{"id":4183,"date":"2021-12-31T08:43:19","date_gmt":"2021-12-31T13:43:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/communist-party.ca\/?p=4183"},"modified":"2021-12-31T08:55:33","modified_gmt":"2021-12-31T13:55:33","slug":"imperialist-hypocrisy-on-display-the-diplomatic-boycott-of-beijing-olympics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/communist-party.ca\/fr\/imperialist-hypocrisy-on-display-the-diplomatic-boycott-of-beijing-olympics\/","title":{"rendered":"Imperialist hypocrisy on display: The \u201cdiplomatic boycott\u201d of Beijing Olympics"},"content":{"rendered":"
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With only a few weeks before the Feb. 5 opening ceremony of the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympic  Games, the attempt by the US and its clique of faithful allies to mount a so-called \u201cdiplomatic  boycott\u201d has faltered. The Communist Party of Canada condemns this shameful exercise in  hypocrisy, which is backed by the federal government and the parties in Parliament. This is the  latest indication that support for Washington\u2019s global strategy has become the virtually  unquestioned basis of Canada\u2019s foreign policy. <\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

On the surface, this \u201cboycott\u201d by the \u201cFive Eyes\u201d imperialist countries (US, Canada, UK,\u00a0 Australia, New Zealand) and a few others appeared puzzling from the beginning, since previous\u00a0Olympic boycotts focused on the Games themselves, not on the irrelevant presence of politicians\u00a0from various IOC member countries. The real purpose of the \u201cdiplomatic boycott\u201d was to\u00a0 amplify the \u201cnew Cold War\u201d campaign on all fronts against the People\u2019s Republic of China, which poses an obstacle against US imperialism\u2019s drive to preserve its global hegemony. This\u00a0wide-ranging campaign includes a massive build-up of military forces in the eastern Pacific,\u00a0sanctions and legal barriers to hamper China-based business interests, and not least, a torrent of\u00a0 falsehoods about the domestic situation in China itself, aimed at grooming public opinion to\u00a0 accept preparations for a US-led military action against China.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The potential risks of this dangerous imperialist strategy are enormous. Any clash between US\u00a0 and Chinese forces would immediately raise the possibility of a wider conflict, and whether by\u00a0 design or accident, even create the terrifying conditions for global thermonuclear war. The increase in wasteful arms spending linked to this anti-China militarist campaign diverts the funds\u00a0needed for social programs, housing, renewable energy and other urgent priorities demanded by\u00a0the labour and democratic movements.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Communist Party also points out that the public relations side of this effort relies heavily on\u00a0themes which have long been employed to whip up Sinophobia \u2013 especially the shameful racist tropes about a non-existent \u201cChinese threat\u201d. These ugly lies first emerged precisely from the\u00a0\u201cFive Eyes\u201d countries, where the colonizing powers used a range of genocidal tactics against the\u00a0original peoples. Every democratically-minded person should recall that the three Winter and\u00a0Summer Olympic Games held in Canada all took place on stolen Indigenous lands, and that Indigenous land defenders and their allies today face arrests and imprisonment for opposing\u00a0resource extraction projects on these lands. The ruling class which attacks China today is\u00a0 engaged in a hypocritical campaign to silence and criminalize movements which struggle to oppose the crimes of the Israeli apartheid regime against the Palestinian people, and to stifle the\u00a0voices of dissent at home, including those who present alternative information about the realities\u00a0 of modern China.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For all these reasons, this racist anti-China \u201cnew cold war\u201d campaign must be exposed as a\u00a0cover for US imperialism\u2019s desperate efforts to shore up its sagging global domination. In the\u00a0 interests of world peace and multilateral cooperation to meet the challenges facing the peoples of\u00a0 our planet, we call on all progressive people and movements to condemn the so-called\u00a0 \u201cdiplomatic boycott\u201d of the Beijing Olympic Winter Games.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Central Executive Committee, Communist Party of Canada<\/em><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

With only a few weeks before the Feb. 5 opening ceremony of the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympic  Games, the attempt by the US and its clique of faithful allies to mount a so-called \u201cdiplomatic  boycott\u201d has faltered. The Communist Party of Canada condemns this shameful exercise in  hypocrisy, which is backed by the federal government…<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"give_campaign_id":0,"_kadence_starter_templates_imported_post":false,"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4183","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-statements"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/communist-party.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4183","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/communist-party.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/communist-party.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communist-party.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communist-party.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4183"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/communist-party.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4183\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4187,"href":"https:\/\/communist-party.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4183\/revisions\/4187"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/communist-party.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communist-party.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communist-party.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}