Olympics Opening Events: WHO and UN Leaders Celebrate China’s Propaganda

While several Western democracies staged a diplomatic boycott of the Beijing Winter Olympics over the Uyghur genocide, U.N. secretary-general António Guterres and World Health Organization director Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus attended the opening ceremony and other Olympics-related events that the Chinese Communist Party used to whitewash its human-rights atrocities and promote its agenda.

The participation of the two U.N. officials in the Olympic events is likely to fuel concerns in Washington, New York, and elsewhere that they are beholden to the Chinese government. Earlier this week, a South China Morning Post report alleged that the U.N. was withholding a report compiled in 2019 about the mass atrocities against Uyghurs so as not to embarrass China during the Olympics, and the U.N. secretariat has been conspicuously silent about the widely discussed abuses.

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While several Western democracies staged a diplomatic boycott of the Beijing Winter Olympics over the Uyghur genocide, U.N. secretary-general António Guterres and World Health Organization director Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus attended the opening ceremony and other Olympics-related events that the Chinese Communist Party used to whitewash its human-rights atrocities and promote its agenda.

The participation of the two U.N. officials in the Olympic events is likely to fuel concerns in Washington, New York, and elsewhere that they are beholden to the Chinese government. Earlier this week, a South China Morning Post report alleged that the U.N. was withholding a report compiled in 2019 about the mass atrocities against Uyghurs so as not to embarrass China during the Olympics, and the U.N. secretariat has been conspicuously silent about the widely discussed abuses.