Liberal MP Dave Sharma has warned against a boycott of the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics Games, saying it would harden nationalist views in China and thwart attempts to moderate the Chinese Communist Party's actions in the region | ErykBagshaw
Liberal MP Dave Sharma has warned against a boycott of the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics Games, saying it would harden nationalist views in China and thwart attempts to moderate the Chinese Communist Party's actions in the region.
urging the International Olympic Committee to reconsider Beijing as the host of the Winter Games was a "bad idea".Sharma said a boycott could descend into a "cold-war mentality" which would make negotiations difficult, increase animosity with the west and encourage the Chinese Communist Party to reject the opinions of foreign actors.
Former Socceroos captain Craig Foster said while sport was not responsible for the breaches of human rights it was directly responsible if it allowed its "mega events to be used to whitewash broad scale abuse occurring under the shadow of the stadia". "It is near impossible to see how China can stage a mega-sporting event in accordance with these basic human rights since many are antithetical to governmental principles themselves," he said.
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