{"id":1096473,"date":"2021-12-07T21:59:00","date_gmt":"2021-12-08T02:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1096473"},"modified":"2021-12-07T21:59:06","modified_gmt":"2021-12-08T02:59:06","slug":"martel-jair-bolsonaro-once-latin-americas-biggest-anti-china-hope-silent-on-genocide-olympics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/martel-jair-bolsonaro-once-latin-americas-biggest-anti-china-hope-silent-on-genocide-olympics\/","title":{"rendered":"Martel: Jair Bolsonaro, Once Latin America&#039;s Biggest Anti-China Hope, Silent on Genocide Olympics"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fmartel-jair-bolsonaro-once-latin-americas-biggest-anti-china-hope-silent-on-genocide-olympics%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1096473&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p class=\"subheading\">A year into a global human rights campaign urging world leaders to boycott the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics in protest of genocide and other atrocities under the Chinese government, Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro has evaded the topic entirely.<\/p>\n<p>Bolsonaro\u2019s silence is partly due to nobody asking \u2013 no other foreign government and, apparently, no reporters or NGOs are demanding he take a stand on Chinese human rights abuses. But it is nonetheless striking for many reasons. For one, Brazil has also received the honor of hosting the Olympics, the 2016 Summer Games in Rio de Janeiro, making it an active participant in Olympic history. Brazil is the largest nation in Latin America, granting it outsized influence on politics in the region.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>Most important, however, is the fact that Bolsonaro campaigned for the presidency as a staunch anti-communist, vowing to Brazilians that he would become the world leader in advocating against communism and socialism. He has also assumed a leadership role in the fight against Christian persecution, urging the United Nations at its General Assembly summit to act to combat \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/latin-america\/2020\/09\/22\/bolsonaro-urges-u-n-to-fight-christophobia-brazil-is-a-christian-country\/\">Christophobia<\/a>.\u201d China is one of the world\u2019s most prolific persecutors of Christians \u2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2015\/08\/28\/world\/asia\/lawyer-who-represented-churches-in-china-is-missing.html\">disappearing<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/bitterwinter.org\/christians-tortured-for-hosting-sunday-school\/\">torturing<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/national-security\/2016\/04\/27\/anti-christian-crackdown-communist-china-demolishes-yet-another-church\/\">bulldozing<\/a> alive believers.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe must move away from Venezuela, put a foot in the ass of socialism, communism,\u201d Bolsonaro <a href=\"https:\/\/oglobo.globo.com\/mundo\/bolsonaro-encontra-apoiadores-posa-para-fotos-na-porta-de-hotel-em-nova-york-1-25207142\">said<\/a> as a presidential candidate. \u201cWe cannot admit this ideology in our Brazil.\u201d<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_10177677\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" readability=\"35\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/china-boy-praying-christian-catholic-2012-getty.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-10177677\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/china-boy-praying-christian-catholic-2012-getty.jpg\" alt=\"This picture taken on December 24, 2012 shows young Chinese congregation members praying during the Christmas Eve mass at a Catholic church in Beijing. While China does not officially celebrate Christmas, its popularity continues to grow with non-Christians keen to see and feel the experience of Christmas. AFP PHOTO \/ WANG ZHAO (Photo credit should read WANG ZHAO\/AFP\/Getty Images)\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>This picture taken on December 24, 2012 shows young Chinese congregation members praying during the Christmas Eve mass at a Catholic church in Beijing. (Photo credit should read WANG ZHAO\/AFP\/Getty Images)<\/em><\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>Upon being elected, Bolsonaro <a href=\"https:\/\/theintercept.com\/2018\/10\/28\/jair-bolsonaro-elected-president-brazil\/\">promised<\/a> the Brazilian people the country could no longer \u201ccontinue to flirt with socialism, communism, populism, and the extremism of the left.\u201d He described helping neighboring Venezuela and Cuba escape their (China-<a href=\"https:\/\/thediplomat.com\/2021\/08\/how-china-helps-the-cuban-regime-stay-afloat-and-shut-down-protests\/\">funded<\/a>) communist regimes as an \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/latin-america\/2018\/12\/10\/bolsonaro-brazil-obligation-help-latin-america-fight-communism\/\">obligation<\/a>.\u201d Shortly after assuming the presidency, during his first General Assembly address, he <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/latin-america\/2019\/09\/24\/brazils-bolsonaro-accuses-u-n-of-aiding-slave-labor-at-general-assembly\/\">affirmed<\/a> that communism leaves \u201ca path of death, ignorance, and stark poverty wherever it goes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Bolsonaro also campaigned specifically against the Chinese Communist Party.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cChina isn\u2019t buying in Brazil. It\u2019s buying Brazil,\u201d he <a href=\"https:\/\/thediplomat.com\/2018\/11\/what-president-bolsonaro-means-for-china-brazil-relations\/\">warned<\/a> in 2018, suggesting he would not privatize parts of Brazil\u2019s state-run electrical firm, Electrobras, for fear that Chinese government-controlled companies would buy it.