The International Olympic Committee recently praised China’s readiness for hosting the 2022 Winter Olympics. It should be pulling the event from the country instead.

A bipartisan group of senators called on the IOC in March to strip the games from Beijing unless China’s human rights issues were addressed. China’s human rights abuses have been clear for some time now, between detaining Uighur Muslims and other religious minorities, suppression of dissent, and its crackdown on Hong Kong, among others. Even if the IOC didn’t want to ruffle any feathers, it could cite China being ground zero for the novel coronavirus outbreak as a safety concern to move the games elsewhere.

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