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China Boycotts Opening Ceremony at Which Ma Appears as Prez

July 17, 2009
The View from Taiwan
Luckily for the world, China does not play politics with sports. Otherwise the Chinese delegation might have boycotted the World Games Opening Ceremony in Kaohsiung today....

...oh wait. They did boycott the opening ceremony....

Boycotts during international sporting events are an old Chinese habit -- see the 1956 Olympics (boycotted because Taiwan competed under the name "Formosa") and the 1976 Olympics (boycotted in confused temper tantrum). Today's boycott was interesting because its... RSS Share it

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