We are considering diplomatic boycott of Winter Olympics in Beijing: US President Biden

On Thursday, US President Joe Biden said he was considering a politic boycott of the Winter Olympics in Beijing. This will mean that while the athletes will still contend, government representatives won’t be in the daises. 

 President Joe Biden said Thursday he was considering a US politic boycott of the Winter Olympics in Beijing, in what would be an attempt to show durability over China’s rights abuses without impacting US athletes. 

That’s” commodity we’re considering,”Biden told journalists while meeting with Canada’s high minister, Justin Trudeau, at the White House. The Beijing Olympics take place coming February. 

 Biden’s comment followed a videotape peak with Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping late Monday, during which the two leaders said they wanted to insure stability and help accidental conflicts. 

 Still, Biden is under pressure at home to speak out on China’s mortal rights abuses, especially in Xinjiang where the US government says suppression of the Uyghur ethnical group qualifies as genocide. 

 On Tuesday, The Washington Post reported that the Biden administration would soon advertise a politic boycott, meaning that while athletes would still contend, government representatives would not be in the daises. 

 White House officers said that the issue wasn’t raised during the Biden-Xi virtual peak. 

US-CHINA RELATIONS 

 Under Biden’s precursor Donald Trump, US-Chinese relations hit a low point with a massive trade war and inflammatory debate over how the Covid-19 contagion first surfaced in the Chinese megacity of Wuhan. 

 Biden has sought to reengage with Beijing, while at the same time fastening on strengthening traditional US alliances to fight China’s ever- growing profitable leverage and military presence across the Indo-Pacific region. 

He has held two lengthy phone calls with Xi and was keen to meet in person. Still, with the Chinese leader not traveling outside of the country since the launch of the Covid epidemic, this week’s virtual peak was the only possible coming step. 

 Following Biden’s citation of a possible Olympics boycott, Press Secretary Jen Psaki said she didn’t” have an update on what our presence will be.””I want to give the public security platoon and the chairman space to make the decision,”she said. 

For Biden, that decision will be part of a complex politic balancing act. 

 His administration has left Trump- period trade tariffs on China in place and continues to order nonmilitary details through sensitive transnational ocean lanes that China is indicted of trying to bring under its control. 

 Still, with Biden also emphasizing the need for dialogue, critics on the right say he’s being too soft. 

 This makes the brewing Olympic Games a political flashpoint. 

“The United States must apply a complete and total boycott of the Beijing Winter Olympics. The trouble to our athletes and China’s crimes against humanity leave us no other option,” Democratic Senator Tom Cotton twittered Thursday. 

 The United States must apply a complete and total boycott of the Beijing Winter Olympics. 

 The trouble to our athletes and China’s crimes against humanity leave us no other option.pic.twitter.com/lSLvKhJPMd 

 — Tom Cotton (@SenTomCotton) November 18, 2021 

Psaki said the White House sees US-China relations”through the prism of competition, not conflict.” Still, she added”we have serious enterprises”about mortal rights.