CNBC: 习将邀请拜登出席冬奥会

Xi is expected to invite Biden to the Beijing Winter Olympics

 

• As the United States and China continue discussions on a virtual summit to be held between the countries’ two leaders next week, the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics loom large. 
• President Xi Jinping is likely to use the discussion, expected next week, to extend a personal invitation to attend the events in Beijing in February, said two people familiar with the matter.
• The invitation would serve as a challenge to President Joe Biden to decline, and put the relationship on ice; or accept, and contradict his administration’s own messaging on democracy and human rights. 
• Further complicating the issue, G-7 nations are discussing a possible “diplomatic boycott” of the games, where athletes would participate but heads of state would not attend, according to two Western diplomats.