With less than a year until the Winter Olympics in Beijing, calls are growing from around the globe for countries to boycott the Games over the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) ongoing abuse of human rights. In the United States, Republican lawmakers have called for the Games to be moved out of Beijing, or failing that, a boycott of the event. They point to the Chinese regime’s sweeping campaign of repression against ethnic minorities, religious believers, and dissidents, with particular emphasis on its atrocities against Uyghur Muslims in the autonomous region of Xinjiang, which the Trump administration declared a genocide. Similar calls have been made by legislators in Canada and the United Kingdom, as well as more than 100 rights groups from around the world. Canada’s Parliament in February passed a nonbinding motion designating the CCP’s repression in Xinjiang a genocide while also urging the International Olympic Committee (IOC) to move …