Politicizing Winter Games no-win proposition: China Daily editorial
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Updated: 2021-06-09 19:59
A curling test competition is held at the National Aquatics Center in Beijing, on April 1, 2021. [Photo/Xinhua]
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken told a congressional hearing in Washington on Monday that the United States was "consulting very closely with allies and partners to look at the common concerns that we have, and ideally to establish a common approach" on the Beijing Winter Olympic Games, due to be held in February next year.
Although he did not specify what approach the US favors, his remarks have been widely interpreted as it trying to organize a boycott of the Games, as called for by some US lawmakers on the spurious grounds that China has violated human rights in the Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region and the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region.