{"id":1100130,"date":"2021-12-08T19:44:08","date_gmt":"2021-12-09T00:44:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1100130"},"modified":"2021-12-08T19:44:16","modified_gmt":"2021-12-09T00:44:16","slug":"rep-chris-smith-biden-playing-genocide-olympics-a-weak-response-by-a-weak-administration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/rep-chris-smith-biden-playing-genocide-olympics-a-weak-response-by-a-weak-administration\/","title":{"rendered":"Rep. Chris Smith: Biden Playing Genocide Olympics &#039;a Weak Response by a Weak Administration&#039;"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">28<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Frep-chris-smith-biden-playing-genocide-olympics-a-weak-response-by-a-weak-administration%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1100130&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p class=\"subheading\">Congressman Chris Smith (R-NJ) lamented President Joe Biden\u2019s decision to allow the U.S. team to play in the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics on Tuesday, calling it \u201can exceedingly weak gesture in response to a genocidal regime.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Human rights activists and the victims of the Chinese Communist Party initially urged the International Olympic Committee (IOC) to postpone and relocate the Olympics outside of China in response to China\u2019s human rights atrocities. The Chinese Communist Party under dictator Xi Jinping is arguably the world\u2019s most prolific human rights abuser, systematically repressing millions of people \u2013 particularly political dissidents, religious believers, and members of ethnic minorities.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>Both the administrations of Presidents Donald Trump and Biden have formally declared China\u2019s policies to exterminate the Uyghur people of East Turkistan a genocide. The Uyghurs have <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/asia\/2020\/03\/03\/tribunal-chinas-live-harvesting-political-prisoner-organs-continues-day\/\">faced<\/a>, since at least 2017, mass internment in concentration camps, forced abortions and sterilizations, slavery, torture, indoctrination, and testing consistent with live organ harvesting. At their peak in 2019, the U.S. government <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/national-security\/2019\/05\/06\/feds-china-muslim-crackdown-number-detainees-may-have-tripled-less-than-1-year\/\">estimated<\/a> that the Chinese government had trapped as many as 3 million people, most of them Uyghurs but some members of other ethnic minorities, in concentration camps.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_17841922\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" readability=\"40\"><a href=\"https:\/\/media.breitbart.com\/media\/2021\/09\/AP_21074042029997.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-17841922 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/AP_21074042029997-1024x683-1.jpg\" alt width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>In this Feb. 3, 2021, file photo, exile Tibetans use the Olympic Rings as a prop as they hold a street protest against the holding of 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing in Dharmsala, India. Some kind of boycott is almost sure to affect next year\u2019s Beijing Winter Olympics. It\u2019s driven by the widely reported internment of several million Muslim Uyghurs and other ethnic minorities in China, which has been termed a genocide by numerous governments and human rights groups. (AP Photo\/Ashwini Bhatia)<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The IOC has aggressively defended its choice of China as an Olympics host, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/news\/olympics-vp-says-china-human-rights-not-within-ioc-remit\/\">insisting<\/a> in response to human rights concerns, \u201cwe are not a world government.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Biden administration, facing growing pressure not to honor China with America\u2019s presence at the event, announced this week through White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki that the United States would not boycott the event. Psaki stated that American athletes, but not politicians, would attend, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2021\/12\/06\/white-house-confirms-u-s-will-play-chinas-genocide-olympics\/\">branding<\/a> the absence of American officials a \u201cdiplomatic boycott\u201d that sent China a \u201cclear message.