Democratic Speaker of the United States House of Representatives Nancy Pelosi called for a “Diplomatic boycott” of the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing. She thus intends to denounce the Chinese conception of human rights, which no one would propose to install on the top step of the podium. But why put an additional part in a machine already used in the past and which has never had any effects other than to sanction sportsmen, to frustrate spectators, and to allow the target country to cry conspiracy?