The National Hockey League (NHL) announced Wednesday that its players will not participate in the upcoming 2022 Winter Olympic hockey games in Beijing amid concerns over a rise in COVID-19 cases. The NHL and the NHL Players’ Association’s agreement comes after the league has been forced to postpone 50 games to date due to multiple virus outbreaks. On…
NHL 2022 Winter Olympic Participation ‘No Longer Feasible,’ Players Not Going to Beijing: NHL Commissioner
December 23, 2021
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Xi Wins Putin’s Attendance at Beijing 2022 Opening Ceremony; Amtrak Suspends Worker Vaccine Mandate
December 19, 2021
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A U.S. court of appeals has given the green light to President Joe Biden’s vaccine mandate for private companies, and the case is now expected to be challenged in the Supreme Court. At the same time, there is a growing list of companies, like Amtrak, that are reversing their vaccine mandate policies. Biden has warned…
Bennett Adds to US Success in Val Gardena With Downhill Win
SELVA DI VAL GARDENA, Italy—The big jumps and the varied terrain on the Saslong course remind the American racers of home. Then there’s Babs, the innkeeper at the hotel where the U.S. ski team has been staying for decades in Val Gardena, who treats the athletes like her own children. It’s been the perfect recipe…
NBC Asked to Drop Beijing Olympics Broadcast, Spotlight CCP’s Rights Abuses
December 17, 2021
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NBCUniversal should drop its broadcast of the Beijing Winter Olympics that is just two months away and instead turn the limelight toward the regime’s human rights abuses in Xinjiang and Hong Kong, U.S. lawmakers told the broadcaster. “The nearly one billion dollars that NBCUniversal and its affiliates have invested in these Games means the organization…
Japan PM Kishida Says He Has No Plan to Visit Beijing Olympics
December 16, 2021
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TOKYO—Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida said on Thursday he has no plan to attend the Winter Olympics in Beijing at the moment, taking what appeared to be a softer tone than Western allies who have declared a diplomatic boycott. The issue of whether Japan will send senior officials to the Games in February is in…
China Pays American Social Media Influencers to Promote Beijing Olympics, ‘Positive’ US-China News
December 14, 2021
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Beijing is paying American social media influencers in a scheme to promote the upcoming Winter Olympics amid a wave of diplomatic boycotts from the West. Under a $300,000 contract with the Chinese consulate in New York, Vippi Media, a New Jersey consulting firm, will oversee a marketing campaign through mid-March across Instagram, TikTok, and live-streaming…
South Korea Says No Diplomatic Boycott of Beijing Winter Olympics
December 13, 2021
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South Korean President Moon Jae-in said his country will not participate in the U.S.-led diplomatic boycott of the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics, given that South Korea requires China’s help to “enable denuclearization” on the Korean Peninsula. “We have not received a request from any other country, including the United States, to participate in a diplomatic…
Rep. Gohmert Says Diplomatic Boycott of Beijing Olympics Fails to Make an Impact
December 12, 2021
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Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-Texas) said a diplomatic boycott of the 2022 Winter Olympics will not “make much difference at all” in light of Beijing’s human rights violation, and is a waste of diplomatic leverage. “I don’t think it will make any difference in China’s human [rights] or their discrimination or the abuses of different peoples,”…
UN Chief Accepts Invitation to Beijing Winter Olympics Despite Diplomatic Boycotts
December 10, 2021
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United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has accepted the invitation to attend the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics, despite diplomatic boycotts by several Western nations of the games in protest of the Chinese regime’s ongoing human rights violations in Xinjiang. “The secretary-general received an invitation from the International Olympic Committee to attend the opening of the Beijing…
More Countries Boycott Beijing 2022, but #WhereIsPengShuai?
December 9, 2021
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As of Thursday, the UK and Canada are the latest countries to join the diplomatic boycott of the Beijing Winter Olympics. This comes just days after the White House’s corresponding announcement. The United States cited the persecution of Uyghurs in Xinjiang as the primary reason for its action. But, are there other motives underlying its…
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