{"id":1278538,"date":"2022-02-07T13:07:40","date_gmt":"2022-02-07T18:07:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1278538"},"modified":"2022-02-07T14:07:00","modified_gmt":"2022-02-07T19:07:00","slug":"chinese-media-pelosi-is-right-to-tell-athletes-to-shut-up-about-genocide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/chinese-media-pelosi-is-right-to-tell-athletes-to-shut-up-about-genocide\/","title":{"rendered":"Chinese Media: &#8216;Pelosi Is Right&#8217; to Tell Athletes to Shut up About Genocide"},"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\">26<\/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%2Fchinese-media-pelosi-is-right-to-tell-athletes-to-shut-up-about-genocide%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=1278538&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\">The Chinese government-run\u00a0<em>Global Times<\/em> newspaper\u00a0asserted in a column on Sunday that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) \u201cwas right\u201d to tell athletes last week to resist criticizing the Communist Party while competing in the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics.<\/p>\n<p>Pelosi, a vocal critic of the Chinese government decades ago, advised athletes during a hearing organized by the Congressional-Executive Commission on China last week to focus on competition and ignore human rights activists and Chinese dissidents who have spent over a year urging them to champion the causes of victims of Chinese communism.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI would say to our athletes \u2014 you are there to compete. Do not risk incurring the anger of the Chinese government because they are ruthless,\u201d Pelosi <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/sports\/2022\/02\/03\/pelosi-u-s-athletes-risk-angering-ruthless-chinese-government-if-they-speak-out-against-genocide\/\">said<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI know there is a temptation on the part of some to speak out while they are there; I respect that. But, I also worry about what the Chinese government might do to their reputations, to their families,\u201d she asserted.<\/p>\n<p>Human rights campaigners made several visits to Olympic training grounds prior to the Opening Ceremonies last week to discuss their grievances against China with American Olympians. A small number of them agreed to meet and listen to the activists, many of them from the Tibetan and Uyghur communities. American snowboarding champion Shaun White took a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/asia\/2022\/01\/10\/u-s-olympian-shaun-white-poses-tibetan-flag-weeks-before-beijing-genocide-olympics\/\">photo<\/a> with a Tibetan activists holding the flag of that occupied country, the possession of which is illegal in China. Figure skater Timothy LeDuc <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/sports\/2022\/01\/11\/u-s-olympic-figure-skater-timothy-leduc-condemns-horrifying-human-rights-abuses-by-china\/\">condemned<\/a> the genocide of Uyghur people in East Turkistan prior to traveling to Beijing.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">The Chinese Communist government forbids critical speech by visiting Olympic athletes but helps their praise go viral. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/jD7c4hCB02\">https:\/\/t.co\/jD7c4hCB02<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Breitbart News (@BreitbartNews) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BreitbartNews\/status\/1489804972086730753?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 5, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The Chinese Communist government forbids critical speech by visiting Olympic athletes but helps their praise go viral. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/jD7c4hCB02\">https:\/\/t.co\/jD7c4hCB02<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Breitbart News (@BreitbartNews) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BreitbartNews\/status\/1489804972086730753?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 5, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0<em>Global Times<\/em>, a government propaganda publication, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.globaltimes.cn\/page\/202202\/1251550.shtml\">condemned<\/a> Pelosi for using the word \u201cruthless\u201d to describe the Communist Party. It praised her, however, for urging athletes to be silent in the face of China\u2019s human rights atrocities.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEven US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi didn\u2019t miss the chance to bash China. Before the opening ceremony, she warned US athletes not to anger the \u2018ruthless\u2019 Chinese government by staging political protests,\u201d the outlet reported. \u201cHowever, Pelosi is right about this one thing in her speech: The athletes are in Beijing to compete.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn fact, even though Rule 50 in the Olympic Charter has offered more freedom of expression to athletes, it stipulates that \u2018No kind of demonstration or political, religious or racial propaganda is permitted in any Olympic sites, venues or other areas,&#8217;\u201d the\u00a0<em>Times\u00a0<\/em>stressed. \u201cAnd to the disappointment of those anti-China forces in the West, most of the athletes expressed positive emotions such as joy and surprise on social media platforms after they arrived in Beijing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0<em>Times<\/em> appeared to be referring to pro-China propaganda <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/sports\/2022\/02\/03\/u-s-olympian-posts-chinese-propaganda-from-beijing-on-tiktok-despite-espionage-warnings-china-applauds\/\">appearing<\/a> on the Chinese phone application Tiktok from American athletes following their arrivals in the Beijing Olympics \u201cbubble,\u201d from which the Party has forbidden them to stray.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B3\" class=\"a8d adSo\"><\/figure>\n<p>The International Olympic Committee (IOC) does attempt to silence political statements from athletes and has actively <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/sports\/2022\/02\/04\/ioc-president-calls-chinas-uyghur-genocide-political-issue\/\">discouraged<\/a> public criticism of China for committing genocide and other crimes against humanity. During a speech at the latest IOC session last week, President Thomas Bach triumphantly declared that the IOC and China had jointly silenced \u201cboycott ghosts\u201d that had called for the world to turn its back on a celebration of the Chinese Communist Party.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">40 percent of Americans said the reason they aren\u2019t tuning into the Winter Olympics is because the Communist Chinese Party is hosting. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/v4Tqwalxe9\">https:\/\/t.co\/v4Tqwalxe9<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Breitbart News (@BreitbartNews) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BreitbartNews\/status\/1489676102171824130?