The United States urged China to grant media freedom at the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing, starting in three months, a State Department spokesperson said Nov. 4. “We urge PRC officials not to limit freedom of movement and access for journalists and to ensure that they remain safe and able to report freely, including at the Olympic and the Paralympic Games,” spokesperson Ned Price told a regular press briefing. Price refrained from commenting on calls to boycott the Games over human rights concerns which he briefly outlined. “We have been crystal clear about where we stand on what is transpiring in Xinjiang and the human rights abuses that have and that are taking place within the PRC,” he said. Rights groups and some U.S. lawmakers have urged a boycott of Beijing 2022 over human rights abuses in China targeting minorities as well as crackdowns on civil activists. Beijing scrubs such …