China’s 2022 Olympics an opportunity to press Beijing on human rights, says Canada

Beijing’s internet hosting of the 2022 Winter Olympics affords involved nations the prospect to press China on its human rights file, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau mentioned on Friday.
Trudeau mentioned China would solely change its conduct if confronted with a united entrance, including he would elevate the matter at a Group of Seven leaders’ summit subsequent week.
“The pressure on China right now from the international community is significantly acute, particularly with the Winter Olympics coming up in China next year,” Trudeau instructed the Toronto Star in a video interview.
“It would be easy for China to shrug off what any one country, including just the United States alone, says. But when the global community comes together, that starts to shape their own calculations.”

Canada, locked in a serious diplomatic and commerce dispute with China for greater than two years, is among the world’s main winter sports activities nations.
Trudeau didn’t elevate the query of athletes staying away from the Games. The Canadian Olympic Committee opposes a boycott, saying it could not power a change to China’s human rights file.
U.S. House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi final month referred to as for a U.S. diplomatic boycott of the Games subsequent yr, citing the State Department’s conclusion {that a} genocide of Uyghurs and different ethnic minorities is going down in China.
Canada’s parliament handed a nonbinding movement in February saying China’s therapy of the Uyghurs within the Xinjiang area constitutes genocide.