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Can China use the Beijing Olympics to 'sportwash' its abuses against the Uyghurs? Only if the world remains silent

  • Written by Michael Clarke, Visiting Fellow, Australia-China Relations Institute, University of Technology Sydney
Can China use the Beijing Olympics to 'sportwash' its abuses against the Uyghurs? Only if the world remains silentKazuki Wakasugi/Yomiuri Shimbun/AP

Many issues have cast a shadow over the Beijing Winter Olympics in recent weeks, from China’s controversial “zero-COVID” approach to the looming possibility of a Russian invasion of Ukraine.

One issue should be getting more attention: what I and other scholars are calling the “Xinjiang...

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