The Chinese Government Is Threatening to Punish Athletes

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Even a full boycot would not have changed china's policies in shing jang, it is something they've said time and again. They're not going to be pushed around by other countries. Fixing those ills are going to take much more than just a boy caht of an olympics.

The Games don’t begin until February 4, but the drama around the pandemic, free speech, and diplomatic boycotts has been building for months. NPR’s Emily Feng explains from Beijing.

This episode was produced by Hady Mawajdeh, edited by Matt Collette, engineered by Efim Shapiro, fact-checked by Laura Bullard and hosted by Sean Rameswaram.

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