The Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives, Nancy Pelosi, criticized China for violating the human rights of Uighurs and other minorities.

The top US legislator Nancy Pelosi called for a boycott of the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing and criticized China Human rights violation He also said that the global leaders attending the meeting will lose their moral authority.

American lawmakers are increasingly calling for Olympic boycott Or the venue changes.

They also criticized U.S. companies, arguing that they remained silent about the views of the U.S. State Department. Genocide Oppose Uighur Other ethnic minorities in China are teaching the Chinese government.

Democrat Pelosi said at a bipartisan congressional hearing on Tuesday that the world’s heads of state should avoid the Olympic Games originally scheduled for February.

Pelosi said that she is proposing a “diplomatic boycott” in which “major countries in the world do not participate in the Olympic Games.”

Pelosi said: “Let us not let the head of state go to China to pay respect to the Chinese government.”

“To let the heads of state go to China during the genocide journey, and when you sit in your seat, this is really a problem. Do you have to talk about the moral authority of human rights again anywhere in the world?” she said.

The UN independent team said in 2018 that it had received reliable reports that at least 1 million Uighurs and other Muslims were held in refugee camps in the Xinjiang region of western China. Beijing describes the refugee camps as vocational training centers aimed at eliminating “extremism” and “extremism.” Strongly oppose the allegations And genocide.

Democratic Congressman Jim McGovern (Jim McGovern) said that the Olympics should be rearranged.

Speaking of the decision of Japan and the International Olympic Committee to postpone the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, McGovern said: “If a pandemic Olympics is postponed for one year, we can certainly postpone a genocidal Olympics. “Due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Uyghurs watch a dance performance at the Urumqi International Market in Xinjiang, western China [File: Mark Schiefelbein/AP Photo]

McGovern said: “This will give the International Olympic Committee time to relocate to a country where the government does not commit atrocities.”

In the United States, the demand for some form of boycott of the Beijing Olympics is growing.

Last month, Republican Senator Mitt Romney proposed an amendment to broader legislation to deal with China in order to implement a diplomatic boycott of the United States. At the same time, the League of Human Rights Activists on Tuesday called on athletes to boycott the Olympics and put pressure on the International Olympic Committee.

The administration of U.S. President Joe Biden has expressed hope that it would work with allies to develop a joint policy for participating in the Beijing Olympics, but Secretary of State Antony Blinken has repeatedly stated that the issue has not yet been discussed.

When asked about Pelosi’s comments, senior Biden administration officials told Reuters that its position at the 2022 Olympics has not changed.

Last month, Republican Senator Mitt Romney proposed an amendment that would implement a diplomatic boycott of the United States. [File: Susan Walsh/Pool via AP]

Biden, also a Democrat, once said that China is a strategic competitor of the United States.

Those who support the participation of American athletes in the Olympics say that it is unfair to punish athletes. The Olympic Games will provide the United States with the highest number of Olympic Winter Olympic medals with a platform to show its vitality on the global stage.

Sarah Hirshland, chief executive of the United States Olympic and Paralympic Committee (USOPC), said in a written statement to the Congressional hearing that USOPC is concerned about “the oppression of the Uighur population,” but that banning American athletes from participating in the Olympics is “certainly not the answer.”

She said: “Past boycott movements failed to achieve their political goals. They should make all of us pause to consider another boycott.”