Republican lawmakers criticize Coca-Cola for not asking for the winter of 2022 Olympic Games Months after the company condemned Georgia’s restrictive voting laws, it was removed from China on Tuesday for alleged human rights violations.
New Jersey Republican Rep. Chris Smith said that Coca-Cola and other American companies evaded ethical issues related to sponsorship of the Beijing Winter Olympics during hearings in the bipartisan Congress, which is a harmful form of “business as usual.” China Executive Committee.
After being pressured by Smith, Coca-Cola’s global head of human rights Paul Larry stated that the company has no “position” to postpone or postpone the game and will “follow these athletes where to play”. The congressman responded by asking Rally if the Olympic Games were to be held in Pyongyang, North Korea, whether it would be “ok.”
Visa, Procter & Gamble, Intel and Airbnb When asked about the call to move the Olympic Games out of Beijing, they also refused to answer directly. Most people insisted that their company has no position on this issue.
Smith told Lalli that all committee members “hold their breath and wait for all of you to say,’Move the Olympics, the Beijing Genocide Olympics needs to move.'” He emphasized the abuse of the Chinese Communist Party at the time of the explosion. The company did not act during the virtual hearing.
“We not only see the genocide and concentration camps in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, especially against Uyghurs and Kazakhs, but also the continued elimination of Tibetan culture, the harvesting of organs from Falun Gong practitioners, the destruction of Christian churches, and the freedom to demolish Hong Kong,” Smith said.
“However, for many American companies, business as usual in China,” he added.
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The Atlanta-based Coca-Cola Company is one of several major companies condemning the voting law. Republicans The Georgia Legislature passed it in March.President’s bill Joe Biden Known as the “Jim Crow of the 21st Century”, new restrictions were imposed on absentee ballots and drop-in boxes, new requirements for voter ID were put forward, and the Republican-led legislature had more control over election management.
Coca-Cola CEO James Quincy said in a statement issued on April 1 that the company wants to “make it clear that we are disappointed with the results of Georgia’s voting legislation.”
Quincy vowed that Coca-Cola will “continue to stand up for justice in Georgia and across the United States” and “work with legislators, advocacy groups, business leaders, and others to ensure that every eligible voter has access to a wide range of The voting opportunity is in our hometown.”
Senator Tom Cotton of Arkansas, who is also a Republican member of the committee, quoted the statement at a hearing on Tuesday, asking whether Larry Coca-Cola’s position at the Beijing Olympics meant that the company would “not support rights outside the United States. “.”
Lalli insists that Coca-Cola “adopts the same human rights principles in the United States as we do in other parts of the world,” but said that the company is “most concerned about policy issues in the country.”
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