That's my point. We can tell the chinese we don't like their human rights record, that's one thing.

When you turn your back on them in the international Olympic Games, you make China lose a LOT of face. They're not gonna be embarrassed and fall in line. They're gonna get PISSED and do something to fuck us up, to warn us not to trifle with them.

Of course, then neither we nor they will back down - where would it end? Are you willing to be conscripted into a ground war in Central Asia to let the Chinese know that you really disapprove of how they treat political prisoners? Because that could be the result of spitting in the face of the Chinese government.

If you want to fight a war with China, better bring back the draft now and draft everyone between 18 and 42 so we can only be outnumbered 10-1 instead of 100-1 on the battlefield.