According to multiple sources, this week, the Biden administration is supposed to announce that no officials from the US government will attend the 2022 Beijing Olympics, executing a diplomatic boycott of the games.
The step would entitle the US to deliver a message on the world level to China without halting US athletes from taking part. The National Security Council, which has been discussing the boycott in closed doors, refused to comment.
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Earlier this month, President Joe Biden told reporters that he was considering a diplomatic boycott since Democratic and Republican lawmakers, along with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, backed up for one in protest of human rights abuses of China.
Though a complete boycott is not anticipated, which means that the US athletes will still be entitled to participate. The last time when the US fully boycotted the Olympics was in 1980 under the presidency of then-President Jimmy Carter.
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Responding to the news, Beijing cautioned it would take “resolute countermeasures” against the Biden administration in case the diplomatic boycott moved along.
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At a news conference on Monday, spokesperson for Chinese Foreign Ministry Zhao Lijian stated “The US should stop politicizing sports and hyping up the so-called ‘diplomatic boycott’ so as not to affect China-US dialogue and cooperation in important areas,” continuing further, Zhao called the probable boycott “a stain on the spirit of the Olympic charter” and a “sensationalist and politically manipulative” step by US politicians.
The virtual summit held earlier this month between Biden and Chinese President Xi Jinping witnessed as some of the most crucial diplomatic discussions of Biden’s presidency brought no remarkable improvements.
Although, it served as a hopeful restart to bonds after abrupt downfall amidst the final year of the Trump administration and perpetuated aggression into the Biden administration, along with US and Chinese diplomats abusing each other at a March summit in Alaska.
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According to a senior Biden administration official present for the discussions, during the November summit, Biden and Xi were involved in a “healthy debate”. Biden addressed concerns about human rights, Chinese attitude toward Taiwan, and trade matters.
Almost every significant matter Biden is aimed at, along with pitching supply chain problems, climate change, North Korea and Iran have a core to China. And the two nations, which have the two largest economies in the world, continue in clashes over trade, global infrastructure, military aggression, human rights, and public health.
For long, Biden has claimed that democracies can bring more efficiency in comparison to autocracies like China, and he has made the use of bipartisan infrastructure legislation to depict domestically how political parties in democracies can be a team together.
In the meantime, Xi, joined his consolidation of power following the Chinese Communist Party took a landmark solution uplifting him in rank in comparison to his two most strong antecedents, Mao Zedong and Deng Xiaoping. He is trying to pursue an optimal third term in power at the 20th Party Congress next fall.
