The world cannot sit by and watch China’s ruling communist party whitewash its decades-long human rights atrocities with the upcoming Beijing Winter Olympics, human rights activists have said with the Games slated to begin next week. “The world needs to wake up and realize that the Chinese Communist Party is not our friend,” said NBA player Enes Kanter Freedom during a press conference hosted by Sen. Rick Scott (R-Fla.). “The Chinese government does not represent Olympic core values of excellence, of respect, of friendship,” he said, citing the regime’s broad suppression spanning Xinjiang, Hong Kong, Tibet, the intimidation of Taiwan, and inside China itself. “They are a brutal dictatorship.” The United States has led a diplomatic boycott over what has been described as a genocidal campaign in Xinjiang, which includes the detention of more than one million Uyghurs, slave labor, and other forms of abuse. But the athlete, and those …