What Next: What You Don’t See At The Olympics

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🗓️ 10 February 2022

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

As the Winter Olympics unfold in Beijing, a darker reality remains: China’s abuses against the Uyghurs, an ethnic minority in the country’s Xinjiang region. While much of the world remains glued to the sports coverage, Uyghurs in the diaspora are calling on people to pay attention to China's treatment of their family members back home. Guest: Gulchehra Hoja, a Uyghur journalist with Radio Free Asia. If you enjoy this show, please consider signing up for Slate Plus. Slate Plus members get benefits like zero ads on any Slate podcast, bonus episodes of shows like Slow Burn and Dear Prudence—and you’ll be supporting the work we do here on What Next. Sign up now at slate.com/whatnextplus to help support our work. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:30.0	I called up Gulchetra Hoja because I wanted her to translate this moment for me.
0:40.0	If you're watching the Olympics, you might remember it.
0:43.0	It was during the opening ceremonies.
0:45.0	And welcome back to this opening ceremony from Beijing, China.
0:51.0	As dancers whizzed around them, two athletes appeared with the Olympic flame,
0:57.0	officially opening the games.
0:59.0	They were all smiles as they placed a tiny torch in the center of a giant matrix of snowflakes.
1:05.0	Then fireworks erupted.
1:12.0	But the identity of one of these athletes, a downhill skier from the Xinjiang Province,
1:17.0	alarmed some viewers.
1:19.0	Because this skier, she's weaker.
1:22.0	A member of a minority group that the US says the Chinese government is trying to systematically
1:28.0	eliminate.
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