Biden administration announces diplomatic boycott of 2022 Beijing Olympics

White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki said the administration would not be participating due to China's "egregious human rights abuses and atrocities in Xinjiang."

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[rb]

We take human rights very seriously. Only WE and our allies are allowed to commit human right abuses.

[mrg]

But American's athletes can still participate? What a joke.

[markadams]

I guess the shortages will continue. Start building materials and manufacturing in the good old U.S.A. please.

[avatar-zfsh]

That's something that Republicans and Democrats can agree on

[ongte]

Son: Dad, should we boycott everything from China?
Dad: of course !
Son: Yeah! We'll have a naked Christmas Party!

[jimmychoo]

FYI, US diplomatic representations have never been officially invited by China

[ZoeCuiM]

Thank you for not sending politicians to bore us.

[EapeTheMatrix]

That's not good enough! How about a full boycott?

[chickendumpling]

I believe diplomats need to be invited first, dose anyone know if China sent invite and US rejected or China did not send invite at all and US said we are not going anyways?

[Coumei]

How can you boycott something that you are not invited to? That is really funny.

[smartinvestor]

Can you name a single politician was invited by Beijing ? BS !!

[ShowemRight]

This gives new meaning to STOP ASIAN HATE, I mean we don't see China showing condemnation for the US involvement in Libya, Syria, Yemen, Venezuela with all the killings there. We got to ask ourselves, who is the biggest opponent against human rights? The US is my nation of birth, though let's not be hypocrites when it comes foreign relations.

[dr.woozie]

This is a really good step but why not a full boycott? If your national team still shows up it sends a mixed message.

[ceus]

"And though the forest was shrinking, the trees kept voting for the axe, for the axe was clever and convinced the trees that since his handle was made of wood, he was one of them."

[FrankKig]

It’s funny how the Olympics games can make so much noise in the media. What happened to the true spirit of sportsmanship?

[ericcalabrese]

The actual conversation:
Biden: we actually don’t care what you do over there but we have to do something because otherwise people won’t support us

[cojaysea]

Childish . They weren’t invited to begin with . Leave it to the ridiculous American government to come up with something as meaningless as that . Like a baby crying 😢

[percivalf]

But China has never sent the invitation……

[allarjun]

Can u put sanction on chinese economy rather than just boycotting olympics

[anthonysmith]

This should just be the beginning. The world needs to boycott everything from this evil regime. We will be better off anyway with good quality goods and less fakes.