Tag: 2022 Olympics

‘The People of China Deserve Better’

“The Chinese communists game the system,” Rep. Chris Smith said. “People are afraid to stand up to them.” In this episode of “American Thought Leaders,” host Jan Jekielek discusses human rights and China with Smith, a representative of New Jersey’s 4th district. For the past four decades, Smith has been one of Congress’s most vocal…


Beijing Olympics? Time for Another Land Grab?

Commentary Recall the expression: “Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me.” So recall that President Jimmy Carter cancelled the participation of the U.S. Olympic team in 1980, due to the Soviets’ 1979 invasion of Afghanistan. In 1989, the Soviets withdrew from Afghanistan after suffering heavy losses from insurgents that we…


‘Incomprehensible That Beijing Qualified to Hold Olympics’: Coalition Exposing Organ Pillaging in China

How is it that a human-rights violator has come to be hosting the Winter Olympics at this moment? This is the question put to the International Olympic Committee (IOC) and participating governments and sponsors of the Games by an NGO involved with investigation and outreach over China’s billion-dollar, state-sanctioned murder-for-organs industry. The Chinese Communist Party…


Olympians Face ‘Multidimensional Threats’ Under China’s Digital Surveillance: Expert

A former senior U.S. intelligence official warned Olympic athletes to be wary of “multidimensional threats” in the run-up to the 2022 Winter Games in Beijing, including potential digital surveillance. “Take a clean phone,” suggested Nicholas Eftimiades, a retired senior American intelligence officer in an interview with EpochTV’s “China Insider” program. “Don’t put any passwords in…


CCP May Target US Olympians for DNA Collection, Sen. Cotton Warns

Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) warned President Joe Biden on June 14 that the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) will likely attempt to collect DNA samples from American athletes competing in the 2020 Beijing Olympics. In a letter (pdf) to the president, Cotton wrote that the CCP considers “DNA collection a vital intelligence-gathering objective” and implored the…