Via The Fake Left:
Under a plan to get the population excited about the event, at least 2,000 schools have been instructed to include winter sports in their curriculum by the end of the year and a giant clock in Beijing counts down the time left before the Games begin. The official slogan is: “Joyful rendezvous upon pure ice and snow”.
But that joyful rendezvous is increasingly under threat as calls for a boycott of the event grow louder. Earlier this month UK foreign minister Dominic Raab said his country would not rule out a boycott, adding that there comes a point when it is “not possible” to “separate sport from diplomacy and politics.”
