US announces diplomatic boycott of 2022 Olympics
By DW
24 December 2021 |
5:21 pm
The United States has announced a diplomatic boycott of the upcoming Winter Olympics in Beijing over China’s “egregious” rights abuses, a move the Chinese government has said would be met with “resolute countermeasures”.
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