Japan will not send a government delegation to the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics due to the human rights situation in China, a government spokesman said on Friday, following the actions of several Western nations that have also withheld officials’ attendance at the Games. Instead of sending government officials, Chief Cabinet Secretary Hirokazu Matsuno said Japan…

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…

Canada should join its allies in a diplomatic boycott of the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics in protest of the Chinese communist regime’s human rights abuses, Conservative leader Erin O’Toole said on Dec. 6. O’Toole said he has been speaking with Canadian Olympic Committee athletes and representatives on how to express “our profound displeasure with the…

America’s defense chief reacts to news of a potential nuclear threat after Beijing reportedly tested a new weapon that can help it avoid the U.S. missile defense system. A Chinese fugitive dies as police close in. Despite allegedly killing two neighbors, his desperate story has won public sympathy. And his death triggered an outrage on…

Three human rights activists holding a Tibetan banner that read “No genocide games” managed to sneak into the site where the Olympic flame was lit in Greece before being detained by police. The flame was lit on Monday at the Temple of Hera in southern Greece, the birthplace of the ancient Olympics, ahead of the Beijing 2022…

International Olympic Committee (IOC) President Thomas Bach said the organization has agreed to purchase China’s COVID-19 vaccine to administer to willing participants at the Tokyo Olympics this summer and the Beijing Winter Olympics in 2022. However, Japan’s athletes won’t be taking the China-made vaccines after the country’s Olympic committee said Japan wasn’t consulted regarding the…

President of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) Thomas Bach announced on March 11 that the IOC has agreed to purchase China’s COVID-19 vaccine to administer to willing participants of the Tokyo Olympics this summer and the Beijing Winter Olympics in 2022. The Japanese Olympic Committee said Japan was not consulted regarding the decision by the…