American diplomats choose boycott

The question had arisen for several months. Joe Biden finally decided: no diplomats, no government representatives, no first lady at the Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games, scheduled for Beijing (China) in February 2022. The White House justifies this diplomatic boycott by the situation of human rights in China and by the ongoing genocide and crimes against humanity in Xinjiang province against the Muslim Uyghur minority.

China, for its part, has already warned that in the event of a boycott, it would apply countermeasures and that it was nothing but bluster on the part of the United States. This boycott will be different from those of the Olympic Games in Moscow in 1980; since the American athletes will be present, they will even benefit from the full support of the United States, To assured the White House, explains the journalist of France Televisions, Thomas Donzel.