Woke American Olympic Sponsors Ignore China’s Organ-Harvesting Industry

T he American corporations sponsoring the 2022 Winter Olympic Games — AirBNB, Coca-Cola, Visa, Procter & Gamble, and Intel — pride themselves on their woke social activism, but are indifferent to China’s slaughter of its minorities and ghoulish trafficking in their organs.

It is undeniable that China’s prisons have become organ-harvesting factories. A U.N. group of independent experts concluded last June that Chinese minorities including Falun Gong practitioners, Uyghurs, Tibetans, Muslims, and Christians were being butchered and used for spare parts for Chinese hospitals:

The experts said they have received credible information that detainees from ethnic, linguistic or religious minorities may be forcibly subjected to blood tests and organ examinations such as ultrasound and x-rays, without their informed consent; while other prisoners are not required to undergo such examinations. The results of the examinations are reportedly registered in a database of living organ sources that facilitates organ allocation.

“Forced organ harvesting in China appears to be targeting specific ethnic, linguistic or religious minorities held in detention, often without being explained the reasons for arrest or given arrest warrants, at different locations,” they said. “We are deeply concerned by reports of discriminatory treatment of the prisoners or detainees based on their ethnicity and religion or belief.

“According to the allegations received, the most common organs removed from the prisoners are reportedly hearts, kidneys, livers, corneas and, less commonly, parts of livers. This form of trafficking with a medical nature allegedly involves health sector professionals, including surgeons, anaesthetists and other medical specialists.”

The U.N. estimated last year this organ-trafficking network amounted to a $1 billion industry. According to the International Coalition to End Transplant Abuse in China, the CCP’s shift from a Stalinist planned economy to a kind of state-directed capitalism helped create this industry:

When China shifted from socialism to capitalism, the Government withdrew funding from the health system. Replacement funding came from the selling of organs for transplants. It was the sale of organs that kept the doors of hospitals open and health professionals employed. The selling of organs is a drug to which the Chinese health system has become addicted.

Last year, amid the protest movement sparked by George Floyd’s murder, each of the U.S.-based Olympic sponsors was quick to proclaim its commitment to social justice:

• AirBNB declared its commitment to “racial justice,” proclaiming that it would “continue to hold ourselves to a higher standard to fight racism and discrimination in our own company and community.”
• Intel’s CEO, Bob Swan, encouraged employees to donate to the Black Lives Matter Foundation and similar organizations in the name of ending “acts of racism, inequity and social injustice.”
• Coca-Cola proclaimed a desire to “start change, demand justice, admit we can do more, stand as one, right wrongs, listen and create a better future and end racism.”
• Visa said it is “committed to doing everything we can to drive racial equality and bring lasting change for our people, community and company.”
• Procter & Gamble said, “We have and will continue to create safe spaces for dialogue within P&G, live our values, and demonstrate our humanity.”

When asked how, given the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) butchering of ethnic minorities, they could justify helping to fund a propaganda showcase for the CCP, each of these sponsors declined to comment. That’s no surprise, given each one’s coziness with the CCP.

China is Intel’s biggest market by revenue, and in 2019, the company apologized to the Chinese government for asking suppliers to avoid China’s Xinjiang province, ground zero of the Uyghur genocide. Coca-Cola’s bottom line depends heavily on the Chinese market, where it has experienced growth despite declines in other countries. AirBNB views China as a growth market, and Axios has cited it for listing homes in Xinjiang owned by an “organization sanctioned by the U.S. government for complicity in genocide and forced labor.” Procter & Gamble’s corporate revenues now depend heavily on China, and Visa has worked hard to curry favor with the CCP so that it could operate independently in China and become the official card of the Beijing Olympics.

It should come as news to no one that large corporations don’t care about the cause of “social justice” when it conflicts with their profit margins, of course. But at some point, the public must make clear that enough is enough, and punish these companies for their inhumanity — and for the CCP atrocities it enables.