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La Velle E. Neal III

La Velle E. Neal III: China should never have been allowed to hold these Olympics

BEIJING – Sports fans have been forced to gaze toward China this month as it held a Winter Olympics it should have never been allowed to hold.

China's authoritarian government, its human rights violations, its suppression of cultures, its denial of free speech, and its oppression directed toward the Uyghurs, a Chinese Muslim ethnic group, is enough evidence. The Games should have been played elsewhere.

Which country? Any, as long as they treat human beings like humans.

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