The 2022 Winter Games have put a spotlight on China’s human-rights abuses, but the International Olympic Committee “basically just washed their hands of it,” Peter Hessler says on a new episode of our Politics and More podcast. Listen here.
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Much has changed since China last hosted the Olympics, during the 2008 Summer Games. Those Games were widely seen as greatly improving China’s international reputation. But the 2022 Winter Games have put a spotlight on the country’s human-rights abuses, most notably the current genocide against Uyghurs and Kazakhs. The U.S.
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