Two months from the start of the Beijing Winter Olympics, European leaders, under intense pressure from rights groups and hardliners, are tiptoeing round the idea of a diplomatic boycott.
Scrutiny of the Games has ratcheted up in line with the global outcry over China’s treatment of Peng Shuai, a three-time Olympian who in November accused a former high-ranking Chinese official of pressuring her into sex.
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