A <a href="https://freebeacon.com/democrats/wisconsin-democrats-return-money-from-tech-billionaire-under-fire-for-uyghur-comments/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">left-wing</a> mega-donor who has donated <a href="https://www.opensecrets.org/donor-lookup/results?name=Chamath+Palihapitiya&amp;order=asc&amp;page=2&amp;sort=A" target="_blank" rel="noopener">millions</a> of dollars to Democrats is hosting a fundraiser for pharmaceutical executive Vivek Ramaswamy&#8217;s Republican presidential campaign.
Chamath Palihapitiya is hosting an &#8220;intimate dinner&#8221; and fundraiser for Ramaswamy&#8217;s Super PAC at his home in San Francisco where tickets are being sold for $50,000 with the hopes of generating $1 million for the candidate, according to <a href="https://twitter.com/teddyschleifer/status/1704955641759256867" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Puck News</a>. Ramaswamy will be in attendance.
Fox News <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/democrat-mega-donor-nobody-cares-uyghur-genocide-slated-host-ramaswamy-fundraiser" target="_blank" rel="noopener">noted</a> that Palihapitiya — a former Facebook executive who now is a part owner of the NBA&#8217;s Golden State Warriors — generated significant backlash last year when he said that &#8220;nobody cares&#8221; about communist China&#8217;s genocide of religious minorities in the country.
&#8220;Every time I say that I care about the Uyghurs, I’m really just lying if I don’t really care,&#8221; he said. &#8220;Let’s be honest, nobody, nobody cares about what’s happening to the Uyghurs, okay? You bring it up because you really care. And I think that’s really nice that you care, but the rest of us don’t care.&#8221;
He later added, &#8220;Of all the things that I care about, yes, it is below my line. Okay, of all the things that I care about, it is below my line.&#8221;
Ramaswamy&#8217;s campaign told Fox News that the presidential candidate disagreed with Palihapitiya&#8217;s comments on the genocide, but that Ramaswamy would still attend the fundraiser.
In addition to Ramaswamy campaign Communications Director Tricia McLaughlin saying that the candidate believes the genocide is &#8220;an atrocity,&#8221; Ramaswamy himself recently characterized what China is doing to the Uyghurs as &#8220;one of the worst human rights atrocities committed by a major nation since the Third Reich of Germany.&#8221;
The communist regime&#8217;s rounding up of ethnic Uyghurs in Xinjiang is the largest mass detention of ethnic and religious minorities since the Holocaust.
China surveils everyone in their country, but they keep an especially close eye on the Uyghurs, whom they have <a href="https://www.ushmm.org/genocide-prevention/countries/china/chinese-persecution-of-the-uyghurs" target="_blank" rel="noopener">subjected</a> to mass-enforced sterilization, forced labor, and forced assimilation.
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Human Rights Watch has <a href="https://www.hrw.org/report/2021/04/19/break-their-lineage-break-their-roots/chinas-crimes-against-humanity-targeting" target="_blank" rel="noopener">documented</a> the atrocities being carried out in China&#8217;s concentration camps, which include &#8220;imprisonment or other deprivation of liberty in violation of international law; persecution of an identifiable ethnic or religious group; enforced disappearance; torture; murder; and alleged inhumane acts intentionally causing great suffering or serious injury to mental or physical health, notably forced labor and sexual violence.&#8221;
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/extremely-sadistic-communist-china-gang-rapes-religious-minorities-in-concentration-camps-former-detainees-allege" target="_blank" rel="noopener">‘Extremely Sadistic’: Guards Gang Rape Religious Minorities In China’s Concentration Camps, Former Detainees Allege</a>

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Republican Miami Mayor <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/francis-suarez" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Francis Suarez</a> admitted during an interview with Hugh Hewitt this week that he was completely unaware of one of the largest human rights issues in the world.
Suarez, a long-shot Republican presidential candidate, was asked by Hewitt about the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/uyghur" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Uyghurs</a>, a minority group in China who are locked up in concentration camps and forced into re-education facilities.
After talking briefly about China, Hewitt asked Suarez, &#8220;Will you be talking about the Uyghurs in your campaign?&#8221;
&#8220;The what?&#8221; Suarez responded.
&#8220;The Uyghurs,&#8221; Hewitt said.
&#8220;What’s a Uyghur?&#8221; Suarez asked.
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Hugh Hewitt: “Will you be talking about the Uyghurs in your campaign?”
2024 GOP presidential candidate Francis Suarez: “What&#39;s a Uyghur?” <a href="https://t.co/AlRkjZCJyK">pic.twitter.com/AlRkjZCJyK</a>
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Several minutes later, at the end of the interview, Suarez said, &#8220;And you gave me homework, Hugh.&#8221;
&#8220;I’ll look at what a, what was it, what did you call it, a Weeble?&#8221; Suarez said laughingly.
&#8220;The Uyghurs. You really need to know about the Uyghurs, Mayor,&#8221; Hewitt, who was not laughing, responded. &#8220;You’ve got to talk about it every day, okay?&#8221;
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Reports have <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/extremely-sadistic-communist-china-gang-rapes-religious-minorities-in-concentration-camps-former-detainees-allege">surfaced</a> in recent years of violent gang rape against the Uyghurs and other religious minorities detained in the Chinese concentration camps in Xinjiang.
Qelbinur Sidik, who was forced to teach inside the camps, made allegations in an interview published by CNN in 2021. Sidik’s story begins by noting that a policewoman told her very early on that she had been assigned to investigate reports of rapes and torture taking place at the facility. Sidik said that the policewoman described to her how the male guards at the camp often bragged while drinking about how they “raped and tortured girls.”
Sidik said that her first encounter with new detainees was approximately 100 men and women who were chained in shackles around their hands and feet. She said that even those that came in physically and mentally strong eventually were broken by the brutal system that the communist Chinese had installed in the camps, where an estimated nearly 2 million religious minorities are being detained. She said that she witnessed “horrific traged[ies]” while working at the camp where women were regularly “crying loudly.”
Another witness, Tursunay Ziyawudun, told CNN that she committed no crime when she was sent to the camps. After a month in the camp, authorities released Ziyawudun, only to arrest her a short time later for a nine-month “nightmare.” Ziyawudun, who is now in the U.S., told CNN that large numbers women were often crammed into small spaces, allowed minimal time to basic facilities like toilets, and were brutally punished for small things like using the facilities for too long.
During an interrogation session, Ziyawudun said that she was beaten so intensely that she passed out. Another time, guards forced her on to a table where they “inserted a stun baton” inside her and “twisted and shocked” her until she “blacked out” from the pain. A couple of weeks later she was ganged raped by several men, an experience she said happened to her multiple times while in the camps.
“They were extremely sadistic, causing pain and damage to the body by beating and smacking my head on the wall,” Ziyawudun said, “It was their way of punishing us.”

