Yesterday was the International Holocaust Memorial Day, declared by the United Nations in 2006 to commemorate those murdered in the Nazi genocide, coinciding with the day of the liberation of the death camp in Auschwitz in 1945. It has been widely reported that the first genocide of the 21st century is now occurring in Darfur. Activists and journalists have noted that the primary enabler of this genocide is China, through it support of Sudan in various ways, military, economic and diplomatic. Activists have initiated an international campaign to brand the upcoming Olympics in China as the “Genocide Olympics” in order to pressure the Chinese government to take appropriate actions which could force the Sudanese to take actions to end the genocide. China has apparently responded in part to this campaign, but has not taken the needed steps to end the genocide. It appears that the perspective behind what in effect is an international shame campaign is that a boycott is not realistic, and that the Olympics are so important to China in terms of image and its continued economic progress and acceptance in the international community (as both consumers and public policy may increasingly turn against China in various ways if their actions do not change), that this may be the most effective way to impact a change of policy. Do you believe that an international campaign to brand the Chinese Olympics the “Genocide Olympics” unless China takes decisive action to end the Darfur genocide can lead to China taking the needed steps to do so, because of the importance to China of the Olympics to its international image and economic growth, without threatening an outright boycott of the Olympics, accompanied by more serious steps such as consumer boycotts of Chinese products, which many companies in the US and elsewhere also utilize, if China does not immediately take needed steps to end the Darfur genocide?