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 4, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">40 percent of Americans said the reason they aren\u2019t tuning into the Winter Olympics is because the Communist Chinese Party is hosting. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/v4Tqwalxe9\">https:\/\/t.co\/v4Tqwalxe9<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Breitbart News (@BreitbartNews) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BreitbartNews\/status\/1489676102171824130?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 4, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou may remember that at our IOC Sessions in January and July 2020, we could already see the dark clouds of the growing politicization of sport on the horizon. We also saw that, in some people\u2019s heads, the boycott ghosts of the past were rearing their ugly heads again,\u201d Bach <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/national-security\/2022\/02\/04\/olympics-chief-declares-victory-against-boycott-ghosts-on-eve-of-genocide-games\/\">asserted<\/a>, declaring that a message to governments to support China despite its frequent and flagrant violations of international law \u201cgot through.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Pelosi\u2019s comment discouraging criticism of China elicited bipartisan condemnation.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI respectfully disagree with the speaker here \u2014 and I usually am supportive of her \u2014 because you cannot normalize what they\u2019re doing in China,\u201d Rev. Al Sharpton <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2022\/02\/05\/al-sharpton-slams-pelosis-keep-quiet-warning-to-olympic-athletes-in-beijing-normalizes-very-brutal-behavior\/\">said<\/a> on MSNBC on\u00a0Friday. \u201cTo go there and act like all is well is to normalize some very brutal behavior.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Sharpton asserted that everyone had a responsibility to \u201clet China know, \u2018you live in a world that human rights is non-negotiable [sic].\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN), a vocal opponent of Chinese communism, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/clips\/2022\/02\/05\/blackburn-pelosis-warning-to-athletes-is-admission-sending-american-athletes-to-olympics-puts-them-in-danger\/\">criticized<\/a> Pelosi for not supporting a boycott of the Olympics if she indeed had concerns about the safety of American athletes.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI mean, think about it, Pelosi cannot even figure out who to be upset with. She is telling the athletes to keep their mouths shut. She should have been saying, \u2018the Chinese Communist Party is up to no good. We don\u2019t want you there,&#8217;\u201d Blackburn told Fox News Radio. \u201c\u2018Because we are so proud of you, we want you to have a good, healthy, productive, free life, and we don\u2019t want to put you over there and put you in harm\u2019s way.&#8217;\u201d<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_19786570\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/media.breitbart.com\/media\/2022\/02\/GettyImages-1368453686.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-19786570\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/GettyImages-1368453686-1024x683-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"990\" height=\"660\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>U.S. Speaker of the House Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) testifies during a hearing before The Congressional-Executive Commission on China (CECC) at Dirksen Senate Office Building on Capitol Hill on February 3, 2022 in Washington, DC. CECC held a hearing on \u201cThe Beijing Olympics and the Faces of Repression.\u201d (Alex Wong\/Getty Images)<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Pelosi was once one of Congress\u2019s loudest anti-China voices, opposing Chinese entry into the World Trade Organization (WTO) and protesting against communism in the middle of Tiananmen Square. As author Peter Schweizer details in his\u00a0<em>New York Times-<\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2022\/02\/02\/peter-schweizers-red-handed-hits-1-on-new-york-times-bestseller-list\/\">bestselling<\/a>\u00a0book\u00a0<a class=\"x5l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Red-Handed-American-Elites-Helping-China\/dp\/0063061147\/?tag=breitbart035-20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\"><em>Red-Handed: How American Elites Get Rich Helping China Win<\/em><\/a>, Pelosi\u2019s public attitude towards China <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2022\/02\/04\/genocide-games-how-pelosi-reined-in-criticism-of-2008-beijing-olympics-while-her-family-was-bagging-cash-in-china\/\">changed<\/a> as her husband Paul began investing in the Chinese economy and networking with regime-friendly figures.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn Congress, Pelosi had initially been critical of China hosting the games, arguing that its human rights record should prevent it from such an honor,\u201d Schweizer reported. \u201cThe year after her husband bought shares in Global Ambassador Concierge, she reversed course and opposed a boycott of Beijing\u2019s hosting of the games.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Two years later, \u201cthe Pelosis held between $5 million and $25 million in a Matthews fund \u2018specializing in Asian investment.\u2019 Paul Pelosi received partnership income between $100,000 and $1 million.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>Follow Frances Martel on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/francesimartel\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/francesimartel\/&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1643765950098000&amp;usg=AOvVaw23AQC9DygBP6Uvx2AKooEo\">Facebook<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/francesmartel\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/twitter.com\/francesmartel&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1643765950098000&amp;usg=AOvVaw1V8tY067ZdeWpATK5ZWNXI\">Twitter.<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Chinese government-run\u00a0Global Times newspaper\u00a0asserted in a column on Sunday that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) \u201cwas right\u201d to tell athletes last week to resist criticizing the Communist Party while &#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-1278538","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\/1278538","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=1278538"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1278538\/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=1278538"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1278538"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1278538"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}