{"id":8601,"date":"2022-01-31T14:59:37","date_gmt":"2022-01-31T19:59:37","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2025-04-23T23:56:12","modified_gmt":"2025-04-24T03:56:12","slug":"more-adults-approve-than-disapprove-of-u-s-diplomatic-boycott-of-olympics-few-have-heard-much-about-it","status":"publish","type":"short-read","link":"https:\/\/beta.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/short-reads\/2022\/01\/31\/more-adults-approve-than-disapprove-of-u-s-diplomatic-boycott-of-olympics-few-have-heard-much-about-it\/","title":{"rendered":"More adults approve than disapprove of U.S. diplomatic boycott of Olympics; few have heard much about it"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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2022 Beijing Winter Olympics logos posted at the National Aquatics Center. (Lintao Zhang\/Getty Images)<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

As the 2022 Winter Olympics begin later this week in China, more Americans say they approve (46%) than disapprove (22%) of the U.S. diplomatic boycott of the Games, while 31% are unsure. The diplomatic boycott, announced by the Biden administration in December<\/a> to protest Chinese human rights abuses, has captured little public attention; about nine-in-ten U.S. adults (91%) say they have heard little (46%) or nothing at all (45%) about it, according to a Pew Research Center survey conducted Jan. 10-17.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The public\u2019s views of China\u2019s relations with the U.S. have changed very little in the past year. Currently, 54% view China as a competitor of the U.S., while 35% consider it an enemy. Just 9% say China is a partner of the United States.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Under a diplomatic boycott<\/a>, U.S. athletes can compete in the Winter Games, but U.S. government officials or representatives will not attend. While some other countries \u2013 including the United Kingdom, Australia, Canada and Denmark \u2013 are also diplomatically boycotting these Games, most countries are not<\/a>. The last (and only prior) time the U.S. took such an action was the full boycott of the Moscow Summer Olympics<\/a> in 1980, to protest the Soviet Union\u2019s invasion of Afghanistan. The USSR retaliated four years later, barring its athletes from participating in the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles.<\/p>\n\n\n

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