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A top <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/tiktok" target="_blank" rel="noopener">TikTok</a> executive attacked the House Energy and Commerce committee hearing on TikTok, accusing members of &#8220;xenophobia.&#8221;
TikTok COO Vanessa Pappas said that the hearing &#8220;felt rooted in xenophobia.&#8221; TikTok itself also blasted the hearing in a statement of its own. The company&#8217;s response came after a tense hearing between CEO Shou Zi Chew, in which members from both parties blasted the Chinese-owned social media app for targeting children and violating the data privacy of Americans.
&#8220;We&#8217;re committed to providing a safe, secure platform, that fosters an inclusive place for our amazing, diverse communities to call home,&#8221; <a href="https://twitter.com/v_ness/status/1639000020077924352?s=20" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Pappas</a> wrote on Twitter. &#8220;It’s a shame today’s conversation felt rooted in xenophobia. Thank you to our employees who work tirelessly to protect our platform &amp; community.&#8221;
TikTok itself also knocked the committee hearing, claiming that members were engaged in political grandstanding instead of acknowledging the steps the app has taken to improve safety. &#8220;Our CEO, @ShouChew, came prepared to answer questions from Congress, but unfortunately, the day was dominated by political grandstanding that failed to acknowledge real solutions already underway through Project Texas or address industry-wide issues of youth safety,&#8221; <a href="https://twitter.com/TikTokComms/status/1638993513936478209" target="_blank" rel="noopener">TikTok Comms</a> wrote.
&#8220;Also not mentioned today by members of the @HouseCommerce Committee: the livelihoods of the 5 million businesses on TikTok or the First Amendment implications of banning a platform loved by 150 million Americans,&#8221; the <a href="https://twitter.com/TikTokComms/status/1638993515874078744?s=20" target="_blank" rel="noopener">company</a> added.
Pappas&#8217; comments seemed to stem from an <a href="https://www.mediaite.com/politics/its-a-pretty-easy-question-tiktok-ceo-declines-three-chances-to-acknowledge-chinese-persecution-of-uyghurs/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">exchange</a> between Chew and Rep. Debbie Lesko (R-AZ), in which Lesko asked him to denounce the persecution of Uyghur Muslims by the Chinese Communist Party. Chew repeatedly evaded the question, preferring to talk about the content on the app, but Lesko asked him the question several times.
“Do you agree that the Chinese government has persecuted the Uyghur population?” Lesko asked.
&#8220;If you use our app, and you open it, you will see our users who give all sorts of content,&#8221; Chew said.
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“Well, it’s deeply concerning to hear about all accounts of human rights abuse; my role here is to explain what our platform does” said Chew, before being cut off again.
“I think you’re being pretty evasive,&#8221; Lesko interjected. &#8220;It’s a pretty easy question.” She then asked her question a third time.
“Congresswoman, I’m here to describe TikTok and what we do as a platform,&#8221; Chew replied. &#8220;And as a platform, we allow our users to freely express themselves on this issue and any other issue that matters to them.&#8221;
But commenters replying to Pappas&#8217; post pointed out that Chew dodging the question was actually an indicator that TikTok may be compromised by the CCP.
&#8220;One of TikTok&#8217;s core claims is that it is independent of its Chinese parent, ByteDance,&#8221; cybersecurity expert <a href="https://twitter.com/gillespiejames_/status/1639029795559440384?s=20" target="_blank" rel="noopener">James Gillespie</a> wrote in reply to Pappas. &#8220;So it seems reasonable for Congress to ask the CEO if he condemns the Uyghur genocide, because if he won&#8217;t that surely says something about how free he feels to displease Beijing.&#8221;
&#8220;You can see here how well the Chinese communist state apparatus has mastered the idiocies of the West &amp; its media classes &#8211; pronouns, safetyism, ‘diverse communities,’ claiming &#8216;xenophobia&#8217; &#8230; a masterclass in understanding &amp; exploiting the West&#8217;s neuroses,&#8221; journalist <a href="https://twitter.com/GrayConnolly/status/1639019455538921472?s=20" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Gray Connolly</a> added.
&#8220;COO of TikTok says that todays hearing — where CEO of TikTok on several occasions refused to condemn concentration camps filled with a religious minority — &#8216;felt rooted in xenophobia,’” journalist <a href="https://twitter.com/ZaidJilani/status/1639014091489411072?s=20" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Zaid Jilani</a> tweeted.
&#8220;Calling real concerns about data security and content filtering xenophobic is certainly an interesting approach to take,&#8221; CNBC writer <a href="https://twitter.com/Kantrowitz/status/1639006996648132609?s=20" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Alex Kantrowitz</a> added.

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American doctors go to great lengths to maintain the highest ethical standards as they work to save thousands of desperately ill patients waiting for an organ match, as underscored in recent reporting of innovative transplant experiments using genetically modified pig hearts. China’s transplant sector, unconstrained by rigorous ethical rules, found a more expedient solution. China created a thriving transplant industry, the world’s <a href="https://english.www.gov.cn/news/top_news/2018/07/05/content_281476209784504.htm">second largest</a>, based on a supply of organs forcibly harvested from executed prisoners – most likely prisoners of conscience.
Though China announced that it banned this hideous practice in 2015, transparency is lacking and mounting evidence indicates that it continues. Nevertheless, the American transplant sector, while adhering to medical ethics at home, openly supports China’s transplant doctors and industry.
In 2006, shocking reports first surfaced of China forcibly harvesting organs from detained Falun Gong adherents. According to these reports, after Falun Gong, a Chinese spiritual meditation group, was targeted for “elimination” by China’s president in 1999, thousands of practitioners were thrown into labor camps and jails and subjected to organ screening, unexplained deaths, and disappearances. Many, the group says, were killed for their organs, which were sold to China’s transplant sector, just as it surged and became a billion-dollar industry. Credible <a href="https://bitterwinter.org/organ-harvesting-in-china-is-real-smoking-guns/">testimony</a> from former detainees, relatives, patients, and surgeons supports this. It was during this period that scores of Chinese transplant surgeons published articles, openly describing procedures on prisoners who “were alive and breathing as the <a href="https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/science/articles/china-killer-doctors">surgeons</a> cut their hearts out,” as documented in a 2022 article in the respected <a href="https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/ajt.16969">American Journal of Transplantation</a>, written by Victims of Communism Foundation fellow Matthew Robertson and Israeli Dr. Jacob Lavee.
Last year 12 independent <a href="https://www.ohchr.org/en/press-releases/2021/06/china-un-human-rights-experts-alarmed-organ-harvesting-allegations?LangID=E&amp;NewsID=27167">UN experts</a> stated they were “extremely alarmed” by “credible information” that forced organ harvesting was continuing and, moreover, targeting China’s various religious minorities. Several sources report evidence that the atrocity has spread to Xinjiang’s massive network of closed detention camps, which, significantly, were built after 2015, and which both Republican and Democratic administrations recognized as the site of ongoing genocide against China’s Uyghur Muslims.
