- 10 Dec 2021 16:51
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Sure, but these games are a sporting event. They last a couple of weeks and lose purpose soon after. Forget the hypocrisy for a second. Or that the games are for the athlete not the politician. America could have used the games to have more dialogue with Chinese officials on the Uyghurs. It took Biden a year to just get a zoom meeting with Xi and this could have been a free and easy diplomatic opportunity for them. But they decided to make a statement and it perhaps is them that lose more than China given that. There isn't much I agree with BoJo on, but he is right that it is best to keep sport and politics apart.
Patrickov wrote:As a Hongkonger I find China more on the butt of this than the United States.
Sure, but these games are a sporting event. They last a couple of weeks and lose purpose soon after. Forget the hypocrisy for a second. Or that the games are for the athlete not the politician. America could have used the games to have more dialogue with Chinese officials on the Uyghurs. It took Biden a year to just get a zoom meeting with Xi and this could have been a free and easy diplomatic opportunity for them. But they decided to make a statement and it perhaps is them that lose more than China given that. There isn't much I agree with BoJo on, but he is right that it is best to keep sport and politics apart.