McCaul campaign ad calls out China's human rights abuses as Winter Olympics 2022 kick off

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FIRST ON FOX: Texas Republican Rep. Michael McCaul is set to launch a campaign ad Friday that targets China’s human rights abuses, coinciding with the start of the 2022 Winter Olympic Games in Beijing.

McCaul, who sits as the chair of the China Task Force and ranking member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, has been highly critical of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) for permitting the games to be held in China despite reported human rights abuses. 

"It's reprehensible that the International Olympic Committee has bowed down to the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), ignored their gross human rights violations, and allowed them to host this year's Olympics," McCaul said in a statement to Fox News Digital. "Just as they did in 2008, the CCP will certainly use these Olympics in an attempt to whitewash their genocide, military aggression and oppression of their own people."

Rep. Michael McCaul, R-Texas, briefs members of the media outside the West Wing of the White House. (Alex Wong/Getty Images)

US COMPANIES ADVERTISING AT WINTER OLYMPICS 2022 ARE ‘SPONSORING’ GENOCIDE IN CHINA, US OFFICIAL SAYS

Following reports of arbitrary detainment, forced sterilization, family separation, sexual abuse and torture being committed against the Uyghurs in the Xinjiang autonomous region of China, the U.S. declared the Chinese government was committing genocide in January 2021.

The CCP has repeatedly denied these allegations and has justified the mass imprisonment of Uyghurs as a security precaution. 

McCaul took aim at the CCP for not only its human rights violations, but also its military aggression against the U.S. and Taiwan, along with its