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US criticism of China’s Xinjiang policy has escalated from the past “traveling for human rights” to the latest accusation of “genocide.”
Chinese media reported that on Monday (January 25), Chinese leader Xi Jinping spoke with IOC President Bach to discuss the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics and opposition to the politicization of sporting events.
At the same time, foreign critics are calling for a boycott of the Beijing Winter Olympics, citing China’s “genocide” in Xinjiang.
On the eve of his resignation, the Trump administration’s Secretary of State Pompeo accused China of committing “genocide” against Xinjiang Uighurs and other ethnic minorities and said that “China’s one-party state is systematically trying to destroy the Uyghurs. “. The US media reported that this is the first time the US State Department has used the charge of “genocide” since 2016, when the US Secretary of State used the term against the so-called “Islamic State” atrocities in Iraq and Syria.
Pompeo’s statement was denounced by the Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman as “spreading rumors and lying” and “cooperating with US anti-China forces to smear and discredit Xinjiang’s anti-terrorism and de-radicalization efforts.” However, the Xinjiang Uighurs issue is becoming the focus of lobbying activities by foreign critics to boycott the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics.
The 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing also caused controversy. The main focus at the time was Tibetan protests and human rights-related criticism. Before the Beijing Olympics, anti-Beijing protests broke out in Lhasa, and Tibetans abroad protested and interfered with subsequent Olympic torch relay activities in some European and American cities.
After protests in Lhasa in March 2008, China accused the western media of distorting the reports and also invited foreign media to enter Tibet for interviews. This time, the spokesman for the Chinese Foreign Ministry, while refuting allegations of “genocide” in Xinjiang, also invited foreigners to Xinjiang to “see with their own eyes.” However, the spokesperson did not provide further details.
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“Genocide” in Xinjiang
Wednesday (January 27) is an international day of remembrance established by the United Nations to remember the victims of the Nazi Holocaust. The day before, the famous British conservative commentator Melanie Phillips wrote an article in The Times calling on the leaders of the British Jewish community to use this anniversary to pay attention to China’s crackdown on Uighurs in Xinjiang, and called for an international boycott of the Beijing Winter. Olympic Games.
Phillips linked the so-called genocide in Xinjiang to the mass atrocities suffered by Jews during Nazi Germany. She said that when the Nazis tried to erase the Jews from the surface of the earth, now the Chinese have committed crimes against humanity by suppressing the Uighurs in Xinjiang.
Phillips also said that in the past three years, China has used education camps to incarcerate around 1 million Uighurs, Kazakhs and other Muslim minorities. These people experienced brainwashing and torture inside, forced to abandon their religious beliefs and forced to praise the Communist Party.
Phillips said that normal exchanges with “rogue states” amount to helping these regimes continue to exist and constitute a moral blow to their victims.
A CNN report on Wednesday (January 27) also indicated that plans to participate in the Winter Olympics in the capital of a country that is involved in “genocide” by 90 countries, including the United States, in February next year they will certainly make a mistake on the human rights issue. The report also quoted Wang Songlian, a researcher at China’s Human Rights Watch Department, as saying: “The main contacts with the Chinese government are now under great pressure as long as they are given legitimacy.
Boycott the Beijing Winter Olympics
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In 1988, Soviet troops began to withdraw from Afghanistan.
When the British and American media reported on the boycott of the Beijing Winter Olympics, they all mentioned that after the Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan, the United States and other countries boycotted the 1980 Moscow Olympics. At that time 65 countries participated in the boycott of the Olympic Games held by the Soviet Union.
After the Moscow Olympic Games were boycotted by the United States, the 1984 Los Angeles Olympic Games in the United States were also boycotted by 18 countries, including the Soviet Union and its allies.
Politicians from Australia, the United Kingdom, Canada and the United States have now expressed doubts about sending a delegation to participate in the Beijing Winter Olympics. The “Times” article called for boycotting the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics as a boycott of the Moscow Olympics.
CNN reported that last year, 12 US senators submitted a bipartisan resolution requesting the International Olympic Committee to cancel China’s qualification to host the 2022 Winter Olympics and reapply for the right to host the Olympics.
At CNN’s request, the International Olympic Committee commented that they have obtained a guarantee from China that the Olympic Charter will be observed at the 2022 Beijing Olympic Games. The Olympic Committee also stated that granting a country the right to host the Games Olympic does not mean that the Olympic Committee agrees with the political structure, social environment or human rights standards of the country.
So far, no government or sports authority in any country has publicly declared that it will withdraw from the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics. However, activists are lobbying to boycott the Beijing Winter Olympics. In the United States, Britain, Canada, Norway, Finland, France, the Netherlands, Japan and Australia, Uighur activists are beginning to call for a boycott of the Beijing Winter Olympics. .
“Ambition to dominate the world”
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China says that in China, Uighurs enjoy the same treatment as other ethnic groups under the law.
The British “Guardian” reported on January 18 that Uighur activists called for a boycott of sponsors of the Beijing Winter Olympics and are mobilizing these companies to pressure the Chinese government.
Uighur activists in 10 different countries referred to the Beijing Winter Olympics as the “killing games” and called on some companies, including Airbnb, to use their platforms to tell the world that Uighurs in Xinjiang were being persecuted and targeted. they demanded the withdrawal of Beijing’s patronage. Winter Olympic Games.
British commentator Phillips believes that Chinese leader Xi Jinping not only wants to eliminate internal challenges to the CCP, but also has “the ambition to dominate the world.” Therefore, he suggested that international forces should be organized to deal with Beijing, such as inviting India, South Korea and Australia to participate in the G7 summit held this year to form a democratic alliance against China’s backyard.
In his view, one problem is that the UK and the West allow China to access their infrastructure networks such as the Internet, electricity and distribution, such as Huawei’s technology entering the UK communications network and investments, mergers and China’s acquisitions abroad.
On January 12, British Chancellor Raab accused China of large-scale human rights violations against Uyghurs in a parliamentary speech and announced that British companies are prohibited from using Uighur products related to forced labor and related products and related China. The sanctions of the company.
