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US to declare diplomatic boycott of Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics – media / GORDON

It is noted that neither President Joe Biden nor other US government officials will attend the Olympics in China.

The diplomatic boycott of the Games is introduced in order to respond to human rights violations by the Chinese authorities, but without prejudice to US athletes.

Biden is expected to approve the decision to boycott the Beijing Olympics by the end of November.

US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken did not rule out on May 2 that the United States could boycott the Beijing Olympics in 2022. Blinken stressed that China carries out genocide against Uighurs.

Boycott the Beijing Winter Olympics also called in the US Congress.

Context:

The Uyghurs are a Turkic-speaking people, the overwhelming majority of its representatives live in the Xinjiang province in western China. By religion, the Uighurs are Sunni Muslims. Their number in China is about 10 million. According to human rights organizations, more than 3 million Uighurs and representatives of other Muslim minorities are in the so-called re-education campswhere they are forced to abandon their religion, culture and language.

China denies any harassment of the Uyghurs, claiming that the camps to which representatives of this nationality are sent are necessary for the training of citizens.

The United States introduced on December 5 last year visa sanctions against Chinese officials and functionaries of the Chinese Communist Party for their involvement in “horrific violations of human rights” in the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, Tibet and other regions of China, the dissemination of propaganda, coercion and intimidation of those who disagree with the policy of official Beijing.

On November 15, Biden held a virtual meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping. “President Biden expressed concern about the PRC’s actions in Xinjiang, Tibet and Hong Kong, as well as about human rights in general,” it says in the White House report.

The 24th Winter Olympic Games will be held in Beijing from February 4th to 20th, 2022.

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