Joe Biden and Xi Jinping (photo Lapresse)
2022 Olympics, US will announce diplomatic boycott at the Beijing Games
Administration Biden will announce this week the diplomatic boycott of the Beijing Winter Olympic Games next year, which will not see the participation of any US government representative.
To make it known is the Cnn, citing several sources and explaining that with this move the United States will send a message internationally to China without preventing American athletes from participating in the Games.
Beijing 2022 Olympics, US towards a boycott of China: from human rights and military pressure on Taiwan
A month ago the president Joe Biden he explained that the diplomatic boycott was “a measure we are considering” in response to human rights violations in Xinjiang and Hong Kong and Chinese military pressure on Taiwan.
However, it saves the participation of US athletes in the Beijing Olympics. Americans will not opt for a total boycott as happened in 1980 when Jimmy Carter did not send the male and female ‘teams’ to the Moscow Olympics 1980 (with the Soviet Union’s response four years later to the Los Angeles Games).
China, the case of tennis player Peng Shuai
There China in recent weeks it is also in the storm for the tennis player Peng Shuai, of which traces had initially been lost after the accusations against the former deputy premier Zhang Gaoli. There WTA (women’s tennis professional federation) has decided to cancel all tournaments scheduled in China from the 2022 calendar because there are no certainties about the player’s conditions (despite the assurances of the tennis player).
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