No Democracy Should Participate in the 2022 Beijing Olympics – The Wall Street Journal

In advance of the 2022 Olympics this February, the Chinese Communist Party is on a campaign to whitewash its image. Plastering over the ever-growing list of human-rights abusesincluding the takeover of Hong Kong, the internment of Muslims in Xinjiang, the disappearance of tennis star Peng Shuai, the Covid coverup and threats to democratic Taiwanthe party wields denial, obfuscation and cash. The latest campaign pushes the absurd claim that China enjoys democratic government at home while deriding as undemocratic the worlds real democracies.

The Communist Party shows no inhibition about spreading falsehoods in this new misinformation effort. Published last September, a government white paper broadly publicized in China claimed that the Chinese people experience a broad, thorough and true democracy. In October, Xi Jinping said Chinas National Peoples Congress guarantees that the people are masters. In other instances, Mr. Xi has claimed, that when the people call out, I listen, and dismissed American democracy, saying people go into hibernation after elections and otherwise have no way to exercise their rights to speak.

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No Democracy Should Participate in the 2022 Beijing Olympics - The Wall Street Journal