Political and Legislative
Biden Says That the White House May Hold a Diplomatic Boycott of the Beijing Olympics
President Joe Biden said on Thursday that the U.S. was weighing a diplomatic boycott of the coming Winter Olympics in Beijing, a move that proponents say would be a highly visible rebuke of the Chinese government and its human rights record.
Biden told reporters convened for the president’s trilateral meeting with the leaders of Canada and Mexico that the idea of a boycott was “something we are considering.”
There is bipartisan support in Congress and from outside groups to slight China by barring U.S. officials from attending the games in protest of the government’s human rights abuses, including what the Biden administration has labeled the genocide of religious minorities in Xinjiang.
