Outside View

No justification for boycott

The Tibet events do not justify calls for a boycott of Beijing's Olympic Games, and Olympic boycotts are a clumsy and biased weapon, Gregory Clark, a former officer in Australia's Department of External Affairs, wrote in a Japan Times' opinion article on Friday.

Moscow had its 1980 Olympics boycotted because of its intervention in Afghanistan. However, hardly will anyone use that to boycott the planned London Olympics while Britain has joined in intervention today in Afghanistan.