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Vice President, Kathryn and Shelby Cullom Davis Institute Colorful lights with the Olympic rings and words reading Beijing candidate city and year 2022 are seen at a lantern fair in Beijing on February 11, 2017. NICOLAS ASFOURI / AFP / Getty Images Key Takeaways The 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing continue to spark controversy. In short, right now there is no rush to a transatlantic consensus on the Olympics. That could change. If they could band together to call for moving the Olympics to another venue, they would have tremendous bargaining power. The 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing continue to spark controversy. Although the International Olympic Committee is trying to stay away from political dynamics, the controversial behavior of the Chinese Communist Party represents an unavoidable issue. The gross violation of the human rights of Uyghurs and other religious and ethnic minorities is just too great. ....
We re dealing with a government of intolerance, dictatorial, brooks no dissent, arrests people at a drop of a hat. I think there s a very strong case to be made that China should not be rewarded for its astonishingly bad behavior. British MP Sir Ian Duncan Smith, Co-chair, Inter-Parliamentary Alliance on China. We therefore call on governments to boycott the Beijing 2022 Games anything less will be seen as an endorsement of the Chinese Communist Party s authoritarian rule and blatant disregard for civil and human rights. A coalition of more than 180 human rights groups, in a letter to the International Olympic Committee. ....
Back-and-forth sanctions accuse China of human rights violations share China placed sanctions on several British politicians on March 26, following the move of the United Kingdom to join the European Union and other countries in sanctioning Chinese officials for alleged human rights violations, according to
The Chinese government is accused of detaining Muslim Uighur people in mass detention centers in the Xinjiang region.
“We, the Foreign Ministers of Canada and the United Kingdom, and the United States Secretary of State, are united in our deep and ongoing concern regarding China’s human rights violations and abuses in Xinjiang,” reads a joint statement from March 22. “China’s extensive program of repression includes severe restrictions on religious freedoms, the use of forced labour, mass detention in internment camps, forced sterilisations, and the concerted destruction of Uyghur heritage.” ....
China has imposed sanctions on more than two dozen European and British lawmakers, academics and think tanks. The move comes after the European Union and the United Kingdom imposed sanctions on Chinese officials for human rights abuses in China s Xinjiang region. China contends that its sanctions are tit for tat morally equivalent retaliation in response to those imposed by Western countries. This is false. The European sanctions are for crimes against humanity, whereas the Chinese sanctions seek to silence European critics of the Chinese Communist Party. The current standoff is, in essence, about the future of free speech in Europe. If notoriously feckless European officials fail to stand firm in the face of mounting Chinese pressure, Europeans who dare publicly to criticize the CCP in the future can expect to pay an increasingly high personal cost for doing so. ....