Original title: US lawmakers call on US companies to withdraw from sponsoring the Beijing Winter Olympics, Zhao Lijian: I believe companies with a rational conscience will make correct judgments
[环球时报-环球网报道 记者张卉]According to reports, on the 27th local time, a US congressman slandered China’s Xinjiang policy and called on representatives of US companies sponsoring the Beijing Winter Olympics to withdraw from sponsoring the event.
In response to this, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Zhao Lijian stated at a regular press conference on the 28th that the so-called genocide in Xinjiang is a complete lie of the century concocted by a few anti-China forces. We have noticed that individual U.S. congressmen, based on ideological and political prejudice, used this to slander and discredit China in an attempt to interfere with and hinder the preparation and holding of the Beijing Winter Olympics. This is a serious violation of the spirit of the Olympic Charter and damages the interests of athletes from all countries and the international Olympic cause. China firmly opposes this.
Zhao Li insisted that these congressmen’s remarks are full of arrogance, ignorance and lies. They are typical American farce and are destined to be unpopular and unsuccessful. All sectors of the international community, including the governments of many countries, the Olympic Committee and the International Olympic Committee, have also clearly opposed this wrong approach to politicizing sports. Individual anti-China lawmakers in the United States repeatedly hyped up at the hearings, engaged in related issues, and put pressure on companies. Their sinister intentions of using political conspiracies to kidnap businesses and restraining China were clearly revealed. We believe that any rational and conscientious company, especially those American companies that have obtained huge benefits from China’s reform and opening up and development and progress in the past 40 years, will make correct judgments.
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