hsrob on 16 May 2008
What the other guys said. If you want to teach the government a lesson, economic pressure is the way to go, boycotting the Games is pointless. Then the government would merely use that as a means of increasing anti-west sentiment among the populous and creating an us and them mentality. You just had to be here for the torch relay protests to see how the government would spin a games boycott. People here were genuinely angry about the protests because many had a really poor understanding of why people were protesting in the first place and thought everyone was just out to ruin the games for China.
