JUST IN: The US won't send any diplomatic representatives to the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing as a statement against Chinese human rights abuses
Psaki said the administration was sending a"clear message" that the human rights abuses in China mean there cannot be"business as usual.""The Biden administration will not send any diplomatic or official representation to the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics and Paralympics games given the PRC's ongoing genocide and crimes against humanity in Xinjiang," Psaki said in the press briefing Monday.
""US diplomatic or official representation would treat these games as business as usual in the face of the PRC's egregious human rights abuses and atrocities in Xinjiang, and we simply can't do that," Psaki said.Read MorePsaki said that the diplomatic boycott of the games does not mean"that is the end of the concerns we will raise about human rights abuses.
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