China: Calls for 2022 Winter Olympics boycott doomed to fail

Workers gesture near the Zhangjiakou National Ski Jumping Centre under construction for the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics in Zhangjiakou in northwestern China's Hebei province on on Dec. 16, 2020. Calls for a boycott of the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics on human rights grounds are “doomed to failure,” a Chinese government spokesperson said Wednesday, March 3, 2021, as lawmakers and political advisers began converging on China's capital for the biggest annual gathering of the political calendar. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)

Visitors pass by the logos for the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics in Zhangjiakou in northwestern China's Hebei province on Dec. 16, 2020. Calls for a boycott of the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics on human rights grounds are “doomed to failure,” a Chinese government spokesperson said Wednesday, March 3, 2021, as lawmakers and political advisers began converging on China's capital for the biggest annual gathering of the political calendar. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)