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>The Chinese government, through both the Foreign Ministry and its English-language propaganda arms, has countered by noting that Beijing never <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/asia\/2021\/12\/07\/youre-not-invited-china-laughs-off-joe-bidens-olympics-half-measure\/\">invited<\/a> American diplomats to the Games, so they could not \u201cboycott\u201d the event. Regarding \u201cdiplomatic\u201d non-boycotts in general, the state-run&nbsp;<em>Global Times<\/em> asserted on Wednesday, \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.globaltimes.cn\/page\/202112\/1240988.shtml\">nobody cares<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYesterday the Biden Administration announced a \u2018Diplomatic Boycott\u2019 of the 2022 Winter Olympic and Paralympic Games, to be held in Beijing,\u201d Smith said in remarks at an event alongside the Chinese Christian organization China Aid. \u201cRather than applauding this, however, we should recognize it for what it is: an exceedingly weak gesture in response to a genocidal regime, which is increasingly acting as if it has no place within the community of civilized nations, with its bullying of other nations\u2014most recently, brave Lithuania.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"5.8098591549296\">\n<p lang=\"zh\" dir=\"ltr\">The whole world should ask <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/CCPXi?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#CCPXi<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/WhereIsGaoZhisheng?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#WhereIsGaoZhisheng<\/a> missing 4 1\/2 yrs! <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/HowIsZhangZhan?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#HowIsZhangZhan<\/a>? Dying in same Shanghai prison as <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/LinZhao?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#LinZhao<\/a> \u5168\u4e16\u754c\u61c9\u8a72\u62f7\u554f\u7fd2\u8fd1\u5e73:<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/%E9%AB%98%E6%99%BA%E6%99%9F%E5%9C%A8%E5%93%AA%E8%A3%A1?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#\u9ad8\u667a\u665f\u5728\u54ea\u88e1<\/a>\uff1f<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/%E5%BC%B5%E5%B1%95%E6%80%8E%E6%A8%A3%E4%BA%86?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#\u5f35\u5c55\u600e\u6a23\u4e86<\/a>\uff1f<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/%E6%98%AF%E7%94%9F%E6%98%AF%E6%AD%BB?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#\u662f\u751f\u662f\u6b7b<\/a>\uff1f\u5fc5\u9808\u7acb\u5373\u4ea4\u4ee3\uff01<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/%E8%87%AA%E7%94%B1%E5%BC%B5%E5%B1%95?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#\u81ea\u7531\u5f35\u5c55<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/%E8%87%AA%E7%94%B1%E9%AB%98%E6%99%BA%E6%99%9F?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#\u81ea\u7531\u9ad8\u667a\u665f<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/%E8%87%AA%E7%94%B1%E5%8D%83%E8%90%AC%E4%B8%AD%E5%85%B1%E7%8D%84%E4%B8%AD%E8%89%AF%E5%BF%83%E7%8A%AF?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#\u81ea\u7531\u5343\u842c\u4e2d\u5171\u7344\u4e2d\u826f\u5fc3\u72af<\/a> \u611f\u8b1d\u6628\u5929\u5149\u81e8\u6703\u5834\u548c\u5834\u5916\u8072\u63f4 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/bM5QC8RZTP\">pic.twitter.com\/bM5QC8RZTP<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Bob Fu \u5085\u5e0c\u79cb (@BobFu4China) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BobFu4China\/status\/1468579941096820751?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 8, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>China recently <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/europe\/2021\/11\/21\/china-downgrades-diplomatic-ties-with-lithuania-over-taiwan-embassy-row\/\">threatened<\/a> Lithuania and limited its diplomatic relationship with the Baltic country over Lithuanian politicians acknowledging the reality that Taiwan is a country.<\/p>\n<p>Smith\u2019s remarks were <a href=\"https:\/\/newjerseyglobe.com\/congress\/smith-standing-with-chinese-human-rights-defenders\/\">reproduced<\/a> as a column in the local online outlet New Jersey Globe.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B3\" class=\"a8d adSo\"><\/figure>\n<p>Smith accused the Biden administration, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/2021\/12\/02\/congress-needs-act-xi-jinpings-genocide-now\/\">citing<\/a> an article in the&nbsp;<em>Washington Post<\/em>, of attempting to prevent the passage of the Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act, a bill that has languished in Congress in years that would prevent American companies from importing goods from East Turkistan, the Uyghur region China refers to as Xinjiang, unless they prove with concrete evidence that slaves did not cultivate or manufacture the goods.