{"id":26866,"date":"2021-06-05T11:30:32","date_gmt":"2021-06-05T11:30:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/?p=26866"},"modified":"2021-06-05T11:30:32","modified_gmt":"2021-06-05T11:30:32","slug":"2022-winter-olympics-in-china-a-chance-to-press-beijing-on-human-rights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/2021\/06\/05\/2022-winter-olympics-in-china-a-chance-to-press-beijing-on-human-rights\/","title":{"rendered":"2022 Winter Olympics in China, a chance to press Beijing on human rights"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"af-breadcrumbs font-family-1 color-pad\">\n<div class=\"breadcrumb-trail breadcrumbs\" role=\"navigation\" aria-label=\"Breadcrumbs\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"primary\" class=\"content-area\"><main id=\"main\" class=\"site-main\"><\/p>\n<article id=\"post-11238\" class=\"post-11238 post type-post status-draft format-standard has-post-thumbnail hentry category-sports\">\n<div class=\"entry-content-wrap read-single\">\n<div class=\"color-pad\">\n<div class=\"entry-content read-details color-tp-pad no-color-pad\">\n<p><strong>Sports Desk: <\/strong>Canada, locked in a major diplomatic and trade dispute with China for more than two years, is one of the world\u2019s leading winter sports nations<\/p>\n<p>Beijing\u2019s hosting of the 2022 Winter Olympics offers concerned nations the chance to press China on its human rights record, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Trudeau said China would only change its behavior if faced with a united front, adding he would raise the matter at a Group of Seven leaders\u2019 summit next week.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe pressure on China right now from the international community \u2026 is significantly acute, particularly with the Winter Olympics coming up in China next year,\u201d Trudeau told the Toronto Star in a video interview.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt would be easy for China \u2026 to shrug off what any one country, including just the United States alone, says. But when the global community comes together, that starts to shape their own calculations.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Canada, locked in a major diplomatic and trade dispute with China for more than two years, is one of the world\u2019s leading winter sports nations.<\/p>\n<p>Trudeau did not raise the question of athletes staying away from the Games. The Canadian Olympic Committee opposes a boycott, saying it would not force a change to China\u2019s human rights record.<\/p>\n<p>U.S. House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi last month called for a U.S. diplomatic boycott of the Games next year, citing the State Department\u2019s conclusion that a genocide of Uyghurs and other ethnic minorities is taking place in China.<\/p>\n<p>Canada\u2019s parliament passed a nonbinding motion in February saying China\u2019s treatment of the Uyghurs in the Xinjiang region constitutes genocide.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<p><\/main><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sports Desk: Canada, locked in a major diplomatic and trade dispute with China for more than two years, is one of the world&rsquo;s leading winter sports nations Beijing&rsquo;s hosting of the 2022 Winter Olympics offers concerned nations the chance to press China on its human rights record, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said on Friday. Trudeau said China would only change its behavior if faced with a united front, adding he would raise the matter at a Group of Seven leaders&rsquo; summit next week. &ldquo;The pressure on China right now<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":26867,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26866"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26866"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26866\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26868,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26866\/revisions\/26868"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26867"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26866"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26866"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26866"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}