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House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) warned U.S. athletes attending the Winter Olympics in Beijing to not speak out against human rights abuses. 

Pope Francis gave a shout-out to the Beijing Winter Olympics Wednesday, wishing the organizers of the controversial event “every success.”

CNN anchor Jake Tapper said Monday on his show “The Lead” that China was attempting to hid “a lot of ugly truths” during the Beijing Winter Olympics.

On Friday, Celtics center and outspoken human rights advocate Enes Kanter Freedom tweeted a list of NBA players sponsored by Chinese companies with ties to slave labor.

Several human rights groups are shocked by the total silence from Olympics athletes about the genocide games being held in Beijing, China.

Children’s YouTube star Blippi — a household staple for parents of young children boasting 14.8 million subscribers on the video hosting site — debuted a video this weekend in partnership with NBC promoting the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics.

NBC’s longstanding late-night comedy show, ‘Saturday Night Live,’ poked a bit of fun at the coming Beijing genocide Olympics.

The Chinese government newspaper Global Times broke its unusual silence on the ongoing anti-communist campaign of Boston Celtics player Enes Kanter Freedom on Thursday, dismissing his opposition to genocide in China as a sign that he may be cooperating with the CIA.

The International Olympic Committee (IOC) published a review of its Chinese uniform suppliers Wednesday asserting it has no evidence either is using slaves to manufacture the products the IOC is buying.

France’s National Assembly has adopted a non-binding resolution denouncing China’s genocide against its Uyghur minority.

Purported sports cable network ESPN completely ignored the story of Warriors Co-Owner Chamath Palihapitiya, who dismissed Chinese genocide.

Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR) on Tuesday called on the National Basketball Association to force Golden State Warrior part-owner Chamath Palihapitiya to sell his stake in the team after he claimed “nobody cares” about Communist China’s genocide of  Uyghurs in the country’s Xinjiang region. 

Democrat megadonor and NBA co-owner Chamath Palihapitiya is doing mop up duty after saying no one cares if China is committing genocide.

During a Tuesday interview on “The Hugh Hewitt Show,” Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR) tore into billionaire co-owner of the Golden State Warriors Chamath Palihapitiya for saying he doesn’t care about China’s enslavement and genocide against its Uyghur population.

Enos Kanter Freedom ripped the co-owner of the Golden State Warriors for waving off concerns about China’s genocide against the Uyghurs.

Chamath Palihapitiya, the NBA team owner who told a podcast Saturday that “nobody cares” about the genocide of China’s Uyghur population, is a Democratic Party mega-donor who has flirted with the idea of running for governor of California.

Golden State Warriors Co-Owner Chamath Palihapitiya said he doesn’t care about China’s genocide against its Uyghur minority population.

An Asian hate crime forum for London’s Metropolitan Police has been tied to the alleged Chinese spy operating in Westminster.

The Turkish government muted its criticism of China’s horrendous abuse of the Uyghur Muslims on Wednesday, as Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu conveyed some vague “views, expectations and sensitivities” to Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi but stressed Turkey’s full respect for China’s “sovereignty.”

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.