the norm, and no one is the eternal authority.

What that politician was asserting was the loss of hundreds of athletes, but it is not. Apart from the propaganda of the CCP authoritarian regime in Beijing, the biggest losses are those business sponsors who flatter the Communist regime and the shameless politicians they sponsor. These business sponsors and shameless politicians are accustomed to selling their private goods and taking money secretly under the guise of the suffering of ordinary people. The International Olympic Committee has long been a notoriously corrupt organization that takes money to do what is expected for it, and its high-sounding humanitarian pretense has long since faded.

Money scandals in the international sports world are endless. Western democracies also learn from the CCP’s money diplomacy, and join the ranks of corruption by violating laws of their own countries. Not only have the sports, press, entertainment, and education sectors all fallen, but they also imitated the behavior of authoritarian regimes. This is one of the fundamental reasons for the regression of global democracy. What makes the Deng Xiaoping Communist regime smarter than the Soviet Union and Mao Zedong is that it has captured the weakness of Western capitalism. It is more effective to use money to corrupt universal values than to threaten with nuclear weapons.

The democratic and free social system that began in Western countries is based on a free market economy. But the weakness of the free market economy is that money controls politics. When the interests of certain capitalists are higher than the basic values, it is not only the values that are sacrificed, but also economic and security interests. The regression of global democracy is only a superficial phenomenon.

The Biden administration firmly stated that it will take values as an important basic policy. But we haven't seen the implementation yet. Big things need to be done, but they are often more difficult and will not be effective until after a long time. Then it might as well start with the easier little things, with low difficulty and quick results, like playing the game of Go, where small victories accumulate into a big one. It would be an effective measure to restore global democracy and fight for international leadership.

(This English version is translated by Ciping HUANG, without any compensation. Wei Jingsheng and the Wei Jingsheng Foundation appreciate her decades of contribution, especially for allowing the use and distribution of her translations of these commentaries.)

Original link of the commentary broadcasted by Radio Free Asia:

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(Written and recorded on March 16, 2021. Broadcasted by Radio Free Asia on March 17, 2021.)

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Wei Jingsheng Foundation News and Article: A1366-W977

魏京生基金会新闻与文章发布号：A1366-W977

Release Date: March 18, 2021

发布日：2021年3月18日

Topic: Boycott the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics -- Wei Jingsheng

标题：抵制2022北京冬奥会 -- 魏京生

Original Language Version: Chinese (Chinese version at the end)

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抵制2022北京冬奥会

-- 魏京生

离召开2022年北京冬奥会还有不到一年的时间了。抵制北京冬奥会的热度正在上升，很多国家的人权团体和政治家都在呼吁抵制。但也有拉偏手的政客出来说软话。例如有个很著名的美国政客就在说，运动员们很辛苦，家属们很期待，不应该让他们做出牺牲。还说2008年全球抵制北京奥运会的运动，并没有改变中国的人权状况。这是明显的撒谎。

这和二十年前美国给予中国永久最惠国待遇的时候，是一样的套路：不能为了中国的人权，就牺牲了美国一些人的利益。在中共和美国大资本的操纵下，在无数美元和利益的驱动下，对中国和美国人民都有害的议案就这样通过了。说一些似是而非的理由，夹带私货玩欺骗性政治，是美国政客的惯用手法。

按照那位政客的说法，好像2022冬季奥运会是美国运动员的唯一机会了。这位政客在这里熟练地使用了诡辩手法。奥运会本来是业余运动员之间的比赛。但中国与苏联等一向派专业运动员参加，这本身就不公平。而现在不但在美国，现在就是在中国，职业运动都已成为运动员们主要的收入方式。是否参加奥运会，仅仅牵涉到增加知名度的问题，并不牵涉运动员的所谓命运和收入。把参加奥运会说成是运动员的唯一机会，就是偷换了概念。

说到知名度，现在世界上有很多专业运动项目的协会。他们的专业运动会知名度，有些甚至超过了奥运会。没有奥运会金牌就影响到运动员的知名度，从而影响到他们的运动生涯，这里怎么看都是诡辩，理由很不充分。如果在奥运会的同时，在美国和欧洲举办大型专业比赛，并由美国与欧洲的电视台转播，不会损失运动员的知名度，反而衬托出北京奥运会的权威性和道义信用不足。这损失的是北京和奥委会的信用，提高了其它专业协会的权威和道义信誉。运动员本身并没有多大的损失。

俄罗斯是冰雪运动的强国，美国、加拿大和欧洲也是冰雪运动的强国。如果这些强国共同组织，与北京和俄罗斯分庭抗礼，不说鹿死谁手，至少也大大削弱了北京和国际奥委会的风头。国际体育界的各种委员会就是这样竞争的，此起彼伏也是常态。新格局的产生从来就是常态，谁也不是永远的权威。

那位政客嘴里说的是什么几百个运动员的损失，其实不然。最大的损失除了北京专制政权的宣传之外，就是那些拍共产党马屁的赞助商，和他们赞助的无耻政客。这些赞助商和无耻政客们惯于打着老百姓受苦受难的幌子，贩卖他们的私货，暗中拿钱。而奥委会早已经是臭名昭著的拿钱办事的腐败组织，其冠冕堂皇的人道幌子早已暗然褪色。

国际体育界的金钱丑闻连绵不绝。西方民主国家也学中共的金钱外交，违反自己国家的法律加入腐败的行列。不仅体育界、新闻界、娱乐界、教育界等等全面沦陷，还纷纷仿效专制政权的行为方式。这才是全球民主倒退的根本原因之一。邓小平的共产党比苏联和毛泽东高明的地方，就是抓住了西方资本主义的软肋。让金钱来腐蚀普世的价值观，比用核武器来威胁更有效。

从西方国家开始的民主自由的社会体制，是建立在自由市场经济的基础上的。但是自由市场经济体系的软肋，就是金钱控制了政治。当某些资本家的利益高于基本价值观念的时候，被牺牲的就不仅仅是价值观念，还包括了经济利益和安全利益。全球民主倒退只不过是表面现象而已。

拜登政府很坚定地表示，要把价值观念作为重要的基本政策。但还没看到怎样执行。大事要做，但往往比较困难，旷日持久不见功效。那么也不妨从比较容易的小事做起，难度低且见效快，像下围棋一样集小胜为大胜。不失为恢复全球民主，争夺国际领导权的有效措施。

(本评论的英文版本由黄慈萍翻译。魏京生和魏京生基金会感谢她数十年来有关的无偿贡献，特别是使用和发布此译文的许可。)

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