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Opinion What’s happening in Hong Kong and Xinjiang prove that China doesn’t deserve the Olympics

July 14, 2020 at 5:40 p.m. EDT
People wearing masks walk past the Olympic rings near the New National Stadium in Tokyo. The coronavirus pandemic led organizer to postpone the 2020 Summer Games until next year. (Jae C. Hong/AP)

Regarding the July 7 editorial “What’s happening in Xinjiang is genocide”:

For decades, the Chinese Communist Party has been persecuting and oppressing Tibetan Buddhists, Falun Gong, Christians and Taiwan. Now, it is taking away the rights of Hong Kongers. It’s time the world sees Communist China for what it is.