Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics becoming a flash point over forced labor in Xinjiang

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As tensions rise between the U.S. and China over Beijing's treatment of Uyghur Muslims in Xinjiang, one analyst thinks that Western countries will likely protest the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics.

"Our call is that the U.S., U.K., Canada, and Australia are at this point pretty likely to engage in a diplomatic boycott," Allison Sherlock, a China associate at the Eurasia Group, told Yahoo Finance Live (video above). That would mean that while "athletes from the big countries would still attend, ... there would be some efforts to delegitimize Beijing as the hosts. For example, Biden and others declining to attend the games and even having the diplomat sit out on the opening ceremony."

China faces intense criticism and sanctions for its treatment of Uyghur Muslims in Xinjiang, a northwestern region with the country. The region produces 85% of China's cotton, according to the New York Times, and is also resource-rich in terms of gas, coal, oil, and other mineral products.

"The People's Republic of China has arbitrarily detained more than one million Uyghurs and other mostly Muslim minorities in China's far western Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region," the U.S. Bureau of International Labor Affairs (ILAB) stated. "It is estimated that 100,000 Uyghurs and other ethnic minority ex-detainees in China may be working in conditions of forced labor following detention in re-education camps."

The Biden administration recently characterized the treatment of Uyghurs and other minority groups as "genocide" in an annual human rights report.

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