Nury Turkel, who chairs the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom, documented forced blood sampling and organ screening of Uyghur detainees, including a Christian, Ovalbek Turdakun, whom one of us interviewed. As noted in a May 2022 European Parliament resolution, a Beijing hospital brazenly advertised its use of “‘halal organs’ from Uyghurs and Muslim minorities.” At the International Religious Freedom <a href="https://irfsummit.org/">Summit</a>, held in Washington, D.C. in June, <a href="https://www.hudson.org/research/17967-forced-organ-harvesting-american-organ-transplant-collaboration-with-china-despite-damning-evidence">Ethan Gutmann</a>, the leading field researcher on China’s forced organ harvesting, estimated that 25,000 to 50,000 Uyghurs have been killed annually for their organs. Gutmann’s research implicates a former SARS hospital in Aksu, Xinjiang, which is served by an airport with a designated “fast lane” for expressing organs to hospitals throughout China.
No satisfactory explanation exists for how – despite only a million registered volunteer donors in China, compared with America’s 145 million in 2019 – China’s patients can schedule appointments for transplant surgeries within days or weeks, as patients and investigators reported, instead of waiting months or years, as in the U.S. In addition, Robertson, Lavee, and Australian statistician Raymond Hinde have <a href="https://bmcmedethics.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12910-019-0406-6">determined</a> that the growth curves of China’s voluntary donation lists for three organ types formed implausible, nearly perfect quadratic equations. In a peer-reviewed <a href="https://bmcmedethics.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12910-019-0406-6">medical ethics journal</a> article in 2019, they conclude that China’s donor database was “falsified” as a result of being “manufactured and manipulated from the central levels of the Chinese medical bureaucracy.” Also, China’s reported number of annual transplants, <a href="https://english.www.gov.cn/news/top_news/2018/07/05/content_281476209784504.htm">5,000-6,000</a>, appears understated. Documenting Chinese transplant hospitals, beds and surgeons, Gutmann and Canadian human rights experts David Mattas and David Kilgour <a href="https://endtransplantabuse.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/Bloody_Harvest-The_Slaughter-June-23-V2.pdf">estimated</a> that 60,000 to 100,000 organ transplants are occurring annually in China, with 8,000 a year at just one hospital.
Though shocking, China’s lack of medical ethics is not entirely surprising considering that it perpetrates ethno-religious genocide. But, given the grave questions about organ sourcing raised in these reports and China’s lack of transparency, it is unconscionable that major American universities and hospitals support China’s transplant sector. As brandished on their websites, Harvard, Stanford, the University of Pittsburgh, and many other others provide China with fellowships, academic exchanges, conferences, and joint research projects. American institutions are <a href="https://www.upholdjustice.org/node/547">documented</a> to have trained 344 of China’s transplant doctors.
Some in the American medical community apparently collaborate in the hope of persuading their Chinese partners to ensure organ donation is indeed voluntary. But when blocked from verifying claims of reform, these same U.S. institutions accept China’s word at face value and even <a href="https://chinamedicalboard.org/news/china_transplant_conference_focuses_%E2%80%9Cchina_model%E2%80%9D">praise</a> its progress. They are not alone in buying China’s lies. The medical ethics journal cited above observed: “The World Health Organization, the Transplantation Society, the Declaration of Istanbul Custodian Group, and the Pontifical Academy of Sciences have all provided endorsements of the reforms based on what appears to be contaminated data.”
The WHO’s organ transplant task force, for example, was <a href="http://en.nhc.gov.cn/2017-02/14/c_71188.htm">proposed</a> in 2017 by Dr. Huang Jiefu, who<a href="https://english.www.gov.cn/news/top_news/2018/07/05/content_281476209784504.htm"> directed</a> China’s transplant donor registry, long served on the <a href="https://www.chinavitae.com/biography/Huang_Jiefu">Chinese Communist Party’s Central Committee</a> and, though far from independent, was appointed to the task force itself. Under the chairmanship of Harvard’s Dr. Francis Delmonico, who toured China’s hospitals as Huang’s guest and praised Huang as a “<a href="https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/CHRG-114hhrg20533/pdf/CHRG-114hhrg20533.pdf">courageous leader</a>” in congressional testimony, the task force was mandated to flag crises in the transplant field. Yet, Gutmann, Robertson, and Mattas each say that it <a href="https://jamestown.org/program/examining-chinas-organ-transplantation-system-the-nexus-of-security-medicine-and-predation-part-3-chinas-united-front-tactics-in-managing-the-narrative-on-organ-trafficking/">dismissed</a> out of hand their devastating research.
To date, no U.S. administration has taken seriously the charges of China’s ongoing organ harvesting. In 2018, the State Department tried to close the book on the issue, <a href="https://www.state.gov/reports/2018-country-reports-on-human-rights-practices/china-includes-tibet-hong-kong-and-macau-china/">declaring</a> point blank that China’s government “officially ended the long-standing practice of involuntarily harvesting the organs of executed prisoners for use in transplants in January 2015.” It, too, failed to undertake independent verification. The Biden administration should reexamine all forced organ harvesting evidence and make its own determination. Congress should pass the <a href="https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/1592/related-bills">Stop Forced Organ Harvesting Act </a>to ensure this happens.
Former Chinese military surgeon Dr. Enver Tohti, testifying before the Tom Lantos Human Rights Commission, recently <a href="https://humanrightscommission.house.gov/events/hearings/forced-organ-harvesting-china-examining-evidence">commented</a> on Western indifference to this issue. Forced organ harvesting seemed just “too bad to be true,” he said. But the evidence is too compelling to persist in that naïve belief. Until compliance with international ethical norms is verified, the American transplant sector should halt all collaboration with China’s.
The views expressed in this piece are the author’s own and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.
This article was originally published by RealClearPolitics and made available via RealClearWire.
Nina Shea is a senior fellow of the Hudson Institute where she directs its Center for Religious Freedom. She is a former vice chair of the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom, to which she was appointed by House Republicans.
Katrina Lantos Swett is president of the Lantos Foundation for Human Rights &amp; Justice. She is a human rights professor at Tufts University and the former chair of the U.S. Commission for International Religious Freedom, to which she was appointed by Senate Democrats.

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<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/china">China</a> accused the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/white-house">White House</a> of lying when it claimed <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/joe-biden">President Joe Biden</a> pressed Chinese <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/xi-jinping">President Xi Jinping</a> on the country’s systematic abuse of <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/uyghur">Uyghur Muslims</a> when the leaders spoke by phone Thursday morning.
<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/karine-jean-pierre">White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre</a> said after the marathon call that Biden had “raised genocide and forced labor practices” imposed on the minority group by the Chinese Communist Party. There are an estimated 12 million Uyghurs in the northwestern Xinjiang province, where they are tortured, sterilized, imprisoned and treated as slaves, according to international human rights advocates.
