U.S. to boycott the Beijing Olympics over human rights abuses

The U.S. on Monday announced a diplomatic boycott of the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing, a move that had garnered bipartisan support from critics of China’s human rights record.

While U.S. athletes will still participate, President Joe Biden’s administration will not send any official representation to the games, given China’s “ongoing genocide and crimes against humanity in Xinjiang and other human rights abuses,” White House press secretary Jen Psaki told reporters.

Psaki was referring to China’s reported treatment of Uighur Muslims in that northwestern territory that has been declared a genocide both by Biden and the administration of former President Donald Trump.

“The athletes on Team USA have our full support. We will be behind them 100 percent as we cheer them on from home. We will not be contributing to the fanfare of the games,” Psaki said.

“U.S. diplomatic or official representation would treat these games as business as usual in the face of the [People’s Republic of China’s] egregious human rights abuses and atrocities in Xinjiang, and we simply can’t do that,” she said.

“We will continue to take actions to advance human rights in China and beyond,” she said.

The move, which was expected, was preemptively criticized earlier Monday by China’s Foreign Affairs Ministry spokesman Zhao Lijian. “It is a travesty of the Olympic spirit, it is political provocation, and an offense to the 1.4 billion Chinese people,” he said, according to a translation of his remarks.

“If the U.S. is insistent on going down the wrong path, China will take necessary and resolute countermeasures,” Zhao said.

The Chinese government under President Xi Jinping has been condemned by dozens of countries over its actions in Xinjiang, as well as its crackdown against pro-democracy protesters in Hong Kong in 2019 and 2020.

More recently, Beijing has come under fire following the weekslong disappearance of tennis star Peng Shuai, who vanished after publicly accusing a former senior official in the Chinese Communist Party of sexual assault.

The Women’s Tennis Association announced last week it will suspend tournaments in China immediately due to concerns over the treatment and safety of Peng and other players.

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[DK-yzxk]

USA just applied for 18 officials to go to the Olympics 😂😂

[congthailie]

Why dont you report how many native american eskimo inuit metis were killed by white colonizer, ,there are still alot of asian, middle east, black people facing discrimination in US, UK

[ToddWyattRebelSon]

All for show. U.S. could care less about slave labor or any other human rights abuses.

[pshrising]

The Olympics is a sporting event for athletes to shine and not for warcriminals to whine about human rights

[misterhill]

USA: diplomatic boycott.
China: but we did not invite your diplomats. We invited the athletes. This is a sporting event.

[hoodpatrolstrains]

Stop wearing NIKE and do your part AMERICA 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 ..P.S. has anyone seen PENG

[excitingtimes-hhbu]

Come on, does anyone remember in 1936 when 18 black athletes and Jewish athletes went to Berlin to compete in the Olympics. The men were not invited but they went anyway to complete and Jesse Owens became a hero, a symbol of not backing down. The Germans tried to intimidate all those athletes and they did not give them the opportunity to steal their chance to compete. Go to the Olympic Games and win for the USA and give hope to the oppressed in China. Compete and bring the issue to the forefront show the unjust be that light.

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