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Top Olympic Sponsors Grilled on China Human Rights Abuses Ahead of Beijing Games

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Rebecca Davis editorTop U.S. corporate sponsors of the Beijing 2022 Olympics dodged two hours of questions from a bipartisan U.S.

government commission Tuesday to avoid directly condemning China’s human rights abuses in Xinjiang.A virtual hearing by Congressional-Executive Commission on China laid bare the hypocrisy of the participating companies.

Each in turn described their commitments to human rights in other contexts but proved unwilling to publicly condemn what the body described as the subjugation of “religious and ethnic minorities… to the cruelest forms of mass internment, slavery, forced sterilization, religious repression, and destruction of cultural practices” in China.Conditions for ethnic Uighurs in the northwestern Xinjiang.

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