Meghan McCain defined why she would not be tuning into the 2022 Beijing Olympics on Feb. 4.
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Meghan McCain gained’t be watching the Winter Olympics this yr in Beijing.
The previous “The View” co-host, 37, slammed the video games on Friday, the identical day the sports activities ceremony kicked off their opening day, tweeting her ideas in regards to the metropolis’s alleged human rights violations.
“There isn't any purpose to look at a Winter Olympics that's holding up and spreading propaganda for a regime that's committing precise genocide and ethnic cleaning,” she claimed. “On prime of poisoning the world and killing 6 million individuals. Absolute disgrace on the worldwide group for this.”
On Instagram, the Each day Mail columnist additionally made her emotions recognized to her followers. She shared a chunk of paintings by Chinese language artist badiucao, saying: “I can't watch one minute of the @Beijing2022#GenocideGames.”
The artwork confirmed a hockey participant with blood on their face defend beating a person with their hockey stick.
Final December, President Biden’s administration mentioned it wouldn't ship diplomatic reps to the Beijing Video games. International locations corresponding to Australia, Canada, Japan and the UK additionally refused to ship reps to the Olympics.
“The Biden administration won't ship any diplomatic or official illustration to the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics and Paralympic Video games given the PRC’s ongoing genocide and crimes towards humanity in Xinjiang, and different human rights abuses,” White Home press secretary Jen Psaki mentioned on the time, utilizing the acronym for the Individuals’s Republic of China.
She added that whereas “the athletes on Group USA have our full help, we’ll be behind them 100% as we cheer them on from residence, we won't be contributing to the fanfare of the video games.”
NBC additionally refused to broadcast an advert that criticized China throughout the 2022 Winter Olympic Video games.
The 30-second advert was purchased by US Rep. Mike Waltz (R-Fla.) and slammed the occasion because the “Genocide Video games.” The congressman additionally referred to as out main US firms for collaborating.
“That is the equal of holding the Olympics in Germany within the Nineteen Forties or Rwanda throughout their atrocities,” Waltz instructed The Publish on Feb. 5. “It's past the pale that the [International Olympic Committee] didn’t transfer the video games.”
The spot highlighted firms for his or her working relationships with China, together with Visa, Coca-Cola, Nike, Intel and Procter & Gamble.
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