Dem Sen. Wyden refuses to not support China's slave labor

Wyden heils Herr Nike

For a man whose parents had to flee Nazi Germany during the Holocaust, Sen. Ron Wyden (D-OR) doesn't seem to care about others who are unable to flee from captivity in China and are under the constant threat of torture and genocide.

Wyden callously blocked bipartisan efforts on Wednesday to push through a bill that would ban imports from communist China's Xinjiang region where genocide against religious minorities is being carried out and the work that creates products from that region is being done with slave labor. 

And Hillary Clinton called Trump voters "deplorables." 

“Wyden blocked a bill that would ban goods made with forced labor in China’s Xinjiang region after Senator Marco Rubio [R-FL] rejected his request to add an unrelated extension of the child tax credit,” Bloomberg News reported. “The bill has broad bipartisan support and was on track for quick final passage by unanimous consent after having cleared the House by a voice vote.”

What was Wyden thinking? Oh wait! Nike, whose shoes are made in China, has lobbied Congress to weaken the bill, is the top financial contributor to Wyden. 

So money talks and morals walk.

“I am completely sympathetic to my colleague from Florida, my colleague from Oregon, to the fight against genocide and forced labor,” Wyden falsely claimed. “They got me at hello on their proposition. I also feel incredibly strongly, incredibly strongly about our vulnerable children and our vulnerable families that are going to be cut off from an essential lifeline unless the United States Senate acts.”

Communist China is so evil with its genocide of religious minorities that even the Biden administration sees the problem and announced a diplomatic boycott in early December of the 2022 Winter Olympic Games in Beijing.

“The Biden administration will not send any diplomatic or official representation to the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics and Paralympic Games given the PRC’s ongoing genocide and crimes against humanity in Xinjiang and other human rights abuses,” White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki said earlier this month. “The athletes on Team USA have our full support. We will be behind them 100 percent as we cheer them on from home. We will not be contributing to the fanfare of the Games.”

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“U.S. diplomatic or official representation would treat these Games as business as usual in the face of the PRC’s egregious human rights abuses and atrocities in Xinjiang. And we simply can’t do that,” Psaki added. “As the President has told President Xi, standing up for human rights is in the DNA of Americans. We have a fundamental commitment to promoting human rights. And we feel strongly in our position, and we will continue to take actions to advance human rights in China and beyond.”

Following the powerful statement by Psaki, Australia, Canada, the UK, and Lithuania joined the bandwagon. All have agreed to a diplomatic boycott and Lithuania announced that they will not even be attending the Games and therefore can avoid the embarrassment of not winning any medals again.

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