{"id":1272245,"date":"2022-02-04T19:37:40","date_gmt":"2022-02-05T00:37:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1272245"},"modified":"2022-02-04T19:37:45","modified_gmt":"2022-02-05T00:37:45","slug":"genocide-olympics-protesters-denounce-complicity-of-corporations-in-chinese-human-rights-abuses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/genocide-olympics-protesters-denounce-complicity-of-corporations-in-chinese-human-rights-abuses\/","title":{"rendered":"Genocide Olympics Protesters Denounce &#039;Complicity&#039; of Corporations in Chinese Human Rights Abuses"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/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%2Fgenocide-olympics-protesters-denounce-complicity-of-corporations-in-chinese-human-rights-abuses%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=1272245&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--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/rep-chris-smith-at-china-olympics-protest-today-we-witness-the-complicity-of-corporate-america-640x335-1.png\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">U.S. Rep. Chris Smith (R-NJ) and Hong Kong pro-democracy activist Brian Leung denounced mainstream corporations for supporting Beijing\u2019s hosting of the 2022 Winter Olympics at a \u201c#NoBeijing2022\u201d rally on Thursday in Washington, DC, saying their sponsoring of the event equates to tacit approval of the Chinese Communist Party\u2019s human rights violations.<\/p>\n<p>Smith and Leung spoke in person at the demonstration on February 3, organized by the Victims of Communism Memorial Fund (VOC).<\/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>\u201cToday we witness the complicity of many in corporate America, from Coca-Cola to NBC and so many others who are \u2026 [barely] mentioning these horrific crimes out of fear of a denial of access to to the markets in China,\u201d Rep. Smith said at the event.<\/p>\n<p>Though he spoke separately, Leung echoed the themes of Congressman Smith\u2019s speech, similarly highlighting the significant corporate backing of the 2022 Winter Olympics, which launched on February 4 and will last through February 20.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"video-src-attr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/author\/matt-perdie\/\">Matt Perdie<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u201cChina wants to reap the benefit and reputation of being a major international player [by hosting the 2022 Winter Olympics],\u201d he said Thursday.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cBut [China] is not willing to abide by the standards and the rules of the world,\u201d Leung continued.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cInstead, it [China] wants to silence and suppress international critics and buy off companies and countries who are willing to acquiesce,\u201d he stated.<\/p>\n<p>Leung is the Executive Director of the Hong Kong Democracy Council, which&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/hkdc.us\/\">supports<\/a> pro-democracy activism in Hong Kong. The city has seen its limited freedoms increasingly <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/asia\/2021\/12\/31\/2021-the-year-democracy-died-in-hong-kong\/\">encroached<\/a> upon by the Chinese Communist Party over the past 18 months through the imposition of a \u201cNational Security Law\u201d designed to <a href=\"https:\/\/hongkongfp.com\/hong-kong-national-security-law\/\">stamp out<\/a> a previously thriving pro-democracy movement. As the law was passed in Beijing, it is not legal to enforce it in Hong Kong under the \u201cOne Country, Two Systems\u201d policy, but Hong Kong police have used it to repress dissidents, anyway.<\/p>\n<p>In a summary of its February 3 \u201c#NoBeijing2022\u201d rally, the VOC&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/victimsofcommunism.org\/event\/nobeijing2022rally\/\">said<\/a> event&nbsp;participants had criticized the \u201ctop corporate sponsors\u201d of the 2022 Winter Olympics \u201cfor failing to fulfill their human rights due diligence responsibilities and urged [them] to immediately disclose their human rights due diligence strategies or explain their failure to carry out such assessments.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The human rights nonprofit named the Games\u2019 mainstream sponsors as \u201cAirbnb, Alibaba, Allianz, Atos, Bridgestone, Coca-Cola, Intel, Omega, Panasonic, P&amp;G, Samsung, Toyota, and Visa.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The VOC said its rally in Washington, DC, on Thursday specifically aimed to \u201cdenounce the atrocities and grave human rights abuses being committed by the Chinese government\u201d in China\u2019s westernmost region of Xinjiang and Hong Kong.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI have determined that the PRC [People\u2019s Republic of China], under the direction and control of the CCP [Chinese Communist Party], has committed genocide against the predominantly Muslim Uyghurs and other ethnic and religious minority groups in Xinjiang,\u201d former U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo <a href=\"https:\/\/2017-2021.state.gov\/determination-of-the-secretary-of-state-on-atrocities-in-xinjiang\/index.html\">wrote<\/a> in a press statement on January 19, 2021.<\/p>\n<p>Pompeo said he made the determination based on the documentation and review of crimes against humanity in Xinjiang committed by the Chinese Communist Party including, \u201cthe arbitrary imprisonment or other severe deprivation of physical liberty of more than one million civilians, forced sterilization, torture of a large number of those arbitrarily detained, [and] forced labor.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>U.S. Rep. Chris Smith (R-NJ) and Hong Kong pro-democracy activist Brian Leung denounced mainstream corporations for supporting Beijing\u2019s hosting of the 2022 Winter Olympics at a \u201c#NoBeijing2022\u201d rally on Thursday &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1272245","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1272245","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1272245"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1272245\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1272245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1272245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1272245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}