The Biden administration has been under pressure from lawmakers to take a stand against China's human rights abuses.
A diplomatic boycott is seen by some as the best way to hold China to account without punishing athletes who have been training for the games for years. Others say Beijing wouldn’t care too much about a few absent politicians and diplomats.
“Why should China care about their noises?” an editorial in the state-run Global Times newspaper said last month, referring to Western objections to the games. “China would lose if it cares about this strategy.”, it would likely not be the only country to do so. Canada, the United Kingdom and Australia are among those who have said they are considering similar action.A mass Olympic boycott would be the first since the Cold War.
In 1980, the administration of President Jimmy Carter led more than 60 nations in boycotting the Moscow Olympics over the Soviet Union’s invasion of Afghanistan a year earlier. In retaliation, fifteen countries followed a Soviet-led boycott of the games in Los Angeles four years later. Thomas Bach, the president of the International Olympic Committee, says he is against boycotts against his organization’s marquee event.
“A sports boycott serves nothing,” he said last year, noting that the Soviet Union stayed in Afghanistan for nine years after the 1980 boycott over its invasion. “It’s only hurting the athletes and it’s hurting the population of the country because they are losing the joy to share.”This article was originally published onPeter Alexander is the co-anchor of Weekend TODAY and chief White House correspondent for NBC News.
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