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The United States Monday announced a diplomatic boycott of the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics, a calibrated rebuke of China’s human rights record that stops short of preventing US athletes from competing. The decision comes after Washington spent months wrangling with

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No Biden Administration officials will attend China’s Winter Olympics in February, the White House announced Monday, in a rebuke to Beijing over China’s use of forced labor and concentration camps to suppress a Muslim ethnic minority in the western Chinese

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The White House cited the “ongoing genocide and crimes against humanity” in the Xinjiang region of China. U.S. athletes will compete in the Olympics. (Image credit: Kevin Frayer/Getty Images)