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The Beijing Winter Olympics begin on Feb 4 -- and not without controversy given they are taking place as Beijing wrestles with human rights issues.

From COVID regulations to ongoing tensions between China and other world powers, this Winter Olympics will be like no other, writes Tracey Holmes.

Michelle Bachelet , the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, is discussing with China a potential visit to the Xinjiang region, in what could provide rare, close-up foreign scrutiny of accusations of abuses against ethnic Uyghurs.

This is a transcript of The Conversation Weekly podcast episde: China’s plans for Xinjiang, and what it means for the region’s persecuted Uyghurs, published on January 27, 2022.

From surveillance to enforced holidays for activists, possible measures Beijing could take to prevent or deal with protests

U.N. human rights chief Michelle Bachelet is in talks with China for a possible visit in the first half of 2022, but it must be "meaningful, with unsupervised access" to the Xinjiang region, her spokesperson Rupert Colville told Reuters on Friday.

China's foreign ministry said the United Nations human rights chief is welcome to visit Xinjiang but not for the purpose of an investigation, when asked about a report the commissioner was invited to come in the first half of 2022.

South China Morning Post reported that Beijing approved Bachelet’s trip on the condition that it should be ‘friendly’.

China has agreed to let the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights visit Xinjiang in the first half of 2022 after the Beijing Winter Olympics, according to a report in the South China Morning Post which cited unnamed sources.

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When the Beijing Winter Olympics open on February 4, diplomats from a number of countries, including the US, UK, Canada and Australia, will not be there to watch. Their diplomatic boycott hinges on concerns about human rights abuses in China’s Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region. In this episode of The Conversation…