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Soft power, boycotts and the Winter Olympics

February 7, 2022January 14, 2022 by Tim Elcombe

Human rights abuses against the Uighurs, the Hong Kong crisis and the Omicron variant haunt the Beijing Games

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Trade tensions with Beijing reach a ‘breaking ‘point’
China and the US draw up the final frontier battle lines