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Beijing Winter Olympics: Sports & Politics Collide as Games Approach
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February 3, 2022
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10:11Now PlayingChinese President Xi Jinping will host 21 world leaders at the Winter Olympics, and a majority of them preside over non-democratic regimes.
Twelve of the leaders -- including Russia’s Vladimir Putin, the most high-profile attendee -- rule nations labeled either “authoritarian” or “hybrid regime” in the latest Economist Intelligence Unit Democracy Index. The organization rates nations by their electoral process, political participation and civil liberties.
Another eight head democracies and Monaco, which wasn’t rated by the EIU, is labeled “free” by U.S.-based Freedom House. The 2008 Olympics attracted a range of leaders from Western democracies, highlighted by former U.S. President George W. Bush’s presence in Beijing.
A U.S.-led diplomatic boycott of this year’s Olympics over alleged human rights abuses in China’s western Xinjiang region -- labeled genocide by the White House -- has made attendance by heads of state deeply political. Beijing has struggled to manage the fallout, calling the genocide claims “vicious lies” and saying it didn’t plan to invite some “anti-China” politicians anyway.
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