The U.S. should boycott the Beijing Olympics because it’s the Olympics


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Save Alerts The State Department is already walking back talk of a boycott of the 2022 Winter Olympics. Image: Getty Images No one seriously expects the U.S., or any of its allies, to boycott the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing. Advertisement The “conversation” they’ll have probably doesn’t amount to more than window dressing, some sort of signal that they’re at least aware of China’s heinous human rights abuses, highlighted by its treatment of the Uyghur people in Xinjiang. And when anyone complains when the U.S. does send its athletes in a year and a half, it’ll point to these conversations...