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Even with the vaguest of Olympic boycott threats, French President Nicolas Sarkozy remains a lone voice in the world but with five months still to go until the Games, Chinese public relations face a potential nightmare.
Sarkozy, who needs rather more than a trip to Angleterre to revive a plunging popularity, evidently has his own domestic reasons for raising the Tibet issue immediately after an opinion poll showing 53 percent of the French public to favour an Olympic boycott but the issue is also worth raising in its own right, irrespective of his motives.
There are both abstract and concrete reasons why the repression in Tibet has yet to result in any clear call for an Olympic boycott (even Sarkozy does no more than hint at shunning the ceremony rather than the games themselves). There are plenty of sports-lovers who ask why the Games should have to be sacrificed and whether there are not more effective and less symbolic ways of protesting against the Chinese treatment of Tibet. But the most effective boycott would be a trade embargo and nobody wants to sacrifice commerce with the emerging superpower (even France has massive interests with Airbus, Alstom, etc.).
China’s sporting status has grown by leaps and bounds in recent years, nailing down not only the 2008 Olympics but also the venue of the year-ending Masters tennis tournament. Yet Beijing faces an uphill battle in the next few months as it will finally have a taste of the globalized protest movement. If they are already having a torrid time over Tibet, imagine what will happen when the various environmental activists wake up to the fact that China is overtaking the United States even faster as the planet’s leading polluter than as the leading economy.
European Commission chief José Manuel Durâo Barroso has called on the European Union to defend human rights in Tibet without boycotting the Olympics but France is due to take over the EU presidency in midyear in the final runup to the Games — it remains to be seen how far Sarkozy’s thinking has evolved by then.
Will sports be seen as the hostage of politicians or as the sacrifice demanded by human rights?
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