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World Politicians, Human Rights Groups Reportedly Ask Olympic Committee to Remove Beijing as 2022 Winter Olympics Host
The Sydney Morning Herald has reported that the Inter-Parliamentary Alliance on China (IPAC)―a group of parliamentarians from the UK, US, Australia, Canada, and Europe―had formally asked the International Olympic Committee (IOC) to reconsider whether China should get to host the 2022 Winter Olympics. China’s foreign ministry has yet to respond.
Sir Iain Duncan Smith, member of the British parliament and co-chairman of the IPAC, said, “The free world does have a strong position to say the bullying, the threatening, the internal repression, the border disputes, the arrogant attitude to your neighbours, the breaking of the treaty with Hong Kong―these must have consequences. At the moment the Chinese believe these consequences are no more than just condemnation.”
Earlier, 160 human rights groups wrote to the IOC asking it to remove China as the host of the 2022 Winter Olympics in response to its suppression of the pro-democracy movement in Hong Kong, the imprisonment of the Uighur people in Xinjiang, and its other human rights issues.
Source: Stand News #Sep22
#China #IPAC #ICO #IanDucanSmith #WinterOlympics #Beijing2022 #HumanRights
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The Sydney Morning Herald has reported that the Inter-Parliamentary Alliance on China (IPAC)―a group of parliamentarians from the UK, US, Australia, Canada, and Europe―had formally asked the International Olympic Committee (IOC) to reconsider whether China should get to host the 2022 Winter Olympics. China’s foreign ministry has yet to respond.
Sir Iain Duncan Smith, member of the British parliament and co-chairman of the IPAC, said, “The free world does have a strong position to say the bullying, the threatening, the internal repression, the border disputes, the arrogant attitude to your neighbours, the breaking of the treaty with Hong Kong―these must have consequences. At the moment the Chinese believe these consequences are no more than just condemnation.”
Earlier, 160 human rights groups wrote to the IOC asking it to remove China as the host of the 2022 Winter Olympics in response to its suppression of the pro-democracy movement in Hong Kong, the imprisonment of the Uighur people in Xinjiang, and its other human rights issues.
Source: Stand News #Sep22
#China #IPAC #ICO #IanDucanSmith #WinterOlympics #Beijing2022 #HumanRights
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Exclusive: China sharply expands mass labor program in Tibet
Xi Jinping said China will once again step up efforts against separatism in Tibet, where ethnic Tibetans make up around 90% of the population. Beijing has set quotas for the mass transfer of Tibetan rural laborers within Tibet and other parts of China. Tibet’s regional government website said over half a million people (around 15% of the region’s population) were trained as part of the project in the first seven months of 2020. China is mirroring a pre-existing program in the west Xinjiang here in Tibet.
Source: Reuters #Sep22
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-rights-tibet-exclusive/exclusive-china-sharply-expands-mass-labor-program-in-tibet-idUSKCN26D0GT
#Tibet #Tibetan #China #Xinjiang #Uyghurs #detentioncamp
Xi Jinping said China will once again step up efforts against separatism in Tibet, where ethnic Tibetans make up around 90% of the population. Beijing has set quotas for the mass transfer of Tibetan rural laborers within Tibet and other parts of China. Tibet’s regional government website said over half a million people (around 15% of the region’s population) were trained as part of the project in the first seven months of 2020. China is mirroring a pre-existing program in the west Xinjiang here in Tibet.
Source: Reuters #Sep22
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-rights-tibet-exclusive/exclusive-china-sharply-expands-mass-labor-program-in-tibet-idUSKCN26D0GT
#Tibet #Tibetan #China #Xinjiang #Uyghurs #detentioncamp
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French study warns of the massive scale of Chinese influence around the world
The 650-page report, entitled "Chinese influence operations - a Machiavelli moment" digs through the layers of secret and not-so-secret institutions, actions and designs used by Beijing to manipulate western opinion.
Written by Paul Cheron, an intelligence expert and Chinese specialist with credentials from Harvard and China's most prestigeous university Qinghua, in partnership with political scientist Jean-Baptiste Jeangène Vilmer, a security specialist, the report is probably the most extensive analysis of China's propaganda machine ever published in French.
The report argues that for a long time China wanted more to be loved than feared, she wanted to seduce, projecting a positive image of herself in the world and so arousing admiration. Recently China has increasingly shown another side.
Source: RFI #Sep22
https://bit.ly/3JPxPix
#French #China #PaulCheron #Propaganda
The 650-page report, entitled "Chinese influence operations - a Machiavelli moment" digs through the layers of secret and not-so-secret institutions, actions and designs used by Beijing to manipulate western opinion.
Written by Paul Cheron, an intelligence expert and Chinese specialist with credentials from Harvard and China's most prestigeous university Qinghua, in partnership with political scientist Jean-Baptiste Jeangène Vilmer, a security specialist, the report is probably the most extensive analysis of China's propaganda machine ever published in French.
The report argues that for a long time China wanted more to be loved than feared, she wanted to seduce, projecting a positive image of herself in the world and so arousing admiration. Recently China has increasingly shown another side.
Source: RFI #Sep22
https://bit.ly/3JPxPix
#French #China #PaulCheron #Propaganda