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...Despite Putin's increasingly confrontational stance with other world powers on energy and defense policies, these games will likely be a far cry from the 1980 Moscow Olympics, when an American-led boycott in protest of the USSR's invasion of Afghanistan in 1979 resulted in a greatly diminished field of competing countries...
...Executive Tung Chee-hwa, the territory is prospering. That is not to say there aren't concerns. Hong Kong suffers greatly from a lack of full democracy. The press censors itself to avoid angering the powers that be. (For refusing to pull its punches, Apple Daily publishes under a boycott by pro-Beijing businesses that costs us $25 million a year in advertising revenue.) Hong Kong's air quality is deteriorating, as is the standard of English. And landmarks that form a key part of Hong Kong's identity are being demolished to make way for development...
There's just one problem with that strategy: it won't work. The world clamped a boycott on the Palestinians after Hamas' victory over Fatah in the January 2006 elections; but as Zbigniew Brzezinski, National Security Adviser under President Jimmy Carter, says, that U.S.-Israeli policy "put a lot of pressure on the Palestinians in Gaza, which helped to radicalize them without any compensatory relaxation for the Palestinians on the West Bank." The U.S.'s new "West Bank first" strategy aims to correct that shortcoming, but given the Palestinians' defiant mood, the tardy gift could turn into a nasty surprise...
...Hamas still gained support, largely because Abbas failed to rid himself of the corrupt officials that had turned the Fatah movement into a band of gangsters and mercenaries. To Palestinians, Hamas seemed disciplined and more honest, and Palestinians blamed the U.S. and Israel, not the Islamists, for the boycott's miseries. Meanwhile, Hamas sought and received backing from two of Israel's chief nemeses, Iran and Syria...
...acceptance of a U.N. peacekeeping force in Darfur. Furthermore, Beijing is counting on the excitement leading up to the opening ceremony, and China's legendary hospitality, to take attention away from the protests. In April, a Chinese foreign ministry spokesman was quoted in The Washington Post saying that a boycott for "any excuse or political reasons" would flout "the goodwill of the people from all over the world...