Biao Teng

Actors cheer as President of the China, Xi Jinping, arrives for the opening ceremony of the 2022 Winter Olympics on Feb. 4 in Beijing. (AP Photo/David J. Phillip)

February 16, 2022

The International Olympic Committee and China are using politics to obscure human rights abuses

MacIntosh Ross, Western University and Biao Teng, University of Chicago

Few nations know how to politicize the Olympics as effectively as China does.

The editor of a Communist Party newspaper posted a video online that he said showed missing tennis star Peng Shuai as the ruling party tried to quell fears abroad while suppressing information in China about Peng after she accused a senior leader of sexual assault. (AP Photo/Andy Brownbill)

November 25, 2021

#WhereisPengShuai: Totalitarianism, violence against women and an overdue Olympic boycott?

MacIntosh Ross, Western University and Biao Teng, University of Chicago

The disappearance of Peng further underlines the need for an international boycott of the 2022 Beijing Olympics. The CCP’s assaults on democracy activists deserve more than willful blindness.

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