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A congressional panel weighed finding an alternate city or boycotting the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing, objecting to China s long-standing human rights abuses. Two administrations have termed its treatment of Muslims genocide.
US mulls 2022 Winter Olympics boycott over China rights record
Both the Trump and Biden administrations have labeled China s treatment of ethnic Uyghurs a genocide
Updated: May 22, 2021 05:08 AM GMT
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A US congressional panel has weighed the possibility of a boycott of the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing to call attention to China s long-standing human rights abuses.
Another tactic discussed was to find an alternate site to host the Winter Games. Sites floated included Salt Lake City; Vancouver, British Columbia; and Lake Placid, New York the sites of the 2002, 2010 and 1980 Winter Games respectively. If we can delay an Olympics for a year because of a pandemic, surely we can delay the Olympics for a year because of a genocide, said Rep. Jim McGovern, D-Mass., co-chair of the Tom Lantos Human Rights Commission, which sponsored the hearing along with the Congressional-Executive Commission on China.
Hearing mulls 2022 Winter Olympic boycott over China human rights record
May 20, 2021 catholic news service
Signs for the 2022 Olympic Winter Games are seen at the National Aquatics Center in Beijing April 1, 2021. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., said at a hearing May 18 the U.S. and other countries should boycott the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing diplomatically because of China s human rights abuses. She and others testifying said participating countries should send only their athletes but no diplomatic delegation that could lend legitimacy to the Games. (Credit: CNS photo/Tingshu Wang, Reuters.)
WASHINGTON A congressional panel, during a May 18 hearing, weighed the possibility of a diplomatic boycott of the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing to call attention to China’s long-standing human rights abuses. Another tactic discussed was to find an alternate site to host the Winter Games. Sites floated included
19 May 2021
During a virtual House hearing of the Tom Lantos Human Rights Commission on Tuesday, panelists and lawmakers urged a boycott of the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing, citing the Chinese Communist Party’s ongoing egregious human rights abuses, including forcing religious minorities to live in what are essentially concentration camps.
Rep. Chris Smith (R-NJ), who co-chairs the commission with Rep. James McGovern (D-MA), laid out the case for boycotting what he called the “genocide Olympics.”
“Chinese authorities initially denied the existence of mass internment camps and have tried to portray them as vocational training centers,” Smith said. “Xi Jinping and the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) employed lies, censorship and economic coercion to stifle discussion of their crimes.