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Olympic Winter Games
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During the torch lighting in the olympics China chose skiier, Dinigeer Yilamujiang. To human rights activists and Western critics, it looked like Beijing was using an athlete in a calculated, provocative fashion to whitewash its suppression of Uyghurs in the far western region of Xinjiang.
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This is propaganda because
This is propaganda because there is a want to influencing the attitude of a population (the world) to recognize that Chinas decision to have a Uyghur lighting the cauldron was a feel-good moment of ethnic unity. Western critics saw a cynical bid to whitewash human rights abuses in Xinjiang and are trying to convince others that this is the case.
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https://www.nytimes.com/2022/02/08/sports/olympics/china-uyghur-olympics.html
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