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No, by giving them Most Favored Nation status, by allowing them unfettered access to our markets, but doing nothing to actually sanction that government we are rewarding them.
Boycotting the Olympics is just saying "I'm very disappointed in you, son, so I've blocked VH-1 on the TV" when the primary watching of VH-1 is by the well behaved daughter.
That's why I didn't label it at meaningless. It mostly would be: two weeks after the brouhaha begins it will become moot when the games end and things go back to the way they are right now. Instead I used the word hypocritical, because it is to essentially say "this is an issue important enough to impose some punishment but it is important that neither the United States government nor China are actually impacted so we'll punish the athletes." That'll learn everybody.
And I don't see how it fails to put China on the world stage unless the U.S. government has the ability to prevent NBC from broadcasting the games. It doesn't and NBC has too much money invested to not air them.
If China doesn't care about the PR leading up to the Olympics, it is hard to imagine that they'll care about the PR during the Olympics
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