The Daily 202: Biden faces bipartisan pressure on China’s Olympics Olivier Knox
Sainte-Mère-Église. There’s an homage to the 82nd Airborne. Congressional Republicans and Democrats agree on precious little these days, but there’s growing bipartisan fervor you could even call it impatience related to President Biden’s business-as-usual approach to the 2022 Winter Olympics in China.
Biden faces pressure from both sides of the aisle to use the Games, which open in early February 2022, as a launchpad for criticism of China over what his administration agrees is “genocide” targeting the mostly Muslim
Uyghur minority. Today, a pair of lawmakers Rep. Mike Waltz (R-Fla.) and Rep. Tom Malinowski (D-N.J.) are reportedly introducing legislation aimed at punishing corporations that sponsor the Games by barring them from federal contracts.
Vice President Kamala D. Harris told graduates of the U.S. Naval Academy Friday that the military has entered an era of new security threats such as pandemics, cyber-attacks and climate change.