“That is something that he raised about human rights, as he always does,” Jean-Pierre claimed. “This is, as we’ve said, that anytime the president has an opportunity, he raises that when he meets with another leader, and called on the [People’s Republic of China] to cease its ongoing human rights abuses across China.”
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Honestly, I’ve never heard <a href="https://twitter.com/POTUS?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@POTUS</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/JoeBiden?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@JoeBiden</a> himself publicly speaking out against China’s ongoing genocide of Uyghurs/Turkic peoples in East Turkistan; it’s always been other officials. Biden needs to uphold his campaign promise &amp; act against the genocide.<a href="https://t.co/6lZaj2755i">https://t.co/6lZaj2755i</a>
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But on Friday, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Zhao Lijan called Pierre’s claim Biden got tough with Xi “disinformation.”
“I can tell you that allegations of ‘genocide’ and ‘forced labor’ in Xinjiang are pure lies,” Zhao said. “You said the White House press secretary claimed that ‘genocide’ and ‘forced labor’ came up in last night’s call. That is disinformation.”
Both countries issued readouts of the call, and neither one mentioned the Uyghurs. The U.S. said Biden and Xi “discussed a range of issues important to the bilateral relationship and other regional and global issues.”
The call, which reportedly lasted about two hours, was the fifth conversation between the two leaders since early 2021. They reportedly discussed a variety of topics, including the tension surrounding Taiwan, economic competition, and the war in Ukraine.
Zhao has been highly critical of the U.S this week, especially in light of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s planned visit to Taiwan. The self-governing island is supported by the U.S., but China considers it part of its territory. Beijing has warned it would view Pelosi’s trip as a provocation.
“If the U.S. insists on going its own way and challenging China’s bottom line, it will surely be met with forceful responses,” Zhao told reporters earlier this week. “All ensuing consequences shall be borne by the U.S.”

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The Miami Heat NBA franchise is being criticized for encouraging fans to contact their state senators &#8220;demanding&#8221; support for &#8220;common-sense gun laws&#8221; prior to the team&#8217;s playoff game against the Boston Celtics Wednesday night.
Following a moment of silence in honor of the 21 victims killed in the school shooting in Uvalde, Texas, the team&#8217;s public address announcer urged attendees at FTX Stadium to leave a message with their elected officials and asked them to register to vote.
A clip of the request can be seen here:
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&mdash; Miami HEAT (@MiamiHEAT) <a href="https://twitter.com/MiamiHEAT/status/1529627285103443973?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 26, 2022</a></blockquote>
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In reaction to the announcement, Florida Republican Senator Marco Rubio blasted the NBA, accusing the league of blatant hypocrisy related to its business dealings with the Chinese Communist regime.
&#8220;The <a class="css-4rbku5 css-18t94o4 css-901oao css-16my406 r-1cvl2hr r-1loqt21 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" role="link" href="https://twitter.com/NBA">@NBA </a>doesn’t like to talk about the billions they make from a China that enslaves Uyghur Muslims and harvests their organs,&#8221; Rubio tweeted. &#8220;But they have no problem politicizing a horrific tragedy in America.&#8221;
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The <a href="https://twitter.com/NBA?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@NBA</a> doesn’t like to talk about the billions they make from a China that enslaves Uyghur Muslims and harvests their organs
But they have no problem politicizing a horrific tragedy in America <a href="https://t.co/VUXpOBbw7j">pic.twitter.com/VUXpOBbw7j</a>
&mdash; Marco Rubio (@marcorubio) <a href="https://twitter.com/marcorubio/status/1529662469710483457?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 26, 2022</a></blockquote>
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The Daily Wire recently <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/nba-owners-have-10-billion-invested-in-china-report-finds">reported</a> that owners of NBA teams have a collective $10 billion invested in China.
The NBA has been frequently criticized for doing business with China while refusing to speak against a myriad of issues plaguing the communist nation — including repression of ethnic minorities like the Uyghurs.
A <a href="https://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/33938932/nba-owners-mum-china-relationship-more-10-billion-invested-there">new analysis from ESPN</a> found that the league’s 40 principal owners “collectively have more than $10 billion tied up in China.&#8221;
The Daily Wire also <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/nba-owners-have-10-billion-invested-in-china-report-finds">noted</a> that former Boston Celtics player Enes Kanter Freedom — who grew up under heavy political repression in Turkey — has <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/enes-kanter-slams-professional-sports-leagues-for-not-speaking-out-on-china-theyre-scared">blasted the NBA</a> for refusing to speak out about Chinese atrocities because they are “scared.”
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“You know, you see, there’s so many athletes, so many actors, you know, so many singers and rappers out there,” Kanter said in 2021. “They’re scared. They’re scared to say a word because they care too much about their money. They care too much about their endorsement deals. They care too much about what the teams that they play for are going to say. But, you know, they should know one thing: It should be morals and principles over money. It shouldn’t be the opposite way.”
On Tuesday, Golden State Warriors coach Steve Kerr also commented on the tragedy of gun violence.
&#8220;When are we going to do something? I am so tired of getting up here and offering condolences to the devastated families that are out there,&#8221; Kerr said at a press conference.
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A collection of hacked files has revealed the concerning plight of Uyghur Muslims being persecuted in the Xinjiang province of China.
The BBC revealed more than 2,800 pictures from the newly shared information to document the human rights abuses of the Uyghur people.
“Today, further shocking details of China’s human rights violations in Xinjiang have emerged, which add to the already extensive body of evidence from Chinese government documents, first-hand testimony, satellite imagery and visits by our own diplomats to the region,&#8221; United Nations Human Rights Commissioner Michelle Bachelet <a href="https://www.thenational.scot/news/20160964.hacked-files-show-chinas-human-rights-violations-xinjiang/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a>.
“New evidence shows the extraordinary scale of China’s targeting of Uighur Muslims and other ethnic minorities, including forced labour, severe restrictions on freedom of religion, the separation of parents from their children, forced birth control, and mass incarceration,&#8221; she added. “The UK stands with our international partners in calling out China’s appalling persecution of Uighur Muslims and other minorities. We remain committed to holding China to account.&#8221;
Nury Turkel, co-founder and chair of the Uyghur Human Rights Project, also condemned China&#8217;s actions.
“What we’re dealing with is an industrial-scale concentration camp system, a modern-day, tech-supported genocide,&#8221; Turkel <a href="https://twitter.com/UyghurCongress/status/1528715870314315777" target="_blank" rel="noopener">wrote</a>. &#8220;What more do they want to see in order to act? I don’t understand. Never again is happening again, right now.”
The BBC report blasted the inhumane treatment of the Uyghur people.
&#8220;The documents provide some of the strongest evidence to date for a policy targeting almost any expression of Uyghur identity, culture or Islamic faith &#8211; and of a chain of command running all the way up to the Chinese leader, Xi Jinping,&#8221; the <a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/extra/85qihtvw6e/the-faces-from-chinas-uyghur-detention-camps" target="_blank" rel="noopener">report</a> stated.
