Will.i.am is making no sense on China

The BBC quotes Black Eyed Peas star Will.i.am as rejecting a boycott of the Beijing Olympics because it isn’t right to "punish a whole country." Fair enough. The Black Eyed Peas are planning to gig in China in June. But then, Will.i.am, who says the events in Tibet are "messed up," suggests a far more ...

The BBC quotes Black Eyed Peas star Will.i.am as rejecting a boycott of the Beijing Olympics because it isn't right to "punish a whole country." Fair enough. The Black Eyed Peas are planning to gig in China in June.

The BBC quotes Black Eyed Peas star Will.i.am as rejecting a boycott of the Beijing Olympics because it isn’t right to "punish a whole country." Fair enough. The Black Eyed Peas are planning to gig in China in June.

But then, Will.i.am, who says the events in Tibet are "messed up," suggests a far more radical tack:

If America really wants to make a difference, it should stop importing China’s products and pay back its debt."

What we have here, folks, is the fallacy of the excluded middle. There’s actually a lot the United States can do in this here. For some more coherent thoughts on how to pressure Beijing on human rights, check out the new Web exclusive by William F. Schulz, the former head of Amnesty International USA.

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