But one point that I would like to make clear is that politics should not intrude on sports activities and, especially, chess.
China is not the only country that lets politics intrude in its sports programs.
To be sure, politics does intrude on foreign business operations in China.
Increasingly, however, the seven have let international politics intrude.
It is an organization of security professionals, but narrow and partisan domestic politics are intruding all over.
But this is Venezuela, where politics intrudes even into life's most intimate spaces.
In some cases, politics intruded on the family reunions.
Ukrainian politics intruded on almost every aspect of a pilot's life.
He is the least philosophical of playwrights and politics rarely intrudes upon his world.
For a German, politics intrudes upon nearly every encounter, the 65-year-old writer said.