The Dutch parliament resolves to “genocide the Uighurs in China”
(Source: REUTERS / Tingshu Wang)
[아시아경제 조유진 기자] The international community’s movement to deprive China of the right to host the next Winter Olympics is spreading from China, which has been criticized for oppressing ethnic minorities in Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region.
On the 25th (local time), the White House in the United States announced its position that the US participation in the Beijing Winter Olympics in China in February next year “has not been finally decided”. White House spokesman Jen Saki said in a press briefing on the day that “the final decision has not been made (about participation in the Beijing Winter Olympics). “We will seek guidance from the US Olympic Committee.”
This comment came while some countries, including Canada, expressed their position that they could boycott the Beijing Winter Olympics.
The US economic media CNBC viewed the remarks as suggesting a possible boycott. CNBC said, “This remark has changed from the position of the beginning of this month that’there is no change in the participation plan.'” On the 3rd, the White House said, “Currently, there is no discussion going on in the United States regarding changes in plans (participating in the Winter Olympics).”
Republican lawmakers have urged US President Joe Biden to boycott the Beijing Winter Olympics or move the venue from Beijing to another city. Republican Senator Rick Scott and others recently submitted a resolution to withdraw the Beijing Winter Olympics, saying that the venue for the Winter Olympics should be reselected due to the massacre of the Uighurs in Xinjiang. Foreign media reported that the Biden administration, which has identified China as the biggest threat, will be paying attention to whether the move will leverage the pressure on China.
On this day, the Dutch parliament passed a resolution stating that “China’s treatment of the Uighurs is a genocide.” Although there is no binding force, the resolution made the Netherlands the first country in the European Union to define China’s repression of the Uighurs as’genocide’. The resolution condemned the violation of the UN Genocide Convention, which entered into force in 1948, saying, “The genocide of the Uyghurs, a minority ethnic group, is taking place in China.”
However, it did not directly mention the responsibilities of the Chinese government. Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte voted against the resolution, and Dutch Foreign Minister Steff Bloch said he did not want to use the term’genocide’.
Earlier, the Canadian Parliament passed a resolution on the 22nd that China would commit genocide against the Uighurs. The resolution urged the Canadian government to request the International Olympic Committee (IOC) to change the venue for the Beijing Winter Olympics if the slaughter continues.
On the same day, the British also criticized “Xinjiang’s situation was out of reach,” but rejected the request for a boycott of the Olympics. According to the BBC, Foreign Minister Steph Block said the government did not want to use the term’massacre’. “We don’t think boycotting the Olympic Winter Games is the right solution,” said a spokesman for the British Olympic Committee (BOA). Supported the position of.
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