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,” Gohmert told NTD, an affiliate of The Epoch Times, on Dec. 10. The United States said on Dec. 6 it won’t send an official delegation to Beijing for the 2022 Games in protest against the Chinese regime’s ongoing human rights crisis in Xinjiang. Countries including Australia, Canada, and the United Kingdom also followed suit in the past week. The move allows American athletes to compete if they wish. Yet Gohmert said even an athletes’ boycott would would unlikely to effectively restrain authoritarian regimes, as the one doing the punishing has more to lose. “We had …