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US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Tuesday called for a "diplomatic boycott" of the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics because of China's human rights violations. "We cannot proceed as if nothing is wrong about the Olympics going to China," Pelosi told a joint hearing of the Tom Lantos Human Rights Commission and the Congressional-Executive Commission on China. "Sadly we are here because China continues to crush all political dissent," the Democratic speaker of the House of Representatives said, adding that the United States has an obligation to "speak out against human rights violations in China." "Let's have a diplomatic boycott if...