<\/p>\n<p>A Breitbart News search of coverage of Bolsonaro\u2019s remarks in the past year regarding China, human rights, the Olympics, or any related issue yielded no comments on whether Brazil would participate in the Beijing Games or not. Brazil does not appear on lists of countries that have publicly stated they are <a href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/dereksaul\/2021\/11\/24\/heres-the-growing-list-of-countries-weighing-a-diplomatic-boycott-of-the-beijing-olympics\/?sh=7b8fe5036ad9\">considering<\/a>&nbsp;even a diplomatic \u201cboycott\u201d \u2013 a non-boycott in which a country\u2019s politicians, who do not participate in the Olympics, don\u2019t go to the event. The diplomatic \u201cboycott\u201d is set to become a popular cop-out for the free world after the White House confirmed on Monday that American athletes would play in what human rights activists had dubbed the \u201cGenocide Olympics.\u201d But no evidence suggests that Bolsonaro is even considering that.<\/p>\n<p>Bolsonaro has been notably silent on the genocide of the Uyghur people in East Turkistan at the hands of the Chinese Communist Party and on widespread persecution of Christians in the country as well as other religious minorities. Also missing from Brasilia\u2019s priorities list is the potential safety of Brazilian athletes at the Olympics given the recent disappearance of Peng Shuai, a Chinese Wimbledon doubles champion who vanished after accusing the former head of the Chinese Olympic Committee, Zhang Gaoli, of raping her.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B3\" class=\"a8d adSo\"><\/figure>\n<div id=\"attachment_18596458\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" readability=\"36\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/GettyImages-171482883.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-18596458\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/GettyImages-171482883.png\" alt=\"Shuai Peng of China reacts during her Ladies&#039; Singles first round match against Anabel Medina Garrigues of Spain on day two of the Wimbledon Lawn Tennis Championships at the All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club on June 25, 2013 in London, England. (Photo by Julian Finney\/Getty Images)\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>Shuai Peng of China reacts during her Ladies\u2019 Singles first round match against Anabel Medina Garrigues of Spain on day two of the Wimbledon Lawn Tennis Championships at the All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club on June 25, 2013 in London, England. (Photo by Julian Finney\/Getty Images)<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Bolsonaro often engages the public with extended chats on Facebook or other social media outlets, so it is possible he mentioned China\u2019s human rights abuses or a potential Olympics boycott in such appearances. If he did, it received no media coverage and Bolsonaro did not press the issue.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>The Brazilian president held an event for Olympic athletes in October, presumably a prime opportunity to mention concerns about the upcoming Beijing Games. The event, to honor medal winners who <a href=\"https:\/\/www.uol.com.br\/esporte\/colunas\/olhar-olimpico\/2021\/10\/06\/bolsonaro-encontra-atletas.htm\">participated<\/a> in the belated \u201c2020\u201d Tokyo Summer Olympics, featured 60 athletes. Bolsonaro thanked them for their accomplishments, but reports do not indicate he addressed the upcoming Olympic Games or ongoing concerns with human rights atrocities in China. While the Peng situation had not yet occurred, Brazil is a majority Christian country \u2013 as Bolsonaro often likes to tout \u2013 making most of its athletes potential targets for persecution.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_19043130\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" readability=\"37\"><a href=\"https:\/\/media.breitbart.com\/media\/2021\/12\/GettyImages-1235736625.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-19043130 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/GettyImages-1235736625-1024x682-1.jpg\" alt=\"Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro (C back row) attends a ceremony for the Olympic and Paralympic athletes who participated in the Tokio 2020 Olympic Games, at Planalto Palace in Brasilia, on October 6, 2021. (Photo by EVARISTO SA \/ AFP) (Photo by EVARISTO SA\/AFP via Getty Images)\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro (C back row) attends a ceremony for the Olympic and Paralympic athletes who participated in the Tokio 2020 Olympic Games, at Planalto Palace in Brasilia, on October 6, 2021. (Photo by EVARISTO SA\/AFP via Getty Images)<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Brazil does typically make a much bigger showing in the Summer Olympics than its winter counterpart due to the country\u2019s tropical climate making practicing winter sports more difficult and less popular. Brazil is a heavy-hitter in Olympic medals, ranking <a href=\"https:\/\/www.olimpiadatododia.com.br\/cob\/402710-2021-o-ano-de-ouro-do-esporte-olimpico-brasileiro\/\">12th<\/a> among all participants in Tokyo. As of last week, Brazil is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gfesporte.com.br\/noticias\/outros-esportes\/a-menos-de-100-dias-de-pequim-2022-veja-as-chances-de-classificacao-do-brasil-para-a-olimpiada-de-inverno\/8564\/\">scheduled<\/a> to play in the Winter Olympics for the ninth time with its largest-ever delegation to the event.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B4\" class=\"a8d adSo\"><\/figure>\n<p>By the time the Olympics get here in February, all evidence suggests the Bolsonaro of 2018 is long gone. The president made no significant comments about the Chinese Communist Party during the early days of his presidency, but completely abandoned any potential resistance during a trip to Beijing in late 2019.