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Snickers Taste of Blood? It’s in Bed With the 2022 Beijing Olympics

Snickers Taste of Blood? It’s in Bed With the 2022 Beijing Olympics
Snickers and Mars chocolate bars lie on a table in Berlin, Germany, on Feb. 23, 2016. Sean Gallup/Getty Images
Anders Corr
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The Snickers confectionary division of the Mars food group is the only U.S. company with a direct Beijing sponsorship deal for the 2022 Winter Olympics. Snickers failed to adjust after the United States, along with parliaments in the UK, Canada, and the Netherlands, called for an end to genocide in China against the Uyghurs. Mars persists in its China deals nonetheless.
Anders Corr
Anders Corr
Author
Anders Corr has a bachelor's/master's in political science from Yale University (2001) and a doctorate in government from Harvard University (2008). He is a principal at Corr Analytics Inc. and publisher of the Journal of Political Risk, and has conducted extensive research in North America, Europe, and Asia. His latest books are “The Concentration of Power: Institutionalization, Hierarchy, and Hegemony” (2021) and “Great Powers, Grand Strategies: the New Game in the South China Sea" (2018).
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