Patrick Frater Asia Bureau ChiefChina is set to host the winter Olympics in February, but the extent of American involvement is on shaky ground.
There’s plenty of precedent for Olympic-scale strife — in 1980 and 1984, the U.S. and U.S.S.R. engaged in respective boycotts of each other’s Olympics — but this Cold War is raising complicated questions for a new age.With China’s repressive policies in Xinjiang and Hong Kong, contentious territorial claims in the South China Sea and global trade imbalances among the topics that grate, a U.S.
boycott of the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics has been mooted (though the State Department denied any such undertaking earlier this week.)If there is a boycott by the U.S.
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