The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is hosting the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing. If the 2008 Summer Games — also held in the Chinese capital — marked the arrival of the People’s Republic of China (PRC) as a major power, this event will undoubtedly be used by Xi Jinping to showcase the PRC’s viability as global hegemon. Given the CCP’s role in unleashing the coronavirus on the rest of the world, its expansionist aims, and the ongoing genocide it is prosecuting against its Uyghur Muslim minority, that possibility should already be off the table. Yet as a consequence of the economic and military power it wields, the PRC remains the chief challenger to American leadership on the world stage.
Senator Mitt Romney has a few ideas for how to limit its ability to use the 2022 Olympics as a public-relations coup without robbing American athletes of the opportunity to compete. He laid them out in a New York Times op-ed on Monday:
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