The Biden administration may boycott the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics as a mark of protest by the US against the human rights violations against Uyghur Muslims in China’s Xinjiang province, South China Morning Post reported.
The United States always sends a huge contingent to the Winter Olympics and now there is a coordinated effort with Washington’s allies to boycott the games.
US State Department spokesman Ned Price informed reporters and said that the boycott of the Beijing Winter Olympics “is something that we certainly wish to discuss.”
“A coordinated approach will be not only in our interests but also in the interests of our allies and partners,” he added.
“We have consistently said, when it comes to our concerns with the government in Beijing, including Beijing’s egregious human rights violations, its conduct of genocide in the case of Xinjiang, that what the United States does is meaningful, what the United States does will have impact, but everything we do that is – that brings along our allies and partners will have all the more influence with Beijing.” Price added.
There are credible reports by human right groups that China has incarcerated over 1 million Uyghurs in “re-education camps” in Xinjiang province.
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