Hit China where it hurts: Stay away from the Beijing games

Published January 20, 2022 9:32pm ET



A Jan. 20 vote by the French Parliament should give rise to a broader and more effective movement against the Chinese Communist Party: The entire free world should boycott the Winter Olympics.

To its great credit, the French Parliament voted 169-1 that France “officially recognizes the violence perpetrated by the People’s Republic of China against the Uyghurs as constituting crimes against humanity and genocide.” Moreover, it says the French government should help protect the Uyghur minority by taking “the necessary measures within the international community and in its foreign policy towards the People’s Republic of China.”

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