The United States has announced it will not send any diplomatic representatives to the 2022 Beijing Olympic and Paralympic Games. Washington says it’s over the Chinese government’s “egregious human rights abuses.” Mike Armstrong explains what this means for American athletes, whether countries like Canada could follow suit, and how Beijing could retaliate.
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