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With the 2020 Winter Olympics in Beijing just 18 days away and U.S. diplomats boycotting the games over what a spokesperson for the U.S. Embassy in Beijing recently [called](//www.washingtonpost.com/world/2021/12/28/china-winter-olympics-2022-diplomatic-boycott/) [China](//deadline.com/tag/china/) ’s “ongoing genocide and crimes against humanity in Xinjiang, and other human rights abuses,” one of the most outspoken owners of one of the [NBA](//deadline.com/tag/nba/) ’s flagship franchises weighed in. Billionaire [Chamath Palihapitiya](//deadline.com/tag/chamath-palihapitiya/) , who is a minority owner of the [Golden State Warriors](//deadline.com/tag/golden-state-warriors/) alongside majority owners Peter Guber and Joe Lacob, expressed what he called “a very hard, ugly truth” about China’s treatment of its Uyghur minority-muslim population in...
