Sen. Mitt Romney (R-Utah) on Monday pushed for a boycott of the 2022 Beijing Olympics because of the ruling communist regime’s brutal repression. “China deserves our condemnation. The Chinese Communist Party has reneged on its agreement to allow Hong Kong self rule; it has brutally suppressed peaceful demonstrators and incarcerated respected journalists. It is exacting genocide against Uighurs and other ethnic minorities; Uighur women are forcefully sterilized or impregnated by Han Chinese men. Adults, ripped from their families, are sentenced into forced labor and concentration camps,” Romney wrote in an op-ed for the New York Times. “Among ethnic Chinese, access to uncensored broadcast news and social media is prohibited. Citizens are surveyed, spied upon and penalized for attending religious services or expressing dissent,” he added. But barring U.S. athletes from participating in the Olympics isn’t the right answer, the former Republican presidential candidate argued. It would punish athletes who have …
Romney Urges US Boycott of Beijing Olympics Over CCP’s ‘Repression and Brutality’
March 15, 2021
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