announced today the u.s. government will not be sending any u.s. government officials to the winter olympics in beijing as a protest against the chineso government s human rights abuses specifically their mass internment camps and prisons they are using to lock up hundreds of thousands of chinese muslims. the u.s. is not boycotting the beijing olympics full stop.ifme u.s. athletes will still go and compete, but there will be a full-scale diplomatic boycott. no u.s. government officials will attend. the timing here, the announcement today ahead of the democracy summit at the end of the week, if taking action to promote human rights is one of i the themes of the big democracy summit president biden is hosting, well, this announcement about the beijing olympics diplomatic boycott is something concrete he and the u.s. government can point to to say, hey, we re not just talking about this. we are walking the walk on that point. human rights. second point was corruption. corruption is the un