President Joe Biden said Thursday that the United States was considering a politic boycott of coming time’s Winter Olympics in Beijing over China’s mortal rights abuses, a move that would keep American dignitaries, but not athletes, from the games.
Speaking to journalists as he hosted Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau in the Oval Office,Mr. Biden said backing a boycott of the Olympics in February is “ commodity we are considering.” TheU.S. and other nations traditionally shoot high- position delegations to each Olympics. First lady Jill Biden led the American contingent to the Summer Olympics in Tokyo this time and alternate gentleman Doug Emhoff led a delegation to the Paralympic Games.
Transnational advocacy groups and some members of Congress have called for a emblematicU.S. boycott of the games in Beijing over China’s treatment of Uyghurs and its crackdown on freedoms in Hong Kong. The participation of American athletes would be innocent by the boycott.