Biden considering having US diplomatic boycott of Beijing Olympics

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He is considering a diplomatic boycott, meaning US government officials would not attend.

I think this is being talked about in the Olys forum and in the PI forum.

Beijing Olympic Winter Games protests & politics thread

https://www.reuters.com/lifestyle/sports/beijing-games-flame-lit-olympia-be-flown-china-tuesday-2021-10-18/ ANCIENT OLYMPIA, Greece, Oct 18 (Reuters) - Human rights activists unfurled a banner reading "No Genocide Games", waved a Tibetan flag and called for a boycott of the Beijing 2022 Winter...
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2022 Winter Olympics status updates, news articles, etc.

My main purpose is creating this thread was in response to seeing this question posed in GSD: What measures have they put in place for Beijing 2022? I'm having a hard time finding any specific info online. (And preferably not to focus on the political aspects...) Excerpting the first part of...
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love_skate2011 said:
Biden ? LOL . With an approval lower than the hopeless Kamala.

All talk, if there is a boycott only delegation.
Not a blip on Peng Shuai from the media ?
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Not sure what his approval ratings have to do with a diplomatic boycott.

Peng Shuai's disappearance is being covered in the media. That's how most of us have heard about it & why it's been discussed in the tennis thread & the Beijing Olympics thread.
 
Here's a link to an article which is quicker to digest than a 4 minute news clip:

www.nbcnews.com

Biden says he is 'considering' diplomatic boycott of 2022 Beijing Olympics

Advocates have been urging countries to boycott the games over China's record on human rights.
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Key takeaway - "considering" is a broad term, plus there are different flavors of boycotts that still allow athletes to compete:

Asked by reporters about the possibility of the boycott during an Oval Office meeting with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau of Canada, Biden responded that it was "something we are considering."

A diplomatic boycott suggests that the U.S. would not send an official government delegation to the Games but would still allow U.S. athletes to compete, although White House press secretary Jen Psaki declined to say how the president defined it.
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love_skate2011 said:
Biden ? LOL . With an approval lower than the hopeless Kamala.

All talk, if there is a boycott only delegation.
Not a blip on Peng Shuai from the media ?
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The 1st part of your post made me laugh and then the last part last part about Peng makes me want to cry.

China will probably have the most Winter Olympic athletes I wonder if they will say anything.
 
Useless gesture either way. China will continue to do what they want to do. This is a country that censors the internet so their own people don't find out about crimes such as the Tiananmen square massacre. Just think about that for a moment two generations of Chinese people have no idea that this event even happened. Those people who were killed are heroes and yet they can't even be honored by their own people because of the communist government and their almost pathological need for control of people.

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Jammers said:
Useless gesture either way. China will continue to do what they want to do. This is a country that censors the internet so their own people don't find out about crimes such as the Tiananmen square massacre. Just think about that for a moment two generations of Chinese people have no idea that this event even happened. Those people who were killed are heroes and yet they can't even be honored by their own people because of the communist government and their almost pathological need for control of people.

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True. Sad but true.

Why put the Olympics there? Or WTA finals? Ignoring Chinas crimes against humanity and their own people is being okay with it.
 
Having only American athletes answer questions as to why they are supporting by competing in the country committing genocide is awful. All the diplomats should be there to take the questions about why Americans are supporting the Uighur genocide
 
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