[Epoch Times November 27, 2021](Epoch Times reporter Jiang Yuchan reported) Chinese tennis star Peng Shuai reported that the former Politburo Standing Committee member Zhang Gaoli’s sexual assault continued to ferment. Europe and the United States led by the voices calling for a boycott of the Beijing Winter Olympics The more, it will trigger a wave of international boycotts of the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics. According to the analysis of scholars, the CCP’s long-term perverse actions on human rights issues and the holding of the Beijing Winter Olympics in February next year have made Peng Shuai’s affairs even more noticeable and eventually triggered a knock-on effect of boycotting the CCP.
A few days ago, Peng Shuai accused the 75-year-old Zhang Gaoli of sexual assault on a social website. The post disappeared after only 20 minutes of existence, and Peng Shuai’s name could no longer be searched on Chinese social platforms. Many tennis players and officials of the Tennis Association have not been able to contact Peng Shuai for more than two weeks, causing global attention. The World Women’s Professional Tennis Association (WTA) even threatened to withdraw from the Chinese market.
British media revealed that members of the Five Eyes Alliance (Five Eyes, including the United States, Britain, Australia, New Zealand, and Canada) are actively discussing diplomatic boycotts. The international anti-Beijing Winter Olympics group even put forward the slogan “There would be no Olympics without human rights.”
The CCP’s perverse acts of international tolerance cannot be tolerated
Why did the Peng Shuai incident cause such an uproar internationally? Lin Wencheng, a distinguished professor of the Institute of China and Asia-Pacific Regions at Sun Yat-sen University in Taiwan, said in an interview with Epoch Times that the CCP regime has done many things that the international community cannot accept, including the persecution of Falun Gong, Xinjiang Uyghurs, Tibet, Hong Kong, and Chinese pro-democracy activists. The persecution has caused quite a lot of dissatisfaction.
Because Peng Shuai is a well-known person and won twice tennis doubles championships, and the upcoming Winter Olympics, the CCP has violated the Olympic spirit of peace, friendship, and unity, making everyone unable to bear the CCP’s various evils. “Because of the perverse behavior on the human rights issue for a long time, it is like a villain doing a lot of bad things. At first, everyone has tolerated it, but now it can’t be tolerated.” Lin Wencheng said.
At present, there are growing international calls for boycotting the Beijing Winter Olympics. US President Biden has previously stated that he is considering whether to boycott it. There have also been reports in the United Kingdom that he is privately negotiating with the “Five Eyes Alliance” to boycott it.
Lin Wencheng said that the Five Eyes Alliance and Western countries’ sanctions should start with a “diplomatic boycott”, that is, officials from various countries will not attend the opening ceremony of the Beijing Winter Olympics, but athletes can still participate.
According to a 15min report by the Lithuanian media, the Minister of Education, Science and Sports of Lithuania, Jurgita Šiugždinienė (Jurgita Šiugždinienė) stated that he would not participate in the Beijing Winter Olympics in February 2022, saying that other officials would not be planning to attend. Also fired the first international “diplomatic boycott” of the Beijing Winter Olympics.
Big foreign propaganda “reporting safety” Expert: no one believes
In addition, Thomas Bach, Chairman of the International Olympic Committee (IOC), recently “reported safety” with Peng Shuai Video. The IOC said in a brief statement that Peng Shuai stated that everything is safe and good, and hopes that the outside world will respect her privacy. According to a report by the Associated Press, the International Olympic Committee has recently received more and more criticism, and some public opinion advocates that the International Olympic Committee should boycott the Beijing Winter Olympics, which will open on February 4, 2022.
Lin Wencheng said that the Olympic Committee was criticized this time and it appeared to be quite weak in handling the Peng Shuai incident, because one of its responsibilities was to protect athletes from persecution, but this time it cooperated with the CCP to continuously release photos and videos of Peng Shuai through foreign propaganda. Etc., to prove that his personal safety is safe.
He said that this trick has been used too many times, “but the CCP’s credit is too bad.” In the past, after arresting people, after being arranged by the CCP authorities, they often spoke insincerely to the outside world (cameras).
As the international boycotts of the Beijing Winter Olympics one after another, Akio Yaita, the director of the Taipei branch of Japan’s Sankei Shimbun, said on Facebook that Taiwan has risks that other countries do not have if it participates in the Beijing Winter Olympics. In the past few years, the CCP used to be a bargaining chip for hostage diplomacy. It recently announced that it would arrest “Taiwan independence diehards.” Even the Far East Group was fined more than NT$300 million as a company that supports Taiwan independence. He questioned whether Taiwanese athletes are guaranteed safety if they go to Beijing to compete.
In response to Yaita’s worries, Lin Wencheng believes that although the current cross-strait relations are tense, the CCP dare not openly detain Taiwan athletes under this atmosphere (international siege). He said that if Taiwan athletes are persecuted, it is not just Taiwan that is harmed. It is also equivalent to hurting athletes from all over the world. In the future, athletes from various countries will also worry about their own safety and freedom and whether they will face the same threats when they compete in China.
Lin Wencheng emphasized that if the CCP openly detained Taiwanese athletes, it would be tantamount to adding fuel to the fire, and the subsequent expansion and fermentation of the Peng Shuai incident will cause greater international attention and may cause the fire.
Editor in charge: Sun Yun
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