Published by Knewz By alang.consultant New York (Knewz) - The controversial Beijing Winter Olympics are just days away, and survivors and human rights advocates of the host country's allegedly oppressive policies are speaking out in a last-ditch effort to draw attention to decades of minority mistreatment. It is the stuff of nightmares.

Golden State Warriors owner Chamath Palihapitiya suggested recently that "nobody cares" about China 's system of concentration camps, forced labor, and high-tech surveillance against the Uyghur community in Xinjiang. "Nobody cares about what's happening to the Uyghurs, okay," Palihapitiya said during an appearance on the All-In podcast.

On the morning of August 14, 1936, two employees of the US National Broadcasting Company (NBC) met for breakfast at a café in Berlin. Max Jordan and Bill Slater were discussing the Olympic Games they were broadcasting back to the United States - and the Nazi propaganda machine that had made their work, and their visit to Germany, somewhat unpleasant.

Phayul.com is one of the most popular & successful Tibetan news website in English. With daily readers touching over 12,500 and still growing. It features news and views on Tibet.

The Chinese government's violent oppression of the primarily Uyghur Muslim population in Xinjiang is no longer a secret. From forced sterilization of Uyghur women to the internment of millions in prison camps to the eradication and destruction of religious institutions, the Chinese Communist Party's actions against the Uyghurs have been deemed worthy of the name genocide to many in the human rights community.

Microsoft is shutting down the Chinese version of LinkedIn after facing scrutiny for censoring academics and journalists at the behest of the Chinese government. LinkedIn China will be replaced with a standalone product called "InJobs" that's separate from LinkedIn, the company said Thursday.

China's economy is going down quickly, even as the Evergrande collapse, and China's real estate crisis unfolds. And now, the Evergrande collapse is also expected to hit the Chinese foreign policy. The Chinese foreign policy is presently dictated by the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) which involves large-scale debt financing by Chinese financial institutions, Chinese State-owned Enterprises (SOEs) and local government financing vehicles.

Human rights violations in Xinjiang - where more than one million Uyghurs are estimated to have been detained in 're-education' camps - have been so severe that the UK, US, EU and Canada announced coordinated sanctions against Chinese officials in March. As such, rights groups have been calling for companies to rethink their footprint in China.