From Heritage Foundation website:
… Both the Administration and Congress must get into the habit of seeing the regime in Beijing for what it is”a Communist dictatorship that suppresses religious, political, and labor freedoms at home and bullies its neighbors. It supports brother dictatorships around the globe, whether they are major or minor perpetrators of genocide, nuclear blackmail, slave labor, and suppression of freedoms.
Boycotting the Olympics would not change any of this. The calls from Congress, however”like Ms. Farrow’s effort”do have the welcome effect of focusing attention on the dreadful state of human rights in China and the regime’s support for tyranny abroad. American policymakers must use the occasion to call China out on its myriad domestic abuses and irresponsibility abroad and fully enforce related sanctions already on the books.
To do any less than this would be a betrayal of the bargain America made with its own conscience, and would be a lost opportunity of 1936 proportions. [Full Text]
John J. Tkacik, Jr., is Senior Research Fellow in China, Taiwan, and Mongolia Policy in the Asian Studies Center at The Heritage Foundation.
