The Beijing Winter Olympics will be held on February 4, 2022, and a series of related activities are currently in full swing. On October 18, the Beijing Winter Olympics fire was successfully collected in Greece, and Russia, South Korea, Portugal, Poland and other countries said that they were actively promoting the Beijing Winter Olympics, and their athletes were also actively preparing for the competition.
But that's it, and some people are doing the opposite, like U.S. Congressmen Rubio and Smith. The two men have repeatedly smeared China in recent years, and recently called for a ban on China from the Winter Olympics, which is simply shameless.
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On October 21, U.S. Senators Rubio and Rep. Smith sent a letter to the International Olympic Committee requesting an extension of the Winter Olympics scheduled for February 2022 in Beijing, calling for a ban on Chinese teams on the grounds of "damaging" the Olympic reputation. It also said that if China's behavior does not change, it should relocate the event to another country. The reason they gave was that the Olympics should not be held in countries where "genocide" was being committed, and two consecutive U.S. administrations have determined that "China's actions against uighurs in Xinjiang constitute genocide."
There is really no one to say this!
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The two men said the IOC knew what to do, and they had done similar things in the past. For example, the Russian team was banned for 4 years in 2019 for using banned drugs, the Indian team was banned in 2012 for corruption, and before that, the Afghan team was also banned in 2000, partly because the Taliban, who was in power at the time, discriminated against women.
In fact, this is not the first time that the two have taken the lead in disrupting the Beijing Winter Olympics.
In July, Rubio and Smith sent a letter to the IOC about joining other lawmakers, but the IOC replied that "if the IOC takes the same position, it threatens to jeopardize their commitment to remain neutral on global political issues." U.S. Olympic and Paralympic President Suzanne said the U.S. Olympic Committee strongly opposed the discriminatory statements made by some members of Congress. "We do not support boycotts of the Olympics, which are ineffective and will only unfairly punish athletes who train all their lives to have the opportunity to represent their country." This answer obviously did not satisfy the two men, so they got into trouble again.
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Rubio and Smith are two people who should be familiar to the Chinese people. In July 2020, because they frequently hyped up anti-China issues and slandered and attacked China's Xinjiang-related and Hong Kong-related policies, China decided to impose sanctions on four us, of which Rubio and Smith were on the list.
Smith, 68, first supported the Democratic Party and later switched to the Republican Party.
Smith is a senior member of the U.S. Foreign Affairs Committee. In October 2000, the US Congress established the US "Congressional-Executive Branch China Committee" (CECC), which subsequently became the most important grasp of the US official "human rights supervision" of China, and the activities of the committee were funded by the US Congress, so in the report submitted to Congress, it was the collection of groundless accusations against all aspects of Chinese society. To put it bluntly, if we do more "anti-China reports," we will be able to allocate funds from congress on more points. In 2007, Smith joined the CECC Committee as a member and in 2011 became chairman of the committee. In September 2012, Foreign Policy magazine selected 50 individuals from each of the two parties who had a significant influence on U.S. foreign policy to introduce, including Chris Smith. After becoming a member of the House of Representatives, he can be described as an anti-China veteran who is anti-China in everything and takes for granted. He has drafted numerous bills, amendments and legislation to discredit China, including the so-called Hong Kong Human Rights and Democracy Act and the Uyghur Human Rights Policy Act, which were passed in the House of Representatives in 2019. He has presided over more than 60 congressional hearings on Xinjiang-related and Hong Kong-related issues, and has frequently published articles in the media attacking China's religious policy.
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Rubio is even more of an "anti-China vanguard", and he can be seen on all kinds of anti-China issues concocted by the US government, including but not limited to Hong Kong-related, Xinjiang-related, epidemic and other issues. He was the first in the United States to play up the threat of "Confucius Institutes" and was one of the leading figures in the US Congress in supporting "Taiwan independence." From the Taiwan Strait issue to the "amendment" storm in Hong Kong, from opposing US enterprises to investing in China, to clamoring for Chinese compensation and banning Chinese high-tech companies, he has participated.
Born in 1972, Rubio is a representative of the younger generation of republicans who has risen in recent years and is currently on the rise in U.S. politics.
Rubio and Smith constantly smear China, create negative energy for China, and bring negative effects to China, and China must absolutely pay attention to the behavior of these two people.
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Regarding the boycott of the "Beijing Winter Olympics," others in the United States have also made small moves. In April 2021, Senator Scott, Republican of Florida, proposed the idea of "letting China hand over the hosting rights to the United States to host the 2022 Winter Olympics"; Biden's team has repeatedly raised the idea of boycott during initial talks about the Beijing Winter Olympics, saying it is part of a broader discussion about how to deal with China.
However, on April 6, 2021, the U.S. State Department clarified that the United States has not and will not discuss any boycott of the Beijing Winter Olympics with allies.
The last time the United States boycotted the Olympics occurred during the Cold War. In 1980, then-U.S. President Jimmy Carter refused to send athletes to the Moscow Olympics. If the United States really boycotts the Beijing Winter Olympics, it will mean that the United States issued a "Cold War statement" with unimaginable consequences.
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On October 18, the day when the spark of the Beijing Winter Olympic Games was successfully collected in Greece, Greek President Katrina Sacraloplu, IOC President Thomas Bach, IOC President Spiras Kapralos and Yu Zaiqing, special representative of the Beijing Winter Olympic Organizing Committee, attended the gathering ceremony on the same day.
In his speech at the scene, Bach said: "Beijing will write history and become the first city ever to host both the Summer Olympic Games and the Winter Olympic Games. The 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics will connect Chinese people with the world, realize the vision of 300 million people participating in ice and snow sports, and change the history of winter sports forever. As China welcomes its best winter athletes, the world will see China's passion. ”
On October 19, the Beijing Winter Olympic Games countdown to 100 days series of publicity activities was officially launched, which will officially kick off more than 100 schools across nearly 30 provinces, autonomous regions and cities across the country, and "online + offline" coverage of nearly 10,000 people. The Zhangjiakou division is also preparing for the "Meet in Beijing" Winter Olympics test match in November.
In response to some people's desire to boycott the Beijing Winter Olympics, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Wang Wenbin made it clear as early as February this year that "it is very irresponsible to try to interfere, obstruct and sabotage the preparation and holding of the Beijing Olympic Games for political motives." It is believed that such a move will not be supported by the international community and will not succeed." (Inoue Frog)