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The U.S. government is boycotting the Beijing Olympics over human rights. Coke and Airbnb are still on board.


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The New York Times
SOURCE: https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/olympics/2022/01/16/olympics-sponsors-china-human-rights/
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Summary

A few weeks later, they got their wish.Convincing the corporate world to follow suit has proved much harder.For two years, campaigners representing the people of Hong Kong, Tibet and China’s Xinjiang region have been pushing U.S. and Western companies to either drop their sponsorships and broadcasts of the Games, which start Feb. 4, or to publicly condemn the repression Chinese authorities have carried out in those regions.But activists say the risk of offending the rulers of the world’s second-biggest economy has caused the companies to stick with their deals and stay mum on China’s human rights abuses, despite a U.S. State Department determination that China is committing genocide against the Uyghur minority.“All they can think about is the money,” said Zumretay Arkin, program manager at the World Uyghur Congress, an advocacy group. Asked at a congressional hearing last year whether he agreed with a U.S. government assessment that China is committing genocide against Uyghurs, Intel general counsel Steve Rodgers said: “I’ve read the State Department report, I’ve studied it and I believe its conclusions.”Other Olympic sponsors largely skirted questions from The Post about China’s human rights record.Coca-Cola declined to comment, directing The Post to an executive’s testimony at the same congressional hearing last year, which detailed Coca-Cola’s commitment to human rights but did not mention China.Airbnb said its nine-year deal with the IOC, which began in 2020, is not “organized around individual Games, but rather, a long-term partnership organized around the economic empowerment of individual athletes.”Procter & Gamble declined to comment.

As said here by Jeanne Whalen