U.S. could consider boycotting 2022 Beijing Olympics with allies

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The U.S. would discuss a joint boycott of the 2022 Winter Olympics in China with its allies and partners, State Department spokesperson Ned Price said during a press conference on Tuesday.

Why it matters: An Olympics boycott by the U.S. and its allies could help persuade international legal institutions to open an investigation related to allegations of genocide in Xinjiang, human rights lawyer Djaouida Siaci tells Axios' Bethany Allen-Ebrahimian.

Context: This would be the first U.S. Olympic boycott since Moscow in 1980 and comes as the Biden administration attempts to hold Beijing accountable for its sweeping campaign against ethnic minorities in the far west region of Xinjiang.

Republican Sen. Mitt Romney has called for an economic and diplomatic boycott.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/u-threatens-boycotting-2022-beijing-203107532.html

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1. As I said in an earlier post, "boycotts are dumb." In this case...

It would rob our athletes of years of training and prep, and in the end, no one would remember the US tried to make a political point by keeping our athletes home. It would change nothing.

My guess is that every Olympics has some tinpot country boycotting trying to make some point. And who remembers?

Kicking some ChiCom ass would be more effective.