New Mexico Republican Rep. Yvette Herrell shared the BBC account on Twitter, with strong words opposing China&#8217;s actions.
&#8220;A tragic reminder of why the USA has not only a strategic interest in divesting from China, but a moral one,&#8221; she wrote. &#8220;Communist gulags are alive and well in 2022.&#8221;
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A tragic reminder of why the USA has not only a strategic interest in divesting from China, but a moral one. 
Communist gulags are alive and well in 2022. <a href="https://t.co/go0lnnZV8z">https://t.co/go0lnnZV8z</a>
&mdash; Rep. Yvette Herrell (@RepHerrell) <a href="https://twitter.com/RepHerrell/status/1529130846292217859?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 24, 2022</a></blockquote>
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The news comes shortly after research by The Daily Wire <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/five-woke-companies-that-benefit-from-uyghur-slave-labor" target="_blank" rel="noopener">documented</a> that a February 2020 <a href="http://ad-aspi.s3.ap-southeast-2.amazonaws.com/2021-10/Uyghurs%20for%20sale%2020OCT21.pdf?VersionId=zlRFV8AtLg1ITtRpzBm7ZcfnHKm6Z0Ys">report</a> from the Australian Strategic Policy Institute (ASPI), the Chinese Communist Party has facilitated “a state-sponsored labour transfer scheme” of “Uyghur and other ethnic minority citizens from the far west region of Xinjiang to factories across the country.” Living in segregated dormitories and forced to undergo ideological training outside of work hours, these Uyghurs — many of whom are Muslims — are forbidden from practicing their religion or otherwise expressing dissent with their government.
Many former inmates of Uyghur detention camps have <a href="https://www.vox.com/2020/7/28/21333345/uighurs-china-internment-camps-forced-labor-xinjiang">experienced</a> torture and sexual abuse as part of their “re-education” process. One female survivor <a href="https://nypost.com/2021/12/18/uyghur-women-recall-horrors-of-chinas-labor-camps/">recalled</a> getting removed from the streets by law enforcement, enduring gang rape, and being forced to take sterilization pills. By several estimates, the Uyghur genocide is the <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/nov/24/china-cables-leak-no-escapes-reality-china-uighur-prison-camp">largest</a> mass imprisonment of a minority group since World War II.

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Leaked Files Reveal China’s Human Rights Violations Against Uyghur Muslims

Hacked Files Reveal China's Human Rights Violations Against Uyghur Muslims

There is a rising trend in corporate America to make businesses more “socially conscious” — at least in the minds of Western consumers.
Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) criteria are “a set of standards for a company’s operations that socially conscious investors use to screen potential investments,” according to <a href="https://www.investopedia.com/terms/e/environmental-social-and-governance-esg-criteria.asp">Investopedia</a>. For instance, a company may emphasize its use of green energy, association with LGBTQ suppliers, or otherwise arrange its operations such that producing shareholder value is inseparable from a leftist agenda.
Elon Musk <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/elon-musk-condemns-rising-woke-trend-in-corporate-america">warned</a> just a few weeks ago that “ESG rules have been twisted into insanity.” This year’s ranking of the “<a href="https://worldsmostethicalcompanies.com/honorees/">World’s Most Ethical Companies</a>” by Ethisphere — the “global leader in defining and advancing the standards of ethical business practices that fuel corporate character” — helps to explain why. 
With its “deep expertise in measuring and defining core ethics standards,” Ethisphere identified 136 organizations that deserve our praise for their outstanding moral fiber. Many of these corporations <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/one-year-after-george-floyd-americas-biggest-corporations-earmark-37-billion-for-racial-equity">poured money</a> into “racial equity” initiatives following the death of George Floyd. Nevertheless, many also have ties to forced labor in Xinjiang, China — a world away from the eyes of woke Western consumers.
‘A State-Sponsored Labour Transfer Scheme’
As pointed out by a February 2020 <a href="http://ad-aspi.s3.ap-southeast-2.amazonaws.com/2021-10/Uyghurs%20for%20sale%2020OCT21.pdf?VersionId=zlRFV8AtLg1ITtRpzBm7ZcfnHKm6Z0Ys">report</a> from the Australian Strategic Policy Institute (ASPI), the Chinese Communist Party has facilitated “a state-sponsored labour transfer scheme” of “Uyghur and other ethnic minority citizens from the far west region of Xinjiang to factories across the country.” Living in segregated dormitories and forced to undergo ideological training outside of work hours, these Uyghurs — many of whom are Muslims — are forbidden from practicing their religion or otherwise expressing dissent with their government.
Many former inmates of Uyghur detention camps have <a href="https://www.vox.com/2020/7/28/21333345/uighurs-china-internment-camps-forced-labor-xinjiang">experienced</a> torture and sexual abuse as part of their “re-education” process. One female survivor <a href="https://nypost.com/2021/12/18/uyghur-women-recall-horrors-of-chinas-labor-camps/">recalled</a> getting removed from the streets by law enforcement, enduring gang rape, and being forced to take sterilization pills. By several estimates, the Uyghur genocide is the <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/nov/24/china-cables-leak-no-escapes-reality-china-uighur-prison-camp">largest</a> mass imprisonment of a minority group since World War II.
Yet none of this seems to bother some of the Western world’s most valuable — and most woke — companies. Indeed, ASPI’s report identified 82 brands in the clothing, technology, and automotive sectors that benefit from Uyghurs’ forced labor.
<h4>Apple</h4>
Apple — a one-time honoree on the “World’s Most Ethical Companies” list — has multiple firms in its supply chain that utilize forced labor.
In 2017, Apple CEO Tim Cook visited supplier O-Film Technology and posted a picture of himself on an O-Film factory floor in Guangzhou, China. In a since-deleted press release, Cook praised O-Film for its “humane approach towards employees,” claiming that the workers seemed “able to gain growth at the company, and live happily.”
However, ASPI points out that five months after Cook’s visit, the Hotan government in Xinjiang contacted O-Film, hoping to supply another 1,300 workers. In December 2017, a Uyghur who claimed to have worked at O-Film said that there were more than a thousand Uyghur workers at the O-Film factory in Jiangxi.
Two years later, a local government document indicated that 560 Xinjiang laborers were transferred to work in factories in the Henan province — including Foxconn’s Zhengzhou facility. The Zhengzhou plant makes half of the world’s iPhones and has even earned Zhengzhou the nickname of “iPhone city.”
Beyond O-Film and Foxconn, Apple incorporated Dongguan Yidong Electronic Co. and Changji Esquel Textile Co. into its supply chain.
