G20 rejects truce for Beijing Winter Olympics

Since 2020, more and more international human rights organizations and people from all walks of life have called for a boycott of the Beijing Winter Olympics, which are scheduled to begin on February 4, 2022, due to the Communist Party’s poor record on human rights in the international community. On Dec. 2, Sen. Jeff Merkley (D., CHAIRMAN) and Rep. James McGovern (D., co-chairman) of the Congressional and Executive Commission on China criticized the Communist Party for tarnying the Games and announced the launch of the ‘Olympic Prisoners’ program.

On the same day, Beijing submitted to the UN the Olympic Truce resolution for the Beijing Winter Olympics, which was drafted jointly with the International Olympic Committee (IOC). According to the UN resolution on the observance of the Olympic Truce from 7 days before the opening of the Olympic Games to 7 days after the closing of the Olympic Games, China, as the host country of the 24th Winter Olympics, has submitted the draft resolution on the Olympic Truce in accordance with the usual practice, according to the OFFICIAL website of the Chinese Mission to the UN.

In the truce resolution, Beijing called on nations to set aside conflicts between the opening of the Beijing Winter Olympics and the closing of the Paralympics on March 13 so that the two sporting events could serve as a means to promote peaceful dialogue and reconciliation.

On December 2, 2021, the 76th Session of the UN General Assembly adopted a resolution on the Olympic Truce for the Beijing Winter Olympic Games by consensus, the Chinese Foreign Ministry said in a press release. 173 countries participated in the resolution, setting a new high in recent years.

But Australian media reported that 20 countries, including the United States, Canada, Britain, Australia, India and Japan, had refused to sign the customary agreement, which ensures conflicts do not disrupt the games, in a bid to send a message to China about Beijing’s human rights abuses in Xinjiang and Hong Kong. In addition, Sydney morning Herald also reported that the agreement was not supported by the G20, the QUADripartite Security Dialogue members the United States, India, Australia and Japan refused to sign, the Five Eyes alliance members, except New Zealand, the United Kingdom, the United States, Canada and Australia refused to sign. Muslim power Turkey also decided not to sign the deal to express its displeasure at China’s human rights abuses against Uighurs in Xinjiang.

Submit some analysts have speculated that Beijing Olympic truce agreement, to prevent the west during the upcoming phase in winter Olympic Games and the Olympic winter games, criticized the human rights, but the g20’s visa, means more and more western countries are carefully think about the future of China will threat to international peace, there are more and more countries focus on China’s human rights disaster.

It is also worth mentioning that the Chinese government published a white paper entitled Democracy in China on December 4, the National Constitution Day, emphasizing the widespread implementation of the term system for leading cadres in Order to praise the whole process of people’s democracy in China. Democracy in China acknowledges that democracy is a common value for all mankind at the beginning of the book, but the reality is quite the opposite, according to netizens who mocked the recent elections of deputies to the People’s Congresses in Beijing and Chongqing. Others speculated that the book might be an attempt to build goodwill in the international community for the Winter Olympics truce, which apparently failed.