michael swain is director of the east asia program at the quincy institute. he joins us now from only in the state of maryland. good to have you with us, michael, a pretentious year act political manipulation, a grave distortion of the spirit of the limpid charter china course. this diplomatic boy called is it all of those things? well, no, i don't think it is. i don't think it's if, if you, if you would address the olympics as being a purely purely sports based competition among countries. and there's no politics that enter into it. then you might be able to justify that kind of a statement. but it obviously is not that kind of a sports event. i mean my preference would be for the viola picks to be taken entirely out of each country and set it up every year at the same exact place. and just get by all of these issues about sponsorship and different nations trying to spin the best way possible in their, in their presentation and their host. you know, you lympics. i mean it's, it's infused with these kinds of political message. china has previously said that it

. >> michael swain is director of the east asia program. he says the boycott won't force any change in china. >> i think it will have virtually zero impact on their policies in xin jang or their policies in hong kong. although the justification for this kind of an action by the united states or something lesser than that i would have said it might have been better for the united states to send the u.s. ambassador to beijing to the event and him not make my statements appear just be there. but that's a judgment call. but i think that, you know, that's -- they can't do that now so they're lock into a situation where they just have to go -- go through with the diplomatic boycott the chinese could refuse to send their own athletes to different games. it could take some kind of measures against the world tennis association or against other countries were involved in -- in this kind of a diplomatic boycott by threatening to not have their athletes participate. but these would be -- some of them very extreme measures which would make the situation

michael swain is director of the east asia program with quincy institute . he says, the boy cock won't force any change in china. i think it will have virtually no or 0 impact on, on their policies and change on and or their policies and hong kong. although i think that the justification for this kind of an action by the united states or, or something somewhat lesser than that i would have said might have been better for the united states to have sent its china ambassador chinese m a u. s. ambassador to beijing. to the, to the event and him not make any statements at the event to just be there. but that's, you know, that's a judgment call. but i think that you know, that they're not, they, they can't do that now. so they're, they're locked into a situation where they just have to go through the diplomatic way the chinese could take, they could refuse to send their own athletes to different games. it could take some kind of measures against the world tennis association or against other countries that were involved in this kind of a diplomatic boycott by threa