The Daily 202: Biden faces bipartisan pressure on China’s Olympics
Olivier Knox
Sainte-Mère-Église. There’s an homage to the 82nd Airborne.
Congressional Republicans and Democrats agree on precious little these days, but there’s growing bipartisan fervor — you could even call it impatience — related to President Biden’s business-as-usual approach to the 2022 Winter Olympics in China.
Biden faces pressure from both sides of the aisle to use the Games, which open in early February 2022, as a launchpad for criticism of China over what his administration agrees is “genocide” targeting the mostly Muslim
Uyghur
minority.
Today, a pair of lawmakers — Rep. Mike Waltz (R-Fla.) and Rep. Tom Malinowski (D-N.J.) — are reportedly introducing legislation aimed at punishing corporations that sponsor the Games by barring them from federal contracts.