The U.S. should stage a boycott of the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing to call out China for exerting control over Taiwan, according to former Ambassador to the U.N. Nikki Haley.
“The last Olympics that they had [in 2008] was their coming out. That’s how they saw it. They were introducing themselves to the world,” Haley, who served under then-President Donald Trump, told House GOP members behind closed doors Wednesday, The Hill reported.
“This next Olympics, if it goes unscathed, this is their way of showing that they are now the superpower of the world.”
Haley’s remarks to the Republican Study Committee emphasized the U.S. cannot allow China to exert control over Taiwan, or else “it’s all over.”
“And if we don’t boycott, if we don’t do something to really call them out, mark my words: Taiwan is next,” Haley said, The Hill reported. “And if they take Taiwan, it’s all over, because they will think that gives them free rein to grab any territory, not in the region, but anywhere they want to go.”
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An Olympic boycott wouldn’t even be a pinprick to China. The enormous amount of trade we do with China and the trillion dollars they own in U.S. debt means we can do massive economic damage to each other, but if you think an Olympic boycott would be a factor in a Chinese decision to take Taiwan by force, think again.
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