Beijing Olympics
International athletes frustrated and helpless at Beijing Winter Olympics
Natalia Maliszewska, a Polish speed skater, stated that she was unexpectedly released from quarantine the night before the preliminary round but was later recalled to a quarantine facility a few hours before the competition after testing positive. Maliszewska tweeted, "I have been living in fear for over a week, and these ...
IOC rewards China’s bad behavior through Olympics: Rippon
Reuters reported former U.S. champion figure skater Adam Rippon said that the International Olympic Committee's decision to select Beijing as the 2022 Winter Games host was like rewarding China for its bad behavior on human rights. Rights groups have long criticized the IOC for giving the Games to China, noting the ...
China ramps up global disinformation activities using patterns unseen before
On Jan. 28, Jianli Yang, head of the Citizens Power Initiative for China, and Nick Monaco, a Chinese misinformation researcher, revealed the Chinese regime is ramping up misinformation efforts globally. The action is about the Beijing Winter Olympics and uses previously unseen patterns and characteristics reported in The Diplomat magazine. According ...
China’s ‘Health Code’ app collects enormous datasets on its population
The Chinese regime issued an app called "Health Code" that tracks the movement and immunity status of COVID-19 cases and contacts. Simultaneously, the app gathers massive data on the country's population. According to a former contact tracing official surnamed Ma, the government uses "big data" about people's buying and mobility habits ...
To ensure success of Beijing Winter Olympics, CCP limits domestic traveling
To ensure that the Beijing Winter Olympics events happen accordingly, China employed a variety of strategies to keep people from travelling amid the pandemic. China has used both rewards and punishment tactics to prevent people from traveling home during the Chinese New Year holiday. They include threatening with imprisonment if returning to ...
CCP faces disadvantages before opening of Beijing Olympics
An analyst said that the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) considers the 2022 Beijing Olympics a significant event to focus on as it wants to take the opportunity to remind people of its leadership. In an interview with AFP, Antoine Bondaz—a researcher at the French Foundation for Strategic Studies—explained that the CCP ...
Genocide Olympics: IOC accused of refusing to answer if official Olympics merchandise is made with slave labor
Activists for the end of forced labor in China denounce that the IOC (International Olympic Committee) cannot ensure that the Olympic Games merchandise products do not come from Xinjiang and were not made with slave labor. An activist group called the "Coalition to End Forced Labor in the Uighur Region" accuses ...
‘It almost makes us look like, I don’t know, sore losers’: Trump’s strong statement on Biden’s diplomatic boycott of Chinese regime
Former President Donald Trump referred to the Biden administration's planned boycott of the Olympic Games to be held in China on Feb. 4 expressing that he would not implement it. "There are much more powerful things we can do than that, much, much more powerful things. That’s not a powerful thing. ...
China urges Japan to treat Beijing Olympics kindly after Japanese PM refuses to attend event
Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida made it clear on Dec. 16 that he has no intention of attending the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics, The Epoch Times reported. In its response, Kong Xuanyou—Chinese Ambassador to Japan—asked Tokyo to support its Olympic games. Kong said that the Beijing Winter Olympics are being "used by ...
Republican leaders repudiate ‘influencers’ who accept money from Chinese regime to promote Olympics
Leading Republican party figures have disowned social media influencers who have accepted money from the Chinese communist regime to promote the Beijing Olympics, accusing them of 'advocating' genocide. Some of the potential Republican candidates for the U.S. presidency in 2024 issued strong statements against those people with influence in the media ...
‘Genocide Games’: Tibetan students chain themselves to Olympic rings at IOC offices in protest
Tibetan students chained themselves to the Olympic rings in front of the Swiss headquarters of the International Olympic Committee on Saturday, Dec. 11, to call for a boycott of what many are calling the Beijing 2022 "Genocide Games." Members of the Tibetan Youth Association in Europe (TYAE) and Students for a ...
Olympics and crimes against humanity cannot coexist in China
Why Beijing doesn't deserve the Olympic Games: testimonies of forced organ harvesting (Part 1) As the Beijing Olympics approach and beyond, the diplomatic boycott led by the United States and followed by Australia and the United Kingdom that has at least made people wonder why there are crimes committed by the ...
Sen. Marco Rubio urges Airbnb to delist properties in China’s Xinjiang region
Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) on Tuesday, Dec. 7, urged Airbnb to delist rental properties it owns in the areas of the Xinjiang region under sanction by the U.S. The call came after a report by Axios alleged the lands owned by Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps (XPCC) have several rental houses ...
The US officially boycott Beijing Olympics
The U.S. will officially boycott the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing. White House Press Secretary, Jen Psaki answered on the press briefing on Dec. 6 that “The Biden administration will not send any diplomatic or official representation to the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics and Paralympic Games given the PRC’s ongoing genocide ...
Human Rights Watch grills IOC for complicity with China over Peng Shuai call claim
Human Rights Watch is disheartened by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) claims that it successfully reached out to missing tennis star Peng Shuai and confirmed she was safe. "The IOC has shown in the last few days just how desperate it is to keep the Games on the rails, no matter ...
Chinese mouthpiece rips Sen. Tom Cotton for urging Beijing Olympic boycott
Infamous editor-in-chief for Global Times, the mouthpiece for the Chinese Communist Party, is using his language weapon again, this time to lambast Sen. Tom Cotton of Arkansas. Hu Xijin of Global Times took direct aim at the Republican Senator for pushing a boycott of the 2022 Beijing Olympic, a sports event ...
China slammed for genocide, US calls for Olympics to be relocated and Chinese athletes banned
Marco Rubio (R-Fla.), joined Rep. Chris Smith,( R-N.J.), in calling on the International Olympic Committee (IOC) to relocate the 2022 Winter Olympics from China to another country, and also to ban Chinese athletes from participating. In a letter sent on Thursday, Oct. 21, both Congressmen and leading Republicans on the Congressional-Executive ...
Students who unfurled an anti-Beijing Olympics banner at the Acropolis in Athens detained
Two female students were detained by Greek police on Sunday, Oct. 17, as they attempted to hang a banner on the Acropolis in Athens, Greece, in protest against the upcoming Beijing 2022 Winter Olympic Games (OG). Tsela Zoksang, an 18-year-old Tibetan student, and Joey Siu, 22, an exiled Hong Kong activist, ...
Olympic Committee not planning to challenge China on human rights ahead of Beijing 2022 Games
The International Olympic Committee (IOC) will not press China, the host of the 2022 Winter Olympics, on its human rights record, a senior IOC member said Wednesday, Oct. 13. John Coates, IOC vice president, rejected suggestions and calls from human rights groups and U.S. officials that China should be challenged for ...
‘Pathetic and disgraceful’: Senator Cotton slams Coca-Cola, Visa, Airbnb execs for not condemning Uighur genocide
The Congressional-Executive Commission on China held a hearing this Tuesday, 27 July 2021, with executives of the companies that will sponsor the Beijing 2022 Olympic Games. Each was asked whether they condemned the genocide against the Uighurs that both the Trump and Biden administrations ratified. Broadly speaking, none of the executives ...
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