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U.S. Ambassador Says China Was Attempting to 'Distract Us' By Picking Uyghur to Light Olympic Flame
Landon Mion | @landon_mion | Posted: Feb 06, 2022 2:15 PM
U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Linda Thomas-Greenfield said Sunday that China was looking "to distract" the U.S. from its human rights abuses of Uyghurs when it made the decision to have a member of the Uyghur community help deliver the flame in the 2022 Winter Olympics Opening Ceremony.
Thomas-Greenfield told host Jake Tapper on CNN's "State of the Union" that the situation in China is "not business as usual" and "we know that a genocide has been committed there."
"We've made clear that crimes against humanity are being committed in China. So it is important that the audience who participated and witnessed this understand that this does not take away from what we know is happening on the ground there," Thomas-Greenfield said of the Uyghur participating in the Olympic ceremony.
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