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The NBA has ended its relationship with a basketball academy in China's Xinjiang province, according to a letter sent to U.S. Senator Marsha Blackburn.
The letter, which was first reported by Sports Illustrated, was in response to a letter by Blackburn to the NBA that asked a series of questions about the league's relationship with China. In response to Blackburn's question about the academy in Xinjiang - where dramatically roughly a million Uyghurs, a Muslim minority, are being held in what have been described as concentration camps - Mark Tatum, the NBA's deputy commissioner, wrote: "The NBA has had no involvement with the Xinjiang basketball academy for more than a year, and the relationship has been terminated. "
In her own statement in response, Blackburn, a Republican from Tennessee, said: "China is responsible for some of the greatest human rights violations of our time. The NBA's decision to abandon its footprint in Xinjiang, where millions of Muslim Uyghurs have been brutally confined in 'reeducation camps,' is the right way to condemn Chinese oppression and should motivate other American corporations to decry such atrocities. Making money and standing up for human rights should not be mutually exclusive. "
Blackburn asked two other questions in her letter: about the financial impact of NBA games not airing on Chinese television, and about the league's relationship with Chinese e-commerce company Alibaba.
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