<\/p>\n<p>The Uyghur bill has been <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/news\/us-senate-votes-to-ban-products-from-chinas-xinjiang\/\">circulating<\/a> in Congress for months despite receiving bipartisan support. Reports indicate extensive lobbying from large multinational corporations has prevented it from becoming law. Corporations that have expressed opposition to the bill <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/asia\/2020\/12\/03\/us-customs-seize-cotton-products-chinese-company-enslaving-uyghurs\/\">argue<\/a> that it effectively bans all imports from East Turkistan, as companies would have to invest heavily in proving that items are not made with slave labor to have them enter the country.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>The use of Uyghur slave labor in China is widespread and state-sponsored. A 2020 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/asia\/2020\/03\/02\/study-nike-apple-bmw-among-83-brands-using-chinese-muslim-slave-labor\/\">report<\/a> by the Australian Strategic Policy Institute (ASPI) identified 83 global corporations, including dozens of household American names, as working with factories that have ties to Uyghur slave labor.<\/p>\n<p>Smith, alongside Rep. Jim McGovern (D-MA), <a href=\"https:\/\/internationaltradetoday.com\/news\/2021\/02\/22\/Uyghur-Forced-Labor-Prevention-Act-Reintroduced-in-House-2102220023\">reintroduced<\/a> the Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act in the House of Representatives in February.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is the background of the \u2018Diplomatic Boycott\u2019 that was announced yesterday \u2014 a weak response by a weak Administration,\u201d Rep. Smith said, \u201cwhich left American citizens behind and abandoned our allies in Afghanistan, and whose resolve is being tested now the world over.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B4\" class=\"a8d adSo\"><\/figure>\n<p>Rep. Smith, along with Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL), proposed in a letter written to the IOC in October that China should not only lose its hosting privileges but that the IOC should <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/sports\/2021\/10\/22\/congressmen-call-for-olympics-to-ban-chinese-team-over-genocide\/\">ban<\/a> its athletes from competition.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_19056714\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" readability=\"39\"><a href=\"https:\/\/media.breitbart.com\/media\/2021\/12\/GettyImages-1048878618.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-19056714 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/GettyImages-1048878618-1024x802-1.jpg\" alt=\"WASHINGTON, DC - OCTOBER 10: Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) (R), and Rep. Chris Smith (R-NJ) speak about the Congressional-Executive Commission on China during a news conference to discuss the commission&#039;s annual report on human rights conditions and the rule of law in China, on Capitol Hill on October 10, 2018 in Washington, DC. (Photo by Mark Wilson\/Getty Images)\" width=\"1024\" height=\"802\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) (R), and Rep. Chris Smith (R-NJ) speak about the Congressional-Executive Commission on China during a news conference to discuss the commission\u2019s annual report on human rights conditions and the rule of law in China, on Capitol Hill on October 10, 2018 in Washington, DC. (Photo by Mark Wilson\/Getty Images)<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u201cNo Olympics should be held in a country whose government is committing genocide,\u201d the letter read in part. \u201cMoreover, if the IOC is serious about fidelity to the Olympic Charter, the IOC must then prohibit the PRC [People\u2019s Republic of China] team from participating in the games on account of the flagrant violations of the Olympic Charter committed by the PRC authorities.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Congressman also condemned the Beijing Olympics corporate sponsors, who universally rejected calls for a boycott. Among them are some of the world\u2019s largest companies: Intel, Visa, AirBnb, and Coca-Cola all have Olympic \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/olympics.com\/ioc\/partners\">partner<\/a>\u201d status, the highest level of sponsorship.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo many of our corporations, so ready to virtue signal about \u2018Diversity, Equity and Inclusion\u2019 initiatives and \u2018Environmental Social and Governance\u2019 principles, from the NBA to Apple, nonetheless kowtow to Communist China,\u201d Smith said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cXi Jinping should be at the Hague for crimes against humanity and genocide \u2014 not feted as host of the Olympics,\u201d Rep. 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