News Snapshot:
The Russian foreign ministry has rubbished calls by Nancy Pelosi and numerous figures around the world for a boycott of next year’s China Winter Olympics on human rights grounds. The speaker of the United States House of Representatives is arguably the most high-profile politician to have called on leaders to shun the Games, with the Democrat igniting a diplomatic row by demanding that heads of state should not travel to the showpiece because of an “ongoing genocide” in China. More than a million Uyghurs and other Muslims are thought to have been detained in the Xinjiang region, where they are...
