Commentary The Beijing Winter Olympics are heading toward the lowest TV viewership in the history of the games. Right now, it’s about half the audience that watched the 2018 Winter Olympics in South Korea. Why so low? Organizers and TV executives say it’s because the United States and other nations have declined to send official representatives to China. Their soft or semi- boycott is in protest of the Chinese Communist Party’s human rights abuses, including those targeting the Uyghur minority. As I explain in the latest episode of “Over the Target,” Western officials don’t really care that much about the Uyghurs or any of the other populations that the CCP has designated as enemies of the party—like the Tibetans, Hong Kong’s pro-democracy dissidents, or the Falun Gong movement. The West won’t even protect its own people from the CCP’s depredations. It was only two years ago that COVID-19 swept out …
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