{"id":517975,"date":"2021-05-17T13:35:13","date_gmt":"2021-05-17T17:35:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=517975"},"modified":"2021-05-17T13:35:15","modified_gmt":"2021-05-17T17:35:15","slug":"coalition-pushes-to-boycott-beijing-olympic-games-citing-treatment-of-uyghurs-tibetans-and-hong-kongers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/coalition-pushes-to-boycott-beijing-olympic-games-citing-treatment-of-uyghurs-tibetans-and-hong-kongers\/","title":{"rendered":"Coalition Pushes To Boycott Beijing Olympic Games, Citing Treatment Of Uyghurs, Tibetans And Hong Kongers"},"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\">30<\/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%2Fcoalition-pushes-to-boycott-beijing-olympic-games-citing-treatment-of-uyghurs-tibetans-and-hong-kongers%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=517975&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\/2021\/05\/GettyImages-1230944532-scaled-e1621271339821.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"  style=\"display:none\"><\/div>\n<p><span>A coalition representing minorities in China are calling for countries to boycott the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing, The Associated Press reported Monday.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The coalition, representing the people of <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/03\/30\/china-hong-kong-antony-blinken-mike-pompeo\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Hong Kong<\/a>, Uyghur Muslims and Tibetans, released a <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/boycottbeijing2022.net\/\"><span>statement<\/span><\/a><span> Monday advocating for a boycott of the Olympics to put more pressure on the International Olympic Committee (IOC), Olympic sponsors, athletes and sports federations, according to <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/united-nations-beijing-business-winter-olympics-boycotts-76d2964dfae4b34a8958318df082cfb4\"><span>The Associated Press<\/span><\/a><span>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cThe Chinese government is committing genocide against the Uyghur people and waging an unprecedented campaign of repression in East Turkistan, Tibet and Southern Mongolia, as well as an all-out assault on democracy in Hong Kong,\u201d the Monday statement reads.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>It also accused the IOC of deciding \u201cto put profit before human lives and turn a blind eye to genocide.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cParticipating in the Beijing Olympic Games at this time would be tantamount to endorsing China\u2019s genocide against the Uyghur people, and legitimizing the increasingly repressive policies of the totalitarian Chinese regime,\u201d the statement added.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" readability=\"12.310344827586\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">It is unthinkable that the world will participate in the Beijing Olympics while Communist China commits genocide.<\/p>\n<p>I stand with the Uyghurs, Tibetans, and the residents of Hong Kong for a boycott of the 2022 Beijing Olympics.<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/AhgJtShaQb\">https:\/\/t.co\/AhgJtShaQb<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Nikki Haley (@NikkiHaley) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NikkiHaley\/status\/1394312320072003592?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 17, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span>The pressure campaign comes in the wake of the United States Olympic and Paralympic Committee claiming that boycotts are ineffective and harm Olympic athletes, The Associated Press previously <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/co-state-wire-europe-beijing-boycotts-2020-tokyo-olympics-a74ec807dfd29603659772d032be1fda\"><span>reported<\/span><\/a><span>. On Tuesday, a joint congressional hearing will evaluate China\u2019s human rights record and how it relates to the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics slated to start in early February, according to The Associated Press. The U.S. State Department recently <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/2017-2021.state.gov\/determination-of-the-secretary-of-state-on-atrocities-in-xinjiang\/index.html\"><span>acknowledged<\/span><\/a><span> that \u201cgenocide and crimes against humanity\u201d have been perpetrated against the Uyghur Muslim minority in the Xinjiang province of China in a report. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/04\/23\/uk-votes-declaration-uyghur-genocide-china\/\">(RELATED: UK Joins America In Calling China\u2019s Treatment Of Uyghurs A Genocide)<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cPeople have worked to engage with the IOC in good faith to have them understand the issues directly from the mouths of those most impacted \u2014 the Uyghurs at the top of that list and the Tibetans and others,\u201d Lhadon Tethong, a member of the Tibet Action Institute, told The Associated Press. \u201c<\/span><span>It\u2019s clear the IOC is completely uninterested in what the real impacts on the ground for people are.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cThe time for talking with the IOC is over,\u201d Tethong continued. \u201cThis cannot be games as usual or business as usual; not for the IOC and not for the international community.\u201d <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/03\/30\/china-hong-kong-antony-blinken-mike-pompeo\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">(RELATED: China Tightens Grip On Hong Kong, Changes Election Law To Ensure Loyalty)<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Tethong was deported from China in 2007 for Tibet-related activism, according to The Associated Press.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The IOC, based in Switzerland, said it must be \u201cneutral\u201d regarding political matters.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cWe [the IOC] are not a super-world government,\u201d IOC President Thomas Back <a href=\"https:\/\/www.abc.net.au\/news\/2021-03-13\/international-olympic-committee-committed-to-global-solidarity\/13245276\">said<\/a> in early March<\/span><span>. The IOC has observer status at the United Nations, according to The Associated Press.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>China has <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/01\/11\/chinese-embassy-us-tweet-birth-rate-xinjiang-genocide-free-will\/\"><span>denied<\/span><\/a><span> putting Uyghur Muslims in concentration camps among other human rights violations. The Chinese Communist Party\u2019s foreign ministry recently criticized \u201cthe politicization of sports,\u201d and asserted that Olympic boycotts would be \u201cdoomed to fail,\u201d according to The Associated Press report.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A coalition representing minorities in China are calling for countries to boycott the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing, The Associated Press reported Monday.The coalition, representing the people of Hong Kong, &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2278320,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/GettyImages-1230944532-scaled-e1621271339821.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"Coalition Pushes To Boycott Beijing Olympic Games, Citing Treatment Of Uyghurs, Tibetans And Hong Kongers","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-517975","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/GettyImages-1230944532-scaled-e1621271339821.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"Coalition Pushes To Boycott Beijing Olympic Games, Citing Treatment Of Uyghurs, Tibetans And Hong Kongers","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/517975","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=517975"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/517975\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2278320"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=517975"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=517975"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=517975"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}