American lawmakers sent a letter to the International Olympic Committee (IOC) on Wednesday demanding an explanation for the IOC’s business deals with two Chinese apparel companies that source their cotton out of Xinjiang, a far-west occupied region where evidence suggests widespread use of slave labor.
Chinese state media announced on Monday that Maj. Gen. Peng Jingtang of the People’s Armed Police Force (PAP) has been named as the new commander of the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) garrison in Hong Kong. Peng’s experience “fighting terorrism in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region” was ominously touted as one of his major qualifications.
American figure skater Timothy LeDuc condemned China’s “horrifying human rights abuses” in remarks shortly after qualifying to participate in the 2022 Beijing Olympics this weekend, admitting to feeling “powerless” about the situation amid calls to boycott the prestigious event.
Students for a Free Tibet said on Saturday that Tibetan, Uyghur, and Hong Kong activists are meeting with Olympic athletes at the final qualifying events for the upcoming Beijing Winter Olympics to talk about China’s human rights abuses.
Rep. Mike Waltz (R-FL) blasted American corporate sponsorship of the upcoming 2022 Beijing “Genocide” Olympics, accusing supporting companies of hypocritically preaching social justice while “cower[ing] to authoritarians.”
China’s Global Times propaganda newspaper branded all criticism of Tesla and its CEO Elon Musk for operating in Xinjiang, a Chinese region where the Communist Party is currently committing genocide, “political depravity” in an editorial published on Thursday.
NBA star Enes Kanter Freedom blasted entrepreneur Elon Musk for ignoring China’s human rights abuses and opening a Tesla showroom there.
Walmart’s big-box discount store Sam’s Club held a conference call on Wednesday in which it denied pulling products from its shelves because they were sourced to Xinjiang, where the oppressed Muslim Uyghurs are sold as slaves by the Chinese Communist regime.
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 government publication Global Times welcomed electric car company Tesla to Xinjiang, this week, claiming that CEO Elon Musk’s decision to do business in a region known for enslaving ethnic minorities is an indication American companies are “shrugging off” human rights concerns.
Human rights activists on Tuesday pleaded with Tesla to close the store it just opened in China’s concentration camp province of Xinjiang, and accused CEO Elon Musk of supporting genocide by doing business with the oppressors of the Uyghur Muslim people.
The Tesla electric car company on Friday announced the opening of its first showroom in Xinjiang, the province where China is practicing slavery and genocide against the Uyghur Muslim minority.
Chinese state media on Wednesday applauded a book with “extracts of President Xi Jinping’s discourses on respecting and protecting human rights.”
China’s state-run Global Times on Friday denounced the U.S. Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act as an act of “blasphemy against real democracy, human rights, and free trade.”
On Thursday’s broadcast of the Fox Business Network’s “Mornings with Maria,” United States Commission on International Religious Freedom Vice Chair Nury Turkel slammed “corporate complicity” in the genocide of the Uyghurs, including sponsorship of the “Genocide Olympics in Beijing,” and
American computer chip maker Intel issued an apology in Chinese text on Thursday for a previous statement in which it urged its Chinese suppliers to not source products from Xinjiang, a region where human rights experts say nearly every manufactured product is guaranteed to have been made by slaves.
Chinese state outlets and government-censored social media users unleashed a “tsunami of anger” against the American computer chip maker Intel on Wednesday in response to news that the company sent a letter to Chinese suppliers warning it not to source products from Xinjiang.
Canadian two-time Olympic snowboarder and X-Games champion Drew Neilson told the country’s CBC network this week that he was considering asking the International Olympic Committee (IOC) to remove him from its historical roster in protest of the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics.
Former President Donald Trump claims that he would not boycott the upcoming Olympic Games in China if he were still president, saying that such a move would make the U.S. look like “sore losers.” The 45th president made the comments
The Senate on Thursday passed the Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act by unanimous consent, sending the bill to President Joe Biden’s desk for signature.
The World Uyghur Congress and Uyghur Human Rights Project have begun the process of filing criminal complaints against the Chinese Communist Party for crimes against humanity and genocide in Argentina, the groups announced on Tuesday.
Enes Kanter Freedom has been joined in his condemnation of the genocidal Chinese regime by NBA Hall of Famer Dominique Wilkins.
Human rights champion and China expert Reggie Littlejohn has condemned President Joe Biden for sending athletes to compete in the 2022 Beijing Olympics as “pathetic” and his alleged diplomatic “boycott” “bogus.”
Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) pressured the New York Times once again on Thursday to clarify if it had colluded with the Communist Party of China to hide documents implicating dictator Xi Jinping in the ongoing genocide of the Uyghur people in occupied East Turkistan, China.
The Uyghur Tribunal, an independent effort by human rights experts and international legal scholars to assess the ongoing genocide of Uyghur people in the occupied region of East Turkistan, found in a judgment issued Thursday that the occupying force, China, is guilty of genocide beyond a reasonable doubt.
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.
Congressman Chris Smith (R-NJ) lamented President Joe Biden’s decision to allow the U.S. team to play in the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics on Tuesday, calling it “an exceedingly weak gesture in response to a genocidal regime.”
Canada will join the United States and Australia in allowing their athletes to travel to China and compete in the Winter Olympics despite Beijing’s reckless and tyrannical oppression and enslavement of their people.
Senator Rick Scott (R, FL) is calling on NBA Commissioner Adam Silver to answer for his league’s silence over the “ongoing genocide” taking place in China.
The White House confirmed Monday the United States would play in the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics, despite the Chinese Communist Party’s long history of human rights violations and ongoing genocide against Muslims in the country.
Left-winger Jemele Hill has finally had enough of Chinese oppression-fighter Enes Kanter Freedom. In a new op-ed, she said he fails to support real activism by appealing to conservative Americans.
Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) challenged the New York Times – a newspaper with a long history of defending communist atrocities – to explain its decision to withhold critical information indicating Chinese dictator Xi Jinping was personally the architect behind the ongoing genocide of Muslim minorities in the country.
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) late Wednesday evening blasted an amendment by Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) that would ban Chinese imports made with Uyghur-slave labor, claiming it was a “poison pill” holding up the advancement of annual must-pass defense legislation.
China’s state-run Global Times on Wednesday railed against the worldwide movement to boycott the upcoming Beijing Winter Olympics over China’s human rights abuses, denouncing the effort as “selfish” and “ultimately harmful.”
According to an investigation published by Axios on Tuesday, top Olympic sponsor Airbnb offers over a dozen homes for rent in the Xinjiang region of China, home of the oppressed Uyghur Muslims – many of whom have been forced from their own homes into concentration camps and sold to both Chinese and foreign corporations as slaves.
China’s Global Times, a government propaganda outlet, published a screed on Tuesday condemning the United States for imposing “tyranny” on ethnic minorities in the country, citing laws from the 1890s.
Whistleblower Emma Reilly said on Tuesday the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) terminated her employment less than 24 hours after giving an interview to France’s Le Monde in which she revealed U.N. employees provided the brutal Chinese government with the names of Uyghur dissidents who planned to testify against Beijing’s human rights abuses.
John Kerry is drawing scrutiny for his downplaying of China’s slave labor of Uyghurs, from which he and his wife may benefit financially.
After taking aim at Boston Celtics’ Enes Kanter for wearing shoes that appear to depict Chinese Communist Party leader Xi Jinping crowning a bowed LeBron James, the NBA superstar faced heavy backlash online, with many accusing him of hypocrisy for “pretending” to be a woke social justice warrior while remaining silent on Chinese human rights abuses because “it affects his pocket.”
