Dallas Mavericks minority owner Mark Cuban continues to defend the NBA over its deep economic ties to China, one of the worst human rights abusers in the world today.
Former Republican Sen. Marsha Blackburn, former chief of staff, and Charles Flynt, Breitbart News vice president of strategic relations, confront Cuba at asked how Cuba could justify a training camp.
However, Cuban seemed to sidestep the issue, saying, “I've always said I'm against China and all human rights abuses.'' The NBA exports content to China and gets paid for it, and that's fine. ”
Flynt specifically asked Cuban, “Given the NBA's extensive economic ties to China, are you concerned about your own conflicts?”
He went on to point out that the NBA holds basketball training camps in the very same areas where China is conducting an “ongoing genocide of the Uyghur people.”
“Tell him you're going to step up to the plate and confront Commissioner Adam Silver about the NBA's continued silence,” Flynt wrote.
Flynt later warned on his X account that Cubans' failure to answer about China, an oppressive slave nation, was a clue as to how Kamala Harris would behave toward China.
“The fact that Cuba defended the NBA's relationship with China in response to my question tells us everything we need to know about how Kamala Harris will engage with China,” he wrote. , adding, “Cuba is Harris' top economic agent.'' It will be business as usual with China. ”
Of course, Cuban has spent years defending the NBA for collaborating with China.
He has consistently dismissed concerns about China's massive human rights abuses and repeatedly defined the NBA's relationship with the repressive country as merely commerce. “China is our customer,” he said many times.
He also said that “all human rights violations are wrong,” but he never acknowledged that the NBA's close financial ties, which amount to billions of dollars, were wrong.
He also did not say how he could reconcile opposition to China's human rights abuses with support for awarding China billions of dollars in business deals, which would give the country more resources to further commit such human rights violations.
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