Republican Senator Mitt Romney called for an “economic and diplomatic boycott” of the Beijing Olympics on Monday, citing China’s “repression and brutality.”
“As the Beijing Olympic Games approach, it is increasingly clear that China, under the control of the Chinese Communist Party, does not deserve an Olympic showcase,” Romney wrote in a New York Times op-ed, “The Right Way to Boycott the Beijing Olympics.”
According to Romney, it is too late to relocate the Winter Games, set for February 2022 in Beijing. Current and former politicians have urged the U.S. to boycott the event.
“China deserves our condemnation,” Romney continued. He noted that the Chinese Communist Party has pushed back on its agreement to allow Hong Kong self-rule, suppressed peaceful demonstrations, incarcerated journalists and called for genocide against Uighurs and other ethnic minority groups.
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He is right.