Here in the United States, Apple <a href="https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2021/01/apple-launches-major-new-racial-equity-and-justice-initiative-projects-to-challenge-systemic-racism-advance-racial-equity-nationwide/">devoted</a> $100 million toward racial equity and justice initiatives “to help dismantle systemic barriers to opportunity and combat injustices faced by communities of color.” Cook proclaimed that “we are all accountable to the urgent work of building a more just, more equitable world” in a manner consistent with “the values of equity and inclusion we have always prized at Apple.”
<h4>Sony</h4>
Sony — a four-time honoree on the “World’s Most Ethical Companies” list — also procures many of its devices from Chinese facilities using Uyghur labor, including O-Film, Highbroad, Dongguan Yidong, and Foxconn.
The Japanese technology conglomerate <a href="https://www.sony.com/en/SonyInfo/blog/2021/04/15/">professes</a> to believe in “building a culture that makes business and employee diversity a priority” with diversity “as one of our core values.” With a $100 million global social justice fund, Sony has expressed concern with “the terrifying rise in hate crimes against the Asian American and Pacific Islander community across the United States.” 
Sony CEO Kenichiro Yoshida once noted that “racial injustice is a global issue that affects us all” and insisted that his company is “committed to the human rights of all people.”
<h4>Dell</h4>
Dell Technologies — a ten-time honoree on the “World’s Most Ethical Companies” list — also procured from O-Film, Highbroad, and Foxconn, as well as Sichuan Mianyang Jingweida Technology Co.
In the summer of 2020, CEO Michael Dell <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/standing-strong-together-michael-dell/">told</a> his employees that the death of George Floyd was “all too familiar” for “people of color in communities all over this country and around the world.” He added that “for all the work we do within our own company, there will never be true justice or equality until we root out the rotten underbelly of racism that is eating away at the most cherished values we hold dear.”
<h4>General Motors</h4>
General Motors — a three-time honoree on the “World’s Most Ethical Companies” list — is also associated with O-Film and Dongguan Yidong.
The automaker <a href="https://plants.gm.com/media/us/en/gm/news.detail.html/content/Pages/news/us/en/2020/jun/0605-support.html">designated</a> $10 million for donations to racial justice organizations in the summer of 2020. According to GM CEO Mary Barra, the funding was meant to help “root out intolerance — and that means racism, bigotry, discrimination and any other form of hatred.”
“We want to be part of meaningful, deliberate change and we will not allow ourselves the passivity of urging others to act,” she vowed. “We are taking action.”
<h4>Microsoft</h4>
Microsoft — a twelve-time honoree on the “World’s Most Ethical Companies” list — has links to O-Film, Dongguan Yidong, and Foxconn.
The technology company is in the middle of a five-year <a href="https://blogs.microsoft.com/blog/2021/06/09/our-annual-report-racial-equity-initiative-strengthening-our-communities/">initiative</a> to strengthen African-American communities in the United States — complete with a $50 million commitment to police and prosecution reform. According to CEO Satya Nadella, “seeing injustice in the world calls us all to take action, as individuals and as a company.”
&#8216;Human Rights Due Diligence&#8217;
The hypocrisy of multinational corporations willing to toss a few million dollars toward woke nonprofits in the United States while bankrolling ethnic cleansing abroad is quite apparent. Fortunately, many Americans are now taking notice — and lawmakers are taking action.
President Joe Biden <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/biden-signs-uyghur-forced-labor-prevention-act-into-law">signed</a> the Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act into law in December. Sponsored by Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) and Sen. Jeff Merkley (D-OR), the legislation stipulates that no goods made with slave labor from Uyghur Muslims in the Xinjiang province will make it to the United States. However, the legislation was passed despite a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/report-nike-lobbying-against-anti-china-bill-banning-import-of-products-made-by-forced-uyghur-labor">lobbying</a> push from firms like Nike, Coca-Cola, and “World’s Most Ethical Companies” designee Apple.
How should Western companies respond to their tainted supply chains? ASPI recommends that each company should “conduct immediate and thorough human rights due diligence on its factory labour in China, including robust and independent social audits and inspections.” Any factories implicated should then be reformed or abandoned.
And in the meantime, we should avoid lauding these companies for their compassion.
The views expressed in this opinion piece are the author’s own and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.

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Beijing Olympics spokesperson Yan Jiarong insisted that concerns about genocide against Uyghurs are “lies.”
During a news conference on Thursday, three days before the conclusion of the Games, organizers’ “persistent and polite refusal to answer such questions gave way to the usual state of affairs at news conferences with Chinese officials — emphatic, calibrated answers about the country’s most sensitive situations,” the <a href="https://apnews.com/article/winter-olympics-china-politics-taiwan-uyghurs-33a2c2059fb253091b6772de3895207a">Associated Press</a> reported.
“I think these questions are based on lies,” Yan <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2022/feb/17/beijing-2022-organisers-claim-stories-of-xinjiang-human-rights-abuses-are-lies">said</a> with respect to concentration camps in Xinjiang. “Some authorities have already disputed such false information with a lot of solid evidence. You are very welcome to refer to all that evidence and facts.”
Yan also repeated Chinese Communist Party talking points with respect to the status of Taiwan.
“Taiwan is an indivisible part of China and this is a well recognized international principle and well recognized in the international community,” she insisted. “We are always against the idea of politicizing the Olympic Games.”
Meanwhile, International Olympic Committee spokesman Mark Adams denied any association between the Games and the Uyghur genocide. Another reporter asked whether garments used in the Olympics were made with forced labor. “None of the production took place in Xinjiang, nor any of the input of raw materials comes from that region,” Adams replied.
When pressed by a reporter who suggested that Yan had “politicized” the Games by mentioning China’s view of Taiwan, Adams responded that “there are views on all sorts of things around the world, but our job is to make sure that the Games take place.”
“I think the so-called forced labor in Xinjiang are lies made up by deliberate groups,” Yan offered. “And the relevant organizations have provided a large amount of facts to dispute that. And we are against the politicization of sports.”
The IOC, however, claims to uphold human rights. According to its <a href="https://olympics.com/ioc/human-rights">website</a>:
<blockquote>The IOC is committed to improving the promotion and respect of human rights within the scope of its responsibility across its three spheres of activity — as an organisation, as the owner of the Olympic Games and as the leader of the Olympic Movement.
The objective is to ensure that people’s rights are put at the core of our operations and are respected in line with international agreements and standards — within the IOC’s remit.</blockquote>
The reality of Chinese human rights abuses has driven much controversy about the Games among competing nations. Canada, Australia, and the United States are participating in diplomatic <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/breaking-canada-joins-u-s-in-diplomatic-boycott-of-2022-winter-olympic-games-in-beijing">boycotts</a>, refusing to send government officials in light of “ongoing genocide and crimes against humanity,” according to White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki.
“The athletes on Team USA have our full support, we’ll be behind them 100% as we cheer them on from home. We will not be contributing to the fanfare of the Games,” Psaki added.
