{"id":230119,"date":"2021-04-19T04:28:02","date_gmt":"2021-04-19T01:28:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/athletes-have-good-reason-to-beware-xi-jinpings-winter-olympics\/"},"modified":"2021-04-19T04:28:02","modified_gmt":"2021-04-19T01:28:02","slug":"athletes-have-good-reason-to-beware-xi-jinpings-winter-olympics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/athletes-have-good-reason-to-beware-xi-jinpings-winter-olympics\/","title":{"rendered":"#Athletes have good reason to beware Xi Jinping’s Winter Olympics"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#Athletes have good reason to beware Xi Jinping’s Winter Olympics<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

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There are growing calls to boycott the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing or to \u00adrelocate the event to a different nation. It isn\u2019t hard to see why, given China\u2019s aggression in the Indo-Pacific region, horrific human-rights abuses and crushing of rule of law in Hong Kong \u2014 not to mention the Beijing \u00adregime\u2019s duplicitous handling of the pandemic.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Yet opponents often shoot back, \u201cYes, but what about the athletes? Isn\u2019t a boycott unfair to them?\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

This is nonsense. If Olympics boss Thomas Bach cared about the athletes, he wouldn\u2019t make them go to Beijing next year. Even beyond the concern, shared by many athletes, of lending their good names to a brutal regime seeking to burnish its bloodied reputation, there are practical reasons why competing in China is a bad idea.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Simply put, the Chinese Communist Party subscribes to a doctrine called \u201cunrestricted warfare\u201d that justifies accomplishing goals by any means, legal or illegal, moral or immoral; athletics is one more battlefield.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The party is determined to win as many medals as possible \u2014 ideally, all of them. To the Chinese, racking up medals is one more way to prove the superiority of their system. And justifying the system calls for a range of \u201cwin-at-all-costs\u201d behavior, including subjecting child athletes to physical and psychological abuse.\u00a0<\/p>\n

For the Communist Party, the event is also a sort of high-end trade show, where each country unveils its best competitors and its cutting-edge gear in an \u00adenvironment controlled by Beijing. Given the party\u2019s goal of \u201cwinning\u201d in all sectors and \u00addimensions, athletes must expect a number of unpleasant factors. These include:\u00a0<\/p>\n

1) Intellectual-property theft. Highly sophisticated technologies pervade sports these days. Costly research in physics, aerodynamics, composites and the like goes into the manufacture of the skis, luges, snowboards and skates. That research has value beyond athletics: Lightweight winter clothing, for example, is as useful for cold-weather warfare as it is for cross-country skiing. It is with such an \u201cunrestricted\u201d eye that Chinese officials will view the tech set to arrive next year.\u00a0<\/p>\n

As it is, moreover, the party hacks just about every visitor on its soil. Athletes should expect hacking of phones, tablets and computers \u2014 anything of potential info-war value. Olympic-level training is often computerized, and those programs might be useful to the People\u2019s Liberation Army for training soldiers to \u00adoperate efficiently under extreme conditions.\u00a0<\/p>\n

It wouldn\u2019t be surprising if Beijing requires participants to download<\/a> an official Olympics app that surreptitiously provides it with access and tracking.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Chinese President Xi Jinping at the Chinese People\u2019s Political Consultative Conference in Beijing on March 10, 2021.<\/figcaption>
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2) Genetic theft. The Olympics will bring some of the world\u2019s most genetically blessed people to China. For the Communist Party, their very bodies are another valuable data source. A February 2021 report by the US National Counterintelligence and Security Center noted: \u201cThe PRC views bulk personal data, including health-care and genomic data, as a strategic commodity to be collected and used for its economic and national-security priorities.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

In December 2020, then-Director of National Intelligence John Ratcliffe wrote: \u201cChina has even conducted human testing on members of the People\u2019s Liberation Army in hope of developing soldiers with biologically \u00adenhanced capabilities. There are no ethical boundaries to Beijing\u2019s pursuit of power.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

Would the party try to collect genetic samples from the Olympians, under the guise of COVID-19 precautions or drug testing? What do you think?\u00a0<\/p>\n

3) Future leverage. Olympians are a competitive lot, and some go on to great things in other industries. When they get there, they might suddenly find out that Beijing knows a lot more about them than they expected, given that they may have been hacked and tracked from at least 2022.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Bottom line: While the world\u2019s greatest athletes are in China, they can and should expect the party to steal anything it can. That stolen data will be used in any way that can benefit the Beijing regime in sports, in business \u2014 or on the battlefield.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Olympians have been preparing for this moment for years, even decades. If we care about them, we should find a venue for them to compete where the hosts aren\u2019t just waiting for a chance to rob them \u2014 and to dominate their nations.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Cleo Paskal is a nonresident senior fellow for the Indo-Pacific at the Foundation for Defense of \u00adDemocracies in Washington.\u00a0<\/em>\n <\/div>\n

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