Peng Shuai Only the Latest Reason to Move Olympics, Hold China Accountable
by Pete Hoekstra • November 23, 2021 at 5:00 am
[T]he world should long ago have confronted the evil system that the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has built and continues to develop. China has... built artificial islands in the South China Sea and militarized them after promising not to. China has also threatened Japan, Australia, the Philippines and the US; it recently has attacked India, illegally seized Hong Kong, enslaved Uyghurs and, by repeatedly lying about the human-to-human transmissibility of its Wuhan COVID-19 virus, caused the death worldwide of more than five million people, not to mention economic devastation.
The Communist Chinese have "disappeared" many high-profile Chinese, including the physician Dr. Ai Fen, the movie star Zhao Wei, and now, possibly the Chinese tennis star Peng Shuai... What about all of those acts of aggression should not force the world finally to confront China?
To the public, it seems as if their leaders are more willing to threaten their own citizens than they are to confront the Chinese Communists.
The CCP should have been called out years ago. Hopefully moving the Olympics to a safer and more deserving country, or seriously boycotting them, would be only the first of many actions designed to hold China accountable. We should also hold our own leaders accountable for their actions, or as is too often the case, inaction.
"It is now time," Gordon Chang recently wrote, "for the world to face the reality of the Communist Party of China and the horrific system it has constructed."
Now? Both Chang and I are in strong agreement that the world should long ago have confronted the evil system that the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has built and continues to develop. China has ignored its trade agreements with the WTO, failed to disclose crucial information about its businesses on stock exchanges as other businesses do, has built artificial islands in the South China Sea and militarized them after promising not to. China has also threatened Japan, Australia, the Philippines and the US; it recently has attacked India, illegally seized Hong Kong, enslaved Uyghurs and, by repeatedly lying about the human-to-human transmissibility of its Wuhan COVID-19 virus, caused the deaths worldwide of more than five million people, not to mention economic devastation.
