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An activist group called the Coalition to End Forced Labor in the Uyghur Region on Tuesday charged the International Olympic Committee (IOC) with refusing to answer if slaves are making its merchandise for the Beijing Winter Games.

The Chinese Communist government on Monday admitted to its worst coronavirus case numbers in over 20 months – creating some drama around “whether China can effectively put this round of flare-ups under control before the Beijing Winter Olympics in February,” as the state-run Global Times put it.

The Chinese government on Sunday ordered rural migrant workers in Shaanxi province not to make their traditional annual visits to family during the Lunar New Year and Spring Festival holidays. The restrictions were part of a growing atmosphere of panic around the coronavirus outbreak in Shaanxi’s capital of Xi’an, even as the Chinese Communist regime insists a mere handful of cases have been detected.

A list of multi-national corporations are sponsoring the 2022 Olympics, but have refused to speak out about China’s human rights record.

The UK, like the U.S. and Australia, claims it is boycotting China’s Olympics despite still sending its Olympics to participate in the games.

China warned the world Thursday any nations that sought to boycott the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics would “pay the price” for such intransigence.

Rep. Tim Ryan (D-OH) criticized the Biden administration’s “diplomatic boycott” of the Beijing Winter Olympics, saying it “does not go far enough” to hold China accountable.

NBA player Enes Kanter has called for the IOC to move the Olympics out of China for “the sake” of missing Chinese tennis star Peng Shuai.

Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) said Sunday on CBS’s “Face the Nation” that he hoped U.S. athletes go to the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics and “kick their commie asses.” 

Arkansas Senator Tom Cotton blasted the 2022 Beijing Olympics, warning the world’s athletes of how dangerous going to China is.

Beijing’s government imposed new travel restrictions on the city on Wednesday — including canceling or limiting flights into the capital from parts of China deemed at high-risk for coronavirus — just 79 days before Beijing is set to host the 2022 Winter Olympics, Agence France-Press (AFP) reported.

Joe Biden’s White House is set to impose an empty “diplomatic” boycott of the Olympics in China by refusing to send an official delegation.

When the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics kicks off in February, the Faustian bargain NBC made with China and the International Olympic Committee will finally come due. Will the network acknowledge the big, red elephant in the room, or will it bury some of the world’s worst human rights atrocities under puff pieces and more ice dancing?

Canada has mandated that all Olympics athletes and support staff must be vaccinated to be allowed to participate at the Beijing Winter Games.

Greek police arrested two activists for protesting at the Acropolis in Athens against the upcoming Winter Olympics in Beijing.

The International Olympic Committee (IOC) announced Wednesday it will not pressure 2022 Winter Olympic Games host China over its human rights record, claiming the governing body’s remit is purely about sport and not dictating to sovereign countries.

The IOC announced on Wednesday that only Chinese citizens will be permitted to buy tickets to attend the 2022 Winter Games in Beijing.

Human rights groups are pleading with international television networks including U.S. giant NBC and the UK’s BBC to ignore next year’s Beijing Winter Olympics which are already being dubbed the “genocide games” by protesters.

Frank Gaffney likened the 2022 Winter Olympics scheduled to be held in Beijing, China, to the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin, Germany,

Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR) is sounding the alarm regarding the possibility of Communist China collecting DNA from athletes participating in the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympic Games. 

BEIJING (AP) — China’s government warned Washington on Wednesday not to boycott next year’s Winter Olympics in Beijing after the Biden administration said it was talking with allies about a joint approach to complaints of human rights abuses.

According to the State Department, the United States is considering joining the boycott of the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympic games as the Biden Administration is working to organize an international pushback on China.

China’s state-run Global Times newspaper attacked American Sens. Ted Cruz (R-TX) and Mitt Romney (R-UT) on Wednesday as “shallow” and lacking “perspective” for their comments on the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics, a bizarre attack given both senators opposed boycotting the event.

In one corner are the 15 leading Olympic sponsors, many household names like Airbnb, Coca-Cola, Visa, Toyota, Samsung and General Electric. Together they pay at least $1 billion to the International Olympic Committee, and in the next four-year Olympic cycle the payments could reach $2 billion.

British politicians leading a growing call for a boycott of the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing have drawn the ire of Chinese state media representatives warning of retaliation.

Allowing the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics to occur unchallenged will inspire a genocidal regime to escalate its violence against ethnic minorities, Hidetoshi Ishii, the vice president of the Free Indo-Pacific Alliance, told Breitbart News this week.

China’s state-run Global Times propaganda newspaper threatened other states considering a boycott of the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics with “fierce” retaliation on the part of the Communist Party in a column published Sunday.

China warned Sunday any country that boycotts the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics can expect “serious sanctions” as the Chinese Communist Party continues to reject allegations of “genocide” against Uighur Muslim minorities.