Germany's Chancellor Angela Merkel has become the first world leader to announce that she will boycott the Olympics in China.Her actions follow a promised boycott of the opening and closing ceremonies by Poland's Prime Minister Donald Tusk and the Czech Republic's former leader Vaclav Havel. And according to The Guardian, other EU heads of state are considering similar action while Britain's Gordon Brown - like George Bush - remains committed to attending:Hans-Gert Pöttering, the politician from Merkel's Christian Democratic party who chairs the European parliament, encouraged talk of an Olympic boycott this week and invited the Dalai Lama to address the chamber in Strasbourg, while another senior German Christian Democrat, Ruprecht Polenz, said a boycott should remain on the table. "I cannot imagine German politicians attending the opening or closing ceremonies [if the Tibetan crackdown continued]," he said. Merkel enraged the Chinese leadership a few months ago...(Read Full Post)