Commentary Ongoing Uyghur genocide in China’s Xinjiang region should have been a sufficient reason for the United States and other nations to boycott the 2022 Winter Games. The XXIV Olympic Winter Games, to be held from Feb. 4 to Feb. 20 in Beijing, is a big deal for the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). While the 2008 Games of the XXIX Olympiad (the 2008 Summer Olympics in China) comprised a “coming out” party on the world stage for Beijing, the upcoming Winter Games are intended to showcase China’s leadership on the world stage—and eclipse the United States in that regard. CCP agitprop via state-run media has been conducting a comprehensive political and psychological warfare campaign in the run-up to the Games to help achieve that objective. The themes conveyed are interwoven (and filled with the usual lies): Xi Jinping will get a third term as Chinese leader because of his “historical …
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