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Beijing Olympics Organizers Dismiss Concerns About Uyghur Genocide As ‘Lies’

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White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki said the U.S. must not allow China’s inclusion of a Uyghur in the Olympics opening ceremony to distract from the ongoing massive abuse of human rights in the Communist-controlled country.
Psaki was asked Monday about China’s decision to include Olympic cross-country skier Dinigeer Yilamujiang, a Uygher, in the games’ opening ceremony. China set up the stunt, having Yilamujiang carry the Olympic flame along with Han Chinese athlete Zhao Jiawen, over mounting criticism of rampant human rights abuse in its Xinjiang province.
“We can’t allow this to be a distraction from, exactly as you said, the human rights abuses, the genocide that we’re seeing in parts of China,” Psaki said. “That is why we did not send a diplomatic delegation even as we’re cheering for our U.S. athletes. Diplomacy is complicated as we know, but we cannot allow it to be a distraction from what we know is happening to many people in China”
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Psaki on China using a Uyghur to light the Olympic flame: &quot;[W]e can&#39;t allow this to be a distraction from&#8230;the human rights abuses, the genocide that we&#39;re seeing in parts of China. That is why we did not send a diplomatic delegation even as we&#39;re cheering for our&#8230;athletes&quot; <a href="https://t.co/kQrgrdDceT">pic.twitter.com/kQrgrdDceT</a>
&mdash; Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) <a href="https://twitter.com/CurtisHouck/status/1490774484399403015?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 7, 2022</a></blockquote>
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The United States and numerous other countries, such as Canada and the United Kingdom, are using diplomatic boycotts of the 2022 Olympic Games to draw attention to China’s human rights abuses. At the same time, U.S. officials such as House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) are warning athletes to refrain from publicly criticizing China while on their territory.
“Do not risk incurring the anger of the Chinese government because they are ruthless,” Pelosi <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/you-cannot-normalize-what-theyre-doing-in-china-al-sharpton-hits-back-at-pelosi-over-olympics-warning">said</a> last week. “Now the IOC, aided by corporate sponsors, once again turns a blind eye with the 2022 Winter Olympics just to bolster their bottom line. If we do not speak out against human rights violations in China, because of commercial interests, we lose all moral authority to speak out against human rights violations anywhere.”
Yilamujiang disappeared from the public spotlight almost immediately after being the center of attention during the opening ceremony. She competed in her Olympic debut the day after the ceremony, taking 42nd in a field of 65 competitors in her event. Afterward, she and other Chinese athletes apparently skirted an area that International Olympic Committee (IOC) rules state athletes must walk through to give media a chance to interview them.
Neither Yilamujiang nor three other Chinese athletes walked through the media area. According to <a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/a-uyghur-skier-became-the-face-of-chinas-winter-olympics-the-next-day-she-vanished-from-the-spotlight-11644157693">The Wall Street Journal</a>:
<blockquote>Afterward, Ms. Yilamujiang and the three other Chinese athletes competing in the event slipped away, leaving more than a dozen Chinese and foreign journalists waiting for more than an hour in frigid temperatures.
Ms. Yilamujiang’s escape, if that’s what it was, appeared to be in contravention of <a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/winter-beijing-olympics-2022-when-11643841235?mod=article_inline">International Olympic Committee rules</a> that require all athletes to pass through a “mixed zone” where they can—but aren’t obliged to—answer journalists’ questions.
The IOC confirmed in an emailed response to questions that mixed-zone rules remain in place despite the pandemic, but it declined to comment on Ms. Yilamujiang’s no-show. Ms. Yilamujiang couldn’t be reached for comment through China’s National Olympic Committee, which didn’t reply to requests for comment.</blockquote>

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Psaki Responds To China Sending Uyghur Muslim To Light Olympic Cauldron: ‘We Can’t Allow This To Be A Distraction’

On Sunday, Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) <a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/amp/news/transcript-senator-marco-rubio-face-the-nation-02-06-2022/#app">appeared</a> on CBS’ “Face the Nation” with host Margaret Brennan to discuss the Russia/Ukraine tensions, as well as the China threat, among other topics.
After noting that the “mostly Muslim minority” prisoners in the detainment camps in communist China are subject to forced abortions, rape, torture, and labor, Brennan asked Rubio about the ability of the United States to “restrict imports made by forced labor.”
“But is it really possible to clean up the supply chain because China is such an economic behemoth here?” Brenna asked.
Rubio replied, first noting that the U.S. must become more self-reliant as it pertains to manufacturing and goods, as those things can be disrupted by natural occurrences or for deliberate purposes.
He continued by bringing up the slave labor bill that was passed:
<blockquote>We passed a bill that says if something is made in a factory in that part of China, we are going to presume it&#8217;s made by slave labor and not allow it into the country unless companies can prove that that&#8217;s not the case.</blockquote>
On December 23, President Biden <a href="https://www.state.gov/the-signing-of-the-uyghur-forced-labor-prevention-act/">signed</a> the “Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act” into law, which was <a href="https://www.rubio.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/2021/12/rubio-merkley-uyghur-forced-labor-prevention-act-becomes-law">introduced</a> by Rubio and Senator Jeff Merkley (D-OR).
Brennan asked which companies have seemingly benefited from labor out of Xinjiang, and Rubio pointed to Nike “and others that have definitely benefited from the supply chain that&#8217;s located in that part of the world.”
“And so we saw the lobbying efforts of Apple, of Nike and others … arguing that this would raise the costs for consumers,” Rubio said. “But ultimately, it&#8217;s slave labor, and it&#8217;s a horrific genocide.”
When Brennan noted that Tesla has opened a showroom in Xinjiang, Rubio responded that he understands the motive regarding profit, “but our agenda has to be the national interest of the United States, not to mention what&#8217;s right or wrong in the world.”
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.<a href="https://twitter.com/SenRubioPress?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@SenRubioPress</a> warns that dependence on foreign supply chains “especially those located in a place like China,” poses the risk of an economic crisis. WATCH &#8211;&gt; <a href="https://t.co/XawO6l0BvB">pic.twitter.com/XawO6l0BvB</a>
— Face The Nation (@FaceTheNation) <a href="https://twitter.com/FaceTheNation/status/1490356772791537671?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 6, 2022</a></blockquote>
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<blockquote>BRENNAN: Well, and as I mentioned, this alliance between Russia and China seems to be building. On China itself, more than one million mostly Muslim minorities are in detention camps in China. According to the State Department, they&#8217;re subject to forced sterilization, abortions, rape, torture, forced labor, restrictions on prayer, restrictions on movement. I know you&#8217;ve been working to try to restrict imports made by forced labor inside these camps. But is it really possible to clean up the supply chain because China is such an economic behemoth here?
