Winter Olympics

The proposed ski resort reception centre for the 2022 Winter Olympics.

IOC under pressure to take Winter Olympics from Beijing*

by Peter Westmore

Human rights organisations and politicians from the democracies have called for the 2022 Winter Olympics, due to be held in Beijing, to be moved to another venue in another country.

The move follows international opposition to Beijing’s clampdown on human rights, including the persecution of minority Uyghurs, Falun Gong practitioners and Christians across China, and Beijing’s aggressive foreign policy, ranging from its creation of militarised islands in the South Chin…

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