US House speaker Nancy Pelosi has called for a US diplomatic boycott of the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing, saying global leaders who attend the games would lose their moral authority to criticise China for human rights abuses. Pelosi's statement comes as US lawmakers have been increasingly vocal about an Olympic boycott or venue change following what the State Department has deemed a genocide of Uyghurs and other ethnic minorities in China. “What I propose – and join those who are proposing – is a diplomatic boycott,” Pelosi said. “Let’s not honor the Chinese government by having heads of state go to China.”

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