RUBIO: Well, a couple of things that we need to do, the first is, we need to do this no matter what, because this country has to be a country that makes things again. If we&#8217;ve learned anything over the last couple of years [it’s] that you have to have a manufacturing and industrial capability, and you can&#8217;t be dependent on foreign supply chains entirely, especially those located in a place like China because of a pandemic, a war, or out of leverage against us. You could be cut off and create an economic crisis. But the second is, we&#8217;ve passed that bill. We passed a bill that says if something is made in a factory in that part of China, we are going to presume it&#8217;s made by slave labor and not allow it into the country unless companies can prove that that&#8217;s not the case&#8230;
BRENNAN: Which companies are the worst abusers on this front?
RUBIO: I think there are many American companies like Nike and others that have definitely benefited from the supply chain that&#8217;s located in that part of the world. And the list could be even more extensive than that because there are people that are buying from subcontractors. Many of them know they&#8217;re sourcing material from that area, but they have continued or continue to allow it to happen. And so we saw the lobbying efforts of Apple, of Nike and others … arguing that this would raise the costs for consumers. But ultimately, it&#8217;s slave labor.
BRENNAN: Yeah.
RUBIO: And it&#8217;s a horrific genocide.
BRENNAN: Well, and Tesla just opened a showroom in the province where these camps are located. I mean, American businesses still seem to be more than willing to try to tap the Chinese market.
RUBIO: Well, it&#8217;s one of the largest markets, the second largest market in the world, and in some industries, the largest. I understand the profit motive behind it. And that&#8217;s fine. But I understand that with their view of it, that&#8217;s their agenda. But our agenda has to be the national interest of the United States, not to mention what&#8217;s right or wrong in the world. And ultimately, it&#8217;s important for policy leaders to push back and say, look, we want American companies to be prosperous and do well, but not in ways that undermine American national security interests, which in the case of China, they are.</blockquote>

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CNN anchor Jake Tapper unloaded on the Chinese Communist Party for essentially using a Uyghur Muslim as a human shield to deflect challenges to the government&#8217;s long-term systematic abuse of the minority population.
Tapper concluded Sunday morning&#8217;s broadcast of &#8220;State of the Union&#8221; with a comparison — between China&#8217;s decision to have a Uyghur Muslim <a href="https://dailywire.com/news/china-chooses-uyghur-athlete-for-olympic-ceremony-amid-ongoing-genocide-fading-interest-in-games/">carry the symbolic Olympic torch</a> in Beijing and Nazi Germany&#8217;s plan to prop up a fencer of Jewish ancestry in 1936 — and he said that both oppressive regimes were essentially using them to deflect criticism.
&#8220;This is Helene Meyer, one of the greatest fencers who ever lived. Though her athletic dreams were compromised after Adolf Hitler came to power in her home country Germany and the anti-Semitic Nuremberg Laws were passed in 1935, stripping her of her rights because Meyer&#8217;s father was Jewish,&#8221; Tapper began. &#8220;Meyer got a second chance, however, as a movement spread throughout the world to boycott the international Olympic Games in 1936 because of host country Germany’s religious persecution of Jews.&#8221;
Tapper went on to explain that Meyer was selected to represent her home country of Germany — despite essentially being forced to flee oppression there a year earlier —leaving her new home in California to represent Germany in Berlin&#8217;s 1936 games.
&#8220;Here is an Associated Press story from March 1936 that shows the successful results of his plan. Quote, &#8216;Despite a tendency in some quarters to rock the boat, official Germany has banned racial or religious discrimination in athletics, the famous girl fencer of Jewish extraction, Helene Meyer, has been welcomed back home and named to represent Germany in the Olympics. Visiting Jews, whether athletes or spectators, will be safer from indignities here than they would be on any New York subway during rush hour,&#8217; unquote,&#8221; Tapper read. &#8220;Then you see the subhead there, &#8216;No anti-Semitism.&#8217; Yes, I’m talking about Germany in 1936.&#8221;
&#8220;I tell you about Helene Meyer and how she served as the way the Nazi German government could pretend in 1936 to be something other than the monsters they were because the Chinese government seems to have learned from her example,&#8221; Tapper continued. &#8220;On Friday the torch for the Beijing Olympic Games was lit by two athletes, one of whom was a cross-country skier for the Chinese team, a woman whom the Chinese government says has ancestral roots in the ethnic Muslim minority, the Uyghurs.&#8221;
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&quot;Let the shames begin.&quot; Amid the Winter Olympics in Beijing, <a href="https://twitter.com/jaketapper?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@JakeTapper</a> calls out corporations and nations from around the world for continuing to fight for Chinese money while ignoring China&#39;s human rights violations against the Uyghur population. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/CNNSOTU?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#CNNSOTU</a> <a href="https://t.co/PWoOBxIHCZ">pic.twitter.com/PWoOBxIHCZ</a>
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Tapper noted that the <a href="https://dailywire.com/news/biden-admin-appears-to-dance-around-question-on-if-they-believe-china-still-committing-genocide-against-uyghurs/">oppression of Uyghurs</a> is now common knowledge worldwide and includes forced sterilization, torture, forced labor, and internment — among other things.
&#8220;It’s an accusation the Chinese government denies, of course, despite clear evidence of their atrocities, so clear that the U.S. and other countries are currently diplomatically boycotting the Beijing Olympic Games,&#8221; Tapper continued. &#8220;So Helene Meyer in 1936 and this athlete in 2022 are being used to serve the same purpose. Now, the governments are not fooling anyone who is paying attention, but their roles in the Olympics allow the folks who are willing to put their morality on hold &#8230; to pretend otherwise.&#8221;
&#8220;We’ve seen this play out before. The embarrassing double standard that the NBA and Hollywood, for example, regularly display when righteously calling out injustices here in the U.S. while self-censoring about Chinese government atrocities,&#8221; Tapper added, noting that major companies like Coca-cola had <a href="https://dailywire.com/news/knee-jerk-hypocritical-and-illegal-mlb-sued-for-boycotting-georgia-over-election-reforms/">boycotted the state of Georgia</a> over a voter-integrity law but had nothing to say about China when it came to advertising during the Olympic Games. &#8220;We’ve covered this before and we will continue to do so the way American corporations ignore literal genocide and forced labor in the pursuit of Chinese cash. It is disgusting.&#8221;
Tapper went on to say that the diplomatic boycotts were all well and good, but an unwillingness to take a financial hit by pulling sponsors or making direct accusations was truly what was telling.
&#8220;I’m not sure which is worse, ignoring the human rights crimes or as some nations seem to have decided, to care more about China’s investments in their countries than this genocide. Because while the U.S. and a handful of other countries are diplomatically boycotting these games over human rights issues, the vast majority of the world, including majority Muslim countries, Indonesia, Iran, Pakistan, and the UAE are refusing to boycott the games, taking a stand against the crimes against the Uyghurs,&#8221; Tapper concluded, arguing that the real global competition appeared to be among the nations vying to be the best at helping Chinese President Xi &#8220;in his desire to pretend the genocide is not going on, to pretend the crimes against humanity are not going on. That’s a competition rivaling the competition among the athletes. Let the shames begin.&#8221;

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