Chinese female tennis player Peng Shuai revealed that he was suspected of being missing and “showing up” after being played by former CCP deputy prime minister Zhang Gaoli. This has aroused high international attention to China’s human rights issues. According to foreign media sources, the United Kingdom is now allies with the “Five Eyes Alliance”. Discuss the diplomatic boycott of the Beijing Winter Olympics. In addition, the NBA and Boston Celtics center Enes Kanter also called on athletes to boycott the Beijing Olympics for Peng Shuai and suggested that the Winter Olympics move elsewhere.
The British “Times” reported on the 21st that in the context of Beijing’s continued persecution of dissidents, the Peng Shuai incident has added to the CCP’s bad human rights record. The report stated that the United Kingdom is “actively discussing” diplomatic boycotts of the upcoming Winter Olympics in Beijing in February next year with other member states of the Five Eyes alliance.
The member states of the “Five Eyes Alliance” include the United Kingdom, the United States, Australia, New Zealand, and Canada. According to reports, boycott options include a joint statement issued by all member states of the “Five Eyes Alliance,” but the United Kingdom, Australia, and Canada are more likely to act jointly.
In addition, Kanter, an NBA star who has frequently spoken out for human rights in Taiwan, Hong Kong and China, also submitted a letter to the Wall Street Journal on the 20th, stating that the IOC’s remarks on Peng Shuai’s case shockedly communicated with the Chinese Communist Party. The official media co-ordinated, accusing it of ignoring Beijing’s human rights violations for years.
Kanter called on the athletes, “We must pressure the International Olympic Committee to move the Winter Olympics to another place. All the gold medals in the world are not worthy of selling your values and principles to the Chinese Communist Party.”
Kanter said: “Western athletes can and should use our global reputation to speak out for those who are “silent.” We call on everyone to continue to pay attention to Peng Shuai until she is confirmed to be safe.
Kanter pointed out that the sports world must wake up and speak out, “We need to realize that the authoritarian Chinese government is not a friend. The Communist Party is a brutal dictatorship that weaponizes economic power to coerce others into ideological and political concessions.”
Kanter concluded by saying, “Freedom must be defended at all costs. We can set things out together anyway… They can’t silence us all.”
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