On Monday, the United States announced a diplomatic

boycott of the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics, a calibrated rebuke of China’s

human rights record that stops short of preventing US athletes from competing.

The decision comes after Washington spent months

wrangling with what position to take on the Games, hosted in February next year

by a country it accuses of perpetrating “genocide” against Uyghur

Muslims in the northwestern Xinjiang region.…