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In a nationwide survey conducted in March 2021, 54% of Canadians said the country should boycott the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing, while 24% believed it should not and 21% were not sure. [64] In July 2021, the European Parliament and the Parliament of the United Kingdom voted in favor of a diplomatic boycott of the 2022 Winter Olympics. [65 ...
Canada joined Australia, Britain and the United States in a diplomatic boycott of the Winter Olympics in Beijing on Wednesday, with China calling the boycotts "political posturing" and a smear ...
White House press secretary Jen Psaki cited the Chinese government's "ongoing genocide and crimes against humanity," and "other human rights abuses." She also clarified that athletes won't be ...
Diplomatic boycotts of the Olympics aim to snub host nations while keeping athletes free to compete. A small cascade of government boycotts hit China on Wednesday, less than two months before the ...
White House press secretary Jen Psaki announced on Monday the U.S. will not send any diplomatic or official representation to the 2022 Winter Olympics and Paralympics in Beijing. A delegation of U ...
Countries including the U.S., Canada, Britain and Australia have imposed a diplomatic boycott of the Games to protest China’s human rights abuses, including its treatment of Uyghurs in the ...
In November 2021, President Biden proposed "a diplomatic boycott of the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics." [ 231 ] The United States was aware of the prospective harsh punishment of being suspended by the National Olympic Committee and was careful regarding the scale and severity of the boycott.
The absentee list will represent the most significant shunning of an Olympics since the 1980s, when the U.S. led a full-fledged boycott of the 1980 Moscow Games, and the Soviet Union responded ...