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m in a capitalist country,\u201d Bolsonaro bizarrely, and <a href=\"https:\/\/g1.globo.com\/politica\/noticia\/2019\/10\/24\/estou-num-pais-capitalista-diz-bolsonaro-ao-chegar-a-china.ghtml\">falsely<\/a>, declared upon arriving in Beijing. The president signed eight trade agreements with the architect of the Uyghur genocide, Xi Jinping, without in any way challenging Chinese Communist Party dogma during his trip.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBrazil is a sea of opportunity for China,\u201d Bolsonaro instead <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/asia\/2019\/10\/25\/brazil-needs-china-bolsonaro-embraces-communist-money-on-beijing-trip\/\">asserted<\/a>. \u201cBrazil needs China, and China needs Brazil.\u201d<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_19043146\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" readability=\"36\"><a href=\"https:\/\/media.breitbart.com\/media\/2021\/12\/GettyImages-1182156484.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-19043146 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/GettyImages-1182156484-1024x683-1.jpg\" alt=\"China&#039;s President Xi Jinping (L) and Brazil&#039;s President Jair Bolsonaro (R) wave before a bilateral meeting ahead of the 11th edition of the BRICS Summit, on November 13, 2019. - Brazil&#039;s President Jair Bolsonaro walked a diplomatic tightrope, as he seeks to boost ties with Beijing and avoid upsetting key ally Donald Trump, on the eve of a summit with their BRICS counterparts from Russia, India and South Africa. (Photo by Sergio LIMA \/ AFP) (Photo by SERGIO LIMA\/AFP via Getty Images)\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>China\u2019s President Xi Jinping (L) and Brazil\u2019s President Jair Bolsonaro (R) wave before a bilateral meeting ahead of the 11th edition of the BRICS Summit, on November 13, 2019. (Photo by SERGIO LIMA\/AFP via Getty Images)<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Rather than keeping to formalities, Bolsonaro insisted on friendly exchanges with Xi, the world\u2019s foremost human rights criminal, gifting him a soccer jersey from his favorite Brazilian club. In contrast, last year, Bolsonaro <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/latin-america\/2020\/11\/11\/bolsonaro-hints-at-war-with-u-s-brazil-under-biden-we-have-the-gunpowder\/\">threatened<\/a> to declare war on the United States over President Joe Biden\u2019s environmentalism.<\/p>\n<p>The current president and his administration spent much of 2021 attempting to get on China\u2019s good side, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-health-coronavirus-brazil-china\/bolsonaro-thanks-china-for-fast-tracking-covid-19-vaccine-supplies-idUSKBN29U2BH\">profusely<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/olimpiadas.uol.com.br\/videos\/?id=jair-bolsonaro-elogia-parceria-com-a-china-0402CD9B3370D8C96326\">thanking<\/a> China for donations of its low-quality Chinese coronavirus vaccines, and expressing hope that China would strengthen what is already a stranglehold on the Brazilian economy. Bolsonaro couldn\u2019t help himself \u2013 he <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/latin-america\/2021\/05\/07\/brazil-bolsonaro-floats-theory-coronavirus-chemical-warfare\/\">suggested<\/a> the pandemic was a product of biological warfare in May \u2013 but left open who exactly set off the weapon. \u201cI didn\u2019t say the word \u2018China,&#8217;\u201d he insisted.<\/p>\n<p>Bolsonaro also appeared to oust his foreign affairs minister, Ernesto Ara\u00fajo, for being too tough on China. Officially, Ara\u00fajo quit, but he wrote an extensive public resignation <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/latin-america\/2021\/03\/30\/brazils-top-diplomat-quits-pressure-china\/\">letter<\/a> in which he blamed pressure to allow China\u2019s government-linked Huawei tech giant to bid for a contract to build Brazil\u2019s 5G network and pressure to allow the import of Chinese vaccine products, which the federal health agency Anvisa had not approved at the time.<\/p>\n<p>The trend does not appear to be abating.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDeepening ties in the economic field is necessary for China and for Brazil. Some say \u2018we are extremely dependent on China,&#8217;\u201d Bolsonaro\u2019s head minister of the Institutional Security Office, Gen. Augusto Heleno, <a href=\"https:\/\/br.noticias.yahoo.com\/china-tamb%C3%A9m-depende-n%C3%B3s-diz-132600107.html\">said<\/a>&nbsp;at an event last month. \u201cWe are dependent on China because we have great trade ties with China. And they are trade ties. They also depend on us.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The allegedly conservative Brazilian president has struggled during his tenure to find a political home on the world stage. Much of that can be attributed to extensive, unceasing smear campaigns by the far left at home (where they <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/latin-america\/2021\/10\/27\/brazil-senators-charge-bolsonaro-with-crimes-against-humanity-over-coronavirus\/\">tried<\/a> to charge him, but not Xi, with \u201ccrimes against humanity\u201d) and abroad. But Bolsonaro himself takes much of the blame when he refuses to fulfill his campaign promises or live up to the anti-communist values that his people believed in enough to make him president.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A year into a global human rights campaign urging world leaders to boycott the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics in protest of genocide and other atrocities under the Chinese government, Brazilian &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1096473","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1096473","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1096473"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1096473\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1096473"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1096473"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1096473"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}