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handle is hein.amenin/aeiadus0001 and id is 1 raw text is: Key Points The next Olyrnic Winter Games are cheded to be heldin China in February 2022. Given 'hina's atrocious human rights recri, mendacious oalng O COVD1a9 dring h oubrea k's early stages, and exr.rnal hoiltay, the games should be moved. * BeIjing houd be St'crped of hosting ,he 2022 Winter lympics to best ensu the heath and sey athletes, offi as, journlists, and spectators and as a means o` hold- ing China accountaLe for its mvan misdeeds. I he Untcd Stos can take steps that nc urage senior members of the Chinese Com- nunist Pa to assess dlhat i P Ji pairc n rtaiy a nome and his beligerence abroad are rn or ky to rrst hia' r an ecuro icurse correction---whether under Xi or a theoretical successor-becomnes more pra e. On February 4, 2022, the LXIV Olympic Winter Games will kick off with eye-popping pageantry, COVID-i -pertting, hundreds of thousands of people from around the world will descend or Bei- jing and pay good money to attend the opeing cer- emonies, where they awil consume an Mnpr\esive display of Chinese Communist Party (CCP) prop- aganda. Foreign visitors will eat PekMing duck, climb the Great Wall, and watch skiing, figure skating, and holedding. And they will likely not spare much thought for what is transpiring in China's far west: a slow-moving genocide that I no less horrid for its deliberate pace. In Xinjiang, China's northwesemost prow- rnce-a so-called autonomous region over which central authorities wield strct control-----an archi-- pelago of concentration camps holds around one million Uyghurs, Kazakhs, and other Muslim mi- nouteso Reports of political indoct na tion, forced labor torture,4 sexual violence , organ harvest- ing, and forced sterlizations? abound. Next Feb- ruary, while mil ems o1 Chinese citizens across the country tune in at pri e time to cheer on their country's medal hopefuls, women in the camps will lay in their bunks as darkness falls hoping to avo a trip to the dark room. In January 2021, then- Secretary of State Mvike Pornpeo announced a determination that the People's Republic of China was con mrttriag ongoing crimes against humanity and genocide in Xinjiangj a finding endorsed by current Secretary of State Antony Blinken in his confirmation hearing. In the months since, the White House and State Department have made clear they see those crimes as ongoing The ongoing atrocities in Xinjiang may be the worst or the known abus'es in China, but they are not a singular phenomenon, In Tibet, a new sys- tem of coercive vocational trai .ing. and labor SNNO >> \

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