WHERE'S THE GIPPER WHEN WE NEED HIM?:

World raps China over crackdown (Gulf Daily News, 3/16/08)

Taiwan led sweeping world condemnation yesterday of China's brutal crackdown on protesters in Tibet and accused Beijing of trying to gloss over its rights record with Olympic sheen.

The arm-flexing has caused newspapers around the world to start talking about a possible boycott of the upcoming Olympic Games in Beijing.

Australia, the US and Europe urged the Chinese authorities to find a peaceful outcome, while Taiwan, which China claims as its own, condemned Beijing for launching a crackdown.

Ronald Reagan not only supported the 19809 boycott of the Moscow Olympics but used the threat of boycott or withdrawal of the '88 Games entirely as a weapon to get South Korea to democratize, which it did. The PRC handed us the sword, let's use it.

Posted by Orrin Judd at March 15, 2008 6:07 PM