Airbnb’s ‘Commitment To Human Rights’ Questioned By Two Congressmen Over Chinese Business Dealings

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An Axios report from last year found that Airbnb lists at least 14 properties on land owned by a paramilitary group sanctioned by the U.S. Treasury Department

Two Democratic congressmen ratcheted up the pressure on Airbnb on Friday over its business dealings in China’s Xinjiang Province and sponsorship of next month’s Beijing Olympics in aAirbnb's business in China has attracted negative attention from Congress recently.Sen. Jeff Merkley and Rep. James P.

McGovern , the respective chair and co-chair of the Congressional-Executive Commission on China, questioned “Airbnb’s commitment to human rights” due to its business dealings in Xinjiang, where the Chinese government’s increasingly oppressive treatment of the native Muslim Uyghur population has risen to the level of genocide in recent years,

 

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