Republican lawmakers slammed Joe Biden for keeping the U.S. officials from attending the Beijing 2022 winter Olympics. The Joe Biden’s administration said they “diplomatically boycott” the Olympics because the country is known for genocide.
Sen. Bill Hegerty in a statement argued that the games should be moved out of China totally, making reference to the recent disappearance of Chinese tennis star Peng Shuai.
“While I have called for the United States and other nations to impose a diplomatic boycott of the 2022 Winter Olympics, this is the bare minimum, and President Biden should do more to hold accountable the Chinese Communist Party. What President Biden should do is insist that the International Olympic Committee move the Olympics from Beijing. The United States should lead the world in protecting not only our own athletes, but all athletes from the malign behavior of the Chinese Communist Party as evidenced by the recent disappearance of Chinese tennis star Peng Shuai,” Hagerty said.
Sen. Rick Scott fire back at Hagerty saying Joe Biden had the chance to rise up against human right abuse and genocide in Beijing but he decided to be weak and keep mute over the happenings. “Time and time again, Biden does the bare minimum when it comes to dealing with China and it’s absolutely unacceptable,” he said.
Democrats were also displeased about Biden’s decision with Rep. Tim Ryan saying “China has been a bad actor and everyone knows it from continuing to stonewall on the WHO investigation of COVID-19 origins to perpetrating genocide and committing mass humans rights violations, I’m glad to see the Biden Administration take steps to hold China accountable, but this diplomatic boycott does not go far enough”.
The Olympics should not be political leaders pressure points. Sportmanship has nothing to do with government motivated ideas.
Western nations can also be held responsible for human rights violence. The USA, UK, Canada and other boycotting countries are failures in hypocrisy
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