The trip has provoked a storm of criticism for its failure to meet the propaganda requirements of Washington and its allies for a denunciation of the Chinese government over its treatment of the Uyghurs.
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The 1980 boycott of the Moscow games was bound up with the US agenda of weakening and fracturing the former Soviet Union, which is precisely the Biden administration’s strategy toward China in its boycott of the Beijing Olympics.
The boycott is one element of the aggressive US strategy of confronting China on all fronts over the past decade, including a military build-up throughout the Indo-Pacific in preparation for war.