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So, human rights groups have successfully persuaded the US government and governments of

a few other western countries to diplomatically boycott the Beijing games over China's human

rights abuses.

But they've failed to convince corporate sponsors of the games to drop their sponsorships or

even to speak out much about China's human rights abuses because the financial stakes here

for companies are so huge.

Gene Whalen covers global business for the post and recently she has been reporting on

this awkward split screen heading into the Beijing Winter Olympics.

While the US and other governments are boycotting, American and